Johnny
Depp – an American actor, producer and a musician, was born on June 9, 1963 in
Owensboro, Kentucky (USA). He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors
Guild Award for Best Actor.
He first
appeared on television in the 1980s starring in series 21 Jump Street. In 1990 he portrayed a gentle young man who
had scissors for hands in Edward Scissorhands.
In 1994 he played the leading role in Ed Wood, a legendary unsuccessful
movie director. Sleepy Hollow followed
in 1999. One of my personal favourite movies
is Chocolat where Johnny Depp plays alongside Juliette Binoche. She is a famous chocolatier and he is a
careless and adventurous gypsy. One of
the movies that made Johnny Depp very popular with a wide audience is the
famous Pirates of the Caribbean series.
The film started with the first release in 2003. Johnny Depp lives and breathes the life of an
eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow.
The movie was followed by three more sequels.
In 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was
released. It stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie
Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
If you are looking to see a romantic movie please don’t do what I did in
2007. Don’t go see Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Although
Depp’s portrayal of Sweeney Todd is phenomenal, if you only go out with your
significant other once in a blue moon, this is not the movie for you. Alice in Wonderland is probably much more fun
to watch, and you don’t need to get too philosophical with it. Johnny Depp plays the Hatter and Helena Bonham-Carter (his partner from Sweeney Todd) plays the Red Queen.
Johnny Depp’s newest movie Dark Shadows is yet another complex
personality analysis and this time he plays Barnabas Collins – an imprisoned
vampire.
There are many more movies I did not mention, just like there are so many faces of Gemini. But no matter how troubled or how complicated the roles that Johnny Depp plays are, no matter how messed up the characters’ lives are, he always brings out the human side of each character he plays. Suddenly we feel with the character, we perhaps “are” the character. Like a mosaic of emotions and fragments of our life, we begin to put it all together. Johnny Depp plays each character with lightness and makes us believe that he is the character. He is still Johnny Depp on a physical level - the same attractive look is his trademark, but the character has changed – from happy Willy Wonka, careless gypsy Roux, to an extremely heavy psychological character of Sweeney Todd. He is Ed Wood, he is the Hatter and Barnabas Collins all in one.
Johnny Depp's artistic approach is phenomenal. I often compare Johnny Depp to Leonardo DiCaprio
although I know these two wonderful actors are very unique and have a very different approach to acting. In one of my favourite movies What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape these two great actors meet to give their audience what I think is one of their
best performances ever, together and individually. Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is taking care of
his mentally challenged brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Their mother is morbidly obese and
depressed. She is unable to take care of
the boys and so Gilbert takes over. The
brothers care deeply for each other. And
the rest is for you to watch if you want.
The two actors are very similar in a way that they are both great in
making their characters real. Johnny
Depp does it through his “I can talk to anyone and I can become anyone” Gemini way
of acting and Leonardo DiCaprio (a Scorpio) studies and analyses his characters
to the closest detail, relives their lives and makes us believe his character is genuine as his did in
his role as Arnie. I remember when I
first saw that movie, I thought – where did they find the boy (Arnie)? Was he real?
Was he an actor? Gemini people communicate
and live, Scorpios analyze and relive their roles.
Johnny Depp is the perfect example of Gemini – a versatile
communicator who can do several things at once.
Gemini can talk to anyone – from the person on the street to the government
official. Johnny Depp was a shining star
in all of his movies, big or small. Big
budget, small budget – he made every character count and every character
extraordinary. His Capricorn Moon makes
him dedicated to each and every role he plays.
It makes him ambitious too. Although Johnny Depp
is a Gemini, his chart is dominated by earth elements and that gives
him a practical approach to his work.
Happy Birthday to all of you who are Gemini. You make the world fun and colourful. You make us want to get out and communicate with the world, you make us less afraid to go out there, make friends, learn, know and explore. Who are you today? And who will you become tomorrow?
