Nicolas Cage: Which of the actor’s films deals with talent from solid gold?

Released on Wednesday, April 20 in French cinemas, “Talented in Gold” is a film about Nicolas Cage and about him. Because the star is playing himself up and finds himself invited by a man (Pedro Pascal) who claims to be his biggest fan. And so he knows, from the inside out, this career, which consists of ups and downs, where peaks and the entire moon works on the shoulders.

Directed by Tom Gormicken (Lonely… or almost), A Talent in Solid Gold is also a film for Nicolas Cage fans, offering a few references that are more or less clearly scattered throughout the center of the story. Some may steal from you, so here are all the mentioned movies.

Wings of Hell (1997)

This is Nicolas Cage’s first film about “Talented Gold”, because it was he who watched Gabriela (Alessandra Mastronard) before his abduction. And Java (Pedro Pascal) has a copy of the fetal animal that the protagonist returns to his daughter.

Released in 1997, a year before the Oscar-winning comedian’s “Action,” Simon West’s feature film focuses on both the extravagance of the ’90s and his star (whose haircut is one of the most famous and bizarre in his career). In the story of the plane taken hostage by one of the prisoners, which he is transporting. Not as successful as rock or volta / face, but memorable for good and bad reasons – Visible on Disney +

JOE (2013)

The feature film is not openly quoted. But this is indirectly mentioned in an interview with Nicolas Cage and his director David Gordon Green. Who offered the star a good incentive for pride when his career went far beyond cinemas.

Alongside the Venice and Deauville festivals, this very dark drama (sometimes very dark) takes us to Texas and follows in the footsteps of Joe Ransom, in search of a ransom for a former prisoner who thinks he sees the light when a teenager (Thai Sheridan) is looking for a job and calls him. But can we escape our past and the environment in which we develop? This is a question asked by Joe, adapted from Larry Brown’s homonymous novel, which gave us one of Nicolas Cage’s closest performances.

Rocky (1996)

After the Bad Guys, Michael Bay transforms the essay into what many still consider to be his best film. And one of the peaks of Nicolas Cage’s career, which then won him an Oscar for Best Actor thanks to the drama Leaving Las Vegas, and began to turn into action, both unexpected and successful.

And there is no doubt that Java (Pedro Pascal) agrees to have a Michael Bay movie clip in which a chemical weapons expert and the slain former spy (Sean Connery) come together to stop General Hummel’s plans (Ed Harris), which is deadly. Gas in San Francisco in response to US government injustice.

While Nicolas Cage claims he is an actor who also makes physical investments, Michael Bay signs the opus of total efficiency. And A Talent in Solid Gold is the second feature film of 2022 to reach him after the ambulance… Michael Bay – Visible on Disney +

THE CROODS 2 (2021)

Why 2 and not 1? The secret. But Java (Pedro Pascal) is a sequel to Dreamworks, a fan of the prehistoric animated film that surprised everyone in 2013 with its gentle humor, life and precision when it comes to … talking about family. His father, a backup, Greg, Nicolas Cage, ironed out the need for Croods 2 behind the microphone, which was a huge success despite its release in the midst of a pandemic.

Turnover (1997)

Take the test: If you are talking about Nicolas Cage and acting, your interlocutor is likely to wake up to Rock, especially Voltaire / Face. Which is one of the favorite films of Java (Pedro Pascal) and we can understand. Because it’s hard to fall in love with an actor with the best opus of John Woo’s American Squadron, in which a CIA agent and a terrorist exchange faces.

On paper, nothing works in this square, even because the two characters do not have the same structure. And yet… Volte / Face is a real tour, the success of which (apart from John Woo’s virtuosity behind the camera) is based on the fact that we have two coups that give 200%: Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. When it comes to madness, none will be better, and the wax statue of Castor Troy, who has Java at home in the movie “Talented Gold,” reminds us of this – Available on Disney +

Guardian Angel for Tess (1994)

Across the career of Nicolas Cage, Tess’s guardian angel is relatively unknown. But not Java (Pedro Pascal), who proves that it was thanks to this film that he was able to connect with his father. Directed by Hugh Wilson (Police Academy), this comedy turns the actor into an undercover agent whose mission, to protect the wife of the President of the United States, has been expanded to anger him.

Following the classical mechanics of the irrelevant duo, the feature film will not fall into the annals of Nicolas Cage’s filmography. But he and Shirley McLain manage to give it a bit of charm and tenderness. Enough to achieve the result.

Benjamin Gates (2004)

Harrison Ford has Indiana Jones. Nicholas Cage Benjamin Gates, which are much more than the adventures of a hero created by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Of course, it’s the merit of the protagonist, but also of this amusing idea of ​​treasure, the hints of which are hidden in monuments or in the declaration of independence of the United States.

Released in France in 2008, the sequel is considered by many to be better than Indiana Jones than The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which premiered the same year. While fans were waiting for the third opus, the adventure will continue in the series Disney +. But without Nicolas Cage. So for Java (Pedro Pascal) there will be only one poster left, which he has at home to comfort himself – Visible on Disney +

MANDY (2018)

Among the lunatics in Nicolas Cage’s career (and God knows he exists!) Mandy stands out. Next to the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, Panos Cosmatos’s film certainly did not have the honor of dark rooms in France, but it is better than its live video status can be believed.

Or its square, where it speaks of revenge against the sect and “a phantasmagoric journey marked by revenge, blood and fire.” Which are especially unleashed in the second half, of which it is better to know a little to be surprised. Just know that Nicolas Cage is using the chain saw there and that Javi (Pedro Pascal) managed to get him back home.

WICER MAN (2006)

Fans of Nicolas Cage will tell you very well: The movies they consider cult are not all good. Evidence by The Wicker Man, a remake of the 1974 horror classic that was particularly successful online, thanks to its collection of Top Moon Scenes. So with an actor dressed as a bear, or torturing him with a helmet full of bees.

Thus was born the famous “No bees!” The talent is cited in solid gold to show us that the actor does not lack for self-mockery and counts his part. We must also admit that in this investigation he gives everything that leads the sergeant to the heart of a strange society, including when it comes to cutting a cyclist who still has a foot on a small road. It is as if he is standing in front of a car traveling at full speed and somewhere in it it earns respect.

Arizona Jr. (1987)

Yes, Nicolas Cage photographed for the Cohen brothers. More precisely in their second feature film, where a naive thief and a policeman who has no children decide to kidnap one of the five famous furniture merchants. Which obviously does not happen the way it was planned in Arizona Junior, which we see as The Big Lebowski’s older brother.

With his mustache, colorful shirts, and Woody Kodala haircut (more and more dirty, which is the stress that characterizes his character), Nicolas Cage looks like a cartoon character and reveals that he fits in perfectly with the burlesques of this crazy elk. Comedy. Gives us one of his most memorable looks, which you can see in Javier (Pedro Pascal), thanks to a portrait of HI McDunnough that he has at home – Visible on Disney +

Moonlight (1987)

Loretta Castorini, an accountant from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when the groom falls in love with her younger brother. Which is performed by Nicolas Cage. With Cher (Oscar-winning actress for Best Actress) and The Thomas Crown Affair director Norman Jevison on camera, the actress is not the one who gets the most out of this moonlight. Is seldom mentioned in his filmography. .

But Talent in Gold does not forget this fascinating romantic comedy and awakens it during the dialogue. And may, why not, allow its (rediscovered) discovery by the younger generations, if Tom Gormicken’s film manages to encourage the viewer to see the films mentioned more or less clearly.

60 Second Chronograph (2000)

ᲘDid you know? Nicolas Cage was able to manage several scenes in the film where he plays a car thief who is forced to steal fifty cars in one night to save his brother. If you stumbled upon one of the 60-second draws, you’ve probably heard about it. Like Java in The Talented Gold, which points to this skill of the actor… and one of the few things that will ultimately preserve this less lush opus of the actor’s wave of action.

Captain Corelli (2001)

Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hart and Christian Bailey in front of John Madden’s camera in front of the camera for a mural combining the Love Triangle and World War II, as Pearl Harbor came out a few weeks ago? A wonderful project on paper and a disappointment on arrival, he was criticized for his good feelings and historical inaccuracies (including the earthquake on the Greek island, which did not occur in 1947, as the film says, but in 1953).

Upon arrival, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Penelope Cruz (Captain Corelli, Blow AND Vanilla Sky) and a film largely forgotten in Nicolas Cage’s career. This does not prevent him from quoting “Talent in Solid Gold” at the time of the dialogue to prove to us that the star is really dealing with a keen fan base.

SUPERMAN LIVE

If Talent in Gold reflects existing films from Nicolas Cage’s career, it’s hard to miss his most famous terminated project: Superman lives By Tim Burton, shortly before the filming of the Abandoned Film, from which only conceptual art and images of the costumed actor survive.

An absolute fan of the DC hero, to the point of naming his son Cal-El (Superman’s name on Krypton, his home planet), Nicolas Cage has seen one of his biggest dreams come true. And only the animated film Teen Titans GO! (2018) allowed him to slide into the skin and vote. Mentioned in Tom Gormicken’s feature film, Tim Burton was still in the documentary, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? (2015), just to feed his legend a little more. And return to the chaotic scenes that led to his abandonment.