The Thin White Duke alleged to be a Nazi salute. Bowie denied this, saying that he was simply waving and the photographer captured his image mid-wave. As early as 1976, Bowie began disavowing his allegedly pro-Fascist comments and said that he was misunderstood. In an interview that year in the "Daily Express", he explained that while performing in his various characters, "I'm Pierrot. I'm Everyman. What I'm doing is theatre, and only theatre... What you see on stage isn't sinister. It's pure clown. I'm using myself as a canvas and trying to paint the truth of our time on it. The white face, the
Black and white hat symbolism in film for the symbolism other than the wearer of the black hat being shot like in early films. In the 2007 film "", a remake of , a henchman hiring local gunmen to free his boss from jail, tells them not to shoot at "the black hat", a light reference to the convention. This convention gave rise to the terms black hat and white hat to refer to malicious and ethical hackers respectively. Black and white hat symbolism in film In United States films of the Western genre between the 1920s and the 1940s, white hats were often worn by heroes