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What it takes to play a gay pirate, a gay candy maker, and a gay mad hatter and somehow land a role as John Dillinger.
(Johnny Depp)
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:/ he wasn’t gay in any of those roles
Beat me to it.
This caption is crap.
Indeed…. Try again, Oh horrible writer of captions…
none of those roles were gay and he had many more. this caption is pure failure
I’m sure they meant ‘gay’ in the actual usage of the term….
HAPPY.
umm im sorry but sweeny todd wasnt “happy”
They never mentioned Sweeney Todd.
they never mentioned Ichabod Crane from sleepy hollow either
Or the ass-kicking that was George Jung in Blow. OR his role in Fear and Loathing. “Gay” my ass. But I do agree on the talent portion. Just look at his range of movies-it’s insane what that man can do. It’s rare these days.
I don’t recall Jack Sparrow being all that “happy” either, considering he was mutinied, marooned, hunted by the pet kraken of a crazy-squid faced psycho, banished to Davy Jones’ Locker and never seemed to get any girls in the movie…
In an interview, Depp said he believed pirates were gay because women aren’t allowed on the ships & they’re bad luck.
Second !
Does anyone know the titles of any of those movies? I thought I’d seen everything he was in, but I don’t recall any of these roles. I’d love to see it, though.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Upcoming Alice in wonderland, and Pirates of the Caribbean… and NO he wasnt portraying someone gay in any of those roles… i am happy that being eccentric has been coined as being homosexual
Of course not! He was an oenophile in “pirates” a pedophile in “Charlie” and almost certainly a zoophile in “Alice”!
Honestly, Depp is a decent actor, but something has turned him into a phenomenon, and it’s not his acting.
I thought he was a rum drinker?
Besides the rum-loving, he had a big errrm, crush for Elizabeth . . . he may have played Capt. Jack a little on the swishy side, but he definitely had a sexual preference in that movie, and it wasn’t Will he was after!
Tell that to the slashers. Gah. The OOC… the OOC…
the rum is gone. why is the rum always gone?
The bum is gone… Why is the bum always gone…
He didnt say that, so he was certianly not a gay pirate. Willy Wonka was gay. JUST LOOK AT HIS FUCKING NAME!
except willy wonka hated kids so i dont think he would want to boink any of them!
Thanks for that.
I’m pretty sure Jack Sparrow was straight; he got into waaay too much trouble with ladies of negotiable affections to be gay!
Willie Wonka I’m not sure about either way, beyond that the way Johnny played the role made me slightly uncomfortable somehow when he was on screen.
I’ve no views about his portrayal of the Mad Hatter, cos I’ve not seen the film.
As for talent though, can I enter Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco, Ed Wood, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico into evidence if we’re prosecuting him for “having more acting talent than is entirely lawful”?
I think his performances in “The Libertine”, “Dead Man”, “The Man Who Cried” and “Before Night Falls” are even better examples of this crime of “too much” acting talent.
Can’t comment yet. Note the yet.
ninth gate. I liked him there
I would have pegged Jack Sparrow as bi. He never seemed picky.
Yep. He Made Out With Chicks and Goats.
well he’s a sailor after all. one can’t be too picky.
The point of Willy Wonka was that he’d been locked away by himself for so long that he had zero social skills. His sexuality is likely non-existent. He’s a recluse, not a pedophile.
as the mad hatter, he’s just fucking creepy looking.
Don’t forget Gilbert Grape!
Gay does have another meaning beyond ‘homosexual’ so how about we consider that? We’ve turned the English language upside down, assuming the slang use of a word is the actual meaning.
–adjective
1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
4. licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.
As we can see, he does rather fit that definition in all of those rolls in one way or another.
I seriously doubt that the maker of this not-at-all-LOL was using the other meanings of gay.
How could you think you’ve seen everything he’s in if you haven’t seen Pirates of the Caribbean..
like seriously, wtf.
Posters above me catching the sarcasm, fail.
To be fair it was VERY poorly executed.
I agree. The maker of this must just be jealous. Seeing as women love Johhny in those roles. Or he is a self loathing homophobe take your pick.
obviously he is proyecting
Proyecting?
Nope, not gay… who vote for this?
Ummm…in Pirates of the Caribbean it clearly shows Jack Sparrow as being something of a womanizer. Not so much “gay.” In the other roles, the characters’ sexuality is never even hinted at-since they are both movies based on classic CHILDREN’S books. I’m thinkin the creator of this LOL (which didn’t make me LOL) has some serious sexyness envy!
let’s not forget that this man also played a gangster, a mentally handicapped man, another menatlly handicapped man with a physical handicap as well, a psychotic writer and an undercover cop. He’s amazing.
The captioner must refer to “gay” as in happy. (Since John Dillinger did not seem to be a Happy Bunny.)
I now have an image of Depp-Dillinger in rabbit ears screaming “I am NOT A HAPPY BUNNY!”
LOL Thanks for that Danbala XD
You’re welcome. ;p
*drools* Johnny Depp in rabbit ears…
That was funnier than the LOL
Gay? Excuse me? What fool wrote this caption?
Jack was about as straight as any man can get. Wonka was a child trapped in a man’s body thus did not understand nor was he comfortable around anything adult. And commenting on the Mad Hatter already? Twit.
“Wonka was a child trapped in a man’s body thus did not understand nor was he comfortable around anything adult.”
As another commentor (or two or three) noted, when I watched Depp’s portrayal of Wonka, I was practically beaten over the head with a “Hey! He reminds me of Michael Jackson!” stick. I wondered, and still do, if it was a deliberate choice on Depp’s part to play the Wonka character so eerily reminiscent of Jackson – for exactly the reason you mentioned in the excerpt above; to get people to see what “a child trapped in a man’s body” etc would look like.
In the controlled environment of a movie script, those characteristics and mannerisms were definitely peculiar and at some points (IMO) creepy, but easily understood as a result of Wonka’s twisted relationship with his father and his (financial) ability to isolate and indulge himself in a fairy-tale existence.
In real life, where the other “characters” don’t have to follow a pre-set feel-good script and people can feel threatened or uncomfortable because this is a real person and not an on-screen character, those same characteristics and mannerisms, built on the same foundations, played out as sinister and predatory.
You KNOW that, if Wonka were a real person, people would have been screaming “child molester” and “insane freak” and “twisted pervert”… and that the Augustuses and Violets and Mikes would, before too long, have started coming forward with tell-all books and accusations. But, when you can portray Wonka simply as he is, without wild-cards and people acting out their own agendas, it’s very easy to see and understand him exactly as you said – “child trapped in a man’s body, uncomfortable around anything adult.”
Explanatory WIN!
BOOO BAD CAPSHUN!!!
Yeah, COMPLETE CAPTION FAIL!!
His Willy Wonka was disturbing. It was on the other night and I couldn’t even be in the same room when my fam was watching.
Willy Wonka was meant to be disturbing. Roald Dahl’s description is just that. Disturbing. Re-read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and you’ll understand.
Besides, it’s Tim Burton!:) I do believe his middle initial is ‘D’ for…=)
While Willy Wonka was a bit disturbing, I think Johnny Depp is quite talented. Even more so because he plays eccentric/creepy roles so well. He has done a wide range of films and done very well in many of them.
I believe this caption has Johnny Depp envy at it’s root
I’m really mad at this. Depp is by far my favorite actor and he wasn’t gay in any of those movies. Whoever made this is obviously jealous of Depp’s career and is gay themselves!
Gay isn’t an insult you know. And he won’t sleep with you even if the straightest man in the universe!
Caption fail! >_< Not gay, just odd, kooky, eccentric, wacky, or, yes, even queer, but NOT gay! Dipshit.
Well, in all the roles I’ve seen Johnny Depp in:
- Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)
- Dean Corso (The Ninth Gate) [my personal fave]
- James Barrie (Finding Neverland)
- Rochester (The Libertine)
- Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribean)
- Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
I haven’t seen any gay tendencies. Now, when I saw the trailer for Willy Wonka, my first thought was “Michael Jackson,” but I have never thought the character was gay.
You forgot him as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, and Victor Van Dort in The Corpse Bride
damn good movies
Also forgot Dead Teenager Number 3 in A Nightmare on Elm Street….
Undercover cop in 21 Jump Street….
…Hell.. we’re splitting hairs here…;) IMDB does it better.
Can’t forget George Jung.
I was trying to, mostly because Blow is the only film I’ve seen Johnny in that made me go “so what?”
Chocolat
mmmmm…… chocolat
Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has to be one of my favorites as far as eccentricity!
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
they didn’t forget anything. Did you miss the I’ve seen bit? They weren’t giving a break down of all the roles. Just the ones they knew
I noticed you didn’t mention Ed Wood….
Send this caption over to failblog.
This is a fail all around. It’s just a matter of opening a damn book and reading to know that John Dillinger was bisexual.
Do your research. LOL responsibly.
Dillinger was bi? Now, THAT I did not know.
so obviously you fail. Because, like, EVERYBODY knows that!!
/sarcasm
Seriously? You may be the worst judge of homosexuality I have ever encountered. You should seriously consider investing in a GayDar.
First of all, not gay in those movies. Second of all, Johnny Depp has played in so many movies and so many diverse roles he could be cast as nearly anything.
Diverse roles? Creepy/excentric candymaker. Creepy excentric hatmaker. Creepy/excentric pirate. Creepy/excentric detective. Creepy/excentric freak with scissors for hands. Creepy/excentric mass murderer.
He’s not bad, but he’s mostly got one character he keeps playing over and over and over. Diverse isn’t exactly his thing.
Oh. My. God. You spelled “eccentric” wrong six times, and it’s spelled right above at least once. Dang.
I probably would’ve skipped playing the role of spelling cop today, but I heartily disagree with your “one character” B.S. — they might have been all eccentric, but they were not all the same. And those are far from ALL of his roles. What you’re probably seeing is that he manages to add his own little unique twist to each new character he plays.
Again, that’s only a small segment of his roles. Chocolat? Finding Neverland? The Libertine? He’s been in 49 movies with 14 more coming up; you listed almost all the ones in which he played someone eccentric.
All the eccentric characters? Not hardly.
Chocolat…Roux the Irish gypsy rover. Not creepy, but definately eccentric. Sam from Benny and Joon. Cry baby. Gilbert Grape. Ed Wood. Damn near every major part this guy plays is steeped in the same character. Even the semi-normal characters are quirky and eccentric personalities, and he seems to be distancing himself from somewhat realistic characters as his career progresses. He’s a fair actor, but there’s more alike about his characters than there are differences. He has yet to prove he has range.
And yes, my spelling isn’t the best. Congrats Naoyusimi.
Could give you the point that he *has* played a lot of eccentric characters; however, I choked when I got to this point: “He’s a fair actor, but there’s more alike about his characters than there are differences. He has yet to prove he has range.”
“… Fair”?? “… more alike about” those characters? “… yet to prove he has range”??!
Do we inhabit the same reality?
Seriously.
Some posters listing his other movies forgot to mention: “Blow” & Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man”.
Well if you remember Nick of Time he played a quite normal father, or rear window he was a pretty normal writer, John Tutoro was the eccentric character in that movie. I know there are more I just can’t think of them now.
I assume you mean Secret Window? He wasn’t exactly normal in that, or we watched different movies
Roux isn’t that eccentric. He likes hot chocolate!
Isn’t that one of those irregular verbs: You know:-
I am idiosynchratic
You are eccentric
He is 3 cans short of a 6-pack.
What about Gilbert Grape? How is he creepy and eccentric there?
Or when he voiced Victor Van Dort- normal person thrown in to abnormal world.
He puts his own quirks in to every character- every character needs quirks for them to be believable. Having quirks does not make a character creepy/eccentric- it makes them human.
I think the captioner doesn’t have any sense of sexuality beyond the absolute shallow. Depp was not wearing a football jersey spending every other line of dialogue saying how he wants to bang women, therefore he is gay. That’s it. it doesn’t matter if as a lead character his role should be visually striking and interesting to the audience with at least some depth, because being interesting is gay.
Worst caption ever. You should be ashamed.
yeah, i have to weigh in, too, and say that as a gay man, i get sick of people associating femininity of a character with obligate homosexuality, as if the two go hand-in-hand. i find it uneducated and offensive.
True! Capt. Jack made some hand gestures which seemed a little … oh, less masculine, perhaps, and ran funny (even when sober) …. that does not mean “gay”. Geeez.
As I understood it, when Jack ws standed by the Black Pearl the first time, he drank so much rum that he was never completely sober ever again!
THAT was funnier than the caption (or most of them lately)
You have won an Internets.
nope not gay….. fail
Since when is gay an insult or a bad thing or a sign of bad acting? Okay, since every bigot declared open season on anyone who is different. I agree with everyone who finds this caption offensive (as well as annoying). Can’t “bigdog1862″ (now THAT’s a revealing alias) and others like him get over their prejudices and join the real world? And meanwhile, can’t the administrator of this site recognise a homophobic and inappropriate caption and not perpetuate the insult? Please, let’s grow up here.
Really, ROFLrazzi? This deserves the front page?
Got us commenting, didn’t it? Which = page views which = ad revenue/brand recognition. I think they know what they’re about here.
fuk u to who ever made the caption and for who put it up
A gay Mad Hatter? What idiot wrote this caption? Alice in Wonderland hasn’t even released a trailer yet, but you’re calling the Mad Hatter gay just because he’s played by Johnny Depp? This caption sucks. And Johnny Depp has had many Dillinger-esque roles. He didn’t only play humorous/borderline insane and silly characters. Anyone remember Sweeney Todd?
“He didn’t only play humorous/borderline insane and silly characters.”
Exactly. Thank you for pointing that out. Nor has he only played “eccentric” characters, like Shushnik believes. The Libertine, The Man Who Cried, Blow, among others – not silly or eccentric characters.
But if a movie’s main plot-line isn’t about sex, the main character is gay, according to the shallow and idiotic percent of the population [which is approximately 90%, by the way]. Oh, and if the movies are more mainstream and are bigger news, they’re obviously the only movies the actors have ever been in. The older movies that created less hype never existed to that 90%.
Actually, Sweeney Todd was quite insane. You do have a point, but you used a bad example. I know he’s played fairly ordinary people before, but I can’t remember what movies off the top of my head now.
George Jung? Not eccentric or insane.
What I meant with Sweeney Todd is that he wasn’t silly, like Willy Wonka or Jack Sparrow. He was, in fact, quite serious about his profession.
Donnie Brasco, Blow, Nick of Time, Platoon, Nightmare on Elm Street, hell what about 21 Jump Street, Private Resort, also Don Juan may have been eccentric but hes was not gay.
I saw a picture of Depp as the Mad Hatter and he looks like a psychedelic Elijah Wood. It was really odd.
I have seen those pictures as well. And the fact of the matter is that the way he looked wasn’t because the Mad Hatter was gay, it’s because he’s an Alice and Wonderland character. They’re supposed to look bizarre.
HA! I thought he looked like Elijah, too!
He never played a gay pirate or gay mad hatter. Gay candy maker? Arguable.
The thing that angers me most is the fact that they say “gay Mad Hatter”. Alice in Wonderland hasn’t even released a trailer yet!
whoever captioned this should just die….
and noone, and i mean NOONE takes the piss out of the upcoming Alice in Wonderland film, i have never been so excited about a film in my life!!!
twat…
Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar. This movie HAS to be amazing.
Johnny AND Alan? I had no interest in the movie til now.
And Helena Bonham Carter, AnneHathaway, and Stephen Fry.
whatever! johnny depp is best…..besides, wasn’t gay pirate or candymaker, was inebriated pirate and a childlike candy maker… pfffttt
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Whoever made this caption needs to stop being jealous of awesomeness.
What a fail.
Whayat tha heeelll??
Epic fail!
Wait, the mad hatter is a Burton film. What wouldn’t Johnny Depp and Burton’s wife be it?
I think the word they were looking for was either “Flamboyant” or “Camp”. Personally I found his acting in WWatCF hilarious, I loved his portrayal of the character when things went potentially disastrously wrong.
“…oh. o.o Well, that was unexpected. Oh well, on we go! =D”
WTF is “WWatCF”??
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory I think; wasn’t that the Gene Wilder film though?
That it was.
Yes, it was. The one Depp was in is called “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. The acronym stemming from the incorrect movie credit confused me.
How did this shitty caption even get put up? It is crap. Zero unicorns for you.
Nope, just heaps of irrational fangirl lovin.
They say there’s a first time for eveveything; well, they’re right. This is the first time I’ve ever been called a “fangirl” (well wrong on the second count).
what’s up with the bigotry in the last two captions? massive fail
PLZ2explane the bigotry in the HIV caption?
homophobic much?
Wow! I absolutely enjoyed reading all these comments and thorough exams by everyone lol, funny stuff! But, “seriously”, it’s a joke, and I happen to love Johnny Depp, can’t wait to see him as a hard-ass gangster I have to admit. Sexy!
Good freakin Lord people. Just because your grasp of the English language does not exceed that of slang words, don’t go spreading your stupidity over this site. I have seen all the movies listed with the obvious exception of Alice in Wonderland and Johnny Depp tends to go toward very flamboyant roles. I did not think Sparrow was actually gay. I did not think Willie Wonka was gay. I seriously doubt the Mad Hatter is gay. If you morons would learn more than slang, you might actually make yourselves better.
Spot on.
Really? “Gay” ??? what, are we in 7th grade? Caption FAIL.
get over it
he wasn’t gay in any of those roles
Better caption:
“TALENT
This man has none.”
Better comment:
“INTELLIGENCE
The above commenter is low on it.”
more accurate comment:
“INTELLIGENCE
knowing that looking a complete idiot in a dumb costume and fake voice is making you more money than proper acting”
Ahh, of COURSE. Because he dresses strangely in his roles and varies his voice, he CAN’T be a good actor! How silly of me!
he wasn’t gay ur prolly just a fat ugly old jealous bastard lmfao at u, kuddos something made me laff, hint it wasn’t your lol
Well, Dillinger WAS a Homosexual. He had a lover in prison or something.
Jack Sparrow isn’t gay! He is awesome!
Jack had plenty of salty sea wenches; Wonka appears to me to be just generally uninterested in sex- not women- as does the mad hatter. They are all just… flamboyant. which makes them thoroughly enjoyable[:
I’m thinking that this was meant as saying that the other characters were acceptable and Dillinger was a bad ass. But the hatter in question……
He is a “mad” hatter after all, not a “gay” mad hatter. The character only needs one title, and not an incorrect one. I’ve loved AIW since i was a child so bludgeoning it with this not so terrific caption, offends me.
he was NOT gay in any of those movies. and captain jack sparrow especially because did you see that he liked the GIRLS?
???????
His pirate act was pretty much the opposite of gay. And I think you’re forgetting his role in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Blow, in which he played drug addicts, in Secret Window where he played a murderer, and in From Hell where he played a cop. You don’t really know what you’re talking about, and this poster is a complete FAIL in my opinion. Next time you want to make a cheap shot, I suggest you go for Miley Cyrus, she’s a lot easier to pick on.
So i do think you must be a homo, not that there is anything wrong with it but if i were a guy i think i would want to accuse someone as sexy as Johnny depp of being gay so i could have pitiful wishes of one day brushing his hair.. so stop trying to be funny
Uh . . . am I the only one who thought this was funny? I mean, I love Johnny Depp and all, and I don’t think any of those roles were “gay”, but everyone’s so serious about it and getting way more upset than it seems to warrant. It’s just a joke!
not only did he land the role, but he nailed it too. Johnny Depp is the awesome no matter what character he’s playing
You forgot he also was “Edward Scissorhands”
Seriously, do some research before you post something on here. Otherwise, you KNOW you’re gonna get jumped by Johnny Depp fans. And by the way, Willy Wonka was litterally gay; he was HAPPY, unlike you.
Arguably, Johnny Depp is one of the greatest actors on screen at the moment. His talent is amazing and aside from Will Smith, he is my favorite. Not only is he an amazing actor but he is so down to earth and every time a fan asks for an autograph, he gives it. Awesome actor and awesome man.
Can’t wait to see the new Alice in Wonderland movie.
I know this post is old hat-but just had to say Im shocked that in the listings of kick ass Depp movies, that Blow has not been mentioned. His role as George Jung was mindblowing. You cant tell if he’s a bad guy or good guy. He’s a guy who gets sucked into the money of swnging drugs to doing it to support his family and it goes too far. If you havent seen it-do! It’ll blow your mind. Also, HELLO?????? Fear and Loathing, anyone????
I take that back-As Im re-skim the replies-I do see Blow and FLLV listed. So sorry…but my views of them kicking ass still stand
Well, first of all being gay isn’t bad, and second he was not gay in those movies.
okay, Willy was kinda gay, but Jack and the Hatter are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny Depp rocks, those characters aren’t gay man.
Nobody has mentioned “The Brave”, a film he directed and in which he played an indian husband and father. Unfortunately, it was never released in the US, even after winning an award at the Cannes Festival, and is not generally available.