MTV Movie Awards Are IN!

…and Paris Hilton is about to be.. In jail that is. Maybe next time she will pay more attention to the rules of the road. Anyway, enough about her. Pirates 3 star Johnny Depp took home a trophy with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. It’s funny how Depp even managed to land his role in the popular movies. Apparently everybody thought he was not going to work out when they first started filming on the first movie. Then at the awards Bruckheimer was quoted saying “This is the man who did it all right here, Johnny Depp. Without him, we wouldn’t be here.” That’s probably true, and I find this pretty funny considering that Orlando Bloom and Kierra Knighly were both successful actors before the Pirates series as well.

Bloom had just finished coming off of his role as Legolas the elf in Lord of the Rings when he took the role of Will Turner in the popular pirate movies. I find it even more funny to know that originally Depp truly was planned to be a bad unlikable character in the script. Apparently his personality and “actual bad guy” didn’t entirely jive and instead we are left with a drunk pirate with too much eye shadow and a taste for rum. He certainly stole the show though. Without him, the pirates movies would be nothing more than Legolas and “that L’Oreal model from Pride & Prejudice.”

On a closing note, 9-year old Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith) won the award of “breakthrough performance” for his role playing Christopher Gardner’s (Will Smith) son in “The Pursuit of Happyness.” If you haven’t seen that movie yet I would definitely recommend it. It is very inspirational and shows you a true story about a man who chose not to be denied.