![]() ![]() I made a conscious decision not to be precious or overly cautious with Tonto.” We went through a period where every Native American in Hollywood was a bad guy. “Being irreverent with a culture is a greater quality than holding a culture in precious terms. Haythe adds that the movie “was never gonna be a piece of social realism.” “It would have been weird to do a movie and make Johnny the sidekick. “The only version of this movie I wanted to do was from Tonto’s perspective,” Verbinski said. It was Tonto’s point of view that interested Depp and his director. This Tonto rolls his eyes at the Lone Ranger’s priggishness and complains about their partnership, which seems spiritually ordained after the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) survives an ambush.Īn outcast from his Comanche tribe, Depp’s Tonto is comic and strange, with a hint of sadness under his eyeliner - a first cousin to the actor’s other memorable oddballs such as Capt. Wearing dramatic white and black-striped face paint and a dead crow atop his head, he comes to life to tell a young boy the story of how he met the masked man. In “The Lone Ranger,” from “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski, Depp’s Tonto first appears as part of a diorama in a Wild West show. ![]() 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. ![]()
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