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Rango Review
Opening Friday March 4 Rango is Industrial Light and Magic’s first fully animated movie . Written by John Logan, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp.
Like The Fantastic Mr Fox, “Rango” is helmed by a cineaste Gore Verbinski who has worked in live actions, and it takes advantage from his heightened awareness of visual responses to the piece –Verbinski assisted on True Grit’s DP Roger Deakins as a visual consultant, and it shows.
Furthermore, the picture certainly showed more of the influence of the Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western. More likely that it is caused by that before he made the Pirates of the Caribbean movies with Depp, Verbinski made The Mexican, an adventure with Leone’s gestures. But with the decorative style of the spaghettis, the film also turns back to the romantic comedy of Buster Keaton in Go West. There’s a funny sequence in which Rango accidentally sets fire to a bully by the name of Bad Bill (Ray Winstone) that Keaton would have been proud of.
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