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Say what Johnny Depp?
E.P. Grondine:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/07/02/what-johnny-depps-the-lone-ranger-means-for-disney/?partner=yahootix
Disney had a decision to make.
They could have gone with two father figures, the perfect answer to their conundrum, but instead went with two fantasy characters, based on their experiece with Pirates of the Carribean.
The result is that Disney is now working on damage control, and minimizing their losses.
Pono Aloha:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/02/196333864/does-disneys-tonto-reinforce-stereotypes-or-overcome-them
--- Quote ---Asked if he's Native American, Depp says he grew up in Kentucky, where his great-grandmother and great-grandfather told him he had Cherokee blood. "But over there, could have been Cherokee, could have been Creek, could have been Choctaw," he says.
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Whatever!
Defend the Sacred:
Again, all tribes that are very well-documented. It's a fantasy story, like so many families who decided it was preferable to think of themselves as having NDN ancestors rather than Black ones. Sad, but all too common. His genealogy has been done, so it's rather crazy and insensitive for him to keep on with this b.s.
This video, especially Chris Rock's and others' comments in the section that starts at 5:02, addresses the ancestry myths common in African-American families.
http://youtu.be/YR_p6PdAIrI
In families that quickly assimilated and passed as white... well, I think it's just that they didn't want to be Black, but they felt they had to have some color from somewhere.
There's a show on cable now, by some of the team that did Spinal Tap, about a guy who's researching his family tree. Sure enough, for one episode he thought he had a Native ancestor. Turns out she was Jewish. We know that story ;)
Autumn:
--- Quote from: Pono Aloha on July 02, 2013, 08:52:55 pm ---http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/02/196333864/does-disneys-tonto-reinforce-stereotypes-or-overcome-them
--- Quote ---Asked if he's Native American, Depp says he grew up in Kentucky, where his great-grandmother and great-grandfather told him he had Cherokee blood. "But over there, could have been Cherokee, could have been Creek, could have been Choctaw," he says.
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Whatever!
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Now he is throwing Chickasaw into the mix: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57591526/the-lone-ranger-and-tonto-ride-again/ (around the 6:15 mark in the video)
He also justifies his characterization by saying that in this film Tonto is equal to the Lone Ranger, not a servant as in the old films. The costume was totally his idea and it was a result of being inspired by a portrait. Unfortunately, the bird was flying behind the man in the portrait and Mr. Depp thought a dead bird was on his head, so that was his inspiration for the costume, which is pretty pathetic, IMHO.
P.S.: The reviews so far are pretty bad and all that for $215 million. What a waste.
Epiphany:
He's likin' the "C" named tribes, maybe he only read that far down a list of tribes. ;D
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