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Donnie Brasco and Johnny Depp--the pair of diminutive and rhyming first names suggests, one hopes, larger reverberances between a compelling character and the fascinating young actor who plays him in a movie. Secretiveness and watchfulness are among the traits they share. So are tastes for danger, duplicity and disguise. Most significant, role playing is for both of them--albeit in rather different ways--a matter of life and death...
...performer who, Pistone says, "captured me 100%--my mannerisms, my walk, my talk." Nobody is going to car-bomb an actor who bombs; the worst he's going to suffer is bad reviews and, conceivably, a drop in his asking price. Even so, the evidence suggests that Depp is a man who comes into sharp focus and, more important, attains full life only when he loses himself in a role. The first time director John Badham met the actor he intended to cast in his thriller Nick of Time, he did not recognize him. "He looked like one of those...
...sure, a figure bearing Depp's name runs, occasionally roughshod, through the tabloid life of our times. This guy is best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
...Billy Bob...]...was in Dead Man, with Johnny Depp Johnny Depp was in Ed Wood, with Patricia Arquette Patricia Arquette was in Beyond Rangoon, with Frances McDormand...
...Depp handles his "blank page" role well, his face as untroubled as a statue's despite the violence he sees. Scenes are intentionally stolen one after the other by cameo players such as John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover and Iggy Pop as the inexplicable transvestite/cannibal Salvatore "Sally" Jenko. In "Dead Man," these unlikely cameos provide a solid, convincing foundation on which the larger drama plays itself...