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A lot of the baddies
in Leone's films were based
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on the colourful villains in the cycle of
films made in the '50s by Budd Boetticher,
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the so-called Renown cycle
with Randolph Scott as hero.
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Very colourful villains played by Lee Van
Cleef, Richard Boone, James Coburn,
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Pernell Roberts, and so on.
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You have a taciturn hero who underplays
all the time, and doesn't say much,
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and an over-the-top villain
that talks a lot and is very colourful,
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and lots and lots of detail, was something
Leone said he got from Budd Boetticher.
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In Boetticher they didn't
laugh when they kicked people,
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which is what they tend
to do in Leone's films.
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Clint Eastwood has recalled that
when he was shooting these sequences
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where he's covered
in makeup from the beating-up
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that he's had at the hands of the Rojos,
he arrived one day on set
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and there was a huge argument
going on between Spanish and Italians.
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Not uncommon on this shoot.
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He couldn't work out what was said,
but Leone said through an interpreter:
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"It's all right, Clint, put on your
makeup and come back to the set. "
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So he put on the makeup and arrived
back, and found the set deserted.
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Just the arc lights there,
looking like vultures in the desert.
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And so he thought, "This is it. I'm wearing
all this makeup, I'm hot, I'm fed up. "
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So he went back to the hotel
and said, "I'm off to America. "
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As he was leaving,
Leone intercepted him and said:
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"Look, it'll be all right.
There won't be rows any more. "
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"There isn't much money, it's tense,
but let's get this finished. "
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And all was forgiven, and that was
the last of the big rows on the set.