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In reply to the discussion: "Can someone tell me whether we're supposed to be offended by Johnny Depp's portrayal of Tonto?" [View all]roughrider101
(35 posts)66. I dont think so
Like Lena and Rachel said, even if hes partially Native American, its not enough to justify the role. Besides, it doesnt sound like hes totally sure about his ancestry and he hasnt bothered to confirm anything that information is available via public record.
Well, how is it different from Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns? His mother is a Filipina and his father is Scots Irish..with maybe 1/8th Cherokee thrown in somewhere (like everyone else in America who is Scots Irish).
Or Antonio Banderas playing a Mexican bandito (Banderas is a European from Spain).
Yul Brynner as the king of Siam, Angelina Jolie as Danial Pearl's wife in A Mighty Heart,
Heck, or Linda Hunt who won an academy award for playing a male Javanese dwarf in A Year of Living Dangerously (great performance BTW).
What I saying is, no it should not matter
...it's not like we are talking about Mickey Rooney playing Fu Man Chu Chink 'a Chink Chung or whoever that's different.
Well, how is it different from Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns? His mother is a Filipina and his father is Scots Irish..with maybe 1/8th Cherokee thrown in somewhere (like everyone else in America who is Scots Irish).
Or Antonio Banderas playing a Mexican bandito (Banderas is a European from Spain).
Yul Brynner as the king of Siam, Angelina Jolie as Danial Pearl's wife in A Mighty Heart,
Heck, or Linda Hunt who won an academy award for playing a male Javanese dwarf in A Year of Living Dangerously (great performance BTW).
What I saying is, no it should not matter
...it's not like we are talking about Mickey Rooney playing Fu Man Chu Chink 'a Chink Chung or whoever that's different.
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"Can someone tell me whether we're supposed to be offended by Johnny Depp's portrayal of Tonto?" [View all]
Nye Bevan
Jul 2013
OP
Hollywood Reporter has a good review. If you choose to be offended I guess you will be. It's a
monmouth3
Jul 2013
#5
"Will you be offended" is, I suppose, a different question from "Should you be offended." nt
el_bryanto
Jul 2013
#17
Regarding #2, have you seen Unforgiven? Clint Eastwood's take on the Western? You could say,
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#26
I'm offended that Disney made "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Western" & thinks we'll like it.
Myrina
Jul 2013
#21
I'm not a Johnny Depp fan. Is this movie suppose to be a comedy or Western fiction?
Larkspur
Jul 2013
#37
Don't forget the Sherman Alexie collection, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" n/t
FSogol
Jul 2013
#58
Only if we are also offended by his portrayal of Pirates. Lighten up, its comedy.
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#59