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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For ages I've been meaning to watch Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), in which Johnny Depp plays the main character. It's pretty… interesting…? how Dead Man is considered to be very good in its representation of Indigenous people, especially for a film not directed by an Indigenous person^[I only first became aware of Dead Man because clips of it are used in the music video for The Halluci Nation's "Electric Pow Wow Drum", which also samples audio from the film.]; and then not even twenty years later, Johnny Depp went on to don redface as Tonto in Disney's The Lone Ranger (2013), which was, uhh, not as good representation?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    dead man is pretty good, moody, cool, but it's a jarmusch movie so it's very slow and has long asides of side characters having improvised dialogue about nothing in particular that goes nowhere (but less so than other jarmusch movies). gary farmer is very good in it. johnny depp is okay, it's early arty johnny depp. crispin glover and robert mitchum are in it for 2 minutes each (in separate scenes) and are more memorable than depp.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    How was Tonto not good native representation? Johnny Depp wears feathers on his leather jacket irl all the time. I saw him do a perfume commercial in the desert for a brand called "Sauvage" where he dressed like an injun!

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