The interpretive figure of Johnny Depp is closely linked to a Tim Burton who has known how to transfer image and gift to his fantastic settings towards the gothic. Of course, beyond this pairing we find other movies thanks to which "Juanito Profundo" has managed to carve out a career towards the top of Hollywood stardom.
A filmography of great repercussion in which Johnny has combined the undeniable festive erotic hook of the boy with a melancholic expression, with a display of chameleonic virtues, from the most leisurely to the histrionic.
Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, and moved to Los Angeles as a young man to pursue an acting career. He began his career on television, appearing on shows like 21 Jump Street and Cheers. His first major film role was in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Since then, he has appeared in a wide range of films, from blockbusters to independent films.
Depp is known for his versatility as an actor and for his ability to play a wide range of characters. He is also known for his unique personal style, which includes his long hair and outlandish outfits.
Top 3 recommended Johnny Deep movies
Edward Scissorhands
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:I have my particular doubts about the very first Johnny Depp film. But it is that the stridency of this role that makes him a being from another world comes to all of us as something indelible. A mix between Pinocchio and Frankenstein that only this actor could materialize with the loopholes between the human and the humanoid as an existential doubt from the entirely fantastic.
And what's more, this film set in a parallel world, but bordering on our entire reality from the hyperbolic, overloaded with color and darkness with no middle ground, reaches us with the same tenderness as that child carved in wood and the restlessness of the monster that the others come in the spawn.
The world of Edward Scissorhands has its shortcomings of the father who finally could not give him those hands with which to be absolutely normal. And everything points to touch, to the ability to touch ourselves to transmit a humanity that otherwise is a sharp, unbridgeable distance.
Despite this, even without his hands finally cut between his sharp fingers, Eduardo at times manages to transmit his art to the world as the last option to feel closer to humanity. Only in the end almost no one can assume his existence normally, except for the children, still capable of finding their soul behind Eduardo's spectacular presence.
¿A quién ama Gilbert Grape?
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Interpretive virtuosity at the same time between Depp and DiCaprio. Who better to propose a fraternal relationship subjected to the anxiety of the worst circumstances. DiCaprio undoubtedly excels playing the autistic child. But no less transcendent is the selflessness made flesh of his brother.
Because Gilbert, in his tender youth, has to take care of his little brother every time his mother is unable to move from the bed. And everything else fades away. He cannot have life, nor love, nor think of looking for a life beyond the town of Endora.
Between deficiencies and impossible, now focusing solely on Gilbert, we are seeing that cadence of trains go by, the assumption of a vital defeat at times with full conviction for the dedication to the care of his brother but at times as an unbearable punishment for a boy with dreams and desires...
Endora is prison, but also the only place Gilbert can belong. Their world is a dilapidated house, a mother clinging to the bed and a brother who also lives in some remote place in that small town where this passing from nothing brings us closer to abysses as well as to brilliant moments of moving and furious life.
Sleepy Hollow
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:More dark fantasy for Johnny to transform into a Sherlock Holmes in his own way. His name is Ichabod Crane and back at the dawn of the XNUMXth century he was entrusted with a mission in a remote town in the most sinister New York.
The name of the place already seems to say it all "Sleepy Hollow". A hole from where a beheaded being arrives from hell, to settle the pending accounts of someone who manages it with the power of his skull in his hands.
A film with that taste of gothic horror that more than scares wonder for its setting. An argument that also has its crumb to pass suspicion from one to the other inhabitants of the place. And to finish a denouement with a very police twist.