![]() ![]() "They are always a little bit absurd and a little bit extreme," Cage says of his characters.Ĭage did take a stab at normal - playing the military hero of "Fire Birds," which came out earlier this year. There's a great parody of all yuppies in the scene wherehe's standing on a street corner, vampire teeth crammed in his mouth, whining pathetically into a phone to his shrink, trying to get an earlier appointment. Perhaps his best and riskiest performance was as the effete Manhattan snob in "Vampire's Kiss" who gradually goes crazy thinking he's become a vampire. Nonetheless, it's one of Cage's favorites in his 17-film repertoire. On this one he drew criticism for going too far over the top. In his uncle Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married," he was the Fabian manque' with a pompadour and a cartoon voice. He was the hapless baby kidnapper of "Raising Arizona" whose perpetually disheveled hair mirrored the confusion of his life. In "Moonstruck," he was the passionate baker who lost the love of his life when he lost his hand in a bread slicer - and then seduced Cher. What is so interesting to watch is how he pulls off being dangerously moody and goofy at the same time. It's not just that Cage is intense and crazed on screen - or that in two of his movies ("Wild at Heart" and "Raising Arizona") he finds himself in jail within the first five minutes. ![]() And if you don't channel him or ride herd on him, it could become frightening music." He's looking for complicated notes in his acting. "I think he's struggling for magical things," says Lynch. "I couldn't really sleep very well, either," he says. He washed his mouth out with vodka before and after, and he still couldn't eat for three days. And people would go, 'Oh, man, that's really happening.' " I wanted to come up with something that would work with the vampire mythology and also create a visceral experience for the audience where it almost broke the fourth wall down. I thought, 'Well, but that's been done.' We saw Stallone do that. "Originally I was supposed to eat raw eggs. After all, this is the man who chewed a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss." And it was his idea. He has gone to some extremes for his work. ![]() "I just think it's in me to do something a little more offbeat. "I don't think so," muses the star of David Lynch's new film, "Wild at Heart," a twisted take on a romantic adventure. All in all, incredibly strange and not without flaws but also fascinating.LOS ANGELES - Can Nicolas Cage play a normal guy? ![]() Laura Dern is alluring with the two working comfortably together, while Diana Ladd manages to be both hilarious and scary and Willem Dafoe is unforgettably creepy. The performances are fine, Nicholas Cage will induce polarising opinions but while he was wooden to start with he was charming and entertaining once he warmed up. The characters are not likable at all, in fact in the cases of Marietta and Bobby a few of them could be seen as loathsome, but considering the atmosphere and viciously violent but also sexy content of the film it is clear that they weren't intended to be. The Wizard of Oz references while a little over-used are fun. The story is not the best but the atmosphere is just great, just loved the campiness, the eroticism and haunting weirdness, it's hardly uneventful and there are some memorable moments like the incredibly chilling robbery sequence and the ending. There is also a hypnotic soundtrack that adds so much to the feel of the film, the music choices being also quite interesting, while Lynch's direction while not the best he's ever done(tied between Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) but it is very adept and has his unique style all over. There are many great things with Wild at Heart however because the cinematography is stunning, the scenery is bursting with vivid colour and there are plenty of bold colours and lighting with some of the visuals being wonderfully deranged. The story does feel very randomly structured at times, especially true with Crispin Glover, and some of the pacing slackens the film could have done with being shorter as some scenes did feel too padded and underdeveloped, and the script can be a confused jumble and not always easy to understand completely(though admittedly there are some quotable lines). But while it has its flaws Wild at Heart still impresses and fascinates in many ways, also don't think that it's his worst like some people I know in the past have said(that'd be Dune). Wild at Heart is not David Lynch at his best, personally much prefer Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story and is definitely not going to be everybody's cup of tea. ![]()
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