23 h 15 min, 17 oct. 2021 ans - MEDIA COVERAGE 17-19 October 2021 Johnny Depp Rome Film Festival the missed opportunity

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Rome Film Festival, the missed opportunity by Johnny Depp

by Teresa Marchesi

His Masterclass, demeaned by trade

Italy, what an enchanted country! The new Eldorado, other than the America of mythology! Italy is the country where you can sell to the crowds for 10 euros the privilege of hearing a market product promoted. Ten euros per ticket for the 1600-seat audience of the Auditorium della Conciliazione, sold out for the covented Masterclass by Johnny Depp, a cult star who in this 2021 is the pride of 'Alice in the Cities', a rib for children of the Rome Film Festival. Rib often, to be honest, more intriguing than the Mother House. Remove the VIPs, who don't pay, remove the journalists (who anyway paid the 60 euros of accreditation), the collection of the event is still of all respect.

For those who are not familiar with Festivals, the Masterclass is that hour of Q/A, questions and answers, in which the artist has the comfort of freely discussing his art. In a Conciliation Auditorium overflowing for Depp as well as for the Angelus of the best days - which is held at a distance of a few dozen meters, in St. Peter's Square - I was ecstatic to hear the Bravo Presenter on duty repeat the exact same questions - strictly 'targeted' - addressed to Johnny Depp a few hours earlier, in the press conference dedicated to the product-film that the actor promotes here in Rome.

The product is a web series for little ones, "I Puffins", mini-episodes of animation - kindergarten targets - baked by the award-winning company "Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment". The Captain Jack Sparrow of the Disney franchise in cartoons-baby for platform use lends the voice to the character of a Marina Pulcinella ( ??? Yes, it really exists, it is a species census in nature ). It's not Tim Burton, it's not Polanski, but work is still work.

At press conferences it is expected that the film-goods will be promoted. In the Masterclasses we talk about artistic career. I'm not saying it, it's a codified rule. So much so that the public pays a ticket to listen. What? The memories of a darling, his choices, how and why he became what he is.

Johnny Depp is much more than a sex symbol, he is a 58-year-old man launched thirty years ago by John Waters with the corrosive rock of "Cry Baby", which made seven mythical films with Tim Burton, not to say the others, and as a director of his own the brave "The Brave" (1997), conquering his lifelong cult, Marlon Brando, as a partner. He's a guitarist. He has Native American blood in his veins. Pay huge prices for what he calls his freedom. Over the years, I have talked a lot about all this with him, with exciting outcomes. In front of an idolizing audience, what do they ask in Rome? As in the rest of the day - and always in the presence (talking, talking, talking) of his producers today - of the 'verses' he devested for the cartoon and the rudimentary 'values' to be passed on to postnatal consumers.

I bow to the power of the God Money, but the Film Festivals are called that because they should help people live cinema as a culture. Ten euros for an hour sized by the complete pilot of the Puffins and the propaganda chatter, really?

Today's Depp speaks slowly, with uncertainties and hesitations that escape those who know him only through the screen. But he speaks, and he would talk more, if I offered him the cue, without prejudice to the off-limits on his private sleepovers. From the role of Jack Sparrow, in which he brought some of the cartoons of Bugs Bunny that he shared with Lily Rose as a child: "I also accepted for the sake of infiltrating the enemy camp - the majors - and at first they were not at all happy with my work". Of how Hollywood ("a vacation spot, I don't care") has always been close to him, since he was nobody. "One should not bite the hand that feeds him, however.. As a boy I had practically managed to snatch a contract for seven years with a TV show, but in two and a half years I did everything to get kicked out, even managing to end up in jail accidentally, because I had the precise feeling that it had become an empty product. Finally I got the news that they had freed me from the constraint, and I kept getting proposals and scripts practically based on the same stereotypical formula. It wasn't what I was looking for, if it was the condition to be an actor. I could have been a bricklayer or a gas station attendant. I finally got the chance to go to "Cry Baby". Then I realized that I could set foot on solid ground, made for me. With "Edward Scissor Hands" I was able to put both feet".

But they are answers that come in extra time, on the pair of questions benevolently granted to the public after the hammering of explicit and subliminal commercials. For the Masterclass of Johnny Depp, rebellious artist and champion of freedom as we would love to see him again, we will unfortunately have to wait for a better opportunity.

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