Get your snakeskin shoes and leather jacket ready. It may seem hard to believe, but only two decades ago Nic Cage was a highly respected leading man who was cashing some of the biggest checks in Hollywood. He as a bonafide star and the studios loved him. He could give you the Oscar bait like Leaving Las Vegas or go balls to the ball in something like Face/Off. The word you're looking for is versatile. He was getting twenty million dollars a movie for things like Con Air and The Rock and rode that fame into becoming a household name. People loved working with him. Jerry Bruckheimer once said, “You never know where he’s going. You know, certain actors, you watch them and you know their mannerisms. You know what they’re going to give you. With Nic, you never know what’s going to happen, you know...how he’s going to take a scene, what he’s going to do with a scene, what he does with a character.” So what happened? Last night I was scrolling Hulu and saw that Nic Cage was starring in a digital movie about a white panther he smuggles out of South America... Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 12 October, 2020