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The next step in my story about Johnny Depp is his filmography. He is a person of manifold gifts, that is why you will see his Filmography as actor, aroducer, composer, director, and writer.

Actor - filmography
1.    Shantaram (2008) (announced) …. Lindsay
2.    The Rum Diary (2008) (pre-production) …. Paul Kemp
3.    Sweeney Todd (2008) (pre-production) (rumored) …. Sweeney Todd
4.    I Am Legend (2007) (pre-production) (rumored)
5.    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) (filming) …. Jack Sparrow
6.    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) …. Jack Sparrow
7.    Pirates of the Caribbean: Legend of Jack Sparrow (2006)…. Jack Sparrow
8.    Corpse Bride (2005) (voice) …. Victor Van Dort
… aka Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Singapore: English title) (USA: complete title)
9.    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) …. Willy Wonka
… aka Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
10.    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) …. Willy Wonka
11.    The Libertine (2004) …. Rochester
12.    Finding Neverland (2004) …. Sir James Matthew Barrie
13.    Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants (2004) …. L’inconnu
… aka …And They Lived Happily Ever After (International: English title)
14.    “King of the Hill”
- Hank’s Back (2004) TV Episode (voice) …. Yogi Victor
15.    Secret Window (2004) …. Mort Rainey
16.    Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) …. Sands
17.    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) …. Jack Sparrow
18.    From Hell (2001) …. Inspector Frederick Abberline
19.    Blow (2001) …. George Jung
20.    Chocolat (2000) …. Roux
21.    Before Night Falls (2000) …. Lt. Victor
… aka Antes que anochezca (USA: Spanish title)
22.    The Man Who Cried (2000) …. Cesar
… aka Les larmes d’un homme (France)
23.    Sleepy Hollow (1999) …. Constable Ichabod Crane
24.    The Astronaut’s Wife (1999) …. Commander Spencer Armacost
25.    The Ninth Gate (1999) …. Dean Corso
… aka Neuvième porte, La (France)
… aka Novena puerta, La (Spain)
26.    “Top Secret”
- Scottland Yard TV Episode …. Narrator
- The Mossad TV Episode …. Narrator
27.    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) …. Raoul Duke
28.    The Brave (1997) …. Raphael
29.    Donnie Brasco (1997) …. Donnie Brasco/Joseph D. ‘Joe’ Pistone
30.    Nick of Time (1995) …. Gene Watson
31.    Dead Man (1995) …. William Blake
… aka Dead Man (Germany)
… aka Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (USA)
32.    Don Juan DeMarco (1995) …. Don Juan
33.    Ed Wood (1994) …. Ed Wood
34.    What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) …. Gilbert Grape
35.    Benny & Joon (1993) …. Sam
36.    Arizona Dream (1993) …. Axel Blackmar
… aka Arizona Dream (France)
… aka The Arrowtooth Waltz
37.    Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) (as Oprah Noodlemantra) …. Teen on TV
… aka A Nightmare on Elm Street 6
38.    Edward Scissorhands (1990) …. Edward Scissorhands
39.    “21 Jump Street” …. Officer Tom Hanson (1987-1989)
- How I Saved the Senator (1990) TV Episode …. Officer Tom Hanson
- Last Chance High (1990) TV Episode …. Officer Tom Hanson
- La Bizca (1990) TV Episode …. Officer Tom Hanson
- Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom (1990) TV Episode …. Officer Tom Hanson
- Hi Mom (1990) TV Episode …. Officer Tom Hanson
(26 more)
40.    Cry-Baby (1990) …. Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker
41.    “Hotel”
… aka “Arthur Hailey’s Hotel”
- Unfinished Business (1987) TV Episode …. Rob Cameron
42.    Platoon (1986) …. Private Gator Lerner
43.    Slow Burn (1986) (TV) …. Donnie Fleischer
44.    “Lady Blue”
- Beasts of Prey (1985) TV Episode …. Lionel Viland
45.    Private Resort (1985) …. Jack
46.    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) …. Glen Lantz

Producer - filmography
1. Shantaram (2008) (announced) (producer)
2. A Long Way Down (2007) (announced) (producer)
3. The Rum Diary (2008) (pre-production) (executive producer)

Composer - filmography
1. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) (”Sands’ Theme”)

Director - filmography
1 The Brave (1997)

Writer - filmography
1. The Brave (1997) (screenplay)

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AlexSandra

We shouldn’t judge by appearance, when we don’t speak about Mr Depp…

What do you think about his appearance? So, it’s your subjective sentiment, look at some objective judgments.

1995 - Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” (#1).

October 1997 - Ranked #67 in Empire (UK) magazine’s The Top-100 Movie Stars of All Time list.

1996 - Chosen by People (USA) Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

1995 - Voted Empires’s (UK) Sexiest Male Movie Star of All Time.

2001 - Named one of E!’s Top 20 Entertainers of 2001. Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.

2003 - Was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. Chosen as E!’s 2003 Entertainer of the Year.

Chosen #2 on E!’s 25 sexiest entertainers list
Was ranked #5 on VH1’s 100 Hottest Hotties.

Do you agree with it?

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AlexSandra

The first person will be my favorite actor Johnny Depp, of course…

Birth name: John Christopher Depp II

Nickname:
“Mr. Stench” (self-chosen)
“Colonel” (given to him by Hunter S. Thompson)

Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Trade mark: highly defined cheek-bones

Parents: John Christopher and Betty Sue Palmer. His parents divorced when he was 15.

Descent: He has said in a number of interviews that he is of Cherokee, Irish, and German descent.

Siblings: Danny (D.P. Depp), Christi Dembrowski, and Debbie.

Ex-fiancées: Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Moss, Jennifer Grey and Winona Ryder.

Friends: Christina Ricci.

Salary:
“21 Jump Street” (1987) - $45,000 per episode
“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) - $10,000,000
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005) - $18,000,000

Where is he now:
July 2006 - He and his production company, “Infinitum Nihil Productions”, are in the process of getting two in-development projects made, “The Rum Diary” (2008) and “Shantaram” (2008). Looking to reprise his role as Hunter S. Thompson as his first post-’Pirates’ role.

Mini biography:
John Christopher Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. Though highly successful now, Depp’s early life, strangely, was as a rebel, and he took to vandalism and narcotics. Raised in Florida, he dropped out of school at age 15 in the hopes of becoming a rock musician. He fronted a series of garage bands including The Kids, which once opened for Iggy Pop.

Depp got into acting after a visit to Los Angeles, California, with his former wife, Lori Anne Allison, who introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage. He made his film debut in low-budget horror classic “A Nightmare On Elm Street” (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. In 1987, he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular TV series “21 Jump Street” (1987).

In 1990, after numerous roles in teen-oriented films, his first of a handful of great collaborations with director Tim Burton came about when he portrayed the title role in “Edward Scissorhands” (1990), where he played a sad-faced, tragic hero who has scissors for hands.. Following the film’s success, Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in many features before re-joining with Burton in the lead role of “Ed Wood” (1994). In 1997, he played the undercover FBI agent in the factually-based film “Donnie Brasco” (1997), in which he co-starred with Al Pacino. In 1998, he appeared in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998), directed by Terry Gilliam; and then, in 1999, he appeared in the sci-fi/horror film “The Astronaut’s Wife” (1999). The same year, he teamed up again with Burton in “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) with Christina Ricci and Casper Van Dien, brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane.

During his career, Depp has, unfortunately, gotten himself under bad public scrutiny. He was accused of selling drugs at his own club, The Viper Room, in regard to the legendary celebrity, River Phoenix, who died outside the club due to drug overdose in 1993. The following year, Depp was arrested for smashing and trashing a New York suite. And, in 1999, he was arrested in London for being in a fight with paparazzi outside a restaurant.

Depp has played many characters in his career, including another factually-based character, Inspector Fred Abberline in “From Hell” (2001). He stole the show from screen greats such as Antonio Banderas in the finale to Robert Rodriguez’s Mariachi trilogy, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003), in the same year as starring in the marvelous family blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) with a supporting cast of Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Geoffrey Rush, playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off, Captain Jack Sparrow.

Although he gained popularity since the success of Edward Scissorhands (1990), Depp wasn’t hugely famous for many years until his portrayal of the suave, charming Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) in 2003. With the film’s enormous success, it has opened several doors for his career and even included an Oscar nomination. He appeared as the central character in the Stephen King-based movie, Secret Window (2004); as the kind-hearted novelist James Barrie in the factually-based Finding Neverland (2004), where he co-starred with Kate Winslet; and most recently as Rochester in the British film, The Libertine (2004).

In 2005 Depp was collaborating again with Tim Burton in a new screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), where he played Willy Wonka.

Apart from his on-screen life, Depp has dated several female celebrities off-screen, including failed engagements to Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder, and Kate Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983 but then divorced her in 1985. Currently, Depp is living with French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis (he learned French to be able to converse with Vanessa Paradis’ parents), with whom he has two children: Lily-Rose Melody, born in 1999 and Jack, born in 2002. Johnny’s two children have the same names of the two main characters in Legend (1985).

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AlexSandra

I promised to tell you about new categories in this blog (Action movie, Adventure, Comedy and Science fiction). I will do it, but later, I got tired with all these theory. That is why I’ like to create a new category “Actors”, where I will tell you about different actors (here you will find their photos, personal quotes, salary, awards, biography, filmography and other interesting information).

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And now it’s time to speak about genres. In film theory, genre means method of film categorization. A “genre” refers to films that share similar elements they are consist of.

When we want to define film genres, we use three main categories:
- setting,
- mood,
- format.

The film’s location refers to the SETTING.
The emotional charge in the film is defined as its MOOD.
To make the film we use particular equipment that defines its FORMAT.

And now I will tell you about it in more details…

SETTING

- Crime - you will find the main character in sphere of criminal activity
- Film noir - the main characters will be shown in nihilistic and existentialist sphere or manner
- Historical - the scene of action will take place in the past
- Science fiction - characters will be in an alternative reality (for example, in the future or in space)
- Sports - sport events and locations that refers to a given sport
- War - battlefields and locations that refers to a time of war
- Westerns - colonial period of the western United States. «Perhaps gunplay and fisticuffs are as formal a part of the “western” as blood and bodies are of the detective novel» (from ABBY Lingvo 11)

MOOD

- Action - a moral interplay between “good” and “bad” with the help of violence or physical force
- Adventure - danger, risk, often with a high degree of fantasy.
- Comedy - created to make you laugh
- Drama - the main thing in such a film is character development
- Fantasy - fiction outside reality (for example, myth, legend)
- Horror - created to provoke fear and make you shudder with horror
- Mystery - you will go from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of secrets
- Romance - involves elements of romantic love
- Thrillers - created to provoke excitement and nervous tension into audience

FORMAT
(according to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_theory)

- Animation - illusion of motion by consecutive display of static images which have been created by hand or on a computer
- Biographical - a biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person, with varying degrees of basis in fact
- Documentary - a factual following of an event or person to gain an understanding of a particular point or issue
- Experimental (avant-garde) - created to test audience reaction or to expand the boundaries of film production/story exposition then generally at play
- Musical - a film interspersed with singing by all or some of the characters
- Short - may strive to contain many of the elements of a “full-length” feature, in a shorter time-frame

So, I will use this classification in my blog, in spite of the fact that there are some other classifications and I will tell you about it later. And at the end of my post I should mention about age…

AGE
(according to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_theory)

- Children’s film - films for young children - as opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences
- Family - intended to be attractive for people of all ages and suitable for viewing by a young audience
- Adult film - intended to be viewed only by an adult audience, content may include violence, disturbing themes, obscene language, or explicit sexual behavior. “Adult film” may also be used as a synonym for pornographic film.

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I’d like to begin with film theory which develops concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of cinema as art.

Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address classical issues of techniques, cinematic codes, genre, “the image”, authorship, and subjectivity.

If to speak about modern analysis, I’d like to mention the following theories:

- structuralist film theory,
- psychoanalytical film theory,
- feminist film theory,
- theories of documentary,
- third cinema,
- new media,
- new queer cinema.
I don’t want to plague you with a lot of boring scientific knowledge, that is why I’ll just mention some interesting facts from the history of film theory.

So, the Italian futurist Ricciotto Canudo (1879-1923) was the first theoretician of cinema. In 1911he published his manifesto The Birth of the Seventh Art.
Also the psychologist Hugo Münsterberg was trying to theorize knowledge about cinema in his work The Photoplay (1916).

Classical film theory was created during the era of silent film. It arose from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Paul Rotha, Louis Delluc, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Jean Epstein and film critics like Béla Balázs, Rudolf Arnheim and Siegfried Kracauer. It was not an academic discipline.

In the early 1950s Westerns and gangster films gave birth to genre theory.

In the 1960s film theory took up residence in academe, importing concepts from established disciplines like literary theory, linguistics and psychoanalysis.

In the seventies the British journal «Screen» became very influential.

During the 1990s with the digital revolution in image technologies a new era began in film theory.

Later I will tell you about such styles and theories of film as…
- apparatus Theory
- art film
- auteur theory
- feminist film theory
- formalist film theory
- cyberpunk
- film noir
- German Expressionism
- horror film
- Italian neorealism
- Marxist film theory
- new Wave
- no Wave Cinema
- psychoanalytical film theory
- remodernist Film
- romanticism
- socialist realism
- structuralist film theory and many-many others.
Also there are some books that you can read about film theory
(list from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_theory):
1. Dudley Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory, Oxford, New York: oxford University Press, 1984
2. Andre Bazin, What is Cinema? essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1971
3. Francesco Casetti, Theories of Cinema, 1945-1990, Paperback Edition, University of Texas Press 1999
4. Bill Nichols, Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991
5. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford University Press 1998

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As you see there are some new categories in this blog:

- Action movie,
- Adventure,
- Comedy,
- Science fiction.

All these categories are devoted to corresponding film genres and I’d like to tell you some interesting things about them in the following posts…

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Do you remember your first film? I don’t… I’m only 21, but it seems to me that it was a long-long-long time ago. May be it was something on TV, but nevertheless it was something incomprehensible for me. The fist film that I was able to see from the beginning and till the end was THE FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR.

This film created a magnificent impression on me and I remember it until now. So, I’d like to tell you some words about it…

Flight of the Navigator the Navigator (1986)

Producing country: USA, Norway

Genre: adventure, science fiction

Type: full-length film, 90 min.

Premiere: July 30, 1986

Director: Randal Kleiser

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Joey Cramer

My rank: ******** (8) - as I have said, I saw this film a long time ago, and I think that now its rank would be lower, of course, but I’d like to base my opinion on my child’s impression.

Plot: A twelve-years-old boy didn’t come back home in 1978. He was considered as missing. But he came back eight years later. His relatives were happy, but there was just one snag…The boy didn’t grow up, he was the same as many years ago. And he could not explain anything. He just remembered that he got lost in a forest, got stuck and fell, then he waked and appeared in 1986. Soon afterwards somebody found a flying saucer that entangled in wires…
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I saw this film in one movie theatre more than once, 5 or may be 6 times. By the way, I’d like to tell you about how I got opportunity to see this (and many others films) in one theatre absolutely free of charge and as many times as I wanted. So, some words about my childhood…
When I was born my mum and granny didn’t work, they took care of me. But when I was 4 years old, my mum returned to her work at the plant «Horizont». By the way, Lee Harvey Oswald (the suppositional killer of the President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy) had worked there before he immigrated to the US. And my grandma began to work as cashier at the movie theatre «Pioneer». So, from my childhood I was watching different films all days long…

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The previous post was published under the new category «Premieres». This section was created to inform you about different new films.
By the way, I will be happy to see your ideas about this blog in your comments.

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Today is the great day – the premiere of the second story about Jack – sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Unfortunately, in Belarus this film will be shown only in July, 15. And I envy your opportunity to see Johnny Depp (my favorite actor!!!) in this excellent role!

So, some words about this film…
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Producing country (s): USA

Genre: action movie, adventure, comed

Type: full-length film

Premiere: July, 7 2006

Director: Gore Verbinski

Scenario: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio

Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgard, Bill Nighy, Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally

My rank: I will write about it after July, 7 2006

Argument: I will write about it after July, 7 2006 too

Here you can see 20 pictures from this film:
www.world-art.ru\cinema\galery.php-id=10383.htm

I will be glad to see some your comments

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AlexSandra