At the end of the movie we hear The Lone Ranger, John Reid, has just said to his horse "Hi-ho, Silver, away!" I believe he asks Tonto what he thinks of that and he replies," Never say that again!"
There were a lot of humorous moments in the Johnny Depp/Armie Hammer movie (the names of the lead actors) The Lone Ranger, and I found the movie to be rather entertaining. That is why I can't, for the life of me, understand why it was unanimously panned by movie critics. What were they expecting with a Johnny Depp movie? Doesn't he try extra hard to be "quirky"?
Quirkiness was the great appeal of this movie, where we see General (Colonel?) Custer already trying to oppress Indian tribes and the railroad pushing its way through Indian territory in the American West. Without giving it away, you could say it was Indian legend that brought the great 'lone ranger' to life, and Johnny Depp in his wild face paint also has a tale to tell about why he always looks that way, and really, why he shouldn't trust a white man. And yet, he decides to help lone ranger John Reid (Armie Hammer) in order to help justice prevail, at least in Reid's world. The world of the native American is already on the downward spiral.
I read an article in Smithsonian magazine, with its great emphasis on history, on how some Oglala Dakota Indians in So. Dakota are trying to reclaim their heritage, in spite of great poverty and a lack of a plains territory to live off of like their ancestors did. It is close to where the "Battle of Little Big Horn" took place and ol' Custer met his doom. But so many native Americans were uselessly killed during decades of "Indian Wars," and this special note is hinted at in The Lone Ranger. The critics didn't like the fact that the movie could be both serious and funny, but I thought that balance was appropriate, especially when you have Johnny Depp in the movie! He made the Wild West look interesting.
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