What about the Lone Ranger and Tonto, the masked vigilante of "yesteryear" and his faithful Indian sidekick, a classic gay-subtext couple, who roamed the West through twenty years of radio, tv, comic books, and movies without ever glancing at a lady? In The Best Little Boy in the World, a classic gay Boomer autobiography, John Reid states that he first figured "it" out through his fantasies of the Lone Ranger and Tonto riding into the sunset together.
To be blunt, the story stinks. Butch Cavendish is both a spooky paranormal villain who eats the body parts of his victims, and a mercenary who teams up with an evil industrialist to steal silver from Comanche country.
Tonto is insane, constantly feeding the dead crow perched on his head.
John Reid is absurdly square, a Dudley Do-Right in a white hat (this beefcake shot is not from the movie).
There are three -- three! -- train-fight scenes, with leaps onto or off moving trains, fistfights atop boxcars, crashes into bandstands or bridges, shooting through walls, and rescues. I don't know why -- by the third, I wasn't paying attention to the plot anymore.
And Johnny Depp has once again heterosexualized everything he touches. John Reid is in love with his brother's widow; he rescues her; they kiss. Tonto's heterosexuality is established when he turns out to be a regular at a brothel. Butch drools and slavers over his female hostage.
There is a gay crossdresser: Frank, a member of Butch Cavendish's gang, likes to wear ladies' clothes, and implies that he wants to be "violated" by Tonto. (Played by Harry Treadaway, top photo, with his brother Luke in Over There).
So everyone is heterosexual except for a probably-gay crossdressing villain. Way to reinforce outdated homophobic stereotypes, Johnny!
This terrible over produced movie was financial disaster- interesting that now both leading men are in career trouble because of abusing their girlfriends and in the case of Mr Hammer wanting to eat them
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