Saturday, June 3, 2017

Johnny Depp Piratas do Caribe: A Vingança de Salazar – Review

Eu sou muito, mas muito suspeita mesmo em falar desta franquia. Primeiro porque amo tudo sobre piratas e segundo porque tenho uma relação especial com a atração Piratas do Caribe da Disney. Claro que fiquei louca para ver Piratas do Caribe: A Vingança de Salazar, o quinto filme da franquia.

Piratas do Caribe na Disney

Digo que sou suspeita, pois, não sei se vocês sabem, mas a franquia de filmes foi inspirada em uma antiga atração da Disney. Quando eu visitei pela primeira vez os parques, ninguém imaginava que a atração um dia daria um enredo para um filme, quanto mais de uma franquia inteira.

Fui pela primeira vez na Disney em 92. E foi visitando o Magic Kingdom que conheci a atração Piratas do Caribe. Fui com meus pais e irmão e lembro que todos nos divertimos muito. Os bonecos quase pareciam pessoas de verdade. Os movimentos, a música, os piratas bêbados e a batalha entre navios que “quase” acertam os espectadores. Simplesmente uma experiência fantástica. Por isso que, quando os filmes foram lançados, me apaixonei por eles também.

Sempre que volto na Disney, gosto de ir nesse brinquedo. Depois dos filmes eles adicionaram bonecos o Jack Sparrow tão perfeitos que você diria que é o ator de verdade.

Falando nisso, vocês viram a ação que a Disney fez no brinquedo? Johnny Depp fez essa surpresa pros fãs no inicio do mês, se vestindo de Jack Sparrow e dando um sustinho em quem andava no brinquedo na Disneylandia:

A Disney sabe fazer as coisas de maneira tão mágica, que é impossível você não sair dos parques super feliz.

Piratas do Caribe: A Vingança de Salazar

Nos EUA o filme recebeu o titulo de “Dead Men Tells no Tales“, que seria algo como “Homens mortos não contam histórias”. Porém em vários países decidiram mudar o título para Vingança de Salazar. Ninguém entendeu muito bem o porquê disso, e houve até quem dissesse que parecia um nome de episódio do programa Chaves. No fim das contas isso acaba perdendo a importância.

Piratas do caribe: A Vingança de Salazar é um filme divertido, voltado pra família, que lembra bastante os primeiros filmes da franquia. De uma certa maneira é reconfortante quando o Capitão Jack Sparrow aparece novamente na telona, aprontando uma das suas. A cena do banco, que introduz o personagem no filme, é maravilhosamente mentirosa e divertida. Outra que eu adorei e morri de rir foi a cena da guilhotina. Não vou dar mais detalhes porque seria spoiler e não quero estragar sua experiência com o filme.


O que Piratas do Caribe ser tão querido pelos fãs está no filme. Aquela fórmula que faz o filme ser diversão garantida: Capitão Jack Sparrow atraindo confusão, vários querendo matar ele, uma maldição a ser quebrada, um artefato a ser encontrado, um casal que se apaixona, um super vilão, muita aventura, batalhas e aquele ritmo incansável. Até o icônico navio Black Pearl está lá. Alguns personagens queridos, que não estiveram presentes em Piratas do Caribe: Navegando em Águas Misteriosas, também voltam nesta sequencia unblocked games at school.


Os efeitos especiais estão impecáveis. O exército de fantasmas que acompanham o vilão Capitão Salazar são surpreendentemente bem feitos. Em um flashback vemos Jack Sparrow bem novinho, como próprio Johnny Depp sendo rejuvenescido por efeitos de CGI. Assisti em 3D, porém acho que a experiência em 2D seria tão boa quanto. A fotografia do filme está belíssima, e, muitas das cenas são claras predominando tons de azul. Foi filmado em Queensland na Austrália, o que confere ao filme as mais belas cenas.



A direção é de Joachim Rønning e Espen Sandberg. Javier Bardem interpreta o vilão Capitão Salazar. O elenco traz ainda Brenton Thwaites como Henry Turner, Kaya Scodelario como Carina Smyth, Orlando Bloom (Will Turner) e Geoffrey Rush, nosso querido e ao mesmo tempo odiado Capitão Barbossa. Tem também uma divertida participação especial de Paul McCartney unblocked.

Há uma cena pós-créditos que vale a pena conferir. Ela dá dicas sobre o futuro da franquia!
Johnny Depp estaria cansado de Jack Sparrow?

As coisas não andam muito boas pro lado de Johnny Depp nos últimos tempos. Ele que foi de um dos atores mais amados pelo público a um dos mais rejeitados devido aos recentes escândalos de sua vida pessoal. Lembra de como todo mundo amou quando ele foi fazer uma surpresa para crianças em hospitais? Era um ator muito querido.

Há quem diga que o ator esteja se cansando de seu papel, mas eu me pergunto até que ponto ele não está cansado das polêmicas envolvendo o nome dele. Me pergunto também de que maneira isso tudo poderia refletir em sua performance nas telas.

Jack Sparrow também passa por poucas e boas no filme, enfrentando uma verdadeira onda de má sorte. O fato é que eu adoro o personagem que sempre me diverte tanto e custo a acreditar que o ator fosse capaz das atrocidades de que tem sido acusado. Me entristece muito, pois tanto o ator quanto o personagem são muito queridos pra mim. Então espero sinceramente que ele não esteja cansado do papel, e que ele possa continuar atuando como o Capitão Jack Sparrow. Quanto aos escândalos da vida pessoal dele, realmente não sei o que dizer.
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Mylene Farmer – L'Autre (Polydor France, 1991)

There was plenty of evidence in the '90s that Sinead O'Connor or Kate Bush might've been way more compelling if they'd grown up in the land of "Je T'aime…Moi Non Plus." For example, Jeanne Mas, a blindfolded Joan Of Arc who recited Baudelaire poetry, Arctic art songs, and eulogies for war babies amid Latin mass moans, guillotine guitars, circling vultures, and choruses of lost children; or Pauline Ester, with a synthetic X-Ray Spex name and a conehead Lene Lovich beehive, jumping from Malian chants to Caribbean rhythms to scatted catcalls and piano woogie. But singer Mylene Farmer — born in Quebec, but a suburban Parisian since elementary school, and one of France's all-time top sellers — has towered above the chanteuse pack since the mid '80s. L'Autre, which sold nearly two million copies in France, thanks in part to violent videos featuring co-ed boxing matches, labor-camp riots, and wolves lurking around vampiric lesbian makeout scenes, is her testament. Ornate ivory runs serve as a bed for clanking mechanical melodies dissolving into air; cloudland trip-hop moods that outdo P.M. Dawn ("Je T'Aime Mélancholie") and the Pet Shop Boys ("Désenachantée"); cathedral-bell synthesizer riffs mimicking the opening of Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer"; moods as heavy and Medievally Catholic as goth metal would be later in the decade ("Agnus Dei"). Centerpiece "Psychiatric" opens with a snip of the Elephant Man doing his Johnny Rotten-in-"Bodies" imitation, saying he's human not an animal, after which the hellfire-haired Farmer whispers that she's losing her mind — like it happens every day.

Johnny Lewis, 'Sons of Anarchy': Another synthetic drug crime like Rudy Eugene?


Two people look upon the Johnny Lewis death scene site following the "Sons of Anarchy" actor's death.
Two people look upon the Johnny Lewis death scene site following the "Sons of Anarchy" actor's death.
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Monday, October 12, 2015

'Pirates of the Caribbean' Made Zoe Saldana Want to Quit Acting, But Don't Let That Ruin the Film



Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl almost ruined Zoe Saldana's career—but not for the reason you'd think. She wasn't ashamed of the caliber of the movie or her role in it (she played a ship captain, in case you forgot). Rather the behind the scenes politics of Pirates of the Caribbeanalmost made Zoe Saldana quit acting for good.
As Disney just confirmed there will be a 5th installment to the series (nearly 20 years after the first one came out) a lot of people point to the success of the first film as the starting point for the franchise. Unlike other Disney ride-to-movie attempts, it didn't flop, but was a box office hit. In fact a lot of times people are quick to state it was the only good one in the bunch. But now it's being revealed by Saldana that the success of the film was built on the backs of behind the scenes bickering that drove Saldana to nearly throw in the towel.
"Those weren't the right people for me—I'm not talking about the cast," the actress told the Hollywood Reporter. "The cast was great. I'm talking about the political stuff that went on behind closed doors. It was a lot of above-the-line versus below-the-line, extras versus actors, producers versus PAs."
I'm glad she praised the cast because it would be a shame to hear Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom were jerks offscreen, but it's too bad to hear she had such a negative experience. Saldana then further discussed the behind the scenes politics:
"It was very elitist. I almost quit the business. I was 23 years old, and I was like, 'F*** this!' I am never putting myself in this situation again. People disrespecting me because they look at my number on a call sheet and they think I'm not important. F*** you."
Yikes. Well, I'm sorry to spoil the only good Pirates of the Caribbean movie for you, but it's important to know what the film was propped up on. But go ahead and still love Captain Jack Sparrow, because Johnny Depp is still great and he's definitely the reason I'm going to see Pirates of the Caribbean 5. (I know, I know.)
Meanwhile Zoe Saldana can rejoice in having gotten out of that franchise before it tanked completely because her career is showing no signs of stopping. So screw those PAs, extras, and producers who may have been mean to Saldana. She's doing better than any of them now anyway. Good for her for sticking it out.

‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5:’ JIM CARREY MAY REPLACE JOHNNY DEPP, ZOE SALDANA IN A FEMALE LEAD ROLE

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5:’ Jim Carrey May Replace Johnny Depp, Zoe Saldana In A Female Lead Role
The famous actor Johnny Depp is said to have been seen for the last time in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” He was rarely seen on the shooting floor in Australia. If he exits, then who is going to take the role of Captain Jack Sparrow? Read below to get a scoop of it.
Depp’s recent marriage with Amber Heard is reportedly having lot of problems and this is one of the reasons why he is rarely seen shooting for the fifth installation of “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, although he has battled a recent injury. Oppositely, Heard’s dog smuggling case is another reason for slowing down the production. The movie was supposed to be released in the summer of 2015.
Earlier the 52-year old Depp was on the edge of losing his life while shooting for the movie “The Lone Ranger.” He was riding a horse when unexpectedly the saddle turned loose and he was thrown from the reigns and fiercely dragged by the horse for 25 yards.
According to New York Daily News, Depp “does not want to be there” and his mood “is not doing much” for the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The production team has reportedly blamed Depp and his wife Heard for making drama that has compelled Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg to postpone the film’s release to July 7, 2017.
“People are saying that he is checked out. He literally will come on set momentarily, deliver his lines and then leave. Some people are saying that he’s barely phoning it in,” the website reported.
Hiring a new actor for his place will be a big problem for Disney Studios as something new has to be figured out. According to Youth Health, Jim Carrey was one of the actors Disney proposed before the casting of Depp, and once Depp gives up, Carrey could be called in for the role.
A rumor also broke out that “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” could feature a female lead and Zoe Saldana possibly could play the role as she has inscribed her superior performance in Hollywood for the movies “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Colombiana.”
According to Top Ten Real Estate Deals.com, Johnny Depp is selling his $25 million private estate (an entire village) in the French Riviera.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

What happened to Johnny Depp? How ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ made him, and ruined him.

Johnny Depp used to be so cool. Back at the dawn of this new century, it was hard to imagine anyone much cooler. He may not have had a big blockbuster to his name, but he was a star nonetheless, gracing offbeat roles that made him edgier and more enigmatic than Leo or Brad. He was the grunge movie star: Soulful eyes under dirty hair, tattoos before they were mainstream, combat boots on the red carpet, and incredibly bad-ass girlfriends (Winona Ryder, Kate Moss). The more he resisted the attempts to make him a heartthrob, the hotter he became.
So how exactly did we end up here?
You’ve probably seen Depp’s face on the movie posters for “Mortdecai.” They’re inescapable. Here once again is the shape-shifting star, this time flamboyantly mustachioed and dandified by a cravat and velvet blazer with pocket square. He looks at once surprised and utterly pleased with himself, though it’s hard to imagine why: The dated-looking farce about a bumbling secret agent has box office prognosticators anticipating a bomb in the making, likely to open to lower receipts this weekend than even Jennifer Lopez’s laughable thriller, “The Boy Next Door.”
“This is comfortably the actor’s worst film since ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ and even dedicated fans will find their hearts shrivelling up like week-old party balloons at its all-pervading air of clenched desperation,” says the Telegraph. And Variety warns: “Depp has entered a realm of performance so self-amused, one imagines most co-stars would struggle to forge chemistry with him.”
Trailer: 'Mortdecai'
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Johnny Depp plays Charlie Mortdecai, a charismatic British art dealer tasked with finding a stolen Goya painting. Directed by David Koepp, the film also stars Ewan McGregor and Gwyneth Paltrow. It premieres Jan. 23. (Lions Gate Entertainment)
Even the most insouciant bad boys need to grow up eventually. But how did he turn into this 51-year-old ham? Is this what a mid-life crisis looks like?
It’s not just that Depp is playing an outlandish character. He’s essentially made a career out of playing eccentrics. After the ’80s TV series “21 Jump Street” launched him to fame, he quickly broke out of the heartthrob rut, first by sending up his own pretty-boy-rebel image in 1990’s “Cry-Baby,” courtesy of the pope of trash himself, John Waters. And then there was the first of many collaborations with Tim Burton, in “Edward Scissorhands,” a bizarre gothic romantic fantasy. Depp’s face was ghostly white and scarred, his hair was matted and unruly and he was nearly mute, but his character was so sweet and sympathetic, you still hoped against reason that he’d get the girl (played by Ryder).
Depp continued to disappear into characters, and they were rarely glamorous. He was the mentally not-all-there guy who romanced the mentally not-all-there girl in “Benny and Joon” and the cross-dressing director in “Ed Wood”; he collaborated with Jim Jarmusch — patron saint of idiosyncratic indies — playing an accountant in the surreal black-and-white western “Dead Man,” and he took the role of a psychiatric patient convinced he’s the world’s greatest lover in “Don Juan DeMarco.” Critics called his performances “soulful” and “startling.”
Meanwhile, he turned down the mainstream stuff. The A-list offers certainly poured in: “Titanic” and “Legends of the Fall,” “Interview With a Vampire” and “Speed.” And the answer was always no.
Depp’s alternatives weren’t all winners. The ‘90s were a mixed bag, but even misses like the thriller “Nick of Time” took risks. The movie unfolded in real time, a 90-minute race against the clock during which Depp’s character had to save his daughter. And for every horrific misfire (ahem, “The Astronaut’s Wife”), there was a “Donnie Brasco.” In Mike Newell’s 1997 crime drama, Depp played an uncharacteristically average guy, an undercover agent tasked with getting close to a mafia hitman, and Depp held his own opposite Al Pacino.
Around this time, Depp met French singer-model-actress Vanessa Paradis, and everything seemed to be clicking. Of course Depp and Paradis would get together. Neither seemed to ever work hard at their craft or beauty, it was just effortlessly there. And obviously they didn’t get married. Something so traditional? Mon dieu! Instead, the pair had a daughter and a son and split their time between France and the U.S. When they walked the red carpet, the couple was always perfectly unconventional, him, festooned with all those rings and necklaces, and her looking like a flapper or something.
And then he became a superstar.
For all his devoted fans, Depp had never been a true A-lister commanding tens of millions per picture — not with his offbeat choices. But that all changed in 2003 when he signed onto his first big blockbuster. The movie was “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” based on a Disney ride, and Depp played Captain Jack Sparrow. He justified taking the part in various ways, — it was a movie his kids could see, it was a challenge to inject so much weirdness into a lightweight role. He brilliantly channeled Keith Richards for the role — shambling and slurring with a Cockney accent — though the eyeliner, dreadlocks and goatee beads were all Depp’s ideas (much to the chagrin of terrified Disney execs). The movie was a huge hit with moviegoers and also, surprisingly, the Academy. The role got him his first Oscar nomination.
Suddenly, the actor who was once too cool for mainstream had become a Hollywood commodity, who gamely starred in three “Pirates” sequels (with a fourth planned for 2017). But he continued to track down quality work and even landed two more Oscar nominations for playing more strange men. In 2004’s “Finding Neverland,” he was “Peter Pan” author J.M. Barrie, and in 2007, he sang and danced as the murderous barber “Sweeney Todd.”
But since “Sweeney” — incidentally, around the time he became a sequel guy — Depp has entered a new stage. Now every role is Sparrow-level over-the-top, fancy facades with little below the surface. And he doesn’t so much disappear into a role as completely disguise himself. He was an alarmingly soft-spoken Willy Wonka with a pageboy haircut in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and an orange-curled Mad Hatter in the critically-pummeled “Alice in Wonderland.” Both of those were Burton collabs, as was “Dark Shadows,” in 2012, another dud. (Said our colleague Ann Hornaday: “By ‘Dark Shadows’  final scene, the kabuki-white greasepaint has been troweled on so thickly, [Depp] resembles less a human character than one of Burton’s animated creations. Perhaps that’s the best way to understand an alternately antic and deadly dull enterprise content to remain as steadfastly two-dimensional as the “Scooby-Doo” cartoon it briefly invokes.”
Then there was Depp’s portrayal of Tonto, sporting a stuffed crow on his head, in the massive bomb “The Lone Ranger,” directed by “Pirates” helmer Gore Verbinski. For last year’s box-office stinker, “Transcendence,” Depp was rendered into mere pixels. But his few forays into realism have been similarly unsuccessful. Remember “The Tourist,” his thriller opposite Angelina Jolie? If so, you’re in rare company.
Is Depp’s mere presence in a movie enough to secure big box office returns? The answer certainly seems to be no. “Alice” and “Charlie” did well, as kid’s movies do, and so has the “Pirates” franchise, although domestically, there appears to be waning interest. The second installment made $423 million stateside, while the fourth did $241 million worth of sales. (Internationally, they continue to be a big hit.) But all the other recent movies fizzled.
Depp was at his best when he was doing the more understated work. Sure, Edward Scissorhands looked flamboyant, but for all the scars and hair and bladed digits, he was playing a strangely relatable character, an outsider in a cookie-cutter world: The emotions were real. There’s none of that in what Depp does now, which is, essentially, chew the scenery.
This was his downfall: Hollywood deemed him a moneymaker, and he responded by becoming an ever more manic version of the role that made him big. Problem is, Depp was never really a moneymaker, and he still isn’t. Once upon a time, he might have been able to fall back on his punk-rock cred and his actorly integrity. He could have turned his back on it all, with his arm around his latest, beyond-hip girlfriend.
It’s not Paradis anymore, by the way. They split in 2012 after 14 non-married years together. Now he doesn’t even have a girlfriend. He has a fiancee, the blonde bombshell actress Amber Heard, who is 28. How conventional.

Johnny Depp Drunk Disaster On Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 Set: Amber Heard Marriage Woes Kill The Movie – A Sinking Ship!


Johnny Depp Drunk Disaster On Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 Set: Amber Heard Marriage Woes Kill The Movie - A Sinking Ship!
Johnny Depp’s boozing and fighting with his wife Amber Heard is slowly killing Pirates Of The Caribbean. Johnny Depp has been in Australia for what seems like forever filming the latest installment of the franchise, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Of course his mysterious hand injury after a night of boozing, and his wife Amber Heard’s dog smuggling case have definitely slowed down production – and nearly brought it to a halt.
Pirates Of the Caribbean 5 has been pushed back so many times, we can hardly keep track of the film’s release date anymore. Originally, it was supposed to be released in the Summer of 2015, but seeing as how the Summer of 2015 is here – and they haven’t even finished filming the movie, that is not going to happen. As of right now, the International Movie Database has the premiere date slated for 2017, which seems ions away, but at this rate it will be a miracle if it is even done by then.
The production team in Australia is at their wit’s end – millions of dollars over budget and months behind schedule, they blame it all on Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard. Since Johnny arrived in Australia to begin filming, Amber and his drama has been causing issues on set, at one point Amber was reportedly even banned from visiting her husband at work.
An insider dished to Naughty Gossip, “Johnny has been on set as little as possible, only fulfilling his contract at the minimum level – and his mood has been completely affecting the whole operation of the production. Producers are worried that morale will be affected.” Morale is the least of their problems at this point. Pirates of The Caribbean is a complete money pit, and they are too far in that they can’t pull the plug because millions of dollars will be lost. Meanwhile, disgruntled diehard fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean blame Johnny’s new wife Amber Heard, and have taken to social media to rant that she is killing the movie.
Do you think that Pirates of the Caribbean 5 will ever see the light of day? Is it fair to blame Amber Heard for ruining the movie? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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