Do you remember this movie I can't remember?
February 10, 2011 11:40 AM Subscribe
I remember seeing a movie as a kid and I'd like to see it again but I don't know what it was called or who was in it.
What I remember: it was set back in the time where cars were kinda old-timey and people were super racist. There was a nice black guy and some jerk racist white guy put horse poop in the black guy's car, on the seat. The black guy tried to get the white guy to clean up the poop, and I think there was a fight and the black guy got arrested. Eventually, the black guy becomes, like, some kinda radical Black Panthers type of revolutionary. The only other thing I remember is at the end there are a bunch of cops pointing rifles at the black guy who is on the steps of some government building, unarmed, with his hands up, and they shoot him anyway, and he dies and falls down the steps (spoiler alert).
Also, while we're trying to remember things for me, I read this Lone Ranger book as a kid, and it had the origin of the Lone Ranger, and, like, his brother or father was shot twice while wearing a black vest, and the two bullet holes in the vest become the eyeholes in the mask the Lone Ranger wears. So, he's constantly staring at the world through those two bullet holes that killed his brother or father or whoever it was. Which is awesome and pretty disturbing if you think about it. I looked through some Lone Ranger books a while ago but never saw anything about that.
If anyone knows the movie or the book I can't remember, please remember it for me and tell me. I am a male in California and I am using Windows XP Pro.
What I remember: it was set back in the time where cars were kinda old-timey and people were super racist. There was a nice black guy and some jerk racist white guy put horse poop in the black guy's car, on the seat. The black guy tried to get the white guy to clean up the poop, and I think there was a fight and the black guy got arrested. Eventually, the black guy becomes, like, some kinda radical Black Panthers type of revolutionary. The only other thing I remember is at the end there are a bunch of cops pointing rifles at the black guy who is on the steps of some government building, unarmed, with his hands up, and they shoot him anyway, and he dies and falls down the steps (spoiler alert).
Also, while we're trying to remember things for me, I read this Lone Ranger book as a kid, and it had the origin of the Lone Ranger, and, like, his brother or father was shot twice while wearing a black vest, and the two bullet holes in the vest become the eyeholes in the mask the Lone Ranger wears. So, he's constantly staring at the world through those two bullet holes that killed his brother or father or whoever it was. Which is awesome and pretty disturbing if you think about it. I looked through some Lone Ranger books a while ago but never saw anything about that.
If anyone knows the movie or the book I can't remember, please remember it for me and tell me. I am a male in California and I am using Windows XP Pro.
Response by poster: Oh, thanks, Joe Beese! That looks like the movie! And yay, directed by Milos Forman, to boot! Awesome.
posted by notmydesk at 11:45 AM on February 10, 2011
posted by notmydesk at 11:45 AM on February 10, 2011
Spoiler alerts typically come before the spoiler information. Just sayin'.
posted by hamandcheese at 11:50 AM on February 10, 2011 [8 favorites]
posted by hamandcheese at 11:50 AM on February 10, 2011 [8 favorites]
Best answer: According to this forum thread, the Lone Ranger's mask thing is in the Gary McCarthy novelisation of 1981's Legend of the Lone Ranger, but may be older than that.
Originally Posted by Lone Rangerposted by zamboni at 12:28 PM on February 10, 2011
Your memory must be playing tricks on you. In Legend of the Lone Ranger, they never said where his mask came from.
I finally got around to re reading the novelization of the movie.
It definitly says that the Lone Ranger's mask was made from his brother's vest and that the eye holes were from the two bullets that killed him. He and Tonto never said it so it either wasn't ovious in the movie or was added by Gary Mccarthy who did the novelization.
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posted by Joe Beese at 11:40 AM on February 10, 2011 [2 favorites]