In early June, Johnny Depp won the libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after a difficult six weeks in which various controversial details about their relationship came to light.
However, the protagonist of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ seems to continue to reflect bitterly on the human condition in his new album ’18’, in which, in collaboration with guitarist Jeff Beck, he pays tribute to various iconic singer-songwriters of the world. music history, but also to Hedy Lamarr with the first single ‘This is a song for miss Hedy Lamarr’.
Singing that she no longer believes in her peers and describing Lamarr as a woman “erased by the same world that made her a star”. Attached to her beauty, caught by her net”, Johnny Depp highlights the story of the Austrian actress and inventor who escaped the patriarchal control of the time and fled her forced marriage with the businessman Friedrich Mandl, then excelled both in the seventh art and in development. of radio technology that helped the Allies win World War II.
In addition to being a big Hollywood star, Hedy Lamarr was considered one of the “most beautiful women in Europe” and is currently a feminist reference. She was the first performer to fake an orgasm (“Ecstasy”, 1933) and the inventor of the earlier technology that gave way to WiFi.
As a feminist, the star’s life has been an example for other women from different eras, due to the courage with which she escaped the oppression she suffered during her 30s to develop her greater hobbies: the theatre.
The actress fled her husband Friedrich Mandl and settled in Paris, then in London and finally in the United States, where she developed her artistic career.
As an inventor, she realized that it was easy to interfere with the signals guiding US Navy ships. Aided by composer George Antheil, she discovered that you could change the frequency the same way you change the notes on a piano. The technology is now considered the antecedent of WiFi and Bluetooth.
Knowing the story of Hedy Lamarr, the meaning of the song written by Johnny Depp becomes clearer: the actress was a scholar imprisoned in the appearance of a movie diva. Her beauty became the cage that kept the world from taking her seriously
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