Johnny Depp Thread

[Nielo]

Here's a link to all 4 pictures.

 

The text is pretty hard to read (I hate my camera ), so I'll type it out below.

 

Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter

Tailor-made for Burton's long-time partner in onscreen weirdness

- and frequent sporter of funky headwear - this Mad Hatter

promises to be something very odd indeed, even by Johnny Depp's

own high standards of playing particularly peculiar people.

"Whatever you do with the Mad Hatter he's a slightly

disturbing character," says Burton, working with Depp

for the seventh time since they first collaborated

on Edward Scissorhands.

"You remember that name, the Mad Hatter. It's such

a great two words. What Johnny's good at is trying to come up

with a character where the name fits."

And so, the Pirates star is tapping into real-life side-effects

of mercury poisoning on 19th century hat-makers

and is playing the Hatter with a freaky carrot-coloured barnet

and multiple personality disorder.

"He's far gone," laughs Depp. No arguments there.

 

 

Mia Wasikowska is Alice

Lewis Carroll's Alice was just a child when she took

her trip down the rabbit hole, but Tim Burton's Alice is

a decade or so older, returning to Wonderland as a teenager,

although having no real memory of her adventures there.

"Alice is 19 in our story and she's a very different person

to who she was when she was seven," says Aussie actress

Mia Wasikowska, who is the same age as her character in Burton's redo.

"What I liked about this take on the story," says the director,

"is that she's at an age where you're kind of between a kid

and an adult. The idea is she is somebody who doesn't quite

fit into Victorian society."

The eponymous heroine starts off vulnerable and awkward but,

according to Wasikowska, "really has to come out of her shell.

Her return to Wonderland is her rediscovering who she is."

 

 

Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen

Finding herself cast as a spiteful queen with no eyebrows

and an oversized head probably wasn't too much of a shock

for Helena Bonham Carter who, having previously played

a pacifist chimp, a Bayou witch, a skeletal bride and

a murderous pie-maker for her beau Burton, must be used to

doing almost anything for him by now.

"I thought about Bette Davis," says Burton of his inspiration

for the villainous Red Queen. "Helena does remind me of

a Bette Davis type, [she's] got that same kind of quality."

Bonham Carter's Queen of Hearts possesses the emotional maturity

of a maladjusted toddler - with all the attendant anger issues

and bouts of screeching.

"She's got emotional problems," Bonham Carter reflects.

"Her solution to everything is, 'Off with her head!' Basically she's

like a spoiled child. She has no compassion for anybody else's feelings."

 

 

Anne Hathaway is the White Queen

There's more than a hint of darkness running through

Burton's Wonderland, a menace perhaps best illustrated

by Anne Hathaway's White Queen who, quite clearly,

isn't the pure, ethereal beauty one might have expected,

and who, with her dark eyebrows and white hair, looks

somewhat sinister.

"She's a punk-rock, vegan pacifist," insists Hathaway of her

royal personage, the younger sibling of Bonham Carter's

despotic Red Queen. "Tim talked a lot about the relationship

between the sisters and that really opened the character up

to me because I thought, 'She comes from the same

gene pool as the Red Queen.'"

Adds Burton, "There's a stain under the whiteness.

Anne did a very fairy-tale princess, but she also has

a kind of Nigella Lawson quality."

 

 

[Empire, issue 243, September 2009, pages 53-56]

[Diana]

Yay thanks for typing that up!

 

I so want to see this film.

[Nielo]

Any time. ^^

 

Me too!!! I really would've liked to see a pic of Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar though.

[Mikafish]

I'm so looking forwards to it too! Going to have to see it in 3-D!

[iadoremika]

Here's a link to all 4 pictures.

Oh, thanks for that! Nice article...can't wait for the movie!

 

I'm so looking forwards to it too! Going to have to see it in 3-D!

Oh yeah, 3-D would be pretty awesome.

[Diana]

Any time. ^^

 

Me too!!! I really would've liked to see a pic of Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar though.

 

Priceless.

 

When this come out, all the Dutchies should come and watch it in Amsterdam at the IMAX.

[Nielo]

Priceless.

 

When this come out, all the Dutchies should come and watch it in Amsterdam at the IMAX.

 

Ooh, definitely!

 

If only it'd come out soon, and not in March.

(Well March in the UK, so probably April here. )

Edited September 2, 2009 by Nielo

[Diana]

April! If we're lucky.. *le sigh*

[Nielo]

Daymn. That's a looong wait.

 

They'd better release pictures, interviews and trailers at regular intervals.

I need those.

[kk448]

So this is kinda random and and little late, but I saw this thread and thought of it. I saw Public Enemies like a month and a half ago and if you've seen it, the beginning is where he escapes from the Michigan City prison. (If you haven't seen, it sorta happened in real life, so it's not like I've ruined anything, haha.)

 

Anyway not too long after the movie came out there were three inmates that escaped from Michigan City prison which was ironic. They've been found since so I can look back and see the irony in it without worrying that a convicted murderer or rapist is hiding in my backyard.

 

I just thought that was interesting.

[iadoremika]

So this is kinda random and and little late, but I saw this thread and thought of it. I saw Public Enemies like a month and a half ago and if you've seen it, the beginning is where he escapes from the Michigan City prison. (If you haven't seen, it sorta happened in real life, so it's not like I've ruined anything, haha.)

 

Anyway not too long after the movie came out there were three inmates that escaped from Michigan City prison which was ironic. They've been found since so I can look back and see the irony in it without worrying that a convicted murderer or rapist is hiding in my backyard.

 

I just thought that was interesting.

Huh. That is interesting.

[into>i<cated]

Warning; really random statement: yesterday the Willy Wonka movie came on TV and i was thinking how much he sounds like he did as Edward Scissorhands in this movie, although i don't think Depp generally uses this voice for his characters. It's a rather intense, soft-spoken voice with the same chill as that of dear Micheal Jackson... well that's how i heard it anyways.

Also i was thinking a fully musical version starring Mika would be fantastic...

[Nielo]

So this is kinda random and and little late, but I saw this thread and thought of it. I saw Public Enemies like a month and a half ago and if you've seen it, the beginning is where he escapes from the Michigan City prison. (If you haven't seen, it sorta happened in real life, so it's not like I've ruined anything, haha.)

 

Anyway not too long after the movie came out there were three inmates that escaped from Michigan City prison which was ironic. They've been found since so I can look back and see the irony in it without worrying that a convicted murderer or rapist is hiding in my backyard.

 

I just thought that was interesting.

 

Really? Weird coinidence!

 

Warning; really random statement: yesterday the Willy Wonka movie came on TV and i was thinking how much he sounds like he did as Edward Scissorhands in this movie' date=' although i don't think Depp generally uses this voice for his characters. It's a rather intense, soft-spoken voice with the same chill as that of dear Micheal Jackson... well that's how i heard it anyways.

Also i was thinking a fully musical version starring Mika would be fantastic...

 

Those voices do sound rather similar I suppose. But I do think he often changes his voice for his characters. I sometimes have trouble recognizing it.

 

With Mika starring as Willy Wonka?

[bitter.icarus]

Really? Weird coinidence!

 

 

 

Those voices do sound rather similar I suppose. But I do think he often changes his voice for his characters. I sometimes have trouble recognizing it.

 

With Mika starring as Willy Wonka?

 

Personally, Cpt Jack's my favourite voice. But Willy Wonka is a good second.

 

Mika'd make a good Wonka. I can see it now.

[kaeryana]

Warning; really random statement: yesterday the Willy Wonka movie came on TV and i was thinking how much he sounds like he did as Edward Scissorhands in this movie' date=' although i don't think Depp generally uses this voice for his characters. [b']It's a rather intense, soft-spoken voice with the same chill as that of dear Micheal Jackson...[/b] well that's how i heard it anyways.

Also i was thinking a fully musical version starring Mika would be fantastic...

 

 

oh my i have the exact same thought when i first saw the movie!

[Nielo]

Personally, Cpt Jack's my favourite voice. But Willy Wonka is a good second.

 

Mika'd make a good Wonka. I can see it now.

 

I love Captain Jack.

But Sam (from Benny & Joon) is also one of my favourites. ^^

 

 

Maybe he would... I'd need to see proof first.

[Nielo]

I figured this thread has been too quiet for too long (), so I was wondering what everybody thinks about the possibility of a 4th Pirates movie?

 

Personally, I'm not too fond of the idea. I've never known a series of movies where the 4th one is actually still good. A trilogy is usually enough, but maybe that's just me.

 

(And, also, a science fiction pirates flick? What the heck? )

[iadoremika]

Yeah, I dunno. The first one was the best and they all went downhill from there. Not that they were horrible or anything but the first one was the best. For sure.

[Nielo]

Definitely! Although I did really enjoy seeing Keith Richards in the 3rd one.

[iadoremika]

Definitely! Although I did really enjoy seeing Keith Richards in the 3rd one.

Yes! That WAS cool. I was expecting for his part to be longer.

[Nielo]

Yeah, that's what I hoped for too. But actually, I was glad he appeared at all. They'd been saying he would for like 2 years.

Keith's awesome.

[iadoremika]

Yeah, that's what I hoped for too. But actually, I was glad he appeared at all. They'd been saying he would for like 2 years.

Keith's awesome.

Yeah, true. At least they didn't leave all the footage on the cutting room floor.

[Nielo]

True.

 

If they insist on making a 4th film, they should at least put Keith back in.

 

But the idea of a 4th movie still worries me, I'm afraid it might be really disappointing.

[iadoremika]

True.

 

If they insist on making a 4th film, they should at least put Keith back in.

 

But the idea of a 4th movie still worries me, I'm afraid it might be really disappointing.

Yes, a twit in the plot! Wait, another twist.

 

I agree. (I have a feeling I might not like it too much if it turns out to be a science fiction type thing. )

[Nielo]

Yeah, more twists...

 

Me either... I thought all the Jacks on the ship in the afterlife or whatever it was, was a bit farfetched, so anything even more science-fictiony I might not be able to handle.