Nicolas Cage as a Succesful Actor
Nicolas Cage Is More Than Just a Bad Actor: He’s a Great One
In my room is a poster for the movie Kickass. It’s a relatively colorful and active poster, featuring three young adults dressed as vigilante superheroes. Written at the top are the names of starring actors and actresses, including Nicolas Cage. One particular day I had a friend in my room, and he spotted this poster. He exclaimed something to the degree of, “Kickass was the worst, most unbelievable movie and Nicolas Cage ruined any remaining chance it had for me to enjoy it!” Though I can’t appropriately place his exact words, as their profanity would taint the integrity of an academic tone, the paraphrase of my friend’s proclamation represents a mentality that I find very unpleasant concerning not only Hollywood but also the entirety of the entertainment industry. Kickass is one of the many comic-book-to-silver-screen movies to have been released in the last few years. Like many of its contemporaries, Kickass is colorful, loud, and exciting. But it differs from most of today’s superhero movies by it’s very adult content. Gratuitous violence, sex and profanity are as prevalent in Kickass as are tights and eye shadow. Kickass took all the extreme ideas and themes found in small doses in most comic books and compressed them into a single campy movie. On the surface Kickass is just another nerd-gone-hero story, yet it goes deeper. A crime-obsessed father brainwashing his daughter, an attention-starved son craving nothing but his mob-boss father’s approval, and a city full of victims and apathy, all refined and tied together by explosions and sprays of neon blood. Kickass is a movie that shows a criminal kingpin blowing someone up in a man-size microwave in one scene and fighting to have a good relationship with his son in the next. It is a movie where a nerd can have rough public sex with a perfect ten on top of a trashcan in one scene and then deliver a moving speech facing gang-violence while
In my room is a poster for the movie Kickass. It’s a relatively colorful and active poster, featuring three young adults dressed as vigilante superheroes. Written at the top are the names of starring actors and actresses, including Nicolas Cage. One particular day I had a friend in my room, and he spotted this poster. He exclaimed something to the degree of, “Kickass was the worst, most unbelievable movie and Nicolas Cage ruined any remaining chance it had for me to enjoy it!” Though I can’t appropriately place his exact words, as their profanity would taint the integrity of an academic tone, the paraphrase of my friend’s proclamation represents a mentality that I find very unpleasant concerning not only Hollywood but also the entirety of the entertainment industry. Kickass is one of the many comic-book-to-silver-screen movies to have been released in the last few years. Like many of its contemporaries, Kickass is colorful, loud, and exciting. But it differs from most of today’s superhero movies by it’s very adult content. Gratuitous violence, sex and profanity are as prevalent in Kickass as are tights and eye shadow. Kickass took all the extreme ideas and themes found in small doses in most comic books and compressed them into a single campy movie. On the surface Kickass is just another nerd-gone-hero story, yet it goes deeper. A crime-obsessed father brainwashing his daughter, an attention-starved son craving nothing but his mob-boss father’s approval, and a city full of victims and apathy, all refined and tied together by explosions and sprays of neon blood. Kickass is a movie that shows a criminal kingpin blowing someone up in a man-size microwave in one scene and fighting to have a good relationship with his son in the next. It is a movie where a nerd can have rough public sex with a perfect ten on top of a trashcan in one scene and then deliver a moving speech facing gang-violence while
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