![]() This is a western, and in westerns, everyone knows, good guys wear white hats and bad guys wear black.īut even in the fictional American West, good and evil are not so clearcut, it turns out. This is some heavy-handed symbolism, but it’s supposed to harken back to a classic, familiar trope. ![]() Compared to his black-hatted companion, he starts out a gentleman: he doesn’t want to drink or sleep with a prostitute or randomly shoot the park’s robotic “hosts.” But (spoiler alert) over the course of his journey, his white hat becomes dirtied and dark, until, at a transformative moment, he switches it for a black hat. In the first season of the hit TV show Westworld, a key character chooses to wear a white hat when he enters the western-themed park. Roy Rogers turned Billy the Kid into a good guy in Billy the Kid Returns.
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