Just saw The Lone Ranger. Not only does it have Johnny Depp as Tonto but it has trains, train robberies, train track laying, runaway trains, the Lone Ranger on Silver running along the top of a moving train, trestles being blown up with the train pouring off into the chasm and more trains.
And don't forget Johnny Depp.
See it, you'll love it. Great fun.
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
Yes, a great movie for us boomers who grew up with the show. It has a lot of similarities with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies by the same director, extremely outlandish but pure entertainment. As for authenticity, the first transcontinental railroad is being built through Monument Valley and Texas Ranger country, and Tonto is on display in a San Francisco museum where he comes to life? All things I never knew.
Besides Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer is great as the Lone Ranger (Yes, that's the great grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer).
If you are waiting for that music, it does come eventually when all hope seems lost until only a masked man riding a white horse atop the train can save the day.
And for us foamers, here is the villian's perspective on 19th century railroading: "From the time of Alexander the Great, no man could travel faster than a horse that carried him. Not anymore. Imagine; time and space, under the mastery of man, power makes emperors and kings... look like fools. Whoever controls this, controls the future."
Posted by HopefulRailUser (Member # 4513) on :
If horses can run atop moving trains the route can go wherever it wants.
Clayton Moore and Silver occasionally visited my grade school in the San Fernando Valley. I don't recall Tonto coming along.
I'm sure the TV series was filmed in the valley in the area the Starlight still travels through. The movie was filmed in New Mexico.
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Gene Autry, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers; they all seemed to look for bad guys over the same turf.
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
Speaking of Clayton Moore, I grew up in the small Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley MN, where Mr. Moore was a realtor after his Lone Ranger stint. When our local grocery (Jensen's Super Value) was robbed, owner Lloyd Jensen was left tied up. The first customer on the scene was Clayton Moore, who untied Lloyd and told him he had just been saved by The Lone Ranger.