Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2012

Two Tales in One






Three Mexican fishermen adrift at sea, fishing over the side of the boat to survive, with little hope of rescue. A former high ranking American businessman for a major motion picture company with a severe addiction problem, now jobless, with a failing marriage. The author weaves an almost unbelievable tale of connection between these two unlikely entities. He should know the story well. He was the businessman who met the fishermen and interviewed them after their miraculous rescue, which became a part of his own personal rescue.
With painstaking detail and a stranger-than-fiction quality this true story brings the reader to the realization that God is Sovereign in all of our paths, the good and the bad, and that He is in the business of rescuing.
I was given a complimentary copy of The Fourth Fishermen from Multnomah Press in exchange for my honest opinion about the book.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Windows of Johnny Depp's Soul




I've been a Johnny Depp fan for some time. His performance in The Tourist with Angelina Jolie (another recent favorite of mine after seeing Salt) seemed at first to be disappointing. He played a math teacher from Wisconsin, with a singularly ordinary American accent. The old Johnny Depp presence just wasn't there.  I thought he'd really let me down this time.

I watched about an hour and then fell asleep. I wondered the next day if he'd just chosen a bad script. I'd heard he had dropped out of the American Hollywood scene and fled to Europe. Had he lost the magic touch? The last thing I'd seen him in was Alice in Wonderland. I'd loved his eccentric portrayal of the already eccentric Mad Hatter.

There was not much in the math teacher to command any sort of adulation. Except of course that Jolie's character Elise had taken an interest in him. Given her character was driven by expert costuming and make-up, enhanced of course by her sheer natural beauty, it was a thin thread, but I kept watching.The unusual setting of Venice was pretty fascinating as well.

As it turned out, Johnny Depp gave one of the most spectacular performances I'd ever seen. Without spoiling the movie for you, I'd have to say he drives the plot with his eyes. Check it out, and see if you think so too.