Lone Ranger (film)

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Movie
German title Lone Ranger
Original title The Lone Ranger
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 149 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Gore Verbinski
script Justin Haythe ,
Ted Elliott ,
Terry Rossio ,
Eric Aronson
production Jerry Bruckheimer ,
Gore Verbinski
music Hans Zimmer
camera Bojan Bazelli
cut James Haygood ,
Craig Wood
occupation

Lone Ranger (original title The Lone Ranger ) is an American western film from 2013 , which is based on the radio program of the same name and later television series The Lone Ranger about the Lone Ranger . Directed by Gore Verbinski , the film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films and the Walt Disney Company , which invested over 250 million US dollars in Lone Ranger . Premiere Lone Ranger on June 27, 2013, New Zealand; in the United States the film opened in theaters on July 3, and in Germany the film opened in theaters on August 8. Due to the poor box office results, the high production costs and the sometimes devastating reviews, the film is considered a huge failure.

action

The film is set in North America in the late 1860s, when the first railroad lines were built through the Wild West to connect the east coast and west coast. One of the railway lines is officially planned on a route that will go around an area that has been contractually guaranteed to the Indians. This longer detour would be more expensive for the railway company than a - forbidden - shortcut across the Indian territory.

Latham Cole, the chief construction manager of the railway company, intends to kill the farmers in the area and have their farms burned down to blame the Indians by a group of felons led by his brother, the bandit Butch Cavendish push what is supposed to induce the US cavalry to attack and drive the Indians away. However, Cavendish has already been captured for other crimes (including murders of peaceful Indians) and is due to be hanged at the site of the railway construction. To do this, he is put in chains and transported there by train.

The Indian Tonto is also sitting in the prison wagon, who wants to restore his honor and his peace of mind and to take revenge on Cavendish, because when Tonto was still a child he attacked his tribe and massacred numerous tribesmen. Tonto is partly to blame because he saved Cole and Cavendish from dying of thirst and told them that and where silver could be found in the territory of his tribe. On the train with the prison wagon is also the young public prosecutor John Reid, who is the brother of the senior local ranger Dan Reid. Cavendish is freed by his cronies on the prisoner transport, whereby the young prosecutor and Tonto are duped. Both finally arrive at the site of the railway construction, where the young prosecutor joins his brother and other mounted law enforcement officers, the "rangers", who want to recapture Cavendish. Dan names his brother ranger and hands him her late father's star.

Dan Reid has now become suspicious of Cole, having recently discovered railroad tracks in Indian territory. While pursuing Cavendish and his gang, the rangers are ambushed by the betrayal of a horseman. The Cavendish snipers shoot down all the rangers and the unarmed John Reid. However, this seems to be the only one not fatally hit, but only seriously injured.

When Tonto finds the dead rangers and wants to bury them, John Reid is chosen by a supposedly spiritually endowed white horse named Silver, who is sacred to the Indians. This prompts Tonto to save John's life.

The Indian who wants to take revenge on Cavendish for his dead tribal brothers and to kill him, as well as the young public prosecutor who wants to prevent further crimes by Cavendish, arrest him and accuse him, do not become friends, but enter into an alliance of convenience to pursue their respective goals to pursue. Tonto advises Reid to mask himself so that the criminals believe that they killed him along with the rangers. Cavendish has a powerful ally in Cole, as the two of them only gradually come to realize. Cavendish also kidnapped Rebecca, the widow of Reid's brother Dan, and their son Danny, to take them to Cole, who found Rebecca attractive. However, Reid is also in love with Rebecca and wants to free her as alive as possible, which doesn't make things any easier for him. In addition, Cole succeeds in corrupting the originally law-abiding senior officer of the local US cavalry and harnessing him for his criminal machinations.

At the same time, Cole is also duping his own employers in order to become the owner of the future lucrative railway through violence and threats as well as with the help of silver from Indian areas. Reid and Tonto receive support from the population only through a group of prostitutes whose boss, Red, was abused and mutilated by Cavendish. The normal population is hostile to Indians, including Tonto, they trust the US cavalry and are happy that the railroad manager is improving the infrastructure and boosting the economy. Apart from the wondrous horse Silver and the weird, with dry humor equipped Tonto, the "Lone Ranger", as the masked Reid (who always shows himself with the ranger star of his dead father) is now called, is on his own .

During the grand opening of the railway line, Tonto and Reid kidnap one of the two trains present, which is loaded with silver from the Indian territory. Cole, Cavendish and the leader of the cavalry pursue them on the second platoon and have Rebecca in their power. There is a chase with several tricky fights on a two-track section of the route. Cavendish uncouples the wagons with the silver from the reverse engine so that Cole can couple them to the other engine. Cavendish and the cavalry leader perish in a derailed car. Cole drives his locomotive into a river, because Reid and Tonto had blown the bridge shortly before, and is buried by the silver. Danny can save Rebecca and slow down the train with Tonto just before the destroyed bridge.

The railway company thanks Reid with a present that was actually intended for Cole, a gold-plated pocket watch . Reid, however, declines the gift and the position of head of the local ranger and rides away with Tonto as he has found pleasure in his new, adventurous life. He makes Rebecca an offer to follow him west, but she wants to stay here with Danny and wait for Reid until he has finished his fight against injustice in the world.

Many years later, the story of the film is told by the aged Indian Tonto to a questioning and curious “white” schoolboy who learns during his dialogue with the old Indian that everything is not always as it appears at first glance.

background

Shortly after the script was finalized ( Justin Haythe , Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio and Eric Aronson ), Johnny Depp was confirmed for the role of Tonto. The make-up and mask of "Tonto" were inspired by the painting I am Crow by the painter Kirby Sattler . "Tonto" means something like "fool" in Spanish, which is why Tonto is called "Toro" ("bull") in Spanish. Initially, the film was offered to director Mike Newell , but in September 2010 it went to Gore Verbinski, who had already directed the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films. Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling were initially discussed for the role of John Reid / Lone Ranger before it finally went to Armie Hammer.

Lone Ranger was originally scheduled to hit theaters in late 2012, but the Walt Disney Company stopped work in August 2011 because their budget was too high and there were concerns that they would not achieve the desired success. Filming could resume at the end of next month, but some lavish scenes were canceled and the premiere date had to be postponed to 2013.

Lone Ranger was filmed in Sunland , Monument Valley , Angel Fire , Creede , Hurley , Lone Pine , Albuquerque Studios , Canyon de Chelly National Monument , Moab , Alamosa , Puerco Valley, and Texas . It was filmed for five months from February 2012. While filming, 48-year-old water safety specialist Mike Bridger died of a heart attack.

During the filming, Johnny Depp fell off his horse and came under the hoofs of the animal so badly that director Gore Verbinski said: “I thought he wouldn't survive.” Instead, Verbinski continued: “He jumped up again immediately and turned further."

The optical illusion, which shows a bird on one side and a cage on the other, is already shown by Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow .

synchronization

actor German speaker role
Johnny Depp David Nathan Tonto
Armie Hammer Sascha Rotermund John Reid
Tom Wilkinson Holger Mahlich Latham Cole
William Fichtner Torsten Michaelis Butch Cavendish
Ruth Wilson Marie Bierstedt Rebecca Reid
Helena Bonham Carter Melanie Pukass Red Harrington
James Badge Dale Thomas Nero Wolff Dan Reid
Harry Treadaway Tobias Müller Frankie
Leon Rippy Karl Schulz Collins
Barry Pepper Rainer Doering Captain Jay Fuller
Saginaw Grant Reinhard Scheunemann Chief Big Bear
Stephen Root Uli Krohm Mr. Habberman
JD Cullum Bernhard Völger Wendell
James Frain Marco Kroeger Barret
Damon Herriman Stefan Fredrich Ray
Matt O'Leary Jacob Weigert Skinny
Robert Baker Tommy Morgenstern Navarro
Lew Temple Stefan Krause Hollis
Leonard Earl Howze Michael Ojake Homer
Grover Coulson Uwe Jellinek Joe
Chad Brummett Tobias Lelle Martin
Kevin Wiggins Michael Iwannek Clayton

reception

success

With production and marketing costs of at least $ 375 million, the film grossed approximately $ 260 million worldwide through October 10, 2013, of which $ 89.30 million was in the United States alone. The New York Times estimated in early July 2013 that - after dividing the revenue with cinema operators - at least 800 million US dollars would have to be earned worldwide in order not to make a loss.

In 2013, 1,001,308 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film 34th among the most visited films of the year.

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes counted only 33 positives (23%) out of 142 reviews and summarized the consensus as follows: “Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp make a delightful hero duo, but that's not enough for the bland script, the inflated length and the to compensate for blaring action overkill. "

“Gore Verbinski turns the template into an irritating, but precisely because of that, quite appealing genre hybrid. Elements of the Western original, effect cinema bombast and slapstick are sometimes tasted quite bitterly when a highly disrespectful image of the USA appears behind the spectacle, which is more reminiscent of critical late Westerns than the 'Lone Ranger' original. In spite of the unevenness in the drama, this creates a headstrong cinema adventure for blockbuster cinema. "

- Film service

“The successful team of the Pirates of the Caribbean series does not opt for any line at Lone Ranger and thus delivers the next giant flop of the cinema year. [...] Instead of making a commitment, Lone Ranger simply tries everything at the same time and thus strains the patience of his audience. "

- David Kleingers, Spiegel Online

“Where comic and dramatic elements merged into free, wild fables in the best moments of the Caribbean films, in Lone Ranger they always get into each other's enclosure. Johnny Depp's figure reflects this again on a small scale. The Comanche with the peeling make-up […] is the main attraction of the film, and most of the seated punchlines belong to him. Unlike the carefree genre wilderness Jack Sparrow, the script and the actor's claim not only to set themselves apart from earlier portrayals of the character, but also to portray Native Americans in a dignified manner, weighs heavily on him. [...] So he can never become a comedy figure and a "real" Indian, and Depp's routine play seems to be slowed down by the conflict between the two. "

- critic.de - the film site

"Shipwreck in the Wild West - Curse of the Caribbean Director Gore Verbinski has wrecked his spectacularly roaring western adventure Lone Ranger despite a charismatic title hero, some fast-paced individual scenes and the occasional special piece, because he never gets his story under control narrative."

- Carsten Baumgardt, Filmstarts.de

Awards

year price category carrier Result
2014 Golden Raspberry Worst movie Nominated
Golden Raspberry Worst actor Johnny Depp Nominated
Golden Raspberry Worst prequel, remake or sequel Won
Golden Raspberry Worst director Gore Verbinski Nominated
Golden Raspberry Worst script Justin Haythe , Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio Nominated
2014 Oscar Best visual effects Tim Alexander , Gary Brozenich , Edson Williams and John Frazier Nominated
Oscar Best makeup Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Lone Ranger . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 373 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Lone Ranger . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Boris Kit: 'Lone Ranger' Budget Back Up to $ 250 Million. The Hollywood Reporter , November 25, 2012, accessed August 6, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b David Kleingers: Western flop "Lone Ranger": 149 minutes on the torture stake. Spiegel Online , August 6, 2013, accessed August 6, 2013 .
  5. ↑ deadline.com (November 25, 2012)
  6. ↑ spielfilm.de (November 25, 2012)
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  8. ↑ moviejones.de (November 25, 2012)
  9. ↑ negativ-film.de ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 25, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.negativ-film.de
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  14. ↑ Lone Ranger. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 27, 2013 .
  15. ↑ a b Brooks Barnes: Masked Lawman Stumbles at the Gate , The New York Times , July 7, 2013, accessed September 9, 2013.
  16. ↑ The Lone Ranger. Box Office Mojo , October 10, 2013; accessed October 23, 2013 .
  17. ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
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  20. ↑ Maurice Lahde: Lone Ranger. critic.de - the film page, July 20, 2013, accessed on July 20, 2013 .
  21. ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Critique of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team Lone Ranger. Filmstarts.de , accessed on August 6, 2013 .