Post by Jeffrey on Apr 12, 2004 21:33:17 GMT -5
I'm going to freak right out if I don't do this. I've got to make this thread and I frankly don't care what people think about it. *sticks tongue out at Tonks* This is for one of the most brilliant (and hot and sexy and yummy and cute and wonderful and positively adorable... *coughcough*) actors around. Mr. Johnny Depp gets his own thread because I say so, dammit. If anybody can play the diverse kind of roles that this guy can, I'd like to see them step forward. From mental patients, to squeamish constables to schizo writers, he's got a unique flair and taste in bizarre roles.
Personal favorites? Far too numerous, but keeping it to top three, it'd be Raoul Duke (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Sam (Benny and Joon) and Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands (Once Upon a Time in Mexico). Raoul Duke, based off Gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and absolutely crazy with the look of an extremely dehydrated druggie (not to mention the adorable bald pate!). Sam, the sweet, in need of a hug dyslexic guy who had to sleep under the sink who had a love for Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Agent Sands, the eyeless pistolero dedicated to keeping the balance in Mexico with a gun in his right hand and a plate of puerco pibil in the other. Honorable mention: Mort Rainey (Secret Window), the fuzzy, loveable schizo with a fetish for screwdrivers and corn and Ed Wood (Ed Wood) with a passion for moviemaking, Bela Lugosi and fuzzy, pink angora sweaters.
Course, that's top 3 (5). There is not enough time for all the truly loveable characters Johnny plays, George Jung, Icky Crane, Roux and Captain Jack Sparrow among them. Then there are always the obscure characters like William Blake of Dead Man, Cesar of The Man Who Cried and Bon-Bon of Before Night Falls. A brilliant and extremely tallented man, boils and ghouls, no matter what you say (Tonks).
Seriously, even if you aren't fond of him, you can't deny he's a terrific actor. Look from Nightmare on Elm Street to where he is today and the variety of roles he's played from a detective on the Jack the Ripper case to a freaky man with sckizzors for hands to a relic authenticator (sp?). Could your average pen salesman do that? Nyeh.
Personal favorites? Far too numerous, but keeping it to top three, it'd be Raoul Duke (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Sam (Benny and Joon) and Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands (Once Upon a Time in Mexico). Raoul Duke, based off Gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and absolutely crazy with the look of an extremely dehydrated druggie (not to mention the adorable bald pate!). Sam, the sweet, in need of a hug dyslexic guy who had to sleep under the sink who had a love for Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Agent Sands, the eyeless pistolero dedicated to keeping the balance in Mexico with a gun in his right hand and a plate of puerco pibil in the other. Honorable mention: Mort Rainey (Secret Window), the fuzzy, loveable schizo with a fetish for screwdrivers and corn and Ed Wood (Ed Wood) with a passion for moviemaking, Bela Lugosi and fuzzy, pink angora sweaters.
Course, that's top 3 (5). There is not enough time for all the truly loveable characters Johnny plays, George Jung, Icky Crane, Roux and Captain Jack Sparrow among them. Then there are always the obscure characters like William Blake of Dead Man, Cesar of The Man Who Cried and Bon-Bon of Before Night Falls. A brilliant and extremely tallented man, boils and ghouls, no matter what you say (Tonks).
Seriously, even if you aren't fond of him, you can't deny he's a terrific actor. Look from Nightmare on Elm Street to where he is today and the variety of roles he's played from a detective on the Jack the Ripper case to a freaky man with sckizzors for hands to a relic authenticator (sp?). Could your average pen salesman do that? Nyeh.
