Essay 2-03b: Johnny Depp

Our movie essay is Johnny Depp’s movie. Two movies that we chose are Carlie and the Chocolate factory and Alice in wonder land. The reasons we chose this actor are he is a famous and good actor. Johnny Depp often acts unique roles. Those movies we chose in this essay are also unique. Those movies have similar points and different points.

Carlie and the Chocolate factory is famous movie. This movie was broad casted in 2005. The direction of this movie is Tim Burton. Johnny Depp decided to act in this movie because Tim Burton is the direction of this movie. This is a fantasy and comedy movie. The original is a novel for children. The writer of it is Roald Dahl. He wrote this novel in 1964.

The role of Johnny Depp is president of the chocolate factory. Johnny Depp was nominated at the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The name of his role is Willy Wonka. Willy Wonka is cranky and childish. His face is always pale. He always wears hat, and he always has stick. So, his appearance is mysterious. The chocolate factory that Willy Wonka is running is very fantastic. It is not just factory. It is like a wonder land. This factory made by Willy Wonka. His idea is fantastic, and his idea make people surprise and happy. So, his chocolate is popular all over the world. His life looks successful. However, he has a problem with his father. His father runs dentist. Willy Wonka runs chocolate factory, so he had been thought that they can’t understand each other. However, he could it because Carlie helped him. Willy wonka learned the importance of family from Charlie.

Alice in Wonder land is also famous movie, and this movie’s direction is also Tim Burton. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton have been working together. This movie is the seventh movie since they have worked together. This movie was broad casted in 2010. This movie is fantasy. The original is a novel for children. The writer is Lewis Carroll. This movie is an after story of this novel. This movie uses motion capture. It is a special technique. It is very interesting. Walt Disney Pictures that is a famous movie factory in United States joined making this movie, so this movie is popular among children.

The role of Johnny Depp is a hat man in movie "Alice in wonder land". The name of his role is Mad Hatter. He is makes up white and pink face and has orange hair, orange eye blows, wears blue jacket, red vest and black hat. It is very eccentric. He has very important role of that change fate of Alice who is main character in this story and that makes her excellent brave girl. He is heretic who has pure heart with sorrow and kindness. He is mercurial poisoning so he has I'll of the body and spirit. And also, he is emotionally in this story. His suits are changed color in each scene. It is very magical. He is only person who believes Alice. So he is also very precious man for her. He is unique character and makes quite a figure in this movie. So viewers are always attracted by him. His existence of this movie is so fantasy. This hat man has difficult role because it is not easy for viewers to understand role of this story. But Johnny Depp performs clearly. Johnny Depp is only person who can perform this role of hat man. Viewers who watch this movie fit the first time may think that he is just a funny person but he has a bug point of the story to enjoy this movie. So he is intense character in this movie. He has a particular look all of his own. Viewers may be attracted when they watch his unique performance. End of this movie, he dances. It is so great and cool. His dance is very well. This scene is very popular among people who watched this movie. Whatever he performs, that makes viewers happy.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland are fantasy movie. There are some similar points between those movies. Johnny Depp’s roles of these movies are unique. Appearances of Willy Wonka and Mad Hatter are so strange. Those roles are so difficult to act. Viewer can’t understand them mind easily. Viewer can’t understand his feeling easily because his face is almost not change. In Alice in Wonder land, viewer thinks that Mad Hatter is just a funny person for the first time. Johnny Depp has to act a person who is funny but not just funny in two movies. It is so difficult, but Johnny Depp can do that, so he is a good actor.

However, there are some differences between two movies. In Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Willy Wonka that Johnny Depp acts is changed his mind by Charlie. Thanks to Charlie, he could make up with his father. On the other hand, Mad Hatter that Johnny Depp acts changes Alice’s mind. Thanks to the wonderland and people living there, Alice became a woman of decision. Other difference is having friends or not. Willy Wonka may not have friends because he lives alone. His character is not sociable, so he can’t make friends. On the other hands, Mad Hatter living in wonderland, so there are unique friends around him. We think that Alice is also his friend because she rescues him.

Johnny Depp appears a lot of movies. His roles that he had ever acted are almost strange. For example, there are Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, or Edward in Scissor hands. Those are unusual person. Willy Wonka and Mad Hatter are also unusual person because Willy Wonka is a president of amazing chocolate factory, and mad Hatter is living in wonderland. It is easy to act an average person because you know the life of an average person. However, it is difficult to act an unusual person because you don’t know the life of unusual person. Johnny Depp can act difficult roles. So, Johnny Depp is a good actor.

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Zanuck, Richard & Gray, Brad(Producer), & Burton, Tim (Director). 2005. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Bros.