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Post by bobbbiez on May 21, 2013 23:12:41 GMT -5
 Growing up watching and loving The Lone Ranger on TV and on Saturday Matinees at the Highland Theater for the series I am very excited to see the new Lone Ranger movie coming out. I just hope Johnny Depp as Tonto does Jay Silverheels justice and the same with Arnie Hammer as "Kemsahbee" doing Clayton Moore justice as the Lone Ranger. There are just some things you don't want to see remade and just want to remember all as you did as a little kid and along with Gone With The Wind I'm thinking the same about the Lone Ranger. I'm not much of a movie goer but will go to see the remake to prove myself wrong. 
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Post by kit on May 22, 2013 6:15:00 GMT -5
The Lone Ranger was a tradition with us 'kids.' Those of us who are a teensie bit older than the baby boomers (born at the end of WW-II) remember listening to the radio at night instead of watching TV. We remember Brace Beemer as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. We saw their faces in our minds - and they were always handsome, rugged, macho and full of goodness, but alas... not 'pretty' enough for TV so they changed the cast and they did it well. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels became legends that many of us will never forget.
Regardless of which Lone Ranger and Tonto you remember, I'm sure they're two of your heroes of old. I hope the new movie does them justice. They're hard boots and moccasins to fill.
BBZ... please let us now how you like the movie.
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Post by dave on May 22, 2013 6:27:44 GMT -5
Johnny Depp as Tonto? That would be worth the trip to the movie theater. I wonder how they'll play the race bit.
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Post by dave on May 22, 2013 6:37:44 GMT -5
We saw their faces in our minds - and they were always handsome, rugged, macho and full of goodness, but alas... not 'pretty' enough for TV so they changed the cast and they did it well. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels became legends that many of us will never forget. And I barely remember listening to Matt Dillon on the radio. The Gunsmoke character was played by William Conrad who later starred in the television series "Jake and the Fatman," "Cannon" and other shows. Not quite the chiseled look of James Arness, who for twenty years played Sheriff Dillon on television.  |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 22, 2013 15:26:00 GMT -5
The Lone Ranger was a tradition with us 'kids.' Those of us who are a teensie bit older than the baby boomers (born at the end of WW-II) remember listening to the radio at night instead of watching TV. We remember Brace Beemer as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. We saw their faces in our minds - and they were always handsome, rugged, macho and full of goodness, but alas... not 'pretty' enough for TV so they changed the cast and they did it well. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels became legends that many of us will never forget. Regardless of which Lone Ranger and Tonto you remember, I'm sure they're two of your heroes of old. I hope the new movie does them justice. They're hard boots and moccasins to fill. BBZ... please let us now how you like the movie. Will do, kiddo. I also enjoyed and listened to the Lone Ranger on the radio before my parents could afford a TV, but for me, seeing it on TV really brought the characters to life. I know Johnny Depp is an excellent actor but for some reason I just can't picture him as our beloved Tonto. Not even close but I do hope I'm wrong. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2013 15:33:35 GMT -5
Wish I knew where my old cowboy stuff was. I will have to get my holster and gun and wide brimmed cowboy hat out and the cowboy boots.
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Post by bobbbiez on May 22, 2013 15:49:48 GMT -5
Johnny Depp as Tonto? That would be worth the trip to the movie theater. I wonder how they'll play the race bit. Well I'm thinking with Johnny Depp in the movie it will remain as the truth of a strong bond between two friends of two different races devoted to each other, and with Depp's Native American ancestry, not to be offensive to anyone. Actually the song sucks and sure doesn't do justice referring to the characters of the Lone Ranger as it did seeing when people asked Tonto "who was that masked man " Tonto answered "Kemosahbee" meaning "trusted friend." ;D |
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Post by dave on May 22, 2013 23:04:31 GMT -5
I love that song! I just can't decide if I like the Tonto verse better or the insult to Dale Evans, who bored us too long dragging her religion across the TV-scape with that weird hair-do.
"If I were Roy Rogers, I'd sure enough be single. I couldn't bring myself to marrying old Dale."
Here's another.
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Post by kit on May 23, 2013 8:37:08 GMT -5
BBZ... when I view a sequel to a movie or TV series I have expectations and compare it against the original. Not good. With that mindset rarely does a sequel measure up to my expectations, so now I try to think of the sequel as a new experience instead of comparing it to something I've already seen. It works out much better that way.
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Post by bobbbiez on May 23, 2013 11:22:15 GMT -5
Kit, you are so correct. I'm going to try very hard to keep an open mind when I see the remake. That's a promise. Being a big Johnny Depp fan I really would like to see him succeed in helping make the remake do justice to the original we so enjoyed.
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Post by kit on May 24, 2013 7:01:26 GMT -5
If one thinks of this new movie as a separate thing rather than comparing against the older ones, I think Johnny will do it justice. Like Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp doesn't perform junk.
Hi-O Silver!
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Post by bobbbiez on May 24, 2013 9:34:47 GMT -5
If one thinks of this new movie as a separate thing rather than comparing against the older ones, I think Johnny will do it justice. Like Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp doesn't perform junk. Hi-O Silver! AWAY!!!!!!! ;D I agree completely. . |
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Post by chris on May 27, 2013 12:00:44 GMT -5
maybe I'm wrong but I thought I read long time ago when I first read that Johnny Depp was doing Tonto it was a spoof on the Lone Ranger not a remake movie of the tv show.
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Post by dave on May 27, 2013 12:59:29 GMT -5
Disney's Tonto Offensive To Some In Upcoming 'Lone Ranger' FilmBy FELICIA FONSECA 05/12/13  Excerpts:FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger's sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a face painted white with black stripes, and a stuffed crow on his head. Disney's remake of the "Lone Ranger" has Tonto in the role of coach to John Reid, the idealistic law school graduate played by Hammer, who finds himself out of his depth when he returns to his hometown and eventually becomes the Lone Ranger. One scene has Tonto and the Lone Ranger atop a train, being held at gunpoint by an outlaw who asked if they're going somewhere. The Lone Ranger says no; Tonto insists they are. His straight-face turns to a smirk as the two are picked off the train by a hook that catches the chains that tie them together. "It's a real quick moment where I caught it and I kind of chuckled," Tsosie said. "From what I saw, there's some moments in there that are meant to be funny but not outwardly funny. I think most Natives will pick up on it." www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/12/disney-tonto-offensive-lone-ranger-film_n_3263071.html
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Post by kit on May 28, 2013 7:16:16 GMT -5
Chris... you may be right about the new Lone Ranger movie being a spoof of the old one. Even the star's name - Armie Hammer - is sort of a spoof. His real name is Armand Hammer (the spoof is so obvious that I won't even explain it).
Knowing nothing really about the film, I don't want to say too much about it other than Gore Verbinski, the director, had better be good. The original Lone Ranger was the brainchild of George W. Trendell and the scripts were all conceived and written by Fran Striker who worked at a radio station in Buffalo NY. His scripts, although sometimes simplistic to the older folks, gave us kids a good foundation in a moral code that many have carried with us all our lives. I hope this movie does justice to the original.
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Growing up watching and loving The Lone Ranger on TV and on Saturday Matinees at the Highland Theater for the series I am very excited to see the new Lone Ranger movie coming out. I just hope Johnny Depp as Tonto does Jay Silverheels justice and the same with Arnie Hammer as "Kemsahbee" doing Clayton Moore justice as the Lone Ranger. 
