Dean Corso

Dean Corso is the main protagonist of the 1999 thriller film of The Ninth Gate. He was portrayed by Johnny Depp, who also portrayed the title character in Edward Scissorhands, Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
==History==
Dean Corso is commissioned by Boris Balkan to find the expert of ancient books, present in his private collection, The nine doors of the Kingdom of Shadows, written and printed in 1666 by Aristide Torchia, an undefined Venetian esotericist, tried and executed on burning by the Inquisition. Balkan is in possession of one of only three surviving specimens, but is also convinced that only one of the three is authentic.
Corso goes to Andrew Telfer to find clues, a wealthy tycoon who mysteriously committed suicide shortly after selling him the book. Corso then decides to visit the widow Telfer to obtain information and she, after initially pretending not to know anything about her, confesses that she would like the book back as it was originally bought for her by her husband during a vacation in Toledo. Corso refuses her proposal, but the woman joins him at her apartment and, after trying to buy it, she seduces him, stuns him and looks for the book without finding it. Corso had in fact temporarily entrusted the tome to Bernie, a bookseller of his business partner, for safety, but when he went to his shop to recover the precious artifact he found Bernie murdered and hanging by one foot upside down as in one of the engravings of the book : the attackers devastated everything but without finding the tome, hidden in a secret compartment. So he reports everything to Balkan and the man urges him to continue. In a couple of scenes before leaving for Spain we see a woman, who apparently tails Corso, who mysteriously disappears every time he notices her. She is first seen at Balkan's demonology seminar, and again at a New York library. Corso is suspicious of the girl, whom he will also see later on a train in Spain, where he will speak to her for the first time (he is convinced that she works for Balkan, monitoring her movements, even if she says she doesn't know him).
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