Nicolas Cage: four marriages, 150 million squandered on fossils and a cat with whom he shared hallucinogenic mushrooms
Nicolas Cage confesses that he went in search of the Holy Grail
"Like Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas / Let's go my child to lose our minds", which the song said -you know, Amaral, 2002-, and as if it had reached his ears,
the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola
, who practically He gave the alternative with
The Law of the Street
(1983), he has been up to his neck in the role of Hollywood's greatest actor for four decades. It was therefore a matter of time before the path of Nicolas Cage, who changed his last name in honor of one of his favorite superheroes (Luke Cage), crossed paths with Sion Sono, Japan's craziest filmmaker, which is already saying, And that is exactly what happens in
Prisoners of Ghostland
, which hits theaters on January 28, if there are no untimely changes.
Sono, who gained international renown in 2001 with
Suicide Club
-famous for a bloody scene in which a hundred schoolgirls throw themselves onto the subway track in unison-, has perpetrated a post-apocalyptic fable with cowboys and samurai that rests on a unbeatable premise:
Cage is the hero clad in a leather suit that incorporates explosives right where his testicles are lodged.
If you don't save the girl in less than five days, the charge will explode. The classic, but literal, testosterone explosion.
It may be that the film, visually impressive and lyserically entertaining, is not up to the task, especially after a masterpiece with similar characteristics such as
Mandy
(Panos Cosmatos, 2017), although the actor ended the experience by finding on the set a which soon became
his fifth wife, Riko Shigata, just 38 years younger than him
. They were married in Las Vegas, of course, on February 28, in honor of the anniversary of Cage's father, August Coppola, a literature professor who died in 2009.
In June, Cage lost his mother
, dancer and choreographer Joyce Vogeland, whose existence was marked by schizophrenia. In his delusions he said that Nic was the son of
Robert Mitchum
, which would be plausible if it weren't for the fact that Cage is nailed to his father, including
that hair that looks like the biggest failure of a Turkish implanter,
which causes immediate adhesion in men and compassion in women. Perhaps the key to its success.
Hair theories aside
, Cage likes him for that infallible mix between a man of action willing to do anything (The Rock, Con Air, Next...), exacerbated sensitivity crowned by the Oscar for
Leaving Las Vegas
(1995) and
that hyper-crazy expressiveness
for which he is compared to a living cartoon at least since
Arizona Baby
(1987), by the Coen brothers.
But the most important thing is that he has managed to survive the clichés: if we get tired of repeating that
Cage is a genre in itself
, then he plays himself in
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,
a more or less imminent film in which he deals with
Mexican drug dealers.
Nicolas Cage will be a phenomenon,
meme meat, a collector of reptiles, sportsmen, fleeting marriages and scandals of all kinds
-including financial ones-, but he is a great actor.
He has just been acclaimed for his role in Pig, where he plays a ragged truffle hunter in love with his sow, and he has also shot the adaptation of
Butcher's Crossing
, the snowy western by John Williams, where he will instead play a buffalo hunter.
Among other ongoing projects, he also plans to bring
Dracula
himself to life .
There is no doubt that this is going to be a good year for Nicolas Cage, for his memes and for his grateful fans.
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