Jul
1
2006
Title: The Shore Thing
Author: Martyn Palmer
Publication: UK – Total Film
Issue: July 2006
Inside the vast Atlantis Resort Hotel (think Las Vegas in the Bahamas), a multitude of mostly American tourists are going about the business of having fun with serious intent. The slot machines bleep, the drinks are served in primary colours then consumed in vast amounts, and there’s a queue forming for the ‘swim with the dolphins’ tour. Nobody pays much attention to the strange-looking guy with dreadlocks and beard, a man adorned with enough bangles and beads to stock a Camden market stall.
He weaves his way through the hotel lobby throng, orange shirt sleeves rolled up to reveal a number of tattoos, murmuring a polite “‘Scuse me,” mouth glinting with gold tooth. Some people – just a few, mind – give him a puzzled second glance as he disappears into an anonymous conference room”, and then continue about their business. Sure, looks a little different from the pasty skinned shorts and t-shirt brigade — but, hey; maybe he’s a member of the Calypso band that’s playing that night.
Johnny Depp isn’t filming today. Yesterday, out on his (or rather Captain Jack Sparrow’s) treasured vessel, The Black Pearl, he was in full regalia. Today he’s in partial ensemble: missing his bandana, battered three-cornered hat, pistol (authentic, made in London in 1712,
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