Johnny Depp trial in Fairfax County

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've watched snippets of the trial here and there. Here's what stuck out to me:

1. He's an actor who can't get acting jobs, testifying in front of jurors. They are his audience. He can't help but act for them. Same with Amber.
2. He talked at length and detail about how abusive his mother was. He got asked "Was your father abusive?" He swiftly and firmly answered that his father wasn't. And then proceeded to explain that his mother would tell his father to whip Johnny, and his father would do it. He just wasn't mean about it the way his mother was, so Johnny didn't view it as abuse.
3. He clearly has a hard time setting boundaries. My mother did a lot less to me than his did to him, and I set VERY firm boundaries with her. He took care of his mother and brought her to award shows and premiers - I wonder how he reconciled what she did, in his head. And then he got together with an abusive wife. Repeating the pattern. I bet there was something about her Crazy that was familiar and comfortable to him.
4. Why was SO MUCH of their personal lives recorded? I've recorded someone exactly once in my life. ONCE. How is it that she happened to record all these conversations?

I've been asking myself the same thing- who records their arguments and such? Bizzaro! The Bender-Blender person made me LOL- I can't read without my glasses anymore as well....

[Anonymous]

When does the trial resume?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've watched snippets of the trial here and there. Here's what stuck out to me:

1. He's an actor who can't get acting jobs, testifying in front of jurors. They are his audience. He can't help but act for them. Same with Amber.
2. He talked at length and detail about how abusive his mother was. He got asked "Was your father abusive?" He swiftly and firmly answered that his father wasn't. And then proceeded to explain that his mother would tell his father to whip Johnny, and his father would do it. He just wasn't mean about it the way his mother was, so Johnny didn't view it as abuse.
3. He clearly has a hard time setting boundaries. My mother did a lot less to me than his did to him, and I set VERY firm boundaries with her. He took care of his mother and brought her to award shows and premiers - I wonder how he reconciled what she did, in his head. And then he got together with an abusive wife. Repeating the pattern. I bet there was something about her Crazy that was familiar and comfortable to him.
4. Why was SO MUCH of their personal lives recorded? I've recorded someone exactly once in my life. ONCE. How is it that she happened to record all these conversations?

I've been asking myself the same thing- who records their arguments and such? Bizzaro! The Bender-Blender person made me LOL- I can't read without my glasses anymore as well....

I think we’ve established the average age on this thread

[Anonymous]

A blender? What blender?
Her career is ruined because she wanted to advance it by trying to build a clout and grandstand on problematic grounds, in the middle of the metoo movement.
Her career is ruined because of her bad calculations.
And finally, aside from JD, she's a mediocre actress.

Do you know how to read? I said a BENDER. A drug fueled BENDER. It is a colloquialism for when someone takes a lot of drugs and spends a prolonged period high/intoxicated and generally makes a bunch of poor choices

Sorry, don't yell, didn't have my glasses on
Regardless, after all this, he'll still be remembered as one of the greatest actors of our time and she she'll not be remembered as any kid of an artist (maybe a con-artist). And certainly not because of him.


Let's not get carried away now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've watched snippets of the trial here and there. Here's what stuck out to me:

1. He's an actor who can't get acting jobs, testifying in front of jurors. They are his audience. He can't help but act for them. Same with Amber.
2. He talked at length and detail about how abusive his mother was. He got asked "Was your father abusive?" He swiftly and firmly answered that his father wasn't. And then proceeded to explain that his mother would tell his father to whip Johnny, and his father would do it. He just wasn't mean about it the way his mother was, so Johnny didn't view it as abuse.
3. He clearly has a hard time setting boundaries. My mother did a lot less to me than his did to him, and I set VERY firm boundaries with her. He took care of his mother and brought her to award shows and premiers - I wonder how he reconciled what she did, in his head. And then he got together with an abusive wife. Repeating the pattern. I bet there was something about her Crazy that was familiar and comfortable to him.
4. Why was SO MUCH of their personal lives recorded? I've recorded someone exactly once in my life. ONCE. How is it that she happened to record all these conversations?

I've been asking myself the same thing- who records their arguments and such? Bizzaro! The Bender-Blender person made me LOL- I can't read without my glasses anymore as well....

I think we’ve established the average age on this thread

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When does the trial resume?

I believe they're adjourned until May 16th. Clear your calendar!

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Anonymous wrote:maybe, as a societal Q, we should ask, at what point do we not allow a person to have a career because that person hase (or may have) a character defect? thus, should these two still be able to act in movies even if their personal lives are not stellar? neither has been criminally charged unless you count AH's arrest and release..... in the rest of life, we spend a lot of time and resources trying to reform actual criminals so that they can get jobs and be "productive." Another Q might be do we pay actors and sports figures a lot of $ and then "punish" them when they are not "role models," even though they might never have been role model material.

Johnny Depp is not getting work because he is a drug addict who is unreliable and costs the studios money when he doesn't show up to set. Amber still has work because she shows up on time and isn't dramatic. I'm not even saying that as pro AH/Anti JD, it is just the truth of hollywood that they care about the bottom line.

Yes. Amber Heard is definitely not dramatic.

LOL!!!!

She's not dramatic ON SET. She does not actually appear to have a reputation of being a drama queen while at WORK. Which is a key distinction when you need to insure actors of a major motion picture.

How do you know that she's not dramatic on set? She is so entitled that I doubt it will take a long time before we hear that she in fact is a drunk and a druggy and difficult to work with.

Because rumors get out about people who are dramatic on set. And because DC didn't drop her until fans pressured them.

Make no mistake, the smear campaign that ruined a career here is JD's campaign against AH. And I'm not taking any sides in their supremely screwed up relationship, but JD is a MAJOR hollywood star who was scraping by on nostalgia and goodwill alone the last decade as his addictions made him a greater and greater liability on set. The rumors that their relationship was a toxic abusive stew were in place LONG before her vague op-ed. JD is done because he delayed pirates for a month after his hand got injured on a bender. And still, he's not really DONE, he's still Johnny Depp and Captain Jack Sparrow in the hearts of many. He just needs to sober up and do a friendly interview and he will be fine.

But she was a MUCH smaller star and has a very powerful enemy now who has dragged her name through the dirt. People have all kinds of competing memories with JD. They hear this grossness but then prefer to think about 21 Jump Street Johnny or Chocolat Johnny or Pirates Johnny and so they just do. They replace him with the version they prefer. Amber Heard is just the girl who everyone says pooped on JD's bed (a fact not actually conclusively proven, though the court of public opinion needs no proof). Her career really is forever ruined because of this likely.

He is Gilbert Grape Johnny <3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
A blender? What blender?
Her career is ruined because she wanted to advance it by trying to build a clout and grandstand on problematic grounds, in the middle of the metoo movement.
Her career is ruined because of her bad calculations.
And finally, aside from JD, she's a mediocre actress.

Do you know how to read? I said a BENDER. A drug fueled BENDER. It is a colloquialism for when someone takes a lot of drugs and spends a prolonged period high/intoxicated and generally makes a bunch of poor choices

Sorry, don't yell, didn't have my glasses on
Regardless, after all this, he'll still be remembered as one of the greatest actors of our time and she she'll not be remembered as any kid of an artist (maybe a con-artist). And certainly not because of him.


Let's not get carried away now.
Man, are you his PR. One of the greatest actors of our time with not a single major acting award to his name? Is he planning on killing Daniel Day Lewis, Bryan Cranston, Forrest Whitaker, Gary Oldman, or any of the superior actors in the same age range?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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anonymous wrote:

anonymous wrote:
A blender? What blender?
Her career is ruined because she wanted to advance it by trying to build a clout and grandstand on problematic grounds, in the middle of the metoo movement.
Her career is ruined because of her bad calculations.
And finally, aside from JD, she's a mediocre actress.

Do you know how to read? I said a BENDER. A drug fueled BENDER. It is a colloquialism for when someone takes a lot of drugs and spends a prolonged period high/intoxicated and generally makes a bunch of poor choices

Sorry, don't yell, didn't have my glasses on
Regardless, after all this, he'll still be remembered as one of the greatest actors of our time and she she'll not be remembered as any kid of an artist (maybe a con-artist). And certainly not because of him.

Let's not get carried away now.

Man, are you his PR. One of the greatest actors of our time with not a single major acting award to his name? Is he planning on killing Daniel Day Lewis, Bryan Cranston, Forrest Whitaker, Gary Oldman, or any of the superior actors in the same age range?

-just doing ask you grannies with the reading glasses a solid and fixing this nightmare of formatting issues that this chain is devolving into

[Anonymous]

Did you see this article about the lengths people went to get a seat in that courtroom? It's crazy, I had no idea.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/11/fans-spent-30k-to-get-into-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/amp/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe, as a societal Q, we should ask, at what point do we not allow a person to have a career because that person hase (or may have) a character defect? thus, should these two still be able to act in movies even if their personal lives are not stellar? neither has been criminally charged unless you count AH's arrest and release..... in the rest of life, we spend a lot of time and resources trying to reform actual criminals so that they can get jobs and be "productive." Another Q might be do we pay actors and sports figures a lot of $ and then "punish" them when they are not "role models," even though they might never have been role model material.

Johnny Depp is not getting work because he is a drug addict who is unreliable and costs the studios money when he doesn't show up to set. Amber still has work because she shows up on time and isn't dramatic. I'm not even saying that as pro AH/Anti JD, it is just the truth of hollywood that they care about the bottom line.

Yes. Amber Heard is definitely not dramatic.

LOL!!!!

She's not dramatic ON SET. She does not actually appear to have a reputation of being a drama queen while at WORK. Which is a key distinction when you need to insure actors of a major motion picture.

How do you know that she's not dramatic on set? She is so entitled that I doubt it will take a long time before we hear that she in fact is a drunk and a druggy and difficult to work with.

Because rumors get out about people who are dramatic on set. And because DC didn't drop her until fans pressured them.

Make no mistake, the smear campaign that ruined a career here is JD's campaign against AH. And I'm not taking any sides in their supremely screwed up relationship, but JD is a MAJOR hollywood star who was scraping by on nostalgia and goodwill alone the last decade as his addictions made him a greater and greater liability on set. The rumors that their relationship was a toxic abusive stew were in place LONG before her vague op-ed. JD is done because he delayed pirates for a month after his hand got injured on a bender. And still, he's not really DONE, he's still Johnny Depp and Captain Jack Sparrow in the hearts of many. He just needs to sober up and do a friendly interview and he will be fine.

But she was a MUCH smaller star and has a very powerful enemy now who has dragged her name through the dirt. People have all kinds of competing memories with JD. They hear this grossness but then prefer to think about 21 Jump Street Johnny or Chocolat Johnny or Pirates Johnny and so they just do. They replace him with the version they prefer. Amber Heard is just the girl who everyone says pooped on JD's bed (a fact not actually conclusively proven, though the court of public opinion needs no proof). Her career really is forever ruined because of this likely.

He is Gilbert Grape Johnny <3

+1

[Anonymous]

The super fans are a little wackadoo. I am in the courthouse at least twice a week for traffic/criminal clients. I had a trial next to the Depp courtroom and they are literally sitting in the hallway, waiting for the court room doors to open up (this is after waiting in line outside for hours to get a bracelet ). They have their legal notepads and are taking noted, quotes, comparing notes, telling each other about some “crucial piece of information” that someone needs to tell Depp’s legal team. The judge breaks every day at 1:00 for lunch, like clockwork (all the judges do) And, they make sure during the lunch breaks and at the end of the day, they run to the gated parking lot to get a glance at Depp smoking a cig or leaving. At the end of the day, hundreds of people are lined up and Depp drives by very slowly, with the windows open. A bit of a traffic hazard. It’s fascinating. I’m kind of little jealous that these people are all in for something so random. But, they are in it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've watched snippets of the trial here and there. Here's what stuck out to me:

1. He's an actor who can't get acting jobs, testifying in front of jurors. They are his audience. He can't help but act for them. Same with Amber.
2. He talked at length and detail about how abusive his mother was. He got asked "Was your father abusive?" He swiftly and firmly answered that his father wasn't. And then proceeded to explain that his mother would tell his father to whip Johnny, and his father would do it. He just wasn't mean about it the way his mother was, so Johnny didn't view it as abuse.
3. He clearly has a hard time setting boundaries. My mother did a lot less to me than his did to him, and I set VERY firm boundaries with her. He took care of his mother and brought her to award shows and premiers - I wonder how he reconciled what she did, in his head. And then he got together with an abusive wife. Repeating the pattern. I bet there was something about her Crazy that was familiar and comfortable to him.
4. Why was SO MUCH of their personal lives recorded? I've recorded someone exactly once in my life. ONCE. How is it that she happened to record all these conversations?

I've been asking myself the same thing- who records their arguments and such? Bizzaro! The Bender-Blender person made me LOL- I can't read without my glasses anymore as well....

Just answering the arguments question — apparently their martial therapist told them to? Seems weird to me but I’m not a therapist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The super fans are a little wackadoo. I am in the courthouse at least twice a week for traffic/criminal clients. I had a trial next to the Depp courtroom and they are literally sitting in the hallway, waiting for the court room doors to open up (this is after waiting in line outside for hours to get a bracelet ). They have their legal notepads and are taking noted, quotes, comparing notes, telling each other about some “crucial piece of information” that someone needs to tell Depp’s legal team. The judge breaks every day at 1:00 for lunch, like clockwork (all the judges do) And, they make sure during the lunch breaks and at the end of the day, they run to the gated parking lot to get a glance at Depp smoking a cig or leaving. At the end of the day, hundreds of people are lined up and Depp drives by very slowly, with the windows open. A bit of a traffic hazard. It’s fascinating. I’m kind of little jealous that these people are all in for something so random. But, they are in it!

Dumb question but where are they all lined up, what road? I want to stop by on my way after work and see him, what time does he normally come out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've watched snippets of the trial here and there. Here's what stuck out to me:

1. He's an actor who can't get acting jobs, testifying in front of jurors. They are his audience. He can't help but act for them. Same with Amber.
2. He talked at length and detail about how abusive his mother was. He got asked "Was your father abusive?" He swiftly and firmly answered that his father wasn't. And then proceeded to explain that his mother would tell his father to whip Johnny, and his father would do it. He just wasn't mean about it the way his mother was, so Johnny didn't view it as abuse.
3. He clearly has a hard time setting boundaries. My mother did a lot less to me than his did to him, and I set VERY firm boundaries with her. He took care of his mother and brought her to award shows and premiers - I wonder how he reconciled what she did, in his head. And then he got together with an abusive wife. Repeating the pattern. I bet there was something about her Crazy that was familiar and comfortable to him.
4. Why was SO MUCH of their personal lives recorded? I've recorded someone exactly once in my life. ONCE. How is it that she happened to record all these conversations?

I've been asking myself the same thing- who records their arguments and such? Bizzaro! The Bender-Blender person made me LOL- I can't read without my glasses anymore as well....

Just answering the arguments question — apparently their martial therapist told them to? Seems weird to me but I’m not a therapist.

The therapist told them to record? I could see that. I had to videotape myself in training for a job and it's pretty horrifying to see how you come across sometimes. I can only imagine what it would be like to hear yourself during an argument when you are bat shit crazy.