http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/12/here-is-your-lone-ranger-trailer-what-do-you-think Comments On: Here Is Your <em>Lone Ranger</em> Trailer: What Do You Think? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Looks like a horrible, brainless movie. I wouldn't see it even if it wasn't disrespectful.
Posted by passionate_jus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:33:45 -0800 The Stranger
He thinks he is either Cherokee or Creek. But not enough of a % to actually know!

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w001…


Posted by passionate_jus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:23:27 -0800 The Stranger
Read the comments section. Seems that a lot of First Nation people, including Comanche, are against this. Who knows?

From what I know (which isn't much), tribal politics can be very interesting as well as divisive. Some tribes are poor, some are rich, and they often have different requirements for membership. Some tribal governments are pretty corrupt while others are not.

This movie will probably divide many in the First Nation community but my guess is that most will find it ignorant and offensive.

Fnarf at 9 nails it.
Posted by passionate_jus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:08:41 -0800 The Stranger
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.co…
Posted by Sam Levine]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:53:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by McGee]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:47:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MikeB]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:36:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Knat]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:38:12 -0800 The Stranger
There's a point where a team has a feeling, where they can look at something and say "Ruh-roh." It's not something they can quantify, and there isn't any way to prove their feeling, but it's a learned reaction. It's like when you're with another couple and you can smell the breakup in every passive-aggressive comment, or when you walk by a mostly empty restaurant on a Friday night and immediately check it off your list, or when you see "From Michael Bay" in the opening of a movie trailer. You can feel the impending doom, even if you can't quantify it.
Posted by Wandergeist]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:19:30 -0800 The Stranger
If at some point all that makeup and that stupid bird comes off Johnny Depp and the Lone Ranger realizes he was just some dumb white guy all along.
Posted by Zuulabelle]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:28:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rove Fucks Rats]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:01:27 -0800 The Stranger
Ok. Sure. I doubt it, too. It might be the most racists thing in the universe. I'm probably not going to go see either way. But I'd like to see an opinion from somebody who has.

See it's getting rather unsavory this habit of going ape shit - literally every sigle day on SLOG - over even the littlest hint of something that "might" politically problematic. Sometimes you can be wrong.

There is such a thing as reason and a fair hearing, you know.
Posted by tkc]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:59:33 -0800 The Stranger
Read the link in @17. Even if someone haven't seen the movie, it's still perfectly acceptable to acknowledge that the genesis of the character is problematic.
Posted by lopes]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:47:50 -0800 The Stranger
yes, it is.
Posted by Thyme]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:42:34 -0800 The Stranger
no.
Posted by Thyme]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:41:20 -0800 The Stranger
I realize getting all het'd up over cultural minutiae is the new cottage industry of The Stranger since they gotta get them page views up. But it is too much to ask that our pitch fork wielding mobs at least be fully informed before storming the castle?
Posted by tkc]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:28:25 -0800 The Stranger http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com…
Posted by checkavailability]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:06:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mitten]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:52:41 -0800 The Stranger
I, for one, love watching middle to upper class white folks argue about what is, and is not racist.

But Fnarf @9 is right, this is just another incarnation of the "Magical Negro:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Neg…
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:50:12 -0800 The Stranger
no.
Posted by Thyme]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:44:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tkc]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:38:01 -0800 The Stranger Sayonara ("Anywhere in the South where there's an army base") and decided they could do the same with native cultures.
Posted by Sir Vic]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:28:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:25:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sargon Bighorn]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:22:06 -0800 The Stranger "Indian-inspired" art

That's the annoying thing about this: Depp is mish-mashing together a whole bunch of "spiritual" (because Indians are, like, really spiritual, maaaan) Indian signifiers, from god knows what traditions -- there's miscellaneous Plains Indians and Southwest Indians in there, and probably more, because he's sending a message. He thinks it's a message of respect, but it's absolutely not. Indians are people, not symbolic artifacts.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:08:09 -0800 The Stranger
Between this and Django Unchained, I'm looking forward to our new racist future. It's at least an improvement over our racist past.
Posted by Gus]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:04:45 -0800 The Stranger