Tim Burton AND Johnny Depp For many years they have been connected not only by creative partnership, but also by deep friendship. It is not surprising, therefore, that in a recent interview with the newspaper Independent, director of the recent Netflix series Wednesday took his colleague’s side while commenting on the path Johnny Depp took after his ex-wife Amber Heard’s allegations led to him almost being canceled by Hollywood.
Johnny Depp as Frankenstein: Tim Burton’s opinion
Tim Burton, who turned 65 on August twenty-fifth, has always been a director who was attracted to those on the margins, those who did not meet any canon of “normality.” Monsters, freaks, people of all sorts were the people who attracted him the most, who had the greatest seduction on both his childhood imagination and the creativity he would try to pursue when he became a professional in the seventh art. And among the stories that are among his favorites, there is undoubtedly a story from the pen of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or modern Prometheus, became the material for numerous and varied transpositions on the small and big screen. And it’s right in history Frankenstein that Tim Burton was talking about what his friend Johnny Depp went through over the last few years as he went from being one of the most beloved stars of all time to being a pariah that no one wanted to work with for fear of being associated with a man who was public the opinion was torn into pieces. Just like the main character Edward Scissorhands (one of Tim Burton’s masterpieces), who is first hailed as an extraordinary being and then sent back, so that Johnny Depp saw his formerly celebrated and beloved public figure trampled underfoot even before there was any talk of going to court. . Within a couple of days, Johnny Depp became a changed man, and angry Internet users (including many journalists) attacked him and his story to tear them apart. And this is exactly the attitude the director has Big fish he wanted to analyze during the interview while defending his friend.
In particular, Tim Burton said during an interview:
“This is how things are. When I was a child, I always had a vivid image of Frankenstein’s angry inhabitants in my mind. And I always used to think of society as an angry village. We see this more and more often. It’s a really weird human dynamic, a human trait that I can’t understand and that I really don’t like.”
Without going into the heart of the problem between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Tim Burton, who is due to be the protagonist of a master class at the Turin Film Museum next October, managed to give readers Independent an accurate and truthful snapshot of how the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard case was handled, but not only that. In fact, by now we are becoming increasingly helpless as we witness online summary fates appearing almost daily on social media.