Rango’s historical narrative, however, is also connected with the contemporary world and highlights more current issues surrounding water rights. When Rango is thrown out of his human family’s car, he seems to enter the Old West.
Yet because the mayor seeks to recreate a desert paradise similar to Las Vegas and its surrounding golf courses in that desert landscape, the Old West becomes connected with the new irrigated deserts of the twenty-first century.
The film fails to address the fact that “Las Vegas is far more advanced in both water consciousness and water management than almost anywhere else in the country” (Fishman 52?). But by both integrating innovative CGI and animation techniques from Industrial Light and Magic and translating the film’s narrative to a videogame format, Rango also effectively demonstrates the ongoing effects of the Desert Land Act and the exploitation of water rights it sometimes encouraged.
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