A new skin
I added a new skin –
actually I made it for my collective some days ago, but I love the pic and so I decided to use it here, too.
Check it out here:
New Moviepics
Conny uploaded lots of new Movie Pics –
Israeli press kit for Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and Secret Window
and German lobby cards and pics from the Press Kit CD of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 – Dead Man’s Chest.
Servermove and whatnotever…
Allright –
there haven’t been many updates in the last time.
This had many reasons:
1. I had my last weeks of the last semester before my diplom work at university and I never in my life had that less free time.
2. we moved over to a new server, to surpass hosting, and we first had to reupload everything.
3. because of the change I decided to as well switch the news, articles and updates script to a new one. News and articles were switched some time before, but today was the day I deleted the old updates folder and now added the new script –
I did not yet have the time to readd all the old updates. That’s why the last one is from 2005…of course it is not!!!!
Capt. Sparrow is gay? Shiver me timbers!
For weeks after we saw the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, a debate raged in my family about the bizarre behavior of the lead character, Capt. Jack Sparrow, played by the delicious Johnny Depp.
“He’s drunk,” said my son.
“He’s crazy,” said my daughter.
“Wrong – all of you!” I said. “He’s gay.”
Now, after watching nearly five hours of Depp flitting around on white sands and prancing on ship decks, I’m left with little doubt: Depp has brought to the silver screen one of the most brilliantly entertaining gay characters of our time…
More by author Desiree Cooper of the Detroit Free Press.
‘Pirates’ Sails to Third Top Box Office Weekend With $35 Million
The Associated Press reported on Sunday that Johnny Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” has plundered more pirate treasure remaining the top movie for the third straight weekend. The Disney sequel passed the $305 million domestic total that its predecessor, 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” rang up during its entire six-month run. Read more at the FOX News website.
Pirate Director tired but happy
www.stuff.co.nz recently interviewed the director, Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Fame, about the second instalment of his pirates adventure trilogy. Here’s a short excerpt…
Does Johnny Depp stay in character on set?
GORE: He turns Captain Jack on and off like a switch. Johnny’s so close to that character that there’s more Johnny Depp in Captain Jack than in any other character he’s played. I think if you’d seen him doing Ed Wood for example, you’d have seen him stay in character a lot more on set, trying to find the character and keep it and distill it. But Captain Jack is really close to Johnny. I think his other performances he’s been running away from an archetype, from being a leading man, the sort of guy who gets the girl and there’s usually a shyness and an introverted quality to those performances. But Jack is a braggart, a liar, a thief and a conman and at ease with it to. So I think there have been these floodgates with Johnny holding all this stuff back for years and suddenly with Captain Jack, Whoosh! The line I always keyed into in thinking how to direct Jack was one from the first movie: ‘You’re the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of’ – ‘Yes, but at least you’ve heard of me’.
Pirates director tired but happy
www.stuff.co.nz recently interviewed the director, Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Fame, about the second instalment of his pirates adventure trilogy. Here’s a short excerpt…
Does Johnny Depp stay in character on set?
GORE: He turns Captain Jack on and off like a switch. Johnny’s so close to that character that there’s more Johnny Depp in Captain Jack than in any other character he’s played. I think if you’d seen him doing Ed Wood for example, you’d have seen him stay in character a lot more on set, trying to find the character and keep it and distill it. But Captain Jack is really close to Johnny. I think his other performances he’s been running away from an archetype, from being a leading man, the sort of guy who gets the girl and there’s usually a shyness and an introverted quality to those performances. But Jack is a braggart, a liar, a thief and a conman and at ease with it to. So I think there have been these floodgates with Johnny holding all this stuff back for years and suddenly with Captain Jack, Whoosh! The line I always keyed into in thinking how to direct Jack was one from the first movie: ‘You’re the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of’ – ‘Yes, but at least you’ve heard of me’.
“I wanna Be your Johnny Depp”
The UK band “Testosterone” recently recorded a song called “I wanna Be your Johnny Depp” –
the song can be heard and downloaded for free HERE
Enjoy it, it is great!
American Filmgoers Fall For a Fey Pirate
With swords thrusting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest features a protagonist whose mannerisms defy the stereotype of the traditional American action hero.
Most obviously, the character is morally ambiguous. That’s a given, since he’s a pirate. But the differences run more deeply. As some viewers–gay and straight–surely have noted, Depp’s performance leans a little toward the higher end of the Kinsey scale.
[While Depp] doesn’t explicitly say that situational homosexuality was a part of pirate life, but he notes that "women were thought to be bad luck on ships" and that long periods of time could separate these men from one port and the next. It’s done in a roundabout fashion, but Depp does acknowledge that, whether intentional or not, this side of Sparrow exists…
Read more of Drew Mackie’s article on AfterElton.com.
Depp on kissing Keira, singing in a movie
This cool cat [Johnny Depp] is unfailingly courteous, funny, modest, candid-he answers all questions-and [is] approachable. We’ve interviewed him several times before, and we’re always reminded that the guy is dedicated to his [girlfriend], French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis (which explains why he is now fluent in French), and father to Lily-Rose, 7, and Jack, 4 writes Ruben V. Nepales of the Daily Inquirer.
Here’s an excerpt from a great interview that can be found in full on the INQ7.net website.
Can you describe the mood when you and Keira kissed?
DEPP: It is always awkward when you are kissing someone you are not romantically involved with. It is acting and it is fake. Kissing scenes are always strange to me, especially since Keira is twentysomething years younger. But she was a good sport. We did what we had to do … and moved on to the next thing. You can almost compare kissing scenes to stunts. It is a strange moment before and after. And then it is just done.