Episode 9, ‘Let’s keep comparing Nicolas Cage to Samuel L. Jackson’, Actor Profile: Nicolas Cage

In this episode Dave and Steven go on a scattershot journey through the insane career of actor and legend Nicolas Cage.

Show Notes:

Intro Clip: The Wicker Man

Dave and Steve both mess up what The Family Man is a derivation/remake of: it is neither Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol nor the Louis Armstrong song What A Wonderful World

mess up what The Family Man is a derivation/remake of: it is neither Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol nor the Louis Armstrong song What A Wonderful World The Official Biography of Nicolas Kim Coppola

Genius or Madman?: The development of the Nicolas Cage persona

What is the best part of a Nicolas Cage film?

Steven gets into far too much detail about how he feels about Nicolas Cage’s body

Ethan Hawke on Nicolas Cage: He’s the only actor since Marlon Brando that’s actually done anything new with the art of acting; he’s successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind of presentation style of acting that I imagine was popular with the old troubadours.”

The main difference between Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson

What is the greatest film Nicolas Cage has been in?

The source of his power…?

There has never been a Nicolas Cage version of The McConaissance, but that is intentional.

Potentially Unexpected Spoilers: