Hey Mick: Johnny Depp, it seems, spending too much time
playing the character, rather than the more serious roles. If you agree that you
have directed him to a couple?
Tom Jelenic, San Mateo
Hey Tom: Johnny Depp is one of the most successful human beings on the planet, so it's not going to listen to the advice everyone. Why? My own opinion is that his character work - just in comic performances - a precious and self-awareness. Even in the "tourist", which was relatively straight romantic roles, he hid behind the tics and quirks and come up with something empty, are not meant to inhabit the character, but to draw attention to his invention. What can he do better in Mike Newell's "Donnie Brasco" and Michael Mann's "Public Enemies", shows that we are not talking about any restrictions on the possibilities, but the actor with a certain idea about yourself, which may be the wrong idea . But the question remains, why Depp listen to anyone? His Captain Jack is one of the worst creations in the past 20 years, and people love it. McDonald's is not going to make more money go to fillet. As directors, Newell and Mann made straight for him. Maybe Scorsese will be. Depp has to work with a man tough enough to challenge him, and successful enough to respect him. At the level of Depp, these directors are few and far between.
Dear Mick LaSalle: How many movies a week, you see a job? How do you see yourself? When you watch movies for fun, you can relax and watch without your criticism on the eye?
Michael Murphy, San Francisco
Dear Michael Murphy: On average, I see four or five for consideration, but there are other kinds of work. If I'm researching a book, I could see more. Once, when I wrote the chapter on Edward G. Robinson, I saw 14 of his films in one week - and then could not stop talking, as he see? (Yeaaahh, I talked to in a few days, you see?) This work, too, though no one forces me to do it.
In addition, there is a DVD-reviews. When I do that it definitely works. But I choose DVD-ROM drive on the basis of what I want to see.
In a sense, almost everything I see, I have a job cause of his views. But that's another reason to work, in fact, makes the process more enjoyable. I do not just kill time. Rather, I check my new "Casablanca" set, I check the new Criterion Collection in a "certified copy" Blu-Ray, but then I look, "I was at Nuremberg" on TV5 Monde, because I want to keep up with the fact that the actress Julie Gayet been doing lately.
Thus, some of the things I'm doing pure work - for example, see the "Dark Shadows". (I liked it, but if I did not pay to see it, I would not see that in 100 years.) And there's a job that I like that for me it's more enjoyable than pure recreation.
Finally, he asked if I could kick back and watch movies without the critical point of view. If I watch a movie to relax or work, I look at it in exactly the same way that, as no one watches movies with a certain openness and a willingness to have fun. On the other hand, kicking back and assess what is happening in the film are not opposites.
My Dear Mick: People spend a lot of thought to invent clever greetings to your question column. At least you could do the same thing, and not just repeat what the reader uses.
John Daly, Foster City
My Dear John: It's not that smart. It's about love in doling out the exact parts, so that everyone gets what he or she deserves, and no overloaded.
Tom Jelenic, San Mateo
Hey Tom: Johnny Depp is one of the most successful human beings on the planet, so it's not going to listen to the advice everyone. Why? My own opinion is that his character work - just in comic performances - a precious and self-awareness. Even in the "tourist", which was relatively straight romantic roles, he hid behind the tics and quirks and come up with something empty, are not meant to inhabit the character, but to draw attention to his invention. What can he do better in Mike Newell's "Donnie Brasco" and Michael Mann's "Public Enemies", shows that we are not talking about any restrictions on the possibilities, but the actor with a certain idea about yourself, which may be the wrong idea . But the question remains, why Depp listen to anyone? His Captain Jack is one of the worst creations in the past 20 years, and people love it. McDonald's is not going to make more money go to fillet. As directors, Newell and Mann made straight for him. Maybe Scorsese will be. Depp has to work with a man tough enough to challenge him, and successful enough to respect him. At the level of Depp, these directors are few and far between.
Dear Mick LaSalle: How many movies a week, you see a job? How do you see yourself? When you watch movies for fun, you can relax and watch without your criticism on the eye?
Michael Murphy, San Francisco
Dear Michael Murphy: On average, I see four or five for consideration, but there are other kinds of work. If I'm researching a book, I could see more. Once, when I wrote the chapter on Edward G. Robinson, I saw 14 of his films in one week - and then could not stop talking, as he see? (Yeaaahh, I talked to in a few days, you see?) This work, too, though no one forces me to do it.
In addition, there is a DVD-reviews. When I do that it definitely works. But I choose DVD-ROM drive on the basis of what I want to see.
In a sense, almost everything I see, I have a job cause of his views. But that's another reason to work, in fact, makes the process more enjoyable. I do not just kill time. Rather, I check my new "Casablanca" set, I check the new Criterion Collection in a "certified copy" Blu-Ray, but then I look, "I was at Nuremberg" on TV5 Monde, because I want to keep up with the fact that the actress Julie Gayet been doing lately.
Thus, some of the things I'm doing pure work - for example, see the "Dark Shadows". (I liked it, but if I did not pay to see it, I would not see that in 100 years.) And there's a job that I like that for me it's more enjoyable than pure recreation.
Finally, he asked if I could kick back and watch movies without the critical point of view. If I watch a movie to relax or work, I look at it in exactly the same way that, as no one watches movies with a certain openness and a willingness to have fun. On the other hand, kicking back and assess what is happening in the film are not opposites.
My Dear Mick: People spend a lot of thought to invent clever greetings to your question column. At least you could do the same thing, and not just repeat what the reader uses.
John Daly, Foster City
My Dear John: It's not that smart. It's about love in doling out the exact parts, so that everyone gets what he or she deserves, and no overloaded.
