I don’t know, i mean he does have range, but i don’t think I’ve over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.
I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can’t unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can’t seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can’t hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a ‘this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character’.
Good or bad, i don’t think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.
Nicholas cage
Idk. Watch The Weather Man, Lord of War and Spider-Noir, all wildly different performances. I’m no stan but Nic has range.
Edit: Although I do agree he hasn’t historically used it. I think related to money trouble and having to do a lot of ridiculous mostly trash movies.
Raising Arizona is another good example.
Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation. He’s just absolute shit as a “cool guy”. He’s great at being a dork playing a cool guy.
Moonstruck worked, strangely. It’s a movie that’s more like a theatre production.
absolutely not. this guy has range as hell
I was about to say that ironically.
Truth is you couldn’t be further from it. But it’s a little magical to pretend and hope that, yes, Nick Cage is irl all of that.
I don’t know, i mean he does have range, but i don’t think I’ve over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.
I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can’t unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can’t seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can’t hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a ‘this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character’.
Good or bad, i don’t think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.
You NEED to watch “Pig”
It’s great, but it’s also the least Nic Cage role being played perfectly by Nic Cage.
Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?