Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter From Alice In Wonderland

Not a lot of people remark on it but the quality of acting is a bit like sports in so much as the quality has risen to an extraordinary level over the last fifty years. So much so there's not much improvement left. 

I've got a soft spot for Americans doing exceptional British characters and accents, so after watching Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland with Johnny Depp doing the finest Mad Hatter I can imagine, I've put him alongside Brad Pitt's gypsy character from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for extraordinary acting performances that leave me full of admiration and respect.


Anybody got an unusual interpretation of the story? I'm all ears.

Why Are Our Leaders Are Misleaders?

 

More examples over here.

Natalie Portman - V Is For Vendetta

Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta

Lots of people still haven't seen the movie. It really is an excellent allegorical film of the times we are living in. When I first watched it a few years ago I was very surprised that Hollywood was capable of making a film that was so much in the know. Right down to the corporate TV news inventing reasons for warmongering, the sexually depraved Vatican and a compliant, silent population more interested in X Factor then the plight of the human condition. A condition which make no mistake is on a knife edge that the techno consumer fetishists are the least qualified to comment on. A failed vision of the future built on a century or more of industrialised obesity on the one hand and uncountable victims of famine on the other. There's enough food for all but the powers of divisiveness thrive off our discord.

It goes either way from here folks. Service to self or service to others and that's the only ideology one needs to champion. Not everyone is in a position to speak up as much as they wish but there are more ways to add one's voice before the internet is fully controlled than there ever has been. Don't blow your chance.

If you haven't seen this excellent movie by the Wachowski brothers who also made the eerily prescient 'The Matrix' order a copy here or if you are short on dollars there's a copy of the full film available here. Remember to be nice and buy the film if you enjoyed it.