Scene Study: The Lone Ranger

Episode 002 - The Lone Ranger

Bonus!+ Isolated Score version of the finale at 15:07.

It was panned by critics and bombed at the box office, but is it time to go back to admire what an amazing effort Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger really was? While the film had its faults, it was the well-intentioned attempt at being a big budget tentpole western that make those faults a bit easier to swallow. We will never see a $250 million budgeted western ever again, most likely due to the failure of this film. Which is why it's worth going back and examining all the quirks and personality that Verbinski put into the film. Overall the film is quite enjoyable, and stylized enough to feel an actual director's stamp on it which we never see today. Hopefully this one will find an audience in the coming years, and for that reason we will be looking at the train chase finale for this scene study. The train chase finale is one of the most impressive action set pieces to ever be filmed, and we will break it down from start to finish. The sequence was so ambitious that it also needed a dedicated composer. Geoff Zanelli was tasked at re-arranging and re-structuring the William Tell Overture, while adding all the connective tissue as well as weaving in Hans Zimmer's original themes. It took Geoff 180 days of work on this single sequence. So let's dig in.

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