Johnny Depp No Obnoxious Kids
July 24, 2005 – Femalefirst.co.uk. – Movie hunk Johnny Depp was attracted to new movie CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, because the central character Charlie Bucket reminds him of his two sweet-natured children…
Johnny Depp: Oddball with a monstrous talent
23 July 2005 – The Independent Online Edition – By Andrew Gumbel –
For 15 years, Johnny Depp has been the ideal movie star, the kind who slips under the mass-cultural radar, the kind who avoids most if not quite all of the inane Hollywood gossip about power and status, who never shows up in cynically constructed big-budget spectaculars – who might go entirely unnoticed, indeed, were it not for the fact that he is consistently and quirkily brilliant in just about anything he turns his hand to…
UK Radio Times July 2005
Title: King John
Author: Andrew Collins
Publication: RadioTimes
Issue: 23-29 July 2005
I wish I’d been the one to spot it, but the honour goes to the creature behind ads for a satellite movie channel s few years ago. They montaged clips of Johnny Depp, but treated them to resemble 1920’s film stock: black and white and scratchy. Each showed a wordless facial reaction with piano accompaniment. The thesis: Depp is the great silent star who never was.
That’s Depp in a nutshell. He’s thoroughly modern – trendy, offbeat, rock’n’roll – and yet there’s something deeply old-fashioned about him. He’s a modern classic, combining iconoclasm with a crowd-pleasing populism that’s finally made him bankable as well as cool, thanks to Pirates of the Caribbean.
After achieving cheesy fame in the late 1980s in TV cop show 21 Jump Street, Depp found a more artistic kind under the guidance of director Tim Burton. His fourth collaboration with Burton – they’re a toy-box Scorsese and De Niro – is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It threatens, after Finding Neverland, to make him a Dick Van Dyke with attitude.
So what’s his secret? Dashing good looks aren’t enough (although fans of Chocolate may disagree); nor are the column inches accrued during his wild years smashing up hotel suites and dating Kate Moss. It might be his eternal youthfulness, even in his early 40s, or simply a knack for looking like he’s having a fantastic time.
Patrick Stoner interviews Johnny Depp
Flicks with Patrick Stoner– WHYY TV – Patrick talks to Johnny about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…Click here to view video…
Johnny by Good
With Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Johnny Depp proves again he’s the Brando of his generation – BRIAN D. JOHNSON – July 22, 2005.
Depp is Hollywood’s rebel angel. And he’s lived a renegade life. Growing up in Florida, he dropped out of high school at 15, and became a garage-band rocker. After moving to Los Angeles and making his name as an actor, he turned into one of Hollywood’s legendary bad boys — linked to the drug-overdose death of River Phoenix in 1993, arrested for wrecking a Manhattan hotel room the following year, and scrapping with paparazzi outside a London restaurant in 1999. Since then, he’s settled down with singer-actress Vanessa Paradis in her native France and fathered two children.
It’s ironic that the kid who dropped out of school to do drugs and join the rock ‘n’ roll circus should stumble into A-list respectability by mimicking a heroin-chic Rolling Stone in a Disney movie. It was a risky choice, and one that initially alarmed his producers. But with his outrageous Keith Richards routine in Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp struck box-office gold.
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Depp Reveals Secret Of True Love
July 22, 2005 – World Entertainment News Network – Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp has urged lovers to respect one another if they want a long and happy relationship…
Depp promises his kids he’ll stay cool
July 21, 2005 – ContactMusic.com – Hollywood heart-throb JOHNNY DEPP has always steered away from blockbuster movies, because he doesn’t want his children to think he’s a “sell out”.
Tim Burton, Johnny Depp whip up an eccentric Willy Wonka who can’t
Jul 21, 2005 – Los Angeles Daily News – By Glenn Whipp – Burton sought to blot out the memory of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s well-loved children’s classic that starred Gene Wilder and is, in fact, well-loved itself by some people…
Jackson-Wonka resemblance? Not for Depp
Posted July 21, 2005 – By Associated Press – NEW YORK — Johnny Depp, star of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” says he didn’t base his Willy Wonka character on Michael Jackson — and is surprised that some people see a resemblance…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reviews
Perhaps by now you’ve seen the biggest childrens film of the ’05 summer season which by the way was written some 45 years ago. I shouldn’t have to tell you it is the much the
anticipated Burton-Depp collaberation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory;the whopping eye-candy extravaganza film fantasy that could just be the next best-loved Wizard of Oz.
Maybe you’ve skimmed a Charlie review or two or written one of your own on one of the many online blogs. One thing is for sure, if reviews were a dime a dozen, I’d have a pot of gold by now – there are literally dozens of reviews online; just take a peek at Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews or do a quick search on Yahoo – the engine returns with more reviews than you can squeeze into your little head in one sitting. So with that in mind I decided to pull out the highlights and give your itty-bitty head a rest.
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter wrote “Success requires a perfect balance of flavor, richness, depth and a yummy yumminess that’s hard to pinpoint but you know it when you taste it. So when it comes to candy – and to film fantasy – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the real deal. This morality tale disguised as a whimsical, magical mystery tour of the world’s greatest chocolate factory has all the gorgeousness of hard dark chocolate that melts ever-so-slowly in your mouth.”