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Dead Man (1995)A good way in which to summarise this film is that it is refreshingly odd. A fine cast, and a fine story, and delightfully original. Directed by Jim Jarmusch and with a score by Neil Young, it features an all-star cast of Johnny Depp, Lance Henriksen, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover and Iggy Pop. It's a very good piece of casting; Molina and Glover have other acting credits with Depp (in Chocolat and What's Eating Gilbert Grape respectively) - and before Depp chose to pursue acting as a career, his band had supported Iggy Pop's.
Depp Plays an accountant named William Blake, who arrives in the town of Machine believing that he has a job with a local metalworker. This proves false, and in the course of events, he spends the night with a woman he meets in the town. When her ex-lover discovers them together, he shoots at them, a single bullet killing her and wounding Blake - who gets retribution by shooting the ex-lover. He then stumbles out of town, and wakes up to find an Indian, named Nobody, trying to remove the bullet in his chest. Nobody, however, believs that this William Blake is the poet of the same name. Blake is forced to go on the run with Nobody, despite the wounds in his chest.
Shot in black and white, it has some bittersweet and some gloriously comic moments, some of them humorously gruesome. It portrays a good friendship between Blake and Nobody, two people from vastly different walks of life, but who are outcasts from their own societies. It's a slow-moving film, and requires a little patience to get through, but is ultimately worth it.
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I love this movie and Johnny Depp looks mighty fine in B/W 
