{"id":30710,"date":"2013-10-10T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=30710"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:03:53","slug":"tarantino-explains-why-lone-ranger-is-on-his-top-ten-of-2013-so-far-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/10\/tarantino-explains-why-lone-ranger-is-on-his-top-ten-of-2013-so-far-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantino Explains Why LONE RANGER Is On His ‘Top Ten Of 2013 So Far’ List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tarantino\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Over this past weekend there was a lot of head scratching when it was revealed that this past summer’s flop The Lone Ranger<\/strong> was on director Quentin Tarantino’s list of top his top ten films of the year so far. Was there some unique point that the director saw that made him place it on his “Best Of” list while so many others were planning on placing it on their “Worst Of” lists.<\/p>\n

The director explained his choice to Les Inrockuptibles<\/a> (via The Playlist<\/a>) and it turns out it wasn’t some great or unusual insight into the film that lead to his placement of the film on his list. He just kind of liked it.<\/p>\n

The first forty-five minutes are excellent\u2026the next forty-five minutes are a little soporific. It was a bad idea to split the bad guys in two groups; it takes hours to explain and nobody cares. Then comes the train scene\u2014incredible! When I saw it, I kept thinking, \u2018What, that\u2019s the film that everybody says is crap? Seriously?\u2019<\/p>\n

That being said, I still have a little problem with the film. I like Tonto\u2019s backstory\u2014the idea that his tribe got slaughtered because of him; that\u2019s a real comic-book thing. But the slaughter of the tribe, by gunfire, from the cavalry, it left a bitter taste in my mouth. The Indians have really been victims of a genocide. So slaughtering them again in an entertaining movie, Buster Keaton style\u2026 That ruined the fun a bit for me. I simply found it\u2026ugly. Making fun of this, when America really did it, it bothered me\u2026That doesn\u2019t stop it from being a good film but they could have done without that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before you jump to point it out, Tarantino is well aware that he himself has recently taken something ugly from American history and used it in his own film, Django Unchained<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t make Lone Ranger\u2026that\u2019s two different things. I did an examination of America. I tried to juggle with different things and, frankly, I think I did it better than them,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know, let\u2019s just say that it was ugly. And violent. And boring. And it happens right in the middle of the film\u2019s bad part, anyway. [laughs]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just why does the director like the roundly derided LONE RANGER?<\/div>\n

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