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.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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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
§ 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.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2005 5:02:17 am PDT #7609 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon
The best part is at the very end:
NG: Last time I was at Comicom, there were like 5,000 people there, and the audience was going to try and cut me off with stuff to sign. They had to figure out how to get me off the stage. All of a sudden, I'm getting to the end of the conversation. Dave McKean and I were doing a Mirrormask thing and we're ready to leave the stage. I look up and they have a bodyguard line of 30 Klingons. They're six-foot six and four-feet wide and they have the foreheads and they had linked arms. We were being lead off behind a human wall —a Klingon wall—of Klingon warriors. And I thought, how good does it get?
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 5:10:09 am PDT #7610 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, but could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?
Calli - Sep 26, 2005 6:37:55 am PDT #7611 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?
I don't know, but I'd love to see the video if they decided to find out.