Tonto

is coming back, embodied by Johnny Depp ("It's like watching jack sparrow doing a bad impression of a native american"), the fictional indian companion of the the Lone Ranger. before my exhilaration at the thought that I will once more be in Monument Valley even though if throught the big screen, my thoughts about this Tonto are exactly these.


"Whenever a new Billy Jack movie opened in Spokane, my entire tribe would climb into two or three vans like so many circus clowns and drive to the East Trent Drive-In for a long evening of greasy popcorn, flat soda pop, fossilized licorice rope and interracial violence.
 We Indians cheered as Billy Jack fought for us, for every single Indian.
 Of course, we conveniently ignored the fact that Tom Laughlin, the actor who played Billy Jack, was definitely not Indian."
Sherman Alexie, argumentista de Smoke Signals, autor de The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, colecção de contos que constituíram a base do filme.

Alguns, aqui:
"The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"
"This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona"
"A Drug Called Tradition"
"Every Little Hurricane"

Não linko mais porque me aborrece fazê-lo de autores vivos.

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel, um poema de Alexie para ler.

para ouvir estas vozes: Black Elk Speaks, Lame Deer e Sherman Alexie, do mais antigo para o contemporâneo.

não é necessária nenhuma explicação, a indústria precisa de histórias como qualquer sanguessuga precisa de sangue. [muito a propósito disto, o artigo Ten Things Hollywood Wants in Source Materials and Screenplays, no Huffington Post em que se diz tão, mas tão erradamente "But movies are the global campfires of our time". seria assim se os filmes fossem de graça, e não 'highest-grossing'. com uma certa piada para quem ler o artigo: "the story's just too difficult to translate".]
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sobre o racismo, uma peça curta mas interessantíssima na cnn/time: can babies tell right from wrong?
The Moral Life of Babies.