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.
