Nicolas Cage's top 3 movies

Prejudices can be very curious. Sometimes they even arrive, paradoxically, after the fact. Because before I knew that my friend Nico was Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, he seemed like a real guy to me, a different actor who defended himself well, back in the 80s in movies with very different themes.

Paradoxes of success. If he had not been a Coppola perhaps he would not have reached the world of cinema. But once he arrived and sometimes showed his worth it seems as if he detracted from his ability by linking him with the great director. Because it may be that those first interventions were something like hitchhiking until they found their best fit...

But if we dedicate ourselves to watching his movies without further consideration (difficult, I know, but let's try), we can even enjoy a malleable actor, sometimes with a histrionics close to that of Jim Carrey but also capable of moving between action movies, dramas and even humor.

Under the skin of his characters, Nicolas Cage likes the excess that touches the cheeky wink with the viewer. Undoubtedly because, initial prejudices aside, during so many years of his career he has gained that experience and solvency that hours in front of the cameras confer.

Top 3 Recommended Nicolas Cage Movies

Leaving Las Vegas

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Sometimes a role falls with such precision that it seems as if that usual study and approach to the character was not necessary. Nicolas Cage seemed as if he was playing himself on the frantic journey to self-destruction or at least the easy oblivion of alcohol. A more than convincing performance for which even Amaral composed that brilliant song that said "like Nicolas Cage in leaving Las Vegas..." Thanks to this film, Nicolas Cage won that Oscar that finally recognized him as an actor in his own right. beyond possible family doubts...

The question, going into the matter of the movie, is that beyond the touristic rigor, such sin city which is Las Vegas is made for souls in their particular purgatory. Guys one step away from finally being taken to hell or just looking for the last moral slip before returning to their daily exemplary life. Ben Sanderson, the alter ego of the writer on whom the story is based, is one of those travelers with a one-way ticket.

In his spiral journey around alcohol and the ultimate dementia capable of finding everything, we discover a magnetic decadence, an irreducible determination for self-destruction that gives goosebumps and that peeks us into those abysses where perdition is not alcohol itself but his quest to drain the last drops of consciousness.

Face to face

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On one side Travolta (the cop Sean Archer) and on the other Cage (Castor Troy). Two guys accustomed to overflowing performances of popular hook thanks to their gestures between exaggeration, comedy or intensity in any other derivative that is intended. One is the lousy bad guy and the other is the cop hell-bent on stopping Troy from blowing up half the city. Because that would be another great triumph for Troy after taking the life of his own son.

But Troy's plan is inscrutable and only by delving into its most intimate parts does it seem that Archer can find out where the bomb is that he intends to explode. The justification for surgical facial change is always debatable.

But it is fiction and under its prism we accept it. The point is that, curiously, once both actors have changed their faces (so that Archer can fully enter Troy's circle) we discover how much capacity to mutate both actors have. Because suddenly one stops being the good guy to be the bad guy and vice versa.

Interesting from the point of view of the plot itself that drives us crazy. But also juicy from the idea of ​​the ability to play antagonistic roles in the same film.

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It's true that I'm very drawn to suspenseful plots with a touch of that friendly science fiction that keeps us in very recognizable scenarios. A type of face that is also unique, at least, as is Nicolas Cage, gives more credibility from the start to his premonitory abilities that arouse a whole network of maximum tension.

Cris Johnson (Cage) knows what is going to happen two minutes before it happens. He has been feeling this way all his life. Express premonitions that even in its brevity can change important events towards new parallel lines. A goldmine if it is put at the service of the law. And on this occasion this service of citizen Cris Johnson seems inexcusable in light of the seriousness of recent movements in the criminal field.

From working nights as a magician and mentalist in a seedy Las Vegas club to collaborating with special anti-terrorist groups. Because agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) wants to use her talent to prevent a nuclear disaster. Great twists, surprises galore and some great surprises that cannot be lacking in the prestige of a magician with such qualities...

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