A farmhouse family is besieged, a famous sequence from John Ford's The Searchers that was the basis for a conscious homage sequence in Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West.
I can illustrate this extraordinary pillaging spree by reference to one sequence in The Lone Ranger that manages a kind of satanic double-borrowing.
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It's full of exciting set pieces and genre staples – runaway trains, bridges blown up, Monument Valley, psychopathic cannibal-villain, scheming railroad magnate – and it's tolerably witty, even if you do find the whole idea of Tonto the Uncle Tom redskin a tad retrograde (because, hey, genocide means never having to say you're sorry). That's not to damn The Lone Ranger entirely it may have flopped disastrously, but I love a good origin-myth reboot movie, and Gore Verbinski has made a pretty good one.
The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living."
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There is homage, there is the affectionate nod, there is creative artistic theft, and then there is this: knowingly building a genre movie entirely from sequences hijacked from the classic movies of that genre. The Lone Ranger is so heavily littered with the bleeding scalps of old Hollywood and spaghetti westerns that after about half an hour I started to think I wasn't watching a western at all, but a Frankenstein movie. Watch the trailer for The Lone Ranger Disney
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