Now, I have to admit I can be naive about such things and don't always see things the way others do.
However, the title character is Caucasian male who is often made into a buffoon because he believes he's always right as long as he follows the law and/or John Locke.
Thus, Tonto is made into the person who's the brains of the organization and more often right than wrong.
Again and again, the movie points out how the Caucasians have been assholes to the Indians. The main villains are all Caucasians and to further make them into villains, these evil white guys dress up like Indians, Boston Tea Party style, in order to frame the Comanche and break the treaty when the Comanche are revealed to have been working hard with local law enforcement to keep their treaty intact. The same group of villains also slaughter two separate groups of Comanche during the film.
Can I tell you about the ending?
The whole point to the story was that this area is the Lone Ranger's "home" where he grew up, but by the time he's offered a chance to come back and rejoin the Caucasian society, he rejects it in favor of a more nomadic life like Tonto because the majority of Caucasians were such incredible assholes...it's not just the violence against Indians but they are also greedy about money and power. There was a lot of social commentary about how modern corporations buy laws and government so that it no longer protects the regular citizens.
But again, I don't always interpret things the way normal people do, like a lot of people refuse to watch Captain America because they say it's a movie about glorifying the US when I feel like it's a story about a man who's slowly coming to terms with how imperfect the country he loves really is and how he wishes to change that.
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Date: 2013-07-07 06:48 pm (UTC)However, the title character is Caucasian male who is often made into a buffoon because he believes he's always right as long as he follows the law and/or John Locke.
Thus, Tonto is made into the person who's the brains of the organization and more often right than wrong.
Again and again, the movie points out how the Caucasians have been assholes to the Indians. The main villains are all Caucasians and to further make them into villains, these evil white guys dress up like Indians, Boston Tea Party style, in order to frame the Comanche and break the treaty when the Comanche are revealed to have been working hard with local law enforcement to keep their treaty intact. The same group of villains also slaughter two separate groups of Comanche during the film.
Can I tell you about the ending?
The whole point to the story was that this area is the Lone Ranger's "home" where he grew up, but by the time he's offered a chance to come back and rejoin the Caucasian society, he rejects it in favor of a more nomadic life like Tonto because the majority of Caucasians were such incredible assholes...it's not just the violence against Indians but they are also greedy about money and power. There was a lot of social commentary about how modern corporations buy laws and government so that it no longer protects the regular citizens.
But again, I don't always interpret things the way normal people do, like a lot of people refuse to watch Captain America because they say it's a movie about glorifying the US when I feel like it's a story about a man who's slowly coming to terms with how imperfect the country he loves really is and how he wishes to change that.