Lone Ranger Mask of Zorro Social Signalling for Anonymous Dissent
The Johnny Depp/Armie Hammer Western bears a striking resemblance to 1998's 'The Mask of Zorro.'
If you are a fan of 1998’s The Mask of Zorro - the enduring pop confection that starred Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and the incandescent Catherine Zeta Jones - you might’ve noticed a few plot similarities between Zorro and The Lone Ranger. Like, the whole plot.
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To wit: Both movies are about a man (in the case of The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer’s John Reid; Zorro had Banderas’ Alejandro Murrieta) whose brother gets killed by a long-haired rogue (Ranger’s Butch Cavendish vs. Zorro’s Capt. Love) who has a thing for cannibalesque postmortem desecration (Cavendish likes to eat the hearts of men he’s killed, while Love prefers to store his victims’ severed body parts in water, occasionally sipping from that dead-body juice).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lone-ranger-mask-zorro-plot-581765
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If you are a fan of 1998’s The Mask of Zorro - the enduring pop confection that starred Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and the incandescent Catherine Zeta Jones - you might’ve noticed a few plot similarities between Zorro and The Lone Ranger. Like, the whole plot.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
To wit: Both movies are about a man (in the case of The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer’s John Reid; Zorro had Banderas’ Alejandro Murrieta) whose brother gets killed by a long-haired rogue (Ranger’s Butch Cavendish vs. Zorro’s Capt. Love) who has a thing for cannibalesque postmortem desecration (Cavendish likes to eat the hearts of men he’s killed, while Love prefers to store his victims’ severed body parts in water, occasionally sipping from that dead-body juice).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lone-ranger-mask-zorro-plot-581765
dr. π (pi)
.