His accent is spot on. Johnny Depp could go toe to toe with his Gilbert Grape/Basketball Diaries co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor. You can’t really win an Oscar if you’re too good looking. The best looking actors have to ugly themselves up in order to get taken seriously by the Academy for some reason. Admittedly, making Johnny Depp not pretty is no easy feat but he is a chameleon and seems to have transformed himself to unrecognizable yet again. Director Scott Cooper is better with directing than he is with writing and this comes from a script by Mark Mallouk and Jez butterworth (Get on Up, Fair Game).
Depp in “The Basketball Diaries”? Huzzah-wha?
I was thinking about it today when I saw the trailer again ahead of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION, if the performance is there, I think it could be Johnny’s to lose. The release date is September 18th. He could be the front runner that never gets caught. A wide release will have the people with him and then with word of mouth, if it has legs, I could see a race unfold where no one else even gets a sniff.
Should’ve kept his own eye colour, he looks like the mad hatter 2.0 … or, yes, a whitewalker haha
Hmmm…I don’t remember Johnny Depp in The Basketball Diaries at all. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but unless he made an uncredited and extremely brief cameo then I don’t recall. Of course he and DiCaprio did work together What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Very, very excited for this. Looks great.
Right
Goya’s “Saturn”
http://eeweems.com/goya/saturn.html
” “You can’t really win an Oscar if you’re too good looking.”
I don’t think so.”
Sasha is spot-on, Murtaza. There is a reason powerful, acclaimed movie stars (formerly considered matinee idols) like Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Will Smith etc. have yet to win in an acting category. They are/were “postersaboveteenagegirlsbedsgoodlooking” therefore the Academy can’t seem to take them seriously. The irony is that the sexism of the film industry actually works in favour of the women here : if as an actress you are big movie star who is also easy on the eyes, the Oscar will come sooner or later (usually sooner) even if the wins are questionable/controversial/categoryfraudish (Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones etc.). On the other hand, If you are an actor who is widely considered “reallyreallygoodlooking” AND dare to possess the kind of Box Office power that guarantees films built around and for you, then the Academy tends to pull out the “eh, he already has too much, let’s not give him an Oscar,too” card. Of course, there are exceptions on both sides, but based on precedent, beauty usually works for actresses and sets back actors when it comes to the Oscars…though taking into account that the majority of the voters seem to be old white guys, that really shouldn’t surprise anybody. Of course they love the babes and hate the hunks.
And this is nothing new. John Barrymore never got an Oscar and wasn’t even nominated for performances that could be argued were “best of the year” — I’m thinking Grand Hotel, for example.
Barrymore had it all: wealth, talent, charm — and he was a playboy who could pick of beautiful women. The old fat-cat male hierarchy in the Academy were ok with the wealth, talent and charm. But the playboy thing rubbed enough of the Oscar elders the wrong way to prevent him from ever reaching the threshold to win the Oscar he deserved.
Other examples of talented handsome actors, successful at laying their hands on beautiful women, who never won an Oscar? Errol Flynn, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, Tom Cruise.
Now THIS is an actor. Say what you will about Johnny Depp’s career choices, but he has always been a talented thespian able to disappear into his characters. I think he’s the one to beat this year. I don’t think Black Mass will have as much money in its awards campaign as The Revenant, but that didn’t stop Jeff Bridges from winning over George Clooney (whose film was nominated for Picture, Director, et cetera). If anyone can take the “overdue” narrative from Leo this year, it’s Johnny Depp.
The trailer was indeed, very engaging, but Depp was the least interesting part IMO.
Between the White Walker eyes and the many “ACTING!!!” moments, I kinda tuned out.
I also think Scorsese might be entitled to take some type of legal action against this. Both my brothers thought he had made this after watching the trailer.
It’s an incredibly talented ensemble, no doubt, and I hope they don’t get sidelined for another Johnny Depp Makeup Show.
Oooo I wanna see this..and. ..carol. . And see my girl Saoirse tear it up in Brooklyn and maybe excited for star wars.. just maybe
Amazing trailer. This looks really good. Depp and all the cast. Hope OScar Nomination for Depp and DiCaprio!.
Last time I went to the theater I saw the trailer for this, Sicario, and Legend. My brain almost exploded. I’m sticking with Johnny right now. Tom Hardy’s still British, last time I checked, so he should have played twins next year when I can go back to rooting for Brits. And I don’t know what to do with Aussies. lol But I have been becoming an Edgerton fan gradually. Benicio remains my co-favorite actor but I’m actually making an ordered list of my favorite actors to remind myself where my loyalty lies. This year could corrupt me. 🙂
I agree that the fake eyes are a distraction in the trailer. I’m wondering how quickly Depp’s performance will or won’t make us forget about it.
🙂 For sure I see what you’re saying, Antoinette. But it seems to me more and more often we are seeing production designers work closely with costume designers to create what I call a “black-and-white in color” effect — and then they use punches of color for emotional effect. Fincher noticeably did it in Gone Girl and Phoenix makes extraordinary use of the same hyperstylization.
I didn’t mean to come across as scoffinh. I was just being playful. You’re right. The monochrome is distinctive. But I think it works for a newspaper story, especially one concerned with such a grim subject.
re-watch Chocolat. Depp was yum.
Ian McKellen is deserving of a whirl on the tracker. Every review of Holmes loves his performance. I did. Actually, Milo stole the show.
Wow. Here I expected it to be a Johnny Depp and some other guys movie and it turns out it isn’t necessary so. From the looks of it Edgerton might me a co-lead.
Is Sienna Miller even in this anymore?
Why the blue contacts? It’s unnerving and annoying. And the bald wig? Depp still looks nothing like Bulgur (and 99% of the audience has no idea what Bulgur looked like to begin with.
Another Johnny Depp Hallowe’en costume performance?