To contemporize Tonto for a broad audience required discarding a century of cultural tropes about Native Americans - the blatantly racist ones and the more subtly so, according to “Lone Ranger” screenwriter Justin Haythe, who shares credit with Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. “This pushes us further back into exotica, into otherness, strangeness, a kind of a mystical, spooky past.” “This represents a major setback in our efforts to combat stereotyping of our image,” said Hanay Geiogamah, a Native American playwright and professor at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. The director points out that the film incorporates the perspective of the original North Americans, but as is clear from some of the commentary since the film opened, not all are impressed. As a submissive sidekick, his very name came to stand for a pathetic, backward stereotype, even though some Native Americans decades ago were pleased to at least see him portrayed by one of their own.įor the new movie, the studio went to great lengths to hire a cast that included Native Americans and to consult them while the film was being made.
Tonto has been a complex lightning rod for shifting sympathies over four generations. Though this revisionist western has Tonto holding the reins, some prominent Native Americans aren’t smiling at Depp’s flamboyant portrayal of the most famous and divisive character in their pop culture history.
The lone ranger was black movie#
So all along, men would ask me the question, 'How do I feel as the Black Lone Ranger?' I told 'em, 'I feel fine.More than 40 years later, Tonto’s side of the story is being told in a longer and more ambitious form - a saucy, big-budget Disney movie starring Johnny Depp, which opened last week to cool reviews and poor box office. I had my mask on and the big men said, 'Hey, what is this? The Lone Ranger?' He said, 'This is my nephew, the Black Lone Ranger. My uncle was a sheriff at the time and he took me to town. My idea was to be the Black Lone Ranger, so I made me a mask out a black jacket and I put it on and wore it around out there in the country - way out in the country. "I listened at the radio all the time and every evening was the Lone Ranger. "It was like this," he told me in a 1994 conversation. He was the Lone Ranger for more than 40 years. He quickly fell in love with his new life on the open range and adopted the lifestyle of a cowboy. He later moved to Denver, Colo., and began working as a ranch hand at his uncle's horse farm. "I will never (remove) my mask every day and every night until I go home!" "Clayton Moore didn't wear his mask except when he was doing the (television) show," the Ranger told Rocktober Magazine in 1996. In fact, Ramsey was such a hardcore Ranger that he found himself unable to respect perhaps the world's most well-known of Lone Rangers, Clayton Moore. The Black Lone Ranger was the perfect mix of light-heartedness and dedication to an ideal. Ramsey kept the animal on a farm south of Chicago. The Ranger's guns were real and he owned a white horse named Trigger. He slept in his boots and claimed that he even showered with his mask on. Ramsey took great pride in being the Black Lone Ranger.
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