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Summary: Glorious
Review: Anyone who is not pleased by this picture, surely does not have the heart of a lover. This film is like a flaming dagger of passion stuck into the heart of the drear, sardonic, failure that is the 90s. ... Strange thing--the movie would work very differently if Juan and his amores were not played by such beautiful people--but who cares, it works the way it works. Brando redeems whatever failures he accumulated over the years with a masterful and funny performance as Don Octavio. Depp is at the peak of modern acting--not necessarily because of this movie, but because he has the range to pull off both roles like Don Juan and the paranoid, sexless Hunter Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has that charm which, because it cannot be described or dissected or analyzed, truly is charm.
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Summary: a good date movie
Review: I'll keep this fairly short. I wouldn't say it's one of the great films of all time but the actors were excellant and there is definatley a since of humor and and a romantic tone to the movie. Lately it seems to me anyway that every chick flick out there has the same basic plot with 1 different element. Maid in Manhatten... same ol, boy gets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl back all from girl point of view... add in kid for twist. This movie on the other had has definate chick flick quality with a totally different story that a guy could appriciate. (I'd take this over another Jlo movie any day)Besides... Depp, Brando... common! :-)
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Summary: The power of star power
Review: With a weak script and often flat, boring storyline, this movie is actually really good due solely to the performances of the 3 leads, Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, and Faye Dunaway. Without their massive talents, this movie very well may not have made it onto video.
The movie revolves around a 21 year old man (Johnny Depp) who swears that he is the Don Juan from Byron's poem, having loved 1052 women and satisfied every last one of them. Of course, the only one who mattered rejected him, so he has decided to commit suicide. Phyciatrist Jack Michler (Brando) arrived on the scene to talk Don Juan off of the ledge is his on by pretending he is Don Octavio. Don Juan is brought to a menaal hospital where Michler has 10 days, due to the fact that he is retiring and must make a prognosis by then, to decided whether he believes Don Juan's story or not. The rest of the movie is split between Don Juan telling Dr. Michler the story of his life and Michler rekindling the romance with his wife, Marilyn (Dunaway)-due to the fact that Don Juan's romanicism is highly contageous.
Although the styoryline is nothing special, and the script is even less, the performances turned out by each lead is superb. Depp as the world's greatest lover is sweet and sentimental, looking and sounding (he is said to have fashioned his accent after Ricardo Montabond in "Fantasy Island") the part to perfection. Dunaway, although given a comparably smaller part than the others, gets everything she possibly can out of her screentime. The physical chemistry bwtween she and Brando is surprisingly great, as you really can believe they have been married for 30-someodd years. The real gem in this movie, however, is the great one himself. This performance is Brando at his best. He doesn't mugg through the movie (as with the Score) and he isn't off the walls eccentric (The Island of Dr. Moreau). His blue eyes have that boyish, mischevious twinkle they did so many years ago, and alhtough he is quite heavy, he does a good deal of moving around and full body shots compared to all other recent film appearances. No matter what his physical appearance is, Brando's facial exressions, subtle mannerisms and gestures, and most of all his humanity add so much to this mediocre film.
When you take 3 very talented entertainers and let them loose on an iffy script, Don Juan DeMarco is the end result. Bottom line, the actors seem to be having a great deal of fun playing off of one another (look for Brando and Dunaway's bed scenes for some great laughs and obvious improvisation)and anyone who enjoys any of the 3 leads should deffinatly see this film!!
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Summary: IT WAS OKEY
Review: OF COURSE THE ONLY REASON WHY I WATCHED THE MOVIE CAUSE SELENA QUINTANILLA PEREZ PLAYED A SMALL PART IN IT I WISH SHE HAD BIGGER PARTS IN IT CAUSE SHE DID A GOOD JOB AND I WISH SHE PLAYED IN MORE MOVIES R.I.P
SELENA QUINTANILLA PEREZ 1971-1995
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Summary: very romantic
Review: This was the first movie that I saw with my husband. I thought that it was so very romantic. He also loved it.A word of advice for all you men out there that hate chic flicks,you should watch this with your significant other. You will be happy that you did! wink wink!
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Summary: Witty, Charming, Seductive.....
Review: A young man believing himself to be the greatest lover in the world, Don Juan(Johnny Depp), is depressed at losing the one great love of his life and is ready to committ suicide. (But first must have one last romantic encounter with a woman in need). He is rescued by a psychiatrist who cares for him at a state mental facility. Doctor Jack Miglon(Marlon Brando) is fascinated by this case and takes it on, even though he is to retire in 10 days, which by the way is the amount of time "Don Juan" has to convince everyone he really doesnt belong there.
Over the next 10 days, as doctor listens to his tales of romantic adventures(and they are numerous),Don Juan charms everyone he comes into contact with.(except some of the other doctors who feel he should be medicated.) The stories make Jack look at his own life after 32 years of marriage to Marilyn(Faye Dunaway), and starts him trying to rekindle an old flame. So the question is here, who was curing who?????
The story will grab you fom the beginning, put a smile on your face and keep it there to the end of the credits, during which you can still listen to the Carmenesque score and the Bryan Adams song "Have you ever Really loved a woman".
The cast is perfect in their roles. You will believe that Johnny Depp IS DON JUAN!. Brando was funny and charming, Dunaway, glowed.
The DVD is excellent. The sound quality so good, the musical score filled the room, the dialouge crisp. Picture quality, color, and widescreen excellent as well. The Dvd comes with some nice features, there's a music video featuring Brian Adams, theatrical trailers, filmographies of the cast, and if you cant' get the music out of your head and want to hear more of it you can isolate the score and have the movie dialouge silent. There are also subtitles if needed.
This film may not go down in the annals of Hollywood history as one of the classics but it took me somewhere else for a little while and kept me there. Maybe it will do the same for you.
Enjoy.......Laurie
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Summary: there are many who do not share my views
Review: If i remember correctly, about halfway through the film, Don Juan acknowledges that many do not share his views about women. He, believes all women are beautiful, but he says that many do not see it that way, that they will point out how one womans nose is too large, perhaps a seconds hips are too wide. valid points?, perhaps? but as he goes on to say, all his women are beautiful because they are unperfect. This film speaks a great deal about life. It is not meant to reflect reality by having plausible scenes. It is not meant to be a documentary. It is a story of imagination, a beautiful make believe romance that looks at love. perhaps a film like this should be a cartoon, maybe then we can end our attempts to distinguish between what can and cannot be. I see what francis ford coppola meant to show us and its simple to decipher as soon as you start paying attention. an example of this is seen towards the end of the movie where marlon brandos character is finishing off by telling us about Don Juans fate. He tells us in so many words... Was Don Juan able to reunite with his beloved, who he thought he had forever lost? and brando says, "Why not", and immediately you see them reuniting. imagination and reality can be the same, as soon as you imagine that it is. oh and by the way, i do recommend this film.
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Summary: Depp Leads Brando to Tango
Review: Johnny Depp in the title role is more a Casanova type than a Don Juan. Don Juan only enjoys the chase; once he has captured the female, he abandons her. Casanova adored women, all women and found in them spiritual and physical perfection. This last describes Johnny Depp's role. The movie opens with a gloriously romantic seduction of a modern day young woman by a masked, 18th century Spanish aristocrat. He leaves her stunned and ecstatic with joy while he dashes (cape swirling) to a building top to ---- commit suicide? It appears he has disgraced his true love. Marlon Brando, a psychiatrist, is called to the scene to "talk him down." No ordinary stairs or elevators to reach the rooftop for Mr. Brando. In a memorable scene, the portly gentleman grandly rides to the top in a cherry picker for his first meeting with Don Juan reincarnated. Their rapport is instantaneous (Depp identifies Brando as Don Ottavio de Flores,) and they ride down to street level together. The real world intervenes. Don Juan is detained for psychiatric observation for his delusions and attempted suicide. Brando, about to retire, wants Depp to be his last case. Their meetings are florid reconstructions by Don Juan of his history (he was even as an infant enchanted by the ladies, seduced a gorgeous unhappy wife at 14, dueled with her husband, was sold in slavery to a Turkish caliph and not too surprisingly found himself in a harem). Brando becomes increasingly intrigued and gradually their positions are reversed. He is learning from Don Juan. He wants this romance in his own life as well. At home, he woos the bewildered Faye Dunaway with the strains of Mozart's magnificent "Don Giovanni" in the background. The movie is a froth of visions---it is worth the price of admission to see Brando dancing a chiffon-clad Faye Dunaway on an exotic beach. They are touchingly in love. Johnny Depp never once steps out of character (or his well-done accent) and you almost conclude he is indeed the real Don Juan. It is his genius to be completely serious and yet wildly comic at the same time. "Don Juan de Marco" is a film for the romantic in all of us.
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Summary: Charming Romantic Comedy With Interesting Mix of Actors
Review: Here's a light, charming little romantic comedy-fantasy from Frances Ford Coppola. A young man (played by Johnny Depp), who says his name is Don Juan Demarco is suffering from delusions that he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in history. With this confident belief in his identity, his looks and his costumes, he successfully seduces every woman he applies his charms to. He eventually gets committed to a mental hospital as a result of a suicide attempt (because his honor was disgraced). Marlon Brando plays the psychiatrist assigned to his case. He is the best clinician the hospital has ever had. Don Juan thinks Marlon Brando is Don Octavio de Flores, a Spanish nobleman from the same era as the original Don Juan. Marlon Brando plays a very open, warm-fuzzy character, very different from any other role I've seen him in. He is 10 days from retirement. This will be his last patient. Marlon is intrigued and charmed by the Don Juan's fantasy world and wants to explore it. Marlon's boss, the head of the hospital wants Don Juan put on medication right away. Marlon refuses because he's enjoying the Don Juan's fantasies too much. In their sessions Don Juan talks about his life, all of which is an elaborate fantasy, but all the while he is preaching the romance of seduction, honor and the beauty of women to Marlon. Don Juan has a Don Quixote like effect on most every one around him. The female nurses fall all over him. Best of all, Marlon Brando adopts Don Juan's philosophy and starts, "Don Juaning," his wife, played by Faye Dunaway. This is all quite a surprise to her. Their long-cold relationship comes alive. He takes her to romantic dinners, buys her diamond earrings, buys flowers, and on and on. He tells his wife of 32 years that he wants to her to know her! He says he wants to know what she was thinking and feeling all those years he was thinking about himself. She laughs. She says she thought he'd never ask. Marlon Brando starts to consider that Don Juan Demarco is the real Don Juan. It is hinted that if Don Juan is put on medication, he will end up staying in the hospital for the rest of his life. Marlon Brando confidently feels he will have him out in 10 days. Marlon only gives him his medicine right before he has to go before the judge who will decide his fate. Brought back to reality before the judge, by the drug he comes across as close enough to normal, and the judge releases him, to Marlon's pleasure and the militant disapproval of the head of the hospital. As Don Juan is being released, Marlo Brando announces to himself, in his mind, "I am Don Octavio de Flores the world's greatest psychiatrist! I have cured 1,000 patients."
All three fly to the Greek island of Eros for a vacation. In his mind, to the viewer, he announces, "Yes, Don Juan was incurable. He was infected with incurable Romanticism and, and it is very contagious." Marlon and Faye dance to Mariachi music on the beach. This is the most unlikely bunch of producers, actors and actresses to make a movie like this.
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Summary: Enthusiastic thumbs up
Review: One of my all time favorite films...this one is a good time! Sexy without much sex, sophisticated humor, and another fantastic role for Johnny Depp (one of the best actors today)... I recommend this film to all I know. Like all good stories, it unfolds its magic with a unique plot, great dialog, interesting characters and great performances. Yet, it is the psychology at work here that breathes the life throughout this film. This story gives you "new eyes"...it makes you look at your own life in a new way, and that puts it in a category of greatness. Watch as the dull and routine marriage of Dunaway and Brando blossoms with new life and excitement, through contact with Depp's delusional fantasy. For those of us who have been married a long time, this story is a treat! --J. Addie
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