Friday, August 18, 2006
Depp movies I've watched so far.. In order of preference.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean (1 and 2)
2. Finding Neverland (One of his best movies ever. Depp was great as J.M.Barrie. Oh and I love his accent. (: The film was so touching! Freddie was fabulous as young Peter. The ending was so sad! Yes, I cry whenever I watch the conversation between James Barrie and Peter.
Quotes from Finding Neverland
Peter Llewelyn Davies: It's just, I thought she'd always be here.
J.M. Barrie: So did I. But in fact, she is, because she's on every page of your imagination. You'll always have her there. Always.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: But why did she have to die?
J.M. Barrie: I don't know, boy. When I think of your mother, I will always remember how happy she looked sitting there in the parlor watching a play about her family, about her boys that never grew up. She went to Neverland and you can visit her any time you like if you just go there yourself.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: How?
J.M. Barrie: By believing, Peter. Just believe. Peter Llewelyn Davies: [pause] I can see her now.J.M. Barrie: It seems to me that Peter's trying to grow up too fast. I imagine he thinks that grown-ups don't hurt as deeply as children do when they... when they lose someone. I lost my older brother David when I was just Peter's age, and it nearly destroyed my mother.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: James, I'm so sorry. Your poor mother. I can't imagine losing a child.
J.M. Barrie: She didn't get out of bed for months, she wouldn't eat. I tried everything to make her happy but she only wanted David. So one day I dressed myself in David's clothing and I went to her.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: You must have frightened her to death.
J.M. Barrie: I think it was the first time she ever actually looked at me, and that was the end of the boy James. I used to say to myself he'd gone to Neverland.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Where?
J.M. Barrie: Neverland. It's a wonderful place... I've not spoken about this before to anyone- ever.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: What's it like, Neverland?
J.M. Barrie: One day I'll take you there.
J.M. Barrie: You needn't steal my journal to get to know me, Mary.
Mary Ansell Barrie: No, I suppose I could just go see the plays. I was hopelessly naive when I married you. I imagined that brilliant people disappeared to some secret place where good ideas floated around like leaves in autumn, and I hoped at least once you would take me there with you.
J.M. Barrie: There is no such place.
Mary Ansell Barrie: Yes there is: Neverland.
Michael Llewelyn Davies: Excuse me, sir, you're standing on my sleeve.
J.M. Barrie: [moves his foot and looks down to face Michael] Am I? So sorry. I might point out you're lying under my bench.
J.M. Barrie: Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.
Jack Llewelyn Davies: [Michael tries to fly the kite the first time] Oh, I told you this wasn't going to work!
Peter Llewelyn Davies: I don't think he's fast enough.
J.M. Barrie: It's not going to work if no-one believes in him!
J.M. Barrie: [discussing Sylvia's reluctance to accept her illness] They can see it, you know. You can't go on just pretending.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Just pretending? You brought pretending into this family, James. You showed us we can change things by simply believing them to be different.
J.M. Barrie: A lot of things, Sylvia. Not everything.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: But the things that matter. We've pretended for some time now that you're a part of this family, haven't we? You've come to mean so much to us all that now, it doesn't matter if it's true. And even if it isn't true, even if that can never be... I need to go on pretending... until the end... with you.
Michael Llewelyn Davies: [about J.M. Barrie] Can we have him for supper?
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We're not cannibals.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: I'm not Peter Pan.
[points at J. M. Barrie]
Peter Llewelyn Davies: He is.
J.M. Barrie: [watching George react to the knowledge that his mother is seriously ill] Magnificent. The boy is gone. In the last 30 seconds... you became a grown-up.
J.M. Barrie: Listen, what would you think of loaning Emma out to the Davies' for the occasional evening? They don't actually have a cook.
Mary Ansell Barrie: I take it Mrs. Davies enjoyed the meal she had here?
J.M. Barrie: I imagine she could use an extra hand now and again, that's all.
Mary Ansell Barrie: Oh, that's very charitable of you. Perhaps we can send over some of the silver as well... and what about linen? I wouldn't be surprised if some of hers was looking a bit shabby.
J.M. Barrie: Please, Mary, stop.
Mary Ansell Barrie: Maybe she can send over some of the things we've run short on. My husband, for example. We rarely see him in this house.
J.M. Barrie: That hasn't seemed to bother you for some time now.
J.M. Barrie: [gives him a journal] Here you go.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: What's this?
J.M. Barrie: All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. Open it.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: [reads] "The Boy Castaways: Being a record of the terrible adventures of the brothers Davies, faithfully set forth by Peter Llewelyn Davies."
J.M. Barrie: Kipling would swallow his own ear for a title like that!
Peter Llewelyn Davies: I still have no idea what to write.
J.M. Barrie: Write about anything. Write about your family, write about the talking whale!
Peter Llewelyn Davies: What whale?
J.M. Barrie: The one that's trapped in your imagination and desperate to get out.
J.M. Barrie: You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
J.M. Barrie: That... is Neverland.
Smee: [backstage] I just want you to know, I think you're a wonderful dog.
Nana The Dog: Thanks.
Sorry can't help it. Finding Neverland is such a wonderful movie.
3. Donnie Brasco (I think he's just so cool inside the show! Especially towards the end when he was back in the FBI. He looked so.. normal. Which = total coolness. Oh he is Donnie btw. Lefty is Al Pacino. An ingenius performance by Johnny Depp. Gotta lurve him.)
[Lefty is cooking dinner]
Lefty: Punch of salt.
Donnie Brasco: Punch?
Lefty: Punch. Punch of salt.
Donnie Brasco: Punch or pinch?
Lefty: Punch, punch. Not pinch. What'd I say? I say pinch?
Donnie Brasco: Nah, you said... you said punch.
Lefty: Sometimes you don't make no fuckin' sense, Donnie.
FBI Technician: What's forget about it?
Donnie Brasco: Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it. But then, if you disagree, like A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it! you know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like mingia those peppers, forget about it. But it's also like saying Go to hell! too. Like, you know, like "Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?" and Paulie says "Forget about it!" Sometimes it just means forget about it.
Joe Pistone: All my life I've tried to be the good guy, the guy in the white fucking hat. And for what? For nothing. I'm not becoming like them; I am them.
Lefty: There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works?
Donnie Brasco: Yeah, it's like in the army.
Lefty: Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.
4. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Another really cool movie. Not to spoil everything, but he rocked as a crazy CIA agent with his eyes dug out.. blood flowing down his face.)
5. Ed Wood (Brilliant movie. Really.)
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Ahh Willy Wonka..)
7. Edward Scissorhands (Extremely sad and touching ending! A very old film by Depp. He's just so cute in it. Haha. A boy with scissors as hands. One of his best works.)
8. Corpse Bride (I figured he has two kinds of voices. One is the higher kind he used in Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands. Another one is his more normal voice, used in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pirates, Finding Neverland, Donnie Brasco.. What's Eating Gilbert Grape and so on.)
9. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (A really, really old show. Not bad, I guess. But his hair was too long! Leonardo is wonderful as Depp's Gilbert Grape's mentally retarded brother. Nice movie, overall. But my problem with it is the female lead. She's plain ugly. Disgustingly ugly.)
10. Sleepy Hollow (Ok larh. Lots of weird weird things happening. Which is no surprise since it's a Tim Burton movie.)
11. Chocolat
12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hilarious.)
Really, I know this has been said so many times, but he is simply a genius. Rocks.
Ok NOW I shall start talking about the M16 shooting. It was rather ok, the gun was lighter than I thought, we were laughing like mad, Esther Pang was funny, I was tricked by Lynette, bullied by Esther, laughed with the rest. Ahh I love the HQ (Home Team Academy). And all the different bases. They are fun to go to! (: [Oh remember the 'particular' and 'personalized training'? Haha. Hardoo hoo!]
After NP, we went home by MRT. Once I reached home I started doing my computer stuff, until 8.15 I went over to Yan Yee's house to attempt polish my boots. It was really tiring and difficult blearghh. My shoe polish made my boots even duller than before! But the metal polisher is good! It made my swimming badge extra shiny. Ahh. In the end even her brother came to help us polish. But it's so time consuming and irritating.
Haha ok this happened quite a few days ago, but last Sat, Sun, Mon and Tues, I tried to keep myself entertained by watching Johnny's movies, watching his interview clips, and the MOST amusing thing is reading fans' encounter with Johnny Depp. It was just so funny ok! The way they descibed him! And how they started crying and trembling, then when Depp was in front of them, smiling at them and looking straight into their eyes, they were so overwhelmed that they were either speechless or started blabbering non-stop. Haha. Seriously man. The best was some girl meeting him at an airport, and some fans managed to get a hug/a kiss/both with him. Actually, I think if I were to see him in person, I'll just go totally crazy. Like scream like mad (which says something, because I never scream)/tremble/cry (oh now I sound like a cry-baby. ahh another Depp's movie! A man who cried. Cry-Baby. 2 of Depp's movies!)/demand an autograph. Gee. Now everybody knows I love Johnny Depp. Ahh. Truly a Depp Impact.
Anyway, I was also very amused by Terry Rossio's blog, (Terry is one of the two scriptwriters for Pirates of the Caribbean all three movies, plus Shrek2 I think. The other one is called Ted Elliot. Both are wonderful people who actually reply to posts in some popular Pirates of the Caribbean discussion boards.) which details many interesting things happening on the set of POTC shooting. Stuffs like actors getting sick, huricane attack, the Singapore Set for the third movie (sorry it's spoilers), their conversations during meals, how they came up with certain lines, and it's written with such humour that I couldn' stop laughing like mad.
For example.
Gore [The director of Pirates of the Caribbean] says, the night before, he woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, laughing at Johnny's delivery, "Where's the thump thump?"
Johhny says, "You know how I knew it was a good take? Trevor was laughing, guy who does pull focus, he's the hardest guy on the set ot make laugh. I know if I can get Trevor to even look away, or smile, I'm doing good."
On Location
April 30, 2003
by Terry Rossio
Our favorite line we wrote for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is one we didn't write.
This is how it goes, some days, when you're a writer working on set of a major motion picture:
[...]
And this was the end shot of the movie, could we come up with a command that was interesting, meaningful, a bit more profound than "Back to work, Mates!"
Sure.
Ted went off to talk to the captain of one of the film's working ships, the Lady Washington, and try to scare up some authentic nautical commands. I went to find Depp and warn him that some new dialogue was coming. Johnny was cool with it, and even had suggestions -- as research for the role, he'd been reading stories of seafaring men, he said, so "How about something like, 'We venture forth over waves of adversity beneath clouds of adventure, always searching for that elusive shore of our dreams...?'"
"Right," I said... "Uh, something just like that. We're working on it."
[...] We all liked the phrase, "To stations! Let go, and haul to run free!" I particularly liked the 'run free' part, it seemed appropriate for Depp's character, who considered his ship a symbol of freedom.
So we run that line past Gore, he stares off into the distance, says "I dunno, I get kind of a BORN FREE vibe out of that, maybe something else?"
[...]
Now I will always remember this:
We hear a shout, look over, and there's Johnny Depp racing toward us full speed from the make-up trailers, only half in costume, waving a piece of paper over his head. He's shouting -- I kid you not -- "I've got it! Got it!"
He races full speed toward the gangplank, and let me tell you something about gangplanks, they're not very sturdy. Whenever we went across the production was careful to have a sailor on either end, one to help you on, the other to help you down onto the ship.
Depp wasn't waiting for that -- he bounded onto the gangplank, it bounced him into the air, and light as a feather he came down on it, bounced up again, and landed gracefully on deck. Hey, that's why he gets the big bucks. He comes up to us, breathless, says "I got it." and shows us the paper.
Well, with a build-up like that, from your major star, you'd better hope that it's good. We look at the paper, and beneath a bunch of crossed-off efforts, it says --
"Bring me that horizon!"
Ted and I look at each other.
"That's pretty good," Ted says.
Hell, it was really good. We put it together with the previous line and it sounded great, "Let go and haul to run free! Bring me that horizon!"
We took it to Gore. He thought about it for all of half a second, said "That's pretty good. That's really good." Now he even liked the 'run free' lead-in, too.
[...]As of this writing, I don't know if the movie is good, or if the lines made it in, or even if they work the way they should. But if the film is good, it's fun to think that the final line of the film was written the day it was shot.
I hope it does work.
I hope the movie is great.
Because I've got something pinned above my desk. The scrap of paper Depp was waving as he raced out of the trailer, that he wrote the line on --
I kept it, of course.
It has our favorite line in the movie -- one we didn't even write!Haha HILARIOUS right. So funny.
It is Terry Rossio's copywrite, rmbr. :D
Tomorrow is GOH. I am exhausted.
--FIRst Day <33--
8/18/2006 10:22:00 PM
