Belgrade folklore
An old Belgrade folklore story goes that one time in dark ages, back in 1992 Johnny Depp came to Belgrade and played at a concert together with Partibrejkers and Nemanja Kusturica back when Nemanja was still Emir. The good dwarfs of Youtube digged deep and hard and found a video to confirm this ancient legend:
Alas, the video is a bit damaged but you can still see Johnny acting to play a guitar and speaking Serbian that I won’t translate because this is a polite blog.
Also, you can hear Cane (who is very nicely hit in the head with a blunt object, probably a beer can, at 00:46, if you watch carefully) saying: “Hey Johnny, your girlfriend is going to be mine tonite” – which is to confirm that probably many, if not all of the Cane myths and legends are true. Unfortunately they are also untranslatable, so there’s another good reason for you to learn Serbian.
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Oh yeah, and the guy who is announcing the song at the beggining is one Jarmush, Jim.
Seems to me that a wicked feeling of being mocked pierced through Johnny’s mind at times…
Mocked???
C’mon, considering it’s Cane doing the talking, that was practically a love letter.
Cane was a asshole even then… Goddamn, I’d like to have been there that night, I would find something heavier then that beer can! Johnny is as cool as one can be!