Roman Polanski directed 1999 film The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp playing Dean Corso, a rare-book dealer hired to find a demonic manuscript also starring Lena Olin, during the shooting Johnny Depp was introduced to Vanessa Paradis now mother of their two children Lily Rose and Jack http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed











 



THE NINTH GATE

1999

Dean Corso

 
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Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: A. Pérez Peverte (novel), John Brownjohn (screenplay)

With : Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jack Taylor a.o.

Tagline: "Every book has a life of its own ..."

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Awards & Nominations:

·          2001 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS:Saturn Award, Best Home Video Release (Nominated)

·          1999 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema: Roman Polanski (also for his entire body of work) (Won)

·          2001 MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS:
Golden Reel Award, Best Sound Editing, Foreign Feature: Laurent Quaglio, Katia Boutin (Nominated)

·          2001 WORLD STUNT AWARDS:
Taurus Award, Best Fire Work: Jean-Pierre Suchet (Nominated)




 

 

 





 

 

 
 

 




 



SYNOPSIS

 

Johnny Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare-book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of "The Nine Gate of the Shadow Kingdom," a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately finds himself confronting the devil incarnate.


 

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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

"Working with Polanski was a very intriguing experience. He's really out there. It wasn't an easy movie to make, especially because Polanski is very strict in his directing. But he is a fantastic man, very fascinating. He is very intelligent, very funny and he knows a lot about culture. But he also is very stubborn. He's a bit rigid, you know. After working with Polanski, working with Burton felt like an exorcism. I was tortured. Don't get me wrong, I found it very pleasant to work with Polanski, but he and Tim are just two different directors."
Johnny Depp, Teek, Jan. 2000

"There was a close-up where I had to kiss her (Emmanuelle Seigner) and Polanski was standing behind the camera, at exactly ten centimetres' distance. I was looking at him and I was saying to myself, 'Is this thing gonna end up in a love triangle?' (laughs) I was about to kiss Emmanuelle and I thought this was gonna be a group kiss! And there's Polanski telling you (changes his voice perfectly imitating the director's heavy polish-french accent) 'Take it easy, Johnny, there's nothing wrong. You are actors, it doesn't matter".
Johnny Depp, CINEMA, Januari, 2000


 

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The film has a different title from its source novel, "The Club Dumas", because the novel's title referred to a major subplot involving a secret society obsessed with serialized novels, such as those written by Alexandre Dumas père		 .... ...
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"If you took Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown and mixed them together, it would be this movie. It's a thriller and it's supernatural and it's another character who's not a particularly nice guy. He's a greed machine."
Johnny Depp, The Express Saturday Magazine, 1999

"It was not an easy film to make. Roman is pretty set in his ways. There's not much opportunity for discussion or collaboration... He was definitely a bit too rigid for my liking... I'd heard Roman could be extremely rigid and he was, but he never actually tried to give me line readings. If he had, I'd probably still be in jail."
Johnny Depp, Calgary Sun
QUOTES FROM OTHERS


"It's rare that you find such a good looking man with his abilities, his physique is his greatest asset -- it's almost a teenager's body, in fact. Those delicate hands, a musician's handshake...and this puerile streak in him. You look at him sometimes and think, "How old are you?"
Roman Polanski, Talk Magazine, 1999

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Morgan

The little girl that stares at Corso at the Paris Airport is played by Roman Polanski's daughter Morgan.

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"Johnny has an extraordinary and spontaneous way of giving his own rhythm to a character. It seems quite natural for him, and you never feel like he's making any effort whatsoever. It's almost fascinating, because he comes on the set and does his thing almost casually, which doesn't prevent him from being very accurate. His work was brilliant, because the Corso you see on the screen is exactly the one I had in mind before hiring Johnny."
Roman Polanski, Interview with Caroline Vie

"Really, (Johnny) smokes too much. I once said to him, 'You should stop,' and he replied, 'Why stop something I do so well?'
Roman Polanski, Premiere, December 1999



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