in Cry Baby (1990) Johnny Depp plays Wade Walker, a dreamy rock and roll delinquent with the ability of shedding one single tear, romeo and juliet musical comedy directed by John Waters and also starring Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed











 

CRY BABY 

1990

Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker

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Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters


With : Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Kim McGuire, Darren E. Burrows, Troy Donahue


 Tagline: "He's a doll. He's a dreamboat. He's a delinquent."

Rating:  PG-13

Awards and nominations: none














 

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SYNOPSIS

 Eisenhower is President, Rock n' Roll is king, and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the baddest hood in his high school.

 Johnny Depp heads up a supercool cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild - especially Allison Vernon-Williams, a rich, beautiful "square" who find herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster women. 

It's the hysterical high-throttle world of 1954 in director John Waters' outrageous musical comedy

 

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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

 


"(This movie) makes fun of all that stuff I sort of hate. It makes fun of all the teen-idol stuff. It makes fun of all the screaming girls."
Johnny Depp, Interview Magazine, April 1990

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James Intveld and Rachel Sweet did the singing for Johnny Depp and Amy Locane

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"That was one of the great things about Cry-Baby -- it gave me a chance not only to make fun of the whole situation, but to do something really different. To be able to work with someone like (John Waters), who's an outlaw in filmmaking and has always done his own thing."
Johnny Depp, Interview Magazine, April 1990

"Cry-Baby, as it's being billed, is the ultimate juvenile-delinquent musical comedy. It's saying that what people would perceive as bad is not always ... what somebody appears to be is not necessarily what they are. I play Cry-Baby, the leader of the Drapes gang [greasers], who sort of falls in love with the queen of the Squares --- it's classic Romeo and Juliet, only John Water's twisted."
Johnny Depp, Sassy Magazine, May 1990

"I must be the worst dancer in the world. I never understood dancing, not even in junior high. If there was some sort of a tribal ritual or something like that, I could understand. But just moving your body to music was strange to me. To do it in front of the camera was sheer terror. They had to fool me, pump me up with confidence."
Johnny Depp




QUOTES FROM OTHERS


"I think Johnny is an ultimate movie star, and I mean that in a very positive way -- I'm a firm believer in movie stars."
John Waters, director, LA Times, 1990

"I just wanted to make sure he had a sense of humor. He did this one little sneer in our first meeting which summed it all up, and I knew that, hey, Johnny Depp is Cry-Baby."
John Waters, director, LA Times, 1990

"He has the ability to make eccentric characters seem like real people. I think regular movie goers are more apt to go along with him into weird world."
John Waters

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Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. and Jim Carrey were all considered for the role of Cry-Baby until Johnny Depp was cast.

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"He's an equal opportunities icon. Even lesbians love him."
John Waters

"Johnny invented grunge. I don't remember a movie star with that look before him."
John Waters

"Johnny is the least homophobic hetero boy I have ever met."
John Waters, Advocate, November 1994

"The best looking gas station attendant who ever lived."
John Waters

"This was a fun night. He had a limo, so we went to bars all night. We'd go to a straight bar, a gay bar, a straight bar, a gay bar—of course it was all over Page Six that Johnny was in a gay bar. No one seemed to think it was ironic that I was in straight bars, which I thought was the real scoop."
John Waters, Esquire, October 2004



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