Nicholas Cage is one of those movie stars whose popularity constantly astounds me. I just can't take him seriously. It's grown to be the kind of problem where I can't actually watch films he's in. I think everyone has people like that. My friend Nibbler can't watch anything with Jodie Foster without getting angry and throwing things at her head on the screen.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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Jars - Sep 25, 2005 10:16:26 am PDT #7596 of 10002
Scrappy - Sep 25, 2005 10:24:02 am PDT #7597 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, I find Cage incredibly mannered and often off-putting, and I STILL found myself watching him and not Leto.
Steph L. - Sep 25, 2005 10:51:11 am PDT #7598 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ah, and see, I'm an unrepentant Nic Cage fangirl. He's just sort of magnetic. He's like the Hypnotoad! You can't look away!
Jars - Sep 25, 2005 10:52:46 am PDT #7599 of 10002
Like an horrific car crash?
Steph L. - Sep 25, 2005 10:57:48 am PDT #7600 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2005 2:29:41 pm PDT #7601 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nic Cage is just like a car crash for me. I don't want to look, but I do, and I feel dirty afterwards.
Mr. Broom - Sep 25, 2005 4:22:49 pm PDT #7602 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
My only problem with Cage is that he hasn't played anyone but Nicholas Cage since "Leaving Las Vegas" (not since "Raising Arizona," some could argue). He doesn't have the ability to separate himself from the role enough that you're looking at a character and not an actor. Some stars can transcend their own fame in roles. He can't.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2005 7:35:29 pm PDT #7603 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it's his fame he can't transcend -- but his persona.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 25, 2005 7:42:45 pm PDT #7604 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, I mean Harrison Ford can convince me he's whatever character is at hand, and he's rather more famous than Nicholas Cage.
I tend to think the latter uses tics and quirks in lieu of actual, y'know, acting.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 4:28:34 am PDT #7605 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.