By Adam Rosenberg
Johnny Depp may be one of the more gifted actors working in Hollywood, but he's also among the strangest. He's no Gary Busey - that particular brand of insanity can only belong to a single person lest the universe collapses in on itself - but Depp carries with him a long history of high-profile antics and controversial statements nonetheless. Then again, anyone with a resume which includes Platoon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Donnie Brasco (to name just a few) is entitled to a few personality quirks.
And then there's Tim Burton. To date, few directors have been able to reign in the great, heaping mass of Odd that is Depp like Burton has. They simply "work" together, each feeding off of the other's unique sense of stylized filmmaking. Of the six films they've collaborated on, all are imbued with an eerie sense of unreality. Join us then on the eve of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street's release for this broad overview of the two-headed monster unearthed whenever Depp and Burton are placed in a room together.
