Posted on 13/03/04
Writers on film: like watching ink dry
In his new film, Secret Window, a kind of paranormal version of the Jayson Blair story, Johnny Depp plays a famous writer accused of plagiarism by a strange man determined to extract extravagant vengeance. Depp, whose next role will be that of dirty old man J. M. Barrie, has played writers before, including Ed Wood and Hunter S. Thompson. Like most serious actors (or dilettantes who spend days in coffee shops mauling notebooks with observations such as, "I am sitting in a coffee shop"), he clearly believes that playing writers lends him some of their strange intellectual allure.
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