Belgrade folklore

by Viktor on November 23, 2007 · 4 comments

in Culture

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:

See video here

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.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Viktor November 23, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Oh yeah, and the guy who is announcing the song at the beggining is one Jarmush, Jim.

Sasha November 26, 2007 at 11:34 pm

Seems to me that a wicked feeling of being mocked pierced through Johnny’s mind at times…

Miha November 27, 2007 at 9:43 am

Mocked???

C’mon, considering it’s Cane doing the talking, that was practically a love letter.

Stanislav January 13, 2010 at 2:40 am

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!

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