Movie Monday : Johnny Depp

 It's no secret that Johnny Depp is my favorite actor. He is the sexiest man alive; and he is an amazingly talented actor. I love every single one of his movies. I'm sure they will each have their turn being included in my Movie Monday posts. But this week we are just going to focus on five titles. These are the ones I never get tired of watching, no matter how many times I see them. Listed in alphabetical order.

Benny & Joon (1993)

 

In a small town, an auto mechanic named Benny (Aidan Quinn) is devoted to taking care of his mentally ill sister, Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), who can barely function alone in the real world despite being a talented artist. This relatively stable situation is shaken up when Benny is obliged in a poker game to welcome another player's relative, Sam (Johnny Depp), to his home for a few days. When Sam arrives, he quickly makes an impression with his quietly eccentric ways which emulate the antics of the great silent movie comedian, Buster Keaton. Without Benny's full knowledge, Sam and Joon find themselves drawn to each other to the fullest degree. However when Benny finds out, it creates a rift in the siblings as they struggle to accept their relationship is profoundly changing with the presence of this odd newcomer.

Cry Baby (1990)

 Allison (Amy Locane) is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker (Johnny Depp), a Greaser. Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

Dead Man (1995)

 Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody" (Gary Farmer), who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

 In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward (Johnny Depp), a near-complete person. The creator (Vincent Price) died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg (Dianne Wiest) discovers him and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

 Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) is a drug addled journalist. He is sent to cover a motorcycle race as an article for his magazine, but then the situation escalates into him and his psychotic attorney (Benicio Del Toro) searching for the American dream, aided by almost every drug known to man in the boot of his red convertible.