Johnny Depp is strange. Everyone knows that he can play a strong dramatic role, but no one wants to watch that. Come on, you know you’d rather watch him play some bizarre character with that huge grin on his face. Which is why his latest movie, Public Enemies, doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as what he has in store in the coming years.
First, he’ll be back working with Tim Burton to revamp Alice in Wonderland and what more perfect part for Johnny than to play the Mad Hatter. Very few people in Hollywood can be eccentric like Depp and make you forget that he also played Don Juan a decade ago.
Next year he dives into another Hunter S. Thompson novel, The Rum Diary, and plays a freelance journalist living in the Caribbean trying to stay sober while deciding the next point in his life. This novel was written before Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, so there won’t be as many acid flashbacks, but be ready for a dark trip through the soul of humanity.
Of course, what else would be news if it weren’t for rumors of a Pirates of the Caribbean 4? This only means that the most noted role Depp has played, Jack Sparrow, will don his hat and swagger for yet another movie in the years to come.
Leave it to Depp to play some of the most bizarre leading characters in Hollywood which turn out to be his most memorable. Then again, he was also Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood which probably meant that he was destined to play odd roles forever.
From Pirate to Hatter
by J Frazzetta July 8th, 2009 |Movie Commentary
Johnny Depp is strange. Everyone knows that he can play a strong dramatic role, but no one wants to watch that. Come on, you know you’d rather watch him play some bizarre character with that huge grin on his face. Which is why his latest movie, Public Enemies, doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as what he has in store in the coming years.
First, he’ll be back working with Tim Burton to revamp Alice in Wonderland and what more perfect part for Johnny than to play the Mad Hatter. Very few people in Hollywood can be eccentric like Depp and make you forget that he also played Don Juan a decade ago.
Next year he dives into another Hunter S. Thompson novel, The Rum Diary, and plays a freelance journalist living in the Caribbean trying to stay sober while deciding the next point in his life. This novel was written before Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, so there won’t be as many acid flashbacks, but be ready for a dark trip through the soul of humanity.
Of course, what else would be news if it weren’t for rumors of a Pirates of the Caribbean 4? This only means that the most noted role Depp has played, Jack Sparrow, will don his hat and swagger for yet another movie in the years to come.
Leave it to Depp to play some of the most bizarre leading characters in Hollywood which turn out to be his most memorable. Then again, he was also Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood which probably meant that he was destined to play odd roles forever.