Nicolas Cage

It's Full of Dummies, Dummy!

source: awesomosity (WordPress)

But people forget: every now and then he takes a break from his blockbuster hucksterisms to deliver an amazing performance in something singular and lasting. Think Raising Arizona. Or Wild at Heart. Or Leaving Las Vegas. Or Adaptation. Sometimes it’s for laughs; sometimes it’s purposefull...

Published Wed, May 27

Charlie Kaufman's great warehouse experiment

source: Times Online

 UK Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), the exhaustively self-analytical screenwriter in Adaptation (2002), provides a succinct summary of his situation: “All I do is sit on my fat arse. If my arse wasn't fat, I would be happier”. ...

Published Fri, May 22

Being Charlie Kaufman is living with a fear of dying

source: The Herald

 UK The difference between this film and the others is it doesn't have the level of comfort that, for example, Adaptation had. "That film had gags in it. And the Nicolas Cage identical twins thing was fun. All that makes the audience feel comfortable. ...

Published Wed, May 13

Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies

source: TIME

Later she played a studio executive opposite Nicolas Cage in Adaptation and tried to explain the plot of Vanilla Sky to Tom Cruise. Fantasy fans remember her as the icy White Witch of the Narnia films and as the soaring, fallen Angel Gabriel tempting ...

Published Sun, May 10

Commentary on the Endless Dispute Between Evolution and Creationism

source: ScienceBlogs

I'm one of those writers who can't bear to go on to sentence two until sentence one is just perfect, which it never is, which leads to many frustrated hours of self-flagellation (think of Nicolas Cage in Adaptation.) Finally got the proposal finished, ...

Published Tue, Apr 7

Film Fix: On Story

source: sbs.com.au

 Australia In Spike Jonze’s brilliantly original and self-reflexive 2002 feature Adaptation, the character of scriptwriter Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) is in his agent’s office talking about the impossibility of transforming Susan Orlean’s novel, ...

Published Mon, Apr 6

Cage fight

source: Sydney Morning Herald

 Australia According to the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences the fight for his best film is between Leaving Las Vegas - for which he won an Oscar - and Adaptation, for which he was nominated. So go on, ask yourself. What's worse Ghost Rider or Bangkok ...

Published Mon, Mar 30

Nic Cage Wants To Take You Higher With Science Fiction

source: io9

Does this mean that Cage sees science fiction as a gateway drug to take audiences into indulgently abstract movies? I hope so, if only because I'd love to see just how abstract the man behind Ghost Rider, Bangkok Dangerous and Adaptation can get when ...

Published Fri, Mar 27