The movie I chose to do is The Lone Ranger, which depicts a very Western-style genre in Texas. It shows nothing in the background but the desert and trains. The buildings are old, all wooden, and people also have that Southern accent. Towards the beginning, you can see people gathering together, which looks like a trading area, and there even is an Asian woman talking to someone, which makes me believe that it is a trading route. In the movie, a man was being transported by train and sent to the law after he massacred a bunch of Natives during times when they had a peace treaty. Now, a native that was on the train and John are working together to get his man named Bush, a wanted man. Also, the Native is dressed in Native gear and knows some English. The Native is also physically stronger and better in combat than John. The Native was locked up again and began chanting in the cell. A kid walks up and watches him as his shadow begins to morph into some sort of creature. During a walk, the rangers began talking about seeing a white horse randomly in the desert, saying that it’s a spirited horse and that it’s here to take you to the other side if you spot one, which is Indian folklore also foreshadowing the demise of John’s group. John watched as his whole group got killed by the bandits in the middle of a cavern. The Native pays his respects and buries the dead bodies of the rangers, and this shows his character and how much they respect the dead and trusted the rangers. The Native is a very wise man and speaks in riddles, and sometimes it sounds. There is a point in the movie where a treaty has been violated, and people believe that Natives have started raiding and taking out the settlers’ settlements. But it turns out it wasn’t the Natives that violated the treaty but Bush’s bandits that put makeup on their faces and dressed like Indians so they could frame them for burning down the settlements to get them off their backs. Bush was posted up in the Valley of Tears, where Rebecca and Danny were which were family to John. Fast forward a little through the story, John and the Native tried making peace with the Indians and telling them that it was all a misunderstanding, but it didn’t work, so a war could eventually break out between the Natives and the Settlers. Bush had a lot of people he captured and turned into enslaved people, and a lot of them were from different parts of the world and didn’t speak English. The antagonist, Bush, was messed up in the head and killed people just for the fun of it and had no remorse or emotion. He is the embodiment of evil and takes, kills, and hurts whoever he wants. At a turning point in the story, John captures Bush, stops the Native from killing him, and takes him to the Sheriff, who we then find out is Bush’s brother, and they end up betraying John. The Native comes out and saves John and brings an army of Indians that come to stop the train John, his wife, and kid were being transported on. The Indians came from the Hillside and were instantly mowed down with a Gatling gun that the Sheriff and Bush had in their arsenal. The Gatling gun was very old-fashioned, and instead of pulling a trigger, you had to spin a leveler that shot the bullets very fast but slow in today’s age. They were fighting all just for silver and them intruding on the Indian’s territory. Finding out about all the corruption in the system, John begins by throwing away the police life he had and switching towards an outlaw to change his ways. The Sheriff begins taking over the trading business and forcibly puts himself in a position of power, causing turmoil for the group working at the train station. Towards the end, the Native and John stopped the Sheriff, Bush, and their men and restored the peace to the settlement. Now, I will give an overview of the movie; I immensely enjoyed it. It was a mix of comedy and action, and it was not so informative but very entertaining to watch. There is a part where they blow up a bridge, and it reminds me of other Western movies where there’s a scene just like that. There were many Native elements mentioned in the film, but not much like a scene showing Bush’s man walking across the Valley of Tears and many antiques being used by the Indians for ceremonial purposes and references like the spirit horse and also the Indian language being spoken. It spoke about treaties and settlements the Indians had, and trade was brought up very heavily throughout the movie by the natives, and I still have trouble finding the meaning of trade in the movie.