2 июл 2013 г. - WASHINGTON POST Depp’s Tonto: an upgrade on a stereotype or just an updated stereotype?

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Just in time for the birthday of the nation that was founded on the decimation of its native inhabitants, Johnny Depp leaps onto 3,700 theaters across the United States as Tonto, that mothballed stereotype of American Indians, in Disney’s theatrical reboot of “The Lone Ranger.”
Hi-yo, controversy!
Or not. Last year the president of the nonprofit group Americans for Indian Opportunity adopted Depp into her family and tribe as a gesture of goodwill. The film’s Comanche consultant endorses the final product. Depp says his great-grandmother was Cherokee, or Creek, or something, and promised to “reinvent” the character of Tonto for 21st-century moviegoers.
So no big deal, right?

Yes and no, says Paul Chaat Smith, associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian and author of “Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong.”

“It’s more important to us than it should be,” he says. “I don’t know what other minority group takes so personally or invests so much of their hopes in a commercial vehicle. I used to think it’s a bad thing and I just wanted us to get over it and say, ‘Christ, it’s just a movie. Have fun or don’t see it or whatever.’ But it does then become a conversation — the amount of calls the museum is getting about [‘The Lone Ranger’], for example — and therefore it’s an opportunity to advance the conversation.”

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