Themes
Many of Corbucci's characteristic themes are here: physical disability (pretty mild in that all Clay suffers from for most of the film is intermittently blurry vision), violent mutilations (Clay shoots the earring - and earlobe - off an aggressive bandit; when he is down the gringo bandits stamp on his head), the director's enjoyment of the villainous gang, hanging out in their costumes, looking mean, the two warring outlaw factions both of which want to employ the hero (a la Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars). All are refined in Django, and re-used in Corbucci's great Westerns thereafter - where the hero is always crippled, doomed, and dedicated: as in this instance the near-blind and bloodstained Clay, asking for a gun to confront Fox and his five henchmen.
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