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| “ | Gun-Master #1's Subordinate #1: You're trying to find a light in the afternoon. I know what your purpose is. You need to wait for him to meet with him. Gun-Master #1's Subordinate #2: Just like that woman. Gun-Master #1's Subordinate #1: The master won't fight against her. |
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| ~ The first Gun-Master's Subordinate on the Woman when conversing with El Topo. |
| “ | Pick me or him. | „ |
| ~ The woman giving Mara a choice to pick El Topo or her when El Topo was at his weakest point. |
The unnamed Woman in Black is a supporting character of the 1970 avant-garde Western movie El Topo. An enigmatic cowgirl with a man's voice, she initially at first aid El Topo and Mara in their journey in the desert in order to find the second gun-master’s whereabouts so that El Topo could complete his journey to defeat and kill the four sacred gun-masters that lives in the desert and become the best of them all. However, as the movie progresses, she develops an intimate obsession with Mara and has a nefarious agenda on her own.
She was portrayed by Paula Romo.
Appearance[]
The Woman in Black has brown hair and dark hazel eyes, while she wears an outfit similar to that of a cowboy's. In almost all black, she wears a hat, a white scarf, a shirt opened up to reveal a lack of any bra, a black belt attached to a holster, large pants, and shoes.
Personality[]
Not much is known about the woman in black as she is a character surrounded in mystery. However, during her first appearance, she initially portrayed herself as a seemingly intimidating woman albeit a bit vain as shown where she tried to beautify herself with her own make-up while waiting for the first gun-master to fight her. After defeating the first gun-master, the woman portrays herself as a valuable asset for El Topo to find the second gun-master. During the journey, the woman also forms an interest and obsession with Mara despite the latter mostly interested with El Topo. In the end, the woman then shows her treacherous side by betraying El Topo during his weakest moment and persuade Mara to choose her in which the latter ended up did seeing El Topo is not good for her anymore as both of them left El Topo together and departed to the desert as far away as possible.
Biography[]
The woman in black was at first introduced during El Topo and Mara’s encounter with the first gun-master’s subordinates during their journey on finding the four sacred gun-masters that live in the desert in order to defeat and kill them all so that El Topo could become the best. When El Topo was asked by the first gun-master’s subordinates to wait for his signal in order to meet him, the subordinates also tells El Topo that a mysterious woman was waiting for the first gun-master in order to fight against him. However, the first gun-master refuses to fight against the woman for unknown reasons with the woman deciding to do nothing and beautify herself with make-up in the end while sitting on her horse, watching El Topo fighting against the first gun-master. After El Topo manages to defeat the first gun-master with Mara sadistically killing one of his subordinates, the mysterious woman then decides to shoot the corpse of the first gun-master in the end.
Before tracking down the second gun-master, Mara and El Topo decided to take a break on the Oasis as Mara took a bath in a lake. However, during their break, they end up meeting with a mysterious woman in black with a man’s voice who decided to become a guide for them in order to find the second gun-master only if El Topo allowed her to go alongside them in which El Topo agreed. Before they departed, Mara and the woman in black bathed together as the latter decided to give Mara a mirror. This causes Mara to spin around, looking at her reflections and seemingly form a bond with the woman together despite having sex with El Topo in the desert. Seeing that Mara always keeps getting distracted by the mirror the mysterious woman gave, El Topo decided to shoot it in order to break the mirror. However, Mara decided to collect all the fragments of the mirror and give it to El Topo before encountering the second gun-master. Before meeting the second gun-master, Mara advises El Topo to wait until she gives him the signal to meet with the gun-master.
After defeating the second gun-master, Mara then suddenly becomes possessive towards El Topo and tells the mysterious woman to go away from him. This resulted in them having a duel together by using a whip. In the end however, the mysterious woman manages to overpower Mara as she whips the latter several times, turning her into a pathetic wreck. However, the mysterious woman then decided to cure Mara by kissing her wounded back and also kissed Mara and hugged her in order to calm her down.
Before meeting the final gun-master, the mysterious woman then eats a starfish-like fruit in a sexual manner as she gave the fruit to Mara so that she could eat. When Mara refuses to do so, the mysterious woman then decides to bandage Mara’s hands and kisses her. However, Mara decided to decline the prolonged kiss and still chooses El Topo in the end. During the duel with the final gun-master, the gun-master decides to kill himself and tells El Topo that he lost in the end. This resulted in El Topo sunk in the pit of regrets and decided to visit several places where he killed the gun-master where one of the corpses was set on fire alongside the dead bunnies, two of them were covered with a geometrical object and one of them swarming with bees. After seeing what happened, El Topo decided to cover his face with a beeswax and eat it out of regret and knock himself to a wall while crucifying a goat as he destroyed the building where the first gun-master lives and also destroyed his gun.
After Mara congratulates El Topo on his victory, at first El Topo wants to punch Mara. However, he then decided to embrace her despite his bones become fragile, his body scattered like a water, having his heart turned into a candle that could easily melt, having his tongue stick in his jaws and also having him lying in the dust of death while also contemplating on why god had left him as he tried to commit suicide from the bridge. When trying to commit suicide, the mysterious woman then attempts to have a duel with El Topo in the bridge as she decided to shoot him several times, seemingly putting him out of his misery. However, El Topo still remains alive and encounters the woman in black standing in front of him as Mara was also watching the whole debacle. After having a duel with El Topo where he grew weaker, the mysterious woman then decided to make Mara make a decision between the two choices: her or El Topo. In the end, Mara decided to betray El Topo by shooting him, cue with Mara having sex together with the mysterious woman as they departed together to the desert as far away as possible while El Topo’s body was then found by several dwarves, disabled people and children.