Thursday, 20 October 2011

Alice in Wonderland - The Mad Hatter Trailer

Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter Trailer (Source 14) –

Focus Film

Focus Film

Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton 2010) – I chose to use this film as my focus film as it a film which Johnny Depp plays a main part in and has a lot of recognition. It also is his latest fantast film so it shows his most up to date acting.


Related films

Related Films

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton 2005) – This was chosen as one of my related films as again it includes Johnny Depp where he plays a similar strange character and is easy to compare to Alice in Wonderland.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski 2003) –Again Johnny Depp plays a main role in this film but unlike the other two films his character is not very similar so this would give me chance to compare the different characters Johnny Depp plays.

Monday, 10 October 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckTw3xYQv94

I used this interview as it about Pirates of the Caribbean one of my related films. In this interview Johnny tells us some information on his character and his inspiration behind it being Keith Richards. This interview seemed quite interesting as it is quite similar to other interviews I have listened to about different films he has starred in.

Radio 4 Interview with Tim Burton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qt1rr#p006mxyr


Throughout this interview Tim gives he his opinion on the film Alice in Wonderland and what he thinks about the characters. At 5.50 the interview starts to talk about Johnny Depp and how he portrayed his role. Tim also talks about what he likes about making films with Johnny quoting 'He just goes for it and there’s something quite exciting about that, that people who just go for it and aren’t worried about their carers or the way they look and I enjoy working with actors like that'. He also talks about how Johnny drew up an image of how he wanted the Mad Hatter to look. I found the information from this interview very useful as it gives quite interesting information in Johnny's role in Tim's film Alice in Wonderland.

Friday, 30 September 2011

Interviews with Johnny Depp

http://collider.com/johnny-depp-and-tim-burton-interview-alice-in-wonderland/18209/ - I thought that this interview was useful as it gives me information on what Johnny Depp thinks about playing the part the Mad Hatter and also about how Johnny and Tim Burton's relationship and how it has grown during filming.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17747.html - This is another simillar interview with again useful information which is slightly different to previous. And although some of the questions are very much the same they are worded differently which gives us a different answer giving us a wider range of information on the subject question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQpu-teG8Kk - As this interview is recorded we can see Johnny Depps reactions to questions and hear the way he answers them which gives us a better idea of his response. We also can hear how he reacts and his responses to what Tim Burton has to say as he is also in the interview. This interview gave me alot of information and I found it to be a very useful source.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Magazine Articles

Sight and Sound - The international film magazine (August 2005/volume 15/issue 8)

Article title - An Improper Charlie


This is an article which includes information about Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I found this information very useful as it tells me about the role in which Johnny Depp plays and what Tim Burton the director of the film thinks about him.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Useful Internet Sources

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/ - This website gives me information on the whole of the film and the whole crew and cast. It also gives you a brief storyline and a synopsis letting you know the story and where the Mad Hatter comes into it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/7205720/Tim-Burton-and-Johnny-Depp-interview-for-Alice-In-Wonderland.html - This website gave me a lot on information about the characters in Alice in Wonderland. It also tells us about how Jonny felt on set and how he coped with the things he was given to do.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/04/alice-in-wonderland-review?INTCMP=SRCH - Again this website gives me information on the characters in the film and thoughts on what these characters bring to the film.