Johnny Depp

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

johnny depp nominations

Monday, September 14, 2009

Johnny Depp was interviewed by David Letterman. The actor confessed that he doesn't watch his movies. Once he finishes filming he doesn't watch his movies. He stated that it is no more his business. Depp said that his kids watched pirates of the caribbean and they told him they liked it a lot.
David Letterman could not believe that Depp went like all other actors to promote his movie and he is the only one that goes to his show and hasen't watch the film.
The actor is not even curious that is very unusual for an actor. Depp doesn't care about the result of his work.

Check the interview on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwkS-ERuNuk

Sunday, September 13, 2009

VOGUE UK Edition, January 2000 Sleepy Hollow premiere

Dream Team.
Take two of Hollywood's hottest stars, Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci; place them in a beautiful yet eerie English village; mix in copious quantities of toadstools, snow, mist and mud - and it all adds up to Tim Burton's latest creation, "Sleepy Hollow". By Jenny Dyson. Photographed by Chris Craymer and Tim Walker.

Sleepy Hollow, the village created for Tim Burton's movie of the same name starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Christopher Walken and an awesome support cast that includes the creepiest of extras you've ever laid eyes on. It took the production designer months to find the right location for Sleepy Hollow, based on Washington Irving's classic American tale. It's all the more surreal that, of the many sleepy hollows in the world, the perfect one should be slap bang in the middle of the Home Counties."The grass was too lush and green so we had to paint it a duller colour," laughs the unit publicist Lauren Strogoff, a skinny slip of a girl swathed in goose down and Gore-Tex. "But then the sheep tried to eat it and we had to stop them in case they got sick. Johnny's horse kept eating the set, too."It's the kind of movie that reminds you what film-making is all about. Every set is more exquisite than the next and every dress, wig, boot and twig draws you into a thrilling, Hammer horror-esque fantasy world. It's the same territory as the 1933 black and white adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Michael Powell's A Matter of Life and Death and epic Technicolor studio movies like The Wizard of Oz. In Tim Burton's hands, the end result is even weirder, thanks to his obsession with a strange, post-modern creepiness - who could forget Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuiceor his adaptation of James and the Giant Peach?"Things have always seemed eerie to me," says Burton. "You know, wondering if your parents are really your parents, or if your relatives are actually human." Burton cast Lisa Marie, his girlfriend and muse, as Ichabod's ethereal mother who comes to haunt him in his dreams. "I play Lady Crane, an eighteenth-century flower child who's a very psychedelic, spiritual character," explains Lisa Marie. "She gets tortured because she's full of unconditional love and teaches through nature. She's totally on a spiritual plane." But it's playing Johnny Depp's mother that makes Lisa Marie feel most peculiar. "Yeah, so I'm Johnny's mom," she laughs.For Tim Burton, it's the non-creative stuff that makes him shudder. "I've seen things that I could never explain," he says. "Like the time I saw the ghost of a deer floating in an apple orchard in upstate New York. Or the time I dreamt there were people in my room and then I woke up and there were people in my room. But nothing could be more terrifying than having a test screening of your film for market research. Now that's scary."Surprisingly, Burton was never interested in fairy tales as a child. You would think that he'd spent his formative years with his nose buried in the Brothers Grimm. "But fairy tales weren't really taught in America," he says. Burton's imagination was stimulated instead by the Hammer horror films. "Monster movies were my version of fairy tales," he says, seriously.You could say that Burton is a hallucinogenic version of Charlie Chaplin. Instead of a silly moustache and walking stick, his trademark is a beret, pulled tightly over his dark curls. Like Chaplin, he wears black from head to toe. When walking his stars through their next scene, he giggles wildly like a mad scientist. And the actors seem to adore him. "Burton is a great visionary," says Depp, who appears perfectly at ease in his eighteenth-century coat, breeches and knee-high leather boots. On the final night's shoot in the village of Sleepy Hollow, Johnny wades through the mud and shivers to himself as a scene is set up inside the church. "Isn't this a magical place?" he says quietly. "I want to live here forever."Cut to Somerset House in London, a few weeks later. Burton has transformed the smart Georgian facade and cobbled court-yard into a New York scene complete with powdery soft snow and coach and horses. Over 200 extras are lining up to have their wigs tweaked by the army of wardrobe assistants. "I need my lips painted NOW!" shrieks a frazzled actress. A classroom of kids materialises in full Little Lord Fauntleroy regalia, singing Spice Girls songs to keep busy until they are summoned.The sudden arrival of a blacked-out Mercedes brings everyone to a standstill. Even the horses freeze. The side door opens, Johnny Depp steps out with a Bill Clinton mask covering his head and brandishes a giant water pistol at the crew. Everyone scatters, laughing. A second later, Depp shimmies up a wobbly ladder to the director's hideaway on the roof of Somerset House and leaves the crew to get on with setting up.All this hard work and it's only for a few seconds of screen time. As the "weathermen" cover the area with a perfect dusting of fake snow, Christina Ricci arrives. .

10 quotes

1. Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic.
2. Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
3. As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
4. France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster
5. How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
6. I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled
7. I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
8. I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
9. I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
10. If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Australian magazine The Big Issue

Australian magazine The Big Issue features Johnny Depp on its current cover, with an interview that focuses on Public Enemies and next year's Alice in Wonderland. "In Public Enemies, Dillinger seems very comfortable with the media's spotlight," their reporter observed. "How comfortable are you with that scrutiny?"Johnny replied, "Well, the thing I'm infinitely more comfortable with is the process and the effort of making the character, and the collaborative process: making the movie. Then there's this other stuff that goes along with it that I don't think I will ever understand, but I do appreciate as a part of the gig. It's a certain amount of attention that I suppose goes along with it. The alternative is a real drag: if there's no attention, well, the job goes away, doesn't it?" Asked if Dillinger would be comfortable in today's world, Johnny said, "I think he'd probably run screaming. I truly do. I'm shocked at things that I see. I'm shocked at things that are available on the internet. I'm shocked at what technology is promising in the next couple of years. [. . .] I think he'd run away.

Friday, September 11, 2009

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Tim Burtons new movie staring Young Aussie Mia Wasikowska will be Burton's Alice, while Johnny Depp is the inspired choice to play the Mad Hatter. The Tim Burton 3-D flick doesn't come out till spring 2010, but film fans now have their first look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen from the upcoming "Alice in Wonderland."
The lead role of Alice will be played by 19-year-old unknown Mia Wasikowska from Australia.
With "Alice in Wonderland," the defining pop-culture version of the story for modern American audiences is the 1951 Disney animated adaptation with its little blond Alice in her blue dress with white pinafore. That film was met with acidic reviews by the literary world (especially in England) for its bland and blunted vision of the Carroll classic. Burton is not a fan of the film, either, and, as with "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," it appears his mission is to reclaim a children's classic, resharpen its edges and remind everyone that sapping the weirdness out of a tale often renders it flat and forgettable. Trailer available athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hetMTyBCnd0

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Who was John Herbert Dillinger? We all know he was a criminal who robbed banks during the 1930's. He was known as a dangerous criminal and was involved in the deaths of several police officers. Dillinger had a gang and they dominated the press during the time that is referred as the public enemy era that is 1931 to 1935.
Depp proved that he can understand any type of character. is perhaps one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. He has left his "bad boy" image behind and is now doing a spectacular job in many different roles. He became famous when he took on the role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003),Dead Man's Chest (2005) and At World's End (2007).
In this film, however, Depp portrays a handsome man and uses his good looks to good advantage, without the quirks and weird eccentricities that have marked many of his previous roles (see above). His big eccentricity in this film is that, like the film clip of Clark Gable on his way to be executed that is used in the film, John Dillinger wants to live life to the fullest, but he isn't much on thinking ahead. It's hard to believe that a man who can plan a bank robbery down
Check trailer http://www.publicenemies.net/