Word: depp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-time movie director JOHNNY DEPP, pride of auteurship beats a glowing review any day. "Regardless of what people think of the movie, it's my film," said the director of The Brave. At his Cannes Film Festival press screening, Depp experienced a noble tradition of the 50-year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn...
...Depp turned down the Keanu Reeves part in Speed and the Brad Pitt role in Legends of the Fall, becoming something rather old-fashioned, a character lead. But he worked in the kind of films--youth-oriented and fringy--that middlebrow traditionalists, the people who sniffishly deplore actors who "just play themselves," never go to see. This is their loss; they have missed out on the filmography of the most interesting actor...
...woven of two strands, one of them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity...
...Depp has done this so well that Waters claims "he's got other young actors imitating his career. I actually hear people say, 'I want to do a Johnny Depp.' And no, I won't name who they are." What he will argue is that his friend's best work is in his straightest role: the super-responsible elder sibling trying to keep his family from spinning into total dysfunction in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "He's real. He plays heroes in an uncorny...
...strong stuff, not least because, as Newell says, Paul Attanasio's adaptation of Pistone's book offers "this absolutely novel point of view about the Mob," dealing as it does "with the lowest rung, the have-nots. I loved being at the bottom of the pond." So, obviously, did Depp. "He absorbs so much," says the wondering Pistone, with whom Depp hung out for weeks, perfecting all his mannerisms--right down to a nervous cough--that "he doesn't try. It just comes to him. And he remembers everything. He's like a sponge...