And now comes Johnny Depp, documentarian: Is this form the new Hollywood vanity project?
Posted by DocumentaryTech on February 5, 2010 · 3 Comments
Word is out that Johnny Depp is doing a documentary on Keith Richards. Depp joins Chris Rock, Lindsay Lohan, Spike Jonze and other actor/celebs who seem to be wanting to show their indy chops by being involved in docs.
Variety reports that,
Depp will direct a documentary on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who served as an inspiration for Depp’s Jack Sparrow character in “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
God save us, everyone. And you know who may be to blame? Al Gore! Our near-President showed the world how a quick Powerpoint and the employment of someone named Davis can lead to an Oscar, and a share of a Nobel Prize. It all looks so easy.
Don’t count on the celebrities-making-docs movement to fade soon.
You are a fncking douche bag. Johnny is making a documentary about someone he admires not because he is apart of some celebrity fade. Again you are a fncking douche bag.
Johnny may admire the man, but that doesn’t make Johnny a documentary filmmaker. And if Johnny follows what seems to be the trend, he’ll make sure he’s in a lot of the shots, “sharing” with Keith. The problem with most of these celebrity docs is either they’re unoriginal (Chris Rock essentially stealing Regina Kimbell’s idea in “Good Hair”) or they’re self-indulgent (Spike Jonze), or they’re a cheap publicity image exercise (Lindsay Lohan) or they’re surfacy (“Sketches of Frank Gehry). If Johnny actually makes a decent documentary we’ll stand corrected. But will the celebrity trend will now infect documentary film as it has infected and diminished indie features?
Is mewejj working for Johnny Depp? He seems irate. Good PR for Johnny mewejj, whatever your name is.
But mewejj, you are calling someone a douchebag without a well-reasoned argument to back it up; aren’t you just repeating the same folly you accuse DocumentaryTech of? (i.e. making unfounded accusations)