Like an horrific car crash?
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
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Jars - Sep 25, 2005 10:52:46 am PDT #7599 of 10002
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.
Jim - Sep 26, 2005 4:31:53 am PDT #7606 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
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.
You can say that about Adaptation or Con Air. You can't say it about both.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 4:35:54 am PDT #7607 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can say that about Adaptation or Con Air. You can't say it about both.
I haven't seen Adaptation, so I'm needing clarification -- are you saying that the portrayals are sufficiently different that he's not playing the same him?
Jim - Sep 26, 2005 4:49:46 am PDT #7608 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Yeah. Adaptation is utterly unlike any other Cage role I've seen, and the one time he's pushed himself in recent years.