Word: abberlineã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hughes brothers parachute us into the narrative around the time of the first incident, where real-life Inspector Frederick Abberline??played, accent and all, by Johnny Depp—is assigned to lead the investigation into what would became infamously known as the Ripper Murders. What the Hughes fictionalize is Jack’s targeting of a group of six sisterly “unfortunates”—one of whom is Heather Graham—in Whitechapel, tempting them with grapes and dulling their senses with laudanum-laced absinthe before doing the ghastly deed. He?...
What we do know is afforded by the convenient dramatic device of Abberline??s “visions” of the murders. While drifting in and out of an opium-induced haze, he sees details—tinted, blurry city-scapes and half concealed, shadowy murders—only to wake up and have these apparitions confirmed on the streets. Even awake, Depp wanders in a somewhat dreamlike trance through the crimes, with little in the way of actual detective work or even acting. Depp, a badass no matter what accent you foist upon him, never truly...
| 1 |