Perhaps it is, without any doubt, one of the actors who have defined Hollywood throughout the last 37 years, when he started his film career with some supporting roles in movies like Nightmare in Elm street, the original by Wes Craven, which was a resounding success at the time. Although there is a name to which the one from Kentucky owes a good part of his fame and explosion as a leading performer and member of that list of stars that shine in the firmament of the Mecca of cinema: Tim Burton.
Two prodigious decades
It was with the famous director of Batman, that of Michael Keaton in the late 80s, when Johnny Depp rose to stardom becoming one of the most requested actors and beginning a career that has not always been full of success. Of course, he has been one of the few to whom extraordinary merits have been recognized when it comes to composing his own characters, to whom he has always endowed with an overwhelming personality. It is surely the most classic example, but how much does Jack Sparrow have of the actor and vice versa?
If in the 90s we stay with his collaborations with Tim Burton, which not only puts him on the map but also makes him a star, it will not be until the first decade of the 2000s when he will star in some of the highest grossing films of recent years. times, with a character that, without a doubt, will mark him practically forever: Jack Sparrow.
Unfortunately, in recent times an industry extraordinarily sensitized by the reactions of social networks, they have separated him from some important projects that he had in the portfolio, when it is still being debated whether or not the allegations of abuse were true during a stormy relationship with his partner, Amber Heard. While the truth is known, we have decided to review the top 10 roles played by the American in recent decades.
Johnny Depp's best movies
Undoubtedly, one only has to look at his career to verify that he has to his credit some more than legendary titles in the history of cinema, the kind that we have all seen at some time and, in many cases, ad nauseam because they are authentic jewels linked, almost always, to geniuses like Tim Burton. Don't you remember them?
Edward Scissorhands (1991)
What to say about one of the best fables narrated in cinema by Tim Burton. The story of a young man who is built as if he were a Frankenstein and whose creator did not have time to put human hands on him, so he goes through his castle using dangerous scissors. His relationship with the world and the love he will feel for a young woman will mark one of the most magical movies we have ever seen. Special attention to the character of Johnny Depp and the music of Danny Elfman.
Ed Wood (1994)
Everyone knows the passion that Tim Burton professed for the legendary director of films that have gone down in history as some of the worst ever made. Johnny Depp plays the eccentric filmmaker throughout his work and some of his most iconic titles that are not exactly remembered for their quality. The low budgets that he managed, however, were replaced by an extra helping of imagination and a lot, a lot of eccentricity.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
We are in the year 1799 and a series of decapitated corpses appear in a New England village. Terrified, soon the inhabitants of that village will begin to give rise to the idea that behind those crimes is a headless horseman, to which a legend attributes an old curse. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton face each other again in a film as extraordinary as it is dark.
Chocolate (2001)
Just before rising to the top in the first decade of the 2000s, Johnny Depp starred in some more discreet productions, as the celebrated Chocolat, adaptation of a French film that Juliette Binoche was also in, and that tells us the story of those traditions that are lived in some places (in France in the 50s of the last century) and that have chocolate as protagonists.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
What can I say about this film, which was a complete success at the box office, it served to start a saga that still has projects underway and that created one of the most iconic characters in movie history. A Captain Jack Sparrow who would be unthinkable without the contribution of a Johnny Depp in a state of grace and who, because of the troubles the actor is experiencing, may be in danger in the new films that Disney is producing. The Caribbean, a ship called the Black Pearl and a curse mark a film that is practically cult.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton returns to direct this adaptation of the book of the same title written by Roald Dahl and that takes us, once again, to a fantastic world in which Johnny Depp knows how to function with enormous talent. Despite the many versions that exist, this is undoubtedly the best of all and the Kentucky performer surprises again with an interpretation of Willy Wonka that is as disconcerting as it is memorable.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
The second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean served for consolidate the legend of Jack Sparrow and Johnny Depp as one of the most prestigious actors in Hollywood, basically because everything he touched practically turned to gold. In addition, his character became the absolute protagonist of the saga, further accentuating the qualities that had made him succeed with The Black Pearl. Davy Jones and his curse in the Flying Dutchman will be the key to a story that continues to dive into the world of the dead.
Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Tim Burton once again trusts Johnny Depp to give life to Sweeney Todd, an ex-con on the run from Australia and travels to London to take revenge on the judge who (unfairly) imprisoned him. A barber who, with his blade in hand, is willing to deliver the justice that he believes was denied to him.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
The conclusion of the first trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean closed a golden decade for Johnny Depp, in which he had participated in a good number of productions that burst the box office, which elevated him to the highest echelon of Hollywood performers. Jack Sparrow, by now, was already part of the legend of the most important heroes in the history of cinema.
Public Enemies (2009)
Michael Mann directs a Johnny Depp who decided to move away from blockbusters characters trying to give life to one of the most remembered bank robbers of the decade of the 30s of the last century. Here, the actor plays John Dillinger, who is being pursued by an FBI agent, Melvin Purvis, played by Christian Bale.