All this Talk about a New Ranger in Town

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Honestly… Not all graphic novels lend themselves to instantaneous storyboard optionings as a well planned and designed movie takes vision with a certain amount of spit on the hands and grease on the wheels that I am just not seeing in this age of ‘unreason’…

Im just not sold on this yet… Here is an example of how a Blockbuster hit featuring a double bill would really work. Let’s have a look at the Lone Ranger screenplay instead….

Imagine Custer as primary antagonist in the upcoming Lone Ranger full length feature as a part of finding out that the Ranger is Tonto’s secret half breed younger brother with an axe to grind as he runs up from Texas following some renegades who killed a band of his ranger friends….

Now there’s a great basis for this rapid play out hero/foil sort of plotline which actually has an actual explanation to show for the founding of the Texas Rangers at about the same time with decent costuming and believable settings in a time when the nation needs to understand a little more about real issues which are tearing us apart like social injustice and racial disparity via class war.

Civil War themes always allow for a huge draw and a post civil war film might even help people to understand what it was like to deal with living in broken times where might makes right and the truly insane were touted as great leaders…. Never mind the frickin graphic novel on this one… get back to the basics and make a good film… Mark Millar needs to look at a bigger audience in my opinion.

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Oh well… I am sick to death of terrible movies with weak endings or compromised outcomes as a form of waiting for the next boot to get laced.... Now I have an even bigger idea and way of looking at this story that first got its airing at another web site already...

After my last post, surely someone knew that I would end up over here with my ‘big idea’ that I am talking about since I am in no position to negotiate past a writer like Haythe… but here goes the enchilada….

So why not take one of those new young actors who might want a tenure as the Ranger in a couple of sequels and let him be the impetuous and quick to the ‘Silver’ kinda kid who takes off to avenge his texas ranger pals as a part of folks out west who didnt know the civil war was quite over yet… and lets just say that this new kid from the Twilight series isnt a werewolf but he does have this thing about sneakin around under the full moon because he is a half breed with no real belonging here or there

Enter Brad Custer and his Calvary who are about to embark on their biggest victory ever which somehow pisses off the older and wiser brother Mr. Tonto Depp just enough that he might not hold the little Ranger back from heading up north on his vengence race (think Last of the Mohicans fury that nearly kills the bloodline) but instead decides to join him and figure out what little brother is on to that the rest of Texas doesnt quite know about with regards to Buffalo Soldiers and tribes that are actually part white folks who get poisoned by some pelts

Then mix in some very specific clash between Tonto Depp and General Brad Custer which illustrates the Bravado and Arrogance of Custer in sharp contrast with the quiet humility and sly dealings of Tonto to be right there to draw the line in the sand and toss it all in the Inferno of the
Little Big Horne Massacre so that the Ranger comes in and saves someone that he can fall in love with to really top it off with a Cherry…

The only thing left to do is carefully decorate this particular layer cake with some of the icing and garnish particularly suited to providing an excellent understanding of when the Texas Rangers were recognized by the Federal Government as Law Men and Do Good Kinda Guys no matter what their skin color or cultural heritage….

Now Seriously... who wants to see an older man in those stretchy grey ski pants that the Ranger used to wear and which older male actor wants to buddie-buddie with Depp or ride his own stunts at the risk of really fracturing a hip? Viggo Mortensen you say??? ah well... he doesnt have any sequels in him for more stunt riding or possibly a syndicated series of public appearances like these young whipper snappers might....

Let's just let the older guys duke it out in this one like some unfulfilled post Civil War strategists and have the young guys take the cheesy role that has potential to cover a period in history that gets little play in the wild west. Why not let someone like Q'orianka Kilcher play the young love interest role and have her be a real women's lib right-to-vote suffragist eduated Native American that Custer is trying to silence because his amorous extensions were rejected...

At that point just throw in the name of the love interest as Victoria and have her be an independent tailor/seamstress who one day opens her own Mail Order Catalogue. I dont think many people will get the secret. It's gonna get hot in those hills...

I think this would be a great way to pay for more improvements to a national park while employing some hard working american stand ins and artists/craftspeople such as myself to bring this healthy and wholesome Disney classic vision to the screen…

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I seriously doubt if anyone could ever accuse of Johnny Depp of being a classical actor nor would he fall into the category of being a fundamentalist of the theatre.

Its possible that some might liken Depp's style to Method acting similar to that which Stanislovski has formalized. Primarily the sort of Acting which Depp has been known to bring to his roles might be likened to a subjective humorist---George Carlin comes to mind for many of his releases but certainly no all.

To give Depp's style a name first and foremost is would be to call it intuitive or humanist, as if he used his populist sensibilities to cultivate the character and meaning.

There are several characters that Depp has played in his lifetime which illustrate this as well, I will provide those characters names and then wait to see what you, as reader and co-creator of these ideas have to say about these characters and the way John brings thme to life...;

Gilbert Grape

Mort Rainey

Cesar from the Man Who Cried

John Wilmot, the libertine

and Captain Jack Sparrow

Please take the time to share what makes them real for you as a character, how you feel they capture the viewer as both presence and verbally capable of sustaining ideas the character might have to this day as well as what sort of contributions you feel that John may have had more to do with than the director...

I really hope that we can honor the diversity and strength of John beyond the roles he chooses to give of himself to as well as through the roles and how the impact of those roles can really offer some greater good to the audience and the people who are supportive of the process to create them.



Here is an example of how I view looking at some of the above characters for fun and exploration:



Lone Ranger... even though the Movie hasnt been made yet the character is already in our mind

He has/needs to have some serious protagonist/antagonist tension and resolution to make it memorable

This movie could be/will be/was a block buster smash.... if :

1. Double Bill the lead with Brad Pitt as the antagonist General Custer who slips over the edge of understanding the real issues of the encroachment of indigenous land and ways

2. Use the movie as an opportunity to really teach people about the challenges of living in complex and diverse societies with compassion through Tonto's take on the changing world as a place with many challenges ahead which need to be seen as a balance with nature and a teaching of children including a supporting cast playing out conflicts past & present to explain why these issues arise as diverse learning.

3. Make the Lone Ranger have a good reason to be such a self sacrificing guy who needs anonymity

4. Establish Tonto's integrity and connection with the ways of land and nature as well as his loyalty and role as mentor/brother commited to helping Ranger solve land issues or prevent the fighting of tribes amongst each other as folks who turn coats to protect their 'interest' in dominant culture... (not all indian cultures treated their own people right because some of them participated in slavery)

Your turn.... tell me what you know about the characters in these other movies just for fun!