Why do Americans watch Johnny Depp movies when he has such intense hate for the America that made his rich?

Question

Direct Depp quotes:

"My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out,"

"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive," he said. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/03/depp.us.reax.reut/

Johnny Depp is of course free to hate the country that made him super filthy rich, but my question is why Americans still accept him? If Depp apologized, that might be one thing, but he instead claimed that the remarks were taken "out of context".

Read the above quotes again and tell me what possible context could have mitigated these remarks? Out of context scenarios are stuff like "Jen's ugly" when the complete statement was "I heard Tom say "Jen's ugly".

Answer 1

I did know about this and I continue to be a big Johnny Depp fan. His films are usually always great and he does an outstanding job in everyone of them. He's an excellent actor and I don't hold this comment against him.
However, I do believe he was referring to the American political system and not the American people. Johnny was after all born in the U.S. which would make him a U.S. citizen. A lot of people criticize the way our country is run, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. The only reason Johnny's comment caused this much of a problem is because he's famous. If an ordinary everyday person had said the exact same thing it wouldn't have been such a big deal.

Answer 2

I'm not a Johnny Depp fan, but I don't see an "intense" hatred in the quotes you provided. While America may not be "dumb", a vast majority of Americans really are ignorant. This ignorance is bred, in part, from those who are easily manipulated by liberal Hollywood (not just Johnny Depp movies) and the media.

Answer 3

I hope you're aware that CNN has been well known for editing interviews to make people look like they say something they didn't. It's been going on for years & no one seems to care.

I've seen Johnny Depp's interviews on other shows & have NEVER heard him say anything like you're quoting above. Besides, he lives in London or somewhere in Europe now anyways. As long as he makes movies, people will watch, me included. He's gorgeous, a great actor & has a need to protect his family from the Hollyweird lifestyle. Can't blame him for shielding his children from that insantity.

Answer 4

JOHNY DEEP IS SO COOL GUY..AND HE IS RIGHT AT EVERY WORD THAT HE SAID...isn't that what america do bite the other countries not care who could hurt just for money and oil..isn't america help israe to kill the kids and everyone they could meet ....and i think he hate america the government not america the land no one hate his country but everyone hate his government and i'm one of them....why ppl hate to hear the truth and get angery..every one know that usa is the most unfair country in these world....or..oh dear do u believe what they r saying at ur tv it's all a liars ..and maybe u know that inside ur self but just trying to pretend ..the fairness will come oneday soon or later...so judge with fairness always and be with it....

Answer 5

Because he's a great actor and his movies are usually very entertaining. His personal beliefs are just that, his beliefs. Every one is entitled to their own beliefs, that doesn't make them bad or awful. I don't discriminate against people just because they don't believe every thing that I do. But I do agree with some of his statements. America is in very sad shape currently due to our lying politicians that are running things. Yet American's still continue to support them! That is what I really don't get.

Answer 6

Because most Americans (as well as other intelligent people) are able to recognize and appreciate his acting ability which is totally independent of his political views.

Would you have us go back to the McCarthism days or the days of blacklisting in the movie industry because of political stance? Who's political stand is to be the standard or the one acceptable today, but possibly not next year?

Answer 7

What about freedom of speech if you believe in America so much!! He can say whatever he wants coz he believes in it. Personally I agree with the man and I like his movies coz they are good and he is an excellent actor.

In short, I respect him and everyone else (who thinks the opposite) for standing behind their own beliefs. I am not gonna stop myself from enjoying a perfectly good movie because an actor did not believe in the same things I did.

Answer 8

I have thought a lot about this in the past. I am a military, war-supporting, Republican who is completely in love with this country. The catch? I absolutely love Johnny Depp as well. I don't care about his politics at all. He's an awesome actor! It is disappointing that someone who has so obviously benefited from America has nothing but insults to direct to this country. He may be a good actor (and i will always think so) but he is taking everything for granted and i can only hope that one day he will apologize and realize what exactly America has given him.

Answer 9

It is easy to read words without knowing how corrupt language can be. Most people “know” that God is on the side of justice. However, in America “justice” is defined according to American standard. The media act as a megaphone for those in power to propagate America’s “justice” and America’s “divine mission” or the “messianic mission”, as it is called in mainstream media, to bring “democracy” to the Middle East and the world.

The American war on Vietnam that killed more than 3 million Vietnamese people was portrayed in America as a “just war” to “defend” the world from the threat of communism. The opposite was true. Many years later America’s elites acknowledged that the war on Vietnam “was a mistake”. It was one big atrocity. The U.S. army was forced to leave Vietnam. America’s imperialism in Vietnam has suffered a stunning defeat at the hand of peasant and defenceless people. The result of the war was: Vietnam is a country left shattered and its people suffering from America’s immoral war.

For more than a decade the U.S. is engaged in an illegal war against Iraq. In 1991, the U.S. orchestrated the first U.S. war on Iraq, followed by more than twelve years of genocidal sanctions and bombing, which decimated the Iraqi society, and took the lives of more than two million Iraqis.

According to UNICEF, the sanctions against Iraq resulted in the death of 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 years old. In May 1996, “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Madeline Albright, US Ambassador to the UN: “We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions]. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it”? Albright responded: “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it”. UNICEF estimated that the under-5 infant mortality in Iraq in 2001 was 109,000, which has a population of 24 million, compared with about 1000 in Australia, which has a population of 20 million. Iraqi death toll is not being reported and publicly discussed, fearing it will amount to genocidal war crimes against those responsible for the wars

My advice to Americans is to take a hard look in the mirror, and ask yourselves why your country is committing horrendous terrorist acts on the soils of other countries. The destruction of Iraq and the horror brought forth by American war on the Iraqi people, and America’s other countless atrocities rob America of all moral authority and idealism.

Answer 10

Perhaps it was taken out of context because he was referring to american politics, and not the american people? If that was so then I believe he's right, the people of america (generally speaking) are fine, but their leaders are complete morons. Just because he doesn't like the system, doesn't mean he can't exploit it though, isn't that what america is all about, after all?