Everyone loves to argue that, over the last decade of so, Nicolas Cage was a great actor making only wise decisions. They love to point to his filmography circa to present and conclude that, before this unfortunate binge as a play for hire paycheck casher, the award winning star was work smart and role savvy. They highlight his recent pathetic attempts at working within difficult genres — the comic book epic Ghost Rider , the apocalyptic headscratcher Knowing , the sci-fi actioner Next — and resolve that, prior to some bout of wild child tabloid talentlessness, a pre-middle aged Cage made all the right choices.
In turn, they have gone from adoring to apoplectic, hating their one time hero in the process. In response to such a conclusion, all one can say is… WHAT? If anything, Nicolas Cage has made it his goal, every arduous step of the way, to thwart convention and instill anger. If you want clear reasons to hate him, this collection offers conclusive proof.
Clearly, Cage always had hack in him. It just took the last few years for it to fully flower. By this point in his young career, Cage was already commanding lots of legitimate attention. When you think about comedy, race relations and bigotry are usually the first things you imagine, right? And when it comes to a couple of on screen funny men, the first names that pop up are Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage, right? Written and directed by E. Instead, it was a lukewarm lunkheaded experience with our future paycheck casher going through the unnecessary, uneasy motions.
His best film for me will always be Raising Arizona - man I love that film. I like Nick Cage. The problem is the movies that he's starred in lately. He's done some great ones at least very entertaining in the past yet recently, there hasn't been much. Don't know how Knowing is but, not so sure. Then all the National Treasure.
Just not the best movies, little cliche or something. But as an actor, he is alright. The fact the got his name wrong in the title of the video shows it's invalid, then they go onto mock his Son's name which they got wrong, then they mock his wife? What sort of argument against someone is that? Anyways he's done some really good films, and some bad ones, I liked Face off regardless of the logic fail. Please Log In to post. Can never forget him in films from Birdy to Con-Air to Adaptation which he deserved an oscar for His last really good movie is Weatherman, highly underrated.
Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance. To hear him describe it, Cage's own moods only exist to service his work. Being happy or sad is not the point, he says, with magnificent grandeur: "I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling.
Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication.
Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument. Which is my emotional facility to be able to perform. He is aided in this by a solid home life — his wife, Alice, and their seven-year-old son, Kal-El. He has a grown-up son from a previous relationship. As a young man, Cage says ruefully, he scorned the idea of stability.
It's the thing — along with buying and losing all those houses in Europe — that makes people think Cage is nuts. He is an Elvis fan, and one imagines he gravitated towards Lisa Marie for what, in that context, was her superior celebrity. Cage looks rather surprised. Well, celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. I'm about creative expression. That particular relationship was really based on humour.
We had a lot of laughs together. So that's what that was. Much was made about it because of her father and whatnot, but we had a simple relationship in my opinion. That was a different time in my life. Many lifetimes ago. Things are simpler since he shed all those properties, he says. Cage once owned a portfolio including castles in Germany and England, mansions in New Orleans and Rhode Island, and an island in the Bahamas.
From the outside, it looks as though he went through a period of testosterone-fuelled property acquisition. Why was that? I thought it was real. I didn't trust stocks and I didn't trust just leaving it in the bank.
I believed in real estate. So now I'm working through all that. The properties were sold, mostly at a loss, and he now lives more modestly. And I enjoy it that way. The magic of the green hills and the trees and the history. Then I have this other small lifestyle in Las Vegas. Which is a different kind of magic. That's the razzle-dazzle of the city. My wife loves it and we have good friends there.
And that's it. That's my life, which is simple. And I want to keep it that way. He gets upset when people accuse him of saying yes to any job just to pay off his debts, or the jibe that he works too much. If you've made mistakes in the past, you don't just roll over on people or cave in, you find a way through it. But in film acting, for some reason you get criticised for working. I'm reminded of something Sean Penn said about him, based on his prolific and populist output: "He's not an actor, he's a performer.
Acting to me implies lying. Anyway, Cage says, his life these days is extremely stable thanks to Alice. I mean, way out of my own zip code. I married into another culture, and it's interesting because in Korea they call me the Son-in-Law. Alice is 20 years his junior, a former waitress whom he met when she was 19 and working at an LA restaurant.
He adds, "And we did it because we loved each other. If the genders were reversed, we would be talking a lot about the age gap, in which Cage is profoundly uninterested, although Alice's family were not so sanguine. Samsung is Korean. Hats off to any country that works as hard as they do.
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