GETTING CAGEY - Gryphon Entertainment

“Shot through the heart,
and you’re to blame...”
TOKAREV 2014
WILD AT HEART
Out June 18/ Rated MA15+/Director Paco Cabezas/
Cast Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Aubrey Peeples
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GETTING CAGEY
Nicolas Cage talks cinematic influences…
FROM DONNING HIS SNAKESKIN JACKET IN WILD AT
Heart for David Lynch to taking his face off in,
erm, John Woo’s Face/Off, the self-proclaimed
“performance experimenter” has worked with
an astonishing line-up of directors — but who
or what made a young, impressionable
Nicolas Cage want to become an actor?
Let’s get wild…
1
JAMES DEAN
IN EAST OF EDEN
“The one where it all really came into focus for
me, in terms of the power of film performance
and how film can affect people, was James
Dean’s performance in East Of Eden. I was in
a movie theatre, I was 15 and I was an emotional
wreck. I knew then that you could do so much
with film performance that it affected me
more than any Bach or Beethoven, or The
Beatles or Elvis. I was transformed by Dean’s
performance in that and I knew then that I
wanted to be an actor.”
2
BRUCE LEE
IN ENTER THE DRAGON
“Even before Dean, my father took me to see
Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon and that had a
tremendous impact on me.
He was a cinematic force
Charles Bronson!
doing these things that
Clint Eastwood!
only would happen in
Bruce Lee!
a comic book. I couldn’t
James Dean!
believe that Bruce Lee
The Phantom Of The
was a real live person
Paradise!
capable
of that level
The stars who made Cage
of acrobatics, fighting
who he is today.
and speed. It was just
transporting. ”
DON’T PISS OFF NICOLAS CAGE. YOU’D THINK BAD
guys would have this figured out by now.
Spending the last few years driving angry,
trespassing, stealing and seeking justice,
Cage has been giving Liam Neeson and his
particular set of skills a run for their
money of late. Playing a reformed criminal
who is forced back to the dark side when
his daughter is kidnapped and murdered,
knife brandishing Cage plays the vengeful
father figure with typically crazed aplomb.
The seemingly clichéd plotting even takes
a surprising turn that elevates Tokarev out
of the direct-to-disc post-Taken wasteland.
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BRIAN DE PALMA’S
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
“Prior to that I was watching the Million
Dollar Movie show. It was something that would
come on TV every week that had a powerful
theme tune and then it would go “Tonight! Clint
Eastwood in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly or
Charles Bronson in Once Upon A Time In The
West. I was enormously affected by Bronson
and Eastwood as a youngster. So much so that I
would walk to school, in those days when kids
were allowed to walk to school, I would imagine
myself, at six years old, being filmed with crane
shots. I could actually see my body getting
smaller as the camera was going high in the sky.
I was fantasising about being a movie star ever
since I was a child and this was before I even
knew who my Uncle [Francis Ford Coppola] was.”
“I saw Phantom Of The Paradise with my older
brother Mark when I was a boy. It was probably
a bit too violent for someone my age to see but
he was sort of watching when the parents
weren’t. I was blown away by Paul Williams
performance and the panache of the movie. Ed
Preston produced it and I found out that Brian
de Palma directed it. Since then I wanted work
with Brian [He did in Snake Eyes].” DMB