tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537107326799184704.post5804154956837095404..comments2023-04-04T10:13:06.366-05:00Comments on Fantastic Frontiers: Indians in the MoviesMatthew Baughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138985206277627972noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537107326799184704.post-42262380500658317942013-10-22T02:59:42.359-05:002013-10-22T02:59:42.359-05:00On the film side...
The screenplay was originally...On the film side...<br /><br />The screenplay was originally written by Rossio & Elliot, the two guys behind <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>. They'd written a supernatural thriller (along the lines of <i>PotC</i>) with the wendigo, nature out of balance, and silver bullets being used to kill the beasties.<br /><br />Then Depp and Verbinski started making bizarre demands and requests that didn't fit the story, and when Rossio & Elliot said "no" another screenwriter was brought in who just added anything Depp and Verbinski talked about... :(Virtual Strangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537107326799184704.post-59801178514336670832013-10-01T20:53:06.947-05:002013-10-01T20:53:06.947-05:00LOL! It's a theory to run with. I'm afraid...LOL! It's a theory to run with. I'm afraid it doesn't make me feel any better about the movie, though.Matthew Baughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09138985206277627972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537107326799184704.post-24733583463791798982013-08-06T04:48:09.981-05:002013-08-06T04:48:09.981-05:00I got to thinking about what you said after I saw ...I got to thinking about what you said after I saw the movie. Tonto's tribe was killed he would have wandered around America interacting with other tribes, perhaps trying to explain what happened. So he would pick up the idea of the wendigo and perhaps terms like Kemo Sabe. He may have even been adopted into a Potawatomai tribe. Which explains why the Comanche tribe in the movie say that Tonto is making these things up.<br /><br />Of course I could be overthinking things.Brad Mengelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596448037971938535noreply@blogger.com