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Chinatown influenced Rango
Added by Media Influence Map · 29 September 2026
The evidence
Gore Verbinski built Rango's plot on Chinatown: in a desert town running out of water, a newcomer uncovers a scheme by the mayor, an old tortoise modelled on John Huston's Noah Cross, to control the water and profit from the land.
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