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DON JUAN DE MARCO 

1995

Don Juan

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Director: Jeremy Leven

Writer: Jeremy Leven (character Don Juan: Lord Byron)

 




With : Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Pailhas, Bob Dishy, Rachel Ticotin, Talisa Soto


Tagline: "The story of the man who thought he was the greatest lover in the world... and the people who tried to cure him of it!"

Rating:  PG-13

Awards and nominations:

1996 ASCAP FILM AND TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS:

- Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures: Bryan Adams, Robert John Lange, Michael Kamen for the song, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (Won)

1996 ACADEMY AWARDS (OSCARS):

- Best Music, Song: Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams, Robert John Lange (Nominated)

1996 BMI FILM & TV AWARDS:

- Most Performed Song from a Film: Michael Kamen (Won)

1996 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:

- Best Original Score, Motion Picture: Michael Kamen (Nominated)

- Best Original Song, Motion Picture: Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams, Robert John Lange (Nominated)

1996 LONDON CRITICS CIRCLE FILM AWARDS:

- Actor of the Year:Johnny Depp (Won)




 





 

 

 


  

 














SYNOPSIS

 A well-respected psychiatrist has a run-in with a young man who thinks he is Don Juan--or is he really? The Don Juan becomes his patient, and as the days pass, the psychiatrist starts to see that perhaps just because each person has his/her own reality doesn't mean they're crazy. "Don Juan", through his story-telling of his past, instills the psychiatrist with a new fire for life and love, changing his life
 


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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

 

“(Marlon Brando) is maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries. But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that he looks at things, doesn’t judge things, the way that he assesses things. He’s as important as, uh, who’s important today? Jesus, not many people . . . Stephen Hawking!”
Johnny Depp, Premiere Magazine, February, 1995


"It's a weird thing - I don't believe that any actor actually becomes their character. But the strange thing is that sometimes it does rub off on you. Being Don Juan 14 hours a day meant that, around 9pm, I would start-a-talking-like-a-thees [assumes dodgy Spanish accent] in a restaurant. It's weird. You have to whack yourself back to reality."
Johnny Depp

(On threatening to drop the project unless Brando was cast as Dr. Mickler)
"Everybody looked at me like I was insane, but [Marlon Brando] is the one I kept seeing in that role when I read the script. I'm not sure I really would have quit, but I thought we should at least try to get him.''
Johnny Depp, Knight-Ridder Newspapers 1995

 “My decision is that [Don Juan] was totally sane.”
Johnny Depp, Inside the Actor's Studio, September 8, 2002

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 In order to learn a Spanish accent, Depp watched a tape of “Fantasy Island” (1978) re-runs 

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“I think what would probably make Juan a great lover is uh, being conscious of the other person and sort of trying to make, uh... Boy!, how do you say this stuff without getting filthy? Try to uh, take good care of them.”
Johnny Depp, MTV Movie Special, 1995

(On the harem scene with 250 nude women) “Your brain won't acknowledge it. It's too much. You can't process the fact that these women are real and three-dimensional. It's like a huge painting -- you can't appreciate all the details at the same time.”
Johnny Depp, Playboy Interview

“One of the last times we spoke, [Marlon Brando] was so giving, so affectionate, to the point where somewhere in your mind, you went: "Oh, I hope everything is OK." It triggered something. But [his death] was still a shock. We first met in 1994, when we did Don Juan DeMarco, and when we got together we were like children. We just laughed, over completely just stupid stuff: pee-pee, caca, fart stuff. He once told me he couldn't stand people that were afraid of silences. And he practised what he preached. We had great moments where we'd just sit and say nothing for an hour or two. Or there'd be a grunt or "Look at that!" But nothing more.”
Johnny Depp, Rolling Stone 2005

 

 

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QUOTES FROM OTHERS


“His childhood informs who he is, but his choice of roles is where he wants to live as an artist. Whatever has happened to Johnny Depp, this is what he in his own uniqueness made of it.”
Faye Dunaway


“Brando adores him. He loves Johnny’s genuineness and modesty and that he is who he is. You’re not a great actor like Brando for nothing, you know. He knows how to recognize a sham in any shape. (When Depp went through) this recent fracas in New York at the Mark, Brando called the police station, he called the hotel -- he called everybody! -- to do what he could do to be of help.”
Faye Dunaway, Premiere Magazine, February 1995

 

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According to Depp, the hardest part of working with Brando was keeping a straight face.

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“(Johnny Depp is) uncorruptible -- he always believes in this pure way about love, ya know? He’s got those kinds of values and it’s all instinctive with him. This isn’t something he’s worked out in his head. I love that he believes in love.”
Faye Dunaway

 

“He’s a greeaat kisser!”

Faye Dunaway

 

"We were shooting this scene where Depp and Brando are standing on scaffolding 80 feet in the air and there is no question what is really going on up there. I was standing next to the director of photography, and we looked at each other at the same time and recognized what was happening. Marlon was passing the torch to Johnny. You could feel it in your bones. It was so obvious. Marlon was giving Johnny the room to be the next Marlon Brando. And you know something? I think Johnny can handle it."
Jeremy Leven, Knight-Ridder Newspapers 1995

 

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 When Dr. Mickler takes his wife out for dinner, you can clearly see the woman who was Don Juan's last conquest at the beginning of the movie, alone and playing with her spoon as she was while waiting in the first encounter

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"I think Johnny is far and away the most talented of today's young actors. He is very much like Marlon on many fronts. They both have a 100 percent bull detector in that they know what is false and not working in a scene. They both have an incredible instinct for knowing what writing is all about. And then, of course, they both have a lot of turmoil inside."
Jeremy Leven, Knight-Ridder Newspapers 1995

 

 

"Johnny is so totally different from most actors. He really likes who he is, and he's really secure in that. He treats other people the way he wants to be treated. That's why we stay with him."

Ken Smiley (wardrobe), Vogue Magazine, september 1994

 

“Taped to the door of [Brandon’s] trailer was a sign he had made… ‘Don’t knock, the door is open, come on in.’ One day Johnny got there before him, and took the hundreds of scarves that were used in the harem scene and hung them throughout Marlon’s trailer. You couldn’t move in that trailer without either brushing past a scarf or ending up with one clinging to you, but Marlon was quite taken with the bordello Johnny had created for him.”
Faye Dunaway, from "Depp" by Christopher Heard



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