Rango (2011) is a spiritually potent film. In this presentation I show Rango's "Who am I?" journey from "I could be anyone" to "I am nobody". The presentation also tries to bring out the dance of self-deception that goes on in our life all the time. Rango represents you and I who are busy trying to maintain an image in society,

1. Rango’s “Who am I?” journey
From “I could be anyone” to “I am nobody”
Vinay Dabholkar
vinay@catalign.com
4-Feb-2018
www.catalign.in

2. My character is undefined?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptQDGywkyQ 1:23
I know who I am. I am the guy, the protagonist, the hero.
Every story needs a hero. Who else is better qualified to
bask in the adulation of his numerous companions?

3. Who am I? I could be anyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptQDGywkyQ 2:06
“I could be the sea captain returning from the mighty voyage
to reclaim his mechanical arm, or I could be the rogue
anthropologist battling pythons down in the Congo!”

4. The epiphany: Story needs conflict
“People, I have had an epiphany. The hero cannot exist in
a vacuum. What our story needs is an ironic unexpected
event that will propel the hero into conflict!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptQDGywkyQ 3:00

5. An ironic unexpected event that
propels the hero into conflict
The fish tank carrying the hero is thrown out of the
car’s dicky and hero finds himself on the road
floating on a broken glass.

6. Rango meets his first Guru: Roadkill

7. Rango learns a metaphor:
Getting to the other side
Roadkill: I must get to the other side. My quest for
enlightenment. We are nothing without it.
Rango: Why don’t you wait until there are no cars coming?
Roadkill: It’s not so easy as it looks. It’s a metaphor.
https://www.moviequotesandmore.com/rango-quotes/

8. Rango gets help from Miss Beans

9. So who are you, really?
Well, I am a man of many epithets. There’s my
stage name, my pen name, my avatar. I had a
pseudonym once but I had it legally changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAQ86x-SA0

10. Rango in a saloon in the Dirt town

11. Who exactly are you?
(Thinking: Who am I? I could be anyone.)
(To everyone) I am from the West, beyond horizon, past
the sunset, the Far West. The place I come from, we kill a
man before breakfast to just work up an appetite. Then
we salt him and we pepper him. Then we braise him in
clarified butter. And then we eat him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jOAkbJoxE

12. Name’s…Rango!
I’m from everywhere there is trouble brewin’ and
Hell waitin’ to be raised. You might say I’m what
Hell has already raised up. Name’s… Rango!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jOAkbJoxE

13. With one bullet, Rango kills the hawk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqfNK1vYhv0

14. And Rango becomes town Sheriff

15. Rango meets the second guru:
Rattlesnake Jake

16. He’s actually starting to believe it
Our Sheriff has been playing the hero for so long,
he’s actually starting to believe it. Call in
Rattlesnake Jake.

17. Show them who you really are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-RudZv_YQ

18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-RudZv_YQ

19. Nothing but a fake and a coward
Listen close you pathetic fraud, this is my town
now. If I ever see you again, I will take your soul
straight down to hell!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-RudZv_YQ

20. Who are you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-RudZv_YQ

21. Who am I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UFrmrwiso
I am nobody

22. Journey to the other side begins
Metaphorically, only when the thought traffic
subsides, which happens only when the process
of becoming subsides, there is space to cross the
Highway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UFrmrwiso

23. On the other side
Rango meets the third guru:
The spirit of the west
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nMo8duNJNU

24. Who am I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nMo8duNJNU

25. It’s not about you, it’s about them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nMo8duNJNU

26. No man can walk out on his own story
But I can’t go back Don’t know that you got a choice son,
No man can walk out on his own story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nMo8duNJNU

27. Thank You
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rango_(2011_film)