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THE  LIBERTINE

2004

John Wilmot
2nd Earl of Rochester

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Director: Laurence Dunmore

Writer: Stephen Jeffreys (novel and screenplay)

With : Johnny Depp, Tom Hollander, Shane MacGowan, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, Rosamund Pike, Johnny Vegas

Tagline: "He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it."

Rate: R

 

Awards & Nominations:

2005 BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS:

  • Best Supporting Actress/Actor: Rosamund Pike (Won)
  • Best Actor: Johnny Depp (Nominated)
  • Best British Independent Film (Nominated)
  • Best Director: Laurence Dunmore (Nominated)
  • Best Supporting Actress/Actor: Tom Hollander (Nominated)
  • Best Technical Achievement, Production Design: Ben van Os (Nominated)
  • Most Promising Newcomer: Rupert Friend (Nominated)
  • Douglas Hickox Award: Laurence Dunmore (Nominated)




 

 

 





 

 

 


  

 

 




 
SYNOPSIS

As the celebrated writer and bad boy John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, Johnny Depp brings to life a decadent 17th century London. There, Wilmot falls passionately in love with his aspiring actress muse (Samantha Morton), but is cast from the heights of privileged society when he scandalizes King Charles II (John Malkovich) with a shockingly audacious play. At the depths of ruin, the rebel seeks redemption on his own terms.


 
LIGHT

Most of the film was lit using candles rather than conventional movie lights. In order to keep the effect of candles but still get enough light, cinematographer Alexander Melman designed a special piece of equipment, a stand than held a bank of candles and a reflective backing. These were known on the set as Birthday Cakes.


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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

"...Basically [Wilmot] drank himself to death and shagged himself to death. But what fascinated me was how did he arrive at that place? Was his drinking recreational? Certainly not. Was his sex recreational? Certainly not. He was a very complicated man."
Johnny Depp, BBC Interview 2005

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John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith originally approached Johnny Depp in 1996 about making the film, but various financial complications delayed the production for several years

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"I got the opportunity to go to the British Library and peruse his letters, and that opened up a whole new side to him for me. He was a deeply caring father; deeply caring husband; wrote deeply moving letters to the women in his life. But he was just deeply plagued with, and tormented by, pains in his life. He medicated himself to such a degree that it took him down a nasty road."
Johnny Depp, BBC Interview, 2005

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Kiss

A scene was deleted that included a kiss between Johnny Depp and Ruipert Friend

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"I did my best to bring to life a guy that I had read about and tried to do him some justice. He's had a tarnished image and has been written off as a has-been for centuries - a debauched, drunken satirist, hedonistic. Those things might have been ingredients but there was far more to him than that."
Johnny Depp, BBC Interview 2005


 

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QUOTES FROM OTHERS


Donleavy has just seen The Libertine, Johnny's latest film, in which he plays the dark and decadent poet, the Earl of Rochester. ‘He is astonishing,’ he informs me, gravely. ‘My God! This man can play every single play of Shakespeare's, his acting perfection is such. Like Gielgud or Olivier, in that class or better. He is clearly one of the great performers of all time. Doesn't this man ever do anything wrong?’
J.P. Donleavy, author The Ginger Man, French Vogue, 2005


I think that Rosamund [Pike] really demonstrated that enormous talent and ability that she has. She was not afraid to put up in front of the likes of Johnny Depp, who, however warm and empowering he is with his contribution, is still a force that is quite something to be around and be put with. For me as a director and for anybody else, he has this incredible intensity and charisma, which carries or aids this talent that he has.
Laurence Dunmore, Stanford Daily, March 2006

Johnny, to both of us [Laurence Dunmore, John Malkovich] was the one who could realize the character that is Rochester. It was so important for me that the character have the breadth and the presence with the audience that he could both shock and confront as well as charm and seduce. Johnny has this incredible ability.
Laurence Dunmore director, Los Angeles Times, November, 2005

Johnny was always one for being able to step  into the role and step out of it in a way that sort of enabled him to finish the filming with the crew sort of cracked up with laughter—even if we had just filmed something sad a couple minutes earlier. It was full of a lot of emotion in that way, I mean there was one particular scene, not necessarily a funny anecdote, where he goes back home and he's dying and he has an argument with his wife and it's a very emotional scene where he's literally falling apart in front of her and very angry and very depressed and she likewise is pleading for him to just be himself and to live and to stop destroying himself in that way. At the end of it, Johnny leaned over—having given this incredible performance and tapped me on the side. I was operating the camera and he just said, ‘Breathe’ because I'd literally been holding my breath for the whole take. Another one with him doing the dance in the playhouse with Samantha Morton, I literally caught fire because I hit the chandelier with the camera, and to have Johnny and Samantha pull me out of the fire was an interesting experience, shall we say.
Laurence Dunmore, Stanford Daily, March 2006

I would personally pay a lot of money to work with either of them [Johnny Depp and John Malkovich] again and even give various limbs. They both brought an awful lot and I'm sure that we'll all work again either separately or together on various projects.
Laurence Dunmore, Stanford Daily, March 2006

Depp is an intuitive, generous actor. He researches an awful lot to find that character and bring it alive, then it comes through whenever he wants it to—he can play a compelling and believable session and at the end make a silly joke. It sits just below the surface. It's amazing to watch.
Laurence Dunmore,  Los Angeles Times, November, 2005





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