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Don Juan DeMarco
written by Jeremy Leven, based (on part) from the character created by Lord Byron

Mental patient "Don Juan" (Johnny Depp) remembers what led to his transformation into the greatest lover who ever lived.

 

Don Juan I was born in... in Queens. Me and my parents moved to Phoenix when I was a kid. I hated it. When I was 16, my father was killed in a car accident just outside of town. My mother, she'd been having these affairs, and my father knew. Anyway, she felt so guilty she decided to become a nun. So within three weeks of my fathers death, she was in a convent somewhere in Mexico, and there I was. I had nowhere to go; I didn't know what to do. So, one day I was looking at this magazine. And there was this centerfold. And I knew she wouldn't go for me the way that I was, you know, so then I decided... I'd been reading a book, this book...and... I decided to become Don Juan. So I called up the magazine. They wouldn't help me; they wouldn’t give me any information. So I was about to give up and one day I reached this woman who worked there, I think she was a temp or something. The woman took pity on me and she gave me the girls number. So I called her up, said that we were meant to be together... and then she called me a creep and she hung up. I just decided that my life was over, so I was going to kill myself… or at least I was gonna make people believe that I would kill myself so I could get some attention, or something. I never really had any intention of killing myself.