It symbolizes blood....and the blood that is on all of their hands for having ordered paid criminals to whip the sheriff to death.
The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.
Plus, the color represented the town's new name quite well.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
What is the significance of that act?
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Yes that makes me laugh. Maybe if there were a train depot they could've ordered some. 200g of red paint was probably the national supply.
shareBeing that the new name was "HELL", I think the drifter meant for the bad guys to think they had (Symbolically) gone to Hell and therefore about to pay for their evil deeds like the murder of the marshall. This is just IMHO.
shareThat might well be the case! And the picnic tables with the womenfolk sat around? The "Welcome Home, Boys!" didn't do much at all. Now, if they had turned over those picnic tables and brought out a gatling gun or if the red buidings had suddenly lit up and dazzled the baddies, or... Still, it is a great movie, though I'm trying to remember the same story in another (Clint?) movie where they have a zillion traps and surprises for the invading baddies. Old age has rotted my memory, but I do remember it as it played.
Repeat; brilliant film, even if I don't quite get it all. I used to think I did, but not now.
(BTW, what is that mess of code under here, where my name should be?)
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Welcome to Hell. I think the stranger is the devil himself and the townspeople have died and gone to Hell. They are being punished for their sins.
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I had wondered why the color also, but today was thinking this way as well. That they were going to go through hell to pay for what they did. I was kind of dumb and missing some points to this movie. I didn't even realize until someone told me today that he was dead. I thought they were just wrong that he had died. I obviously missed the point at the very end! and now the whole movie makes way more sense, such as the color red and why he was not nice to the town's people. Only thing now is how did they not recognize him.
shareI was impressed and somewhat amused at how neat a job they did painting everything red. You'd think under the circumstances they would done a little sloppier a job.
shareIt represents hell. There's a very subtle clue in the film where the word hell is written over Lago
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