Check out this pic from the new Lone Ranger movie...

[cynatnite]

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Johnny Depp is playing Tonto. Armie Hammer is the Lone Ranger.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. You are fucking kidding me! Tonto played with the band Kiss? I don't think so!

Or with the bird on his head, maybe he played with the Dead Crows?

Or maybe I'm just getting too fucking old to tolerate flying gladiators and punk rock Indians from the 1800's

No wonder the young people have no understanding of history or herstory. It's all just a rock opera now.

Tommy, can you hear me...

Edited to add; FUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA DISTORTION MACHINE!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. OK- here's another one for the list of movies I won't see

It always annoys me when I see a movie based on a book/comic/TV show/original movie and they take a character who was white, and cast a black actor in the role- often in defiance of logic. This annoys me for the same reason. You mean to tell me they couldn't find one Native American who can act to play Tonto? I could even have settled for a Latino- someone who at least looks remotely NA, but JOHNNY DEPP?!! If I am ever forced to watch this movie, every time Tonto is on the screen I'm going to be thinking "white guy". What's next? Does this mean I'll have to endure Tom Hanks as Martin Luther King some day? Come on, Hollywood- this isn't a high school play. Is a little authenticity so much to ask? (I know- stupid question)

[mwdem]

3. He is part Cherokee..

intersting casting, to say the least.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. Really? How big a part?

I never would have guessed. He must have gotten all the recessive genes.

[mwdem]

5. Maternal grandfather.

Look it up. Google is your friend.

[Bruce Wayne]

9. Did you see Linda Hunt in "The Year of Living Dangerously"?

She not only played an Indonesian, she played an Indonesian dude. She got an Academy Award for her work in that movie. I've never understood the need to pigeon-hole actors--whose very work is mimickry and illusion, after all--into particular ethnic and gender boundries. Is Samuel L Jackson not letter perfect for Nick Fury? As long as the actor playing across race boundries is portraying a true character rather than an offensive racial pastiche, I don't see why we, as audience members, should allow our instinctive pre-judgements about human phenotypes to color our willing suspension of disbelief.

Now obviously for a movie about historical figures for such a visual medium as movies is a different matter, but let me just say that for MLK, Hanks is all wrong for the part. I'd go with Ryan Gosling.

[Archae]

6. Deja vu all over again...

Remember when that Spilsbury guy tried playing the Lone Ranger back in the 80's?

[csziggy]

7. And his horse Silver reared, displaying the fact that he was NOT a stallion

Just as the narrator said, "His stallion, Silver"!



All they had to do was shoot the scene from another angle and they could have kept that secret forever.

[Tom Ripley]

8. Johnny, grotesques are very easy to play...

but you are well aware of that, aren't you?

[OriginalGeek]

10. I really don't have a problem with Johnny as Tonto

but that Lone Ranger looks too small.


When I was a kid the Lone Ranger was HUUUUGE. well, I mean tall.

Perhaps it's the angle and I will be pleasantly surprised.

It doesn't matter though - I've already been told we are going to see it. Wife and daughter both love Depp.

[graywarrior]

11. Who the hell is Armie Hammer?