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Johnny Depp Biography John Christopher Depp III was born June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky. The son of John Christopher, a city engineer and Betty Sue Palmer, a waitress and homemaker (Depp has a tattoo of his mother's name on his left arm), young Johnny relocated to Florida, with his three older siblings. The family moved to Florida shortly after the death of Depp's grandfather, with whom the future actor was very close. Never the studious teenager and even more distraught by the divorce of his parents, Depp delved into the world of experimental drugs, and picked up a whole new passion: the guitar. The high-school dropout spent his days playing guitar in a garage band, after he taught himself how to play with the instrument his mother bought him. Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp Johnny Depp biography - new Johnny Depp 

No 162 - A Nightmare on Elm Street Director - Wes Craven One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, better stay awake. Nine, ten, never sleep again . Everything is scarier when it is accompanied by a rhyme . There is something about an innocent children's rhyme that just makes scary things scarier. I think it is the cruel cruel juxtaposition. It is like the Gentlemen - they were the SCARIEST Buffy villains, and that was probably helped by the accompanying chilling rhyme . The thing that I find disappointing about this film is that it just fails to live up to the premise . The idea of a homicidal maniac with phenomenal God like powers terrorising you through your dreams is a genuinely terrifying concept, and yet it never lives up to its full potential. I think this is partly down to the special effects. As this is a film which relies a lot on special effects, the fact that they're dated does make the ...

No 475 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Director - Gore Verbinski Oh, it starts so well. Beautifully in fact . The opening shot of rain pouring into overflowing tea cups is not only gorgeous cinematography, it is the most openly English shot I have ever seen in my life. There is some wonderful slow motion running about and we're introduced to the new big bad... well little bad.. Lord Bennett, representing the East India Trading Company and representing something else, something important. This is, after all, the time in which the East India Trading Company got massive. When I was reading up on Tea (as one does) I began to get an idea of how massive the company was, but this film makes it instantly clear - it is big. Bigger and more powerful than an island's Governor. He has warrants for the arrest of everyone who aided Captain Jack. So Elizabeth, Will and even Norrington are pulled back in to Captain Jack Sparrow's mad little world. In fact this film ma...

No 371 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Director - Gore Verbinski It is a brave move to base a film on a funfair ride. It is not the most common of occurrences , I can only think of one other attempt. So thank goodness that this ended up much better than The Haunted Mansion . But where Disney's ghost train had a plot of sorts (a tragic tale of possession on a wedding night) Pirates of the Caribbean didn't. It was a series of tableaux ... showing Pirate towns and battles and the weird skeletal shipwreck. POTC took elements of those visuals and made a really interesting story. Keeping enough little nods (the dog with keys , the skeleton pirates and the excellent jaunty song ) to merit the film's link to the ride without forcing a structure which doesn't work The story is wonderful, set in the 17 th (or maybe early 18 th ) century as the cliches of piracy are shown. After all these are proper grimacing rum swilling pirates who go out and kidnap g...

No 66 - Edward Scissorhands Director - Tim Burton Recently, I have been to the cinema to see Alice in Wonderland in both spectacular 3D and in more traditional 2D (Which, oddly, I enjoyed more). It got me thinking about the work of Tim Burton, a director who I really admire and am quick to defend. So, in order for me to shameless crowbar in my thoughts on Alice, I decided to watch a Tim Burton film. It seems to me that Burton's films have always been about outsiders which don't fit into their world. However, even then, the films can be split into two types. Films in which a Burtonesque main character struggles to fit into the real world, or films in which a character from the real world finds themselves in a strange Burtonesque world. The only exceptions I can think of are his 2 period pieces. Although both Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd have nightmare figures which stalk and terrorise an otherwise regular (if not normal) English surrounding. Oh and Big Fish, in which it sort...

No 490 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Director - Tim Burton Tim Burton has created a nice little niche for himself. I love the man , I love his films, I love his style and I love his directorial vision but he does have a very distinctive style. Gothic fairytale with aspects of horror. Which is usually delivered in a style which isn't too horrific . Burton's full on Gothic nightmares are few and far between. The only other one I can really think of is Sleepy Hollow. This is the first one which revels in the gore and pain and torture. This is Burton at his darkest and most intense. This is also a far more complex musical than Corpse Bride. I am a massive fan of Danny Elfman (another very distinctive artist with a very recognisable theme ), however he cannot compete with the richness and complicated styles of Sondheim. The songs in this are a beast to play and an utter nightmare to sing. Yet, despite these challenges the film is a quintessential Burton film, a...