![]() Some highlights include Cage singing Elvis’ ‘Love Me’ to Laura Dern in a crowded nightclub and later fighting a group of obnoxious street punks. Cage stars alongside Laura Dern’s Lulu as Sailor Ripley, a brash lover whose slick snakeskin jacket is a “symbol of individuality” and his ‘belief in personal freedom’. Right before ‘Twin Peaks’ would become a staple of TV entertainment, Lynch directed this stylish, nostalgic, and passionate movie. Next up, we have Nicolas Cage’s collaboration with David Lynch, 1990’s ‘Wild at Heart’. Donning a haircut that would upstage Elvis and a nasal affectation, Nicolas Cage sees that you’ll never get bored watching this sweet but strange coming-of-age flick. Although Cage had a small role in the Coppola directed ‘Rumble Fish’, it was ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ that gave him the opportunity to impress his uncle. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)Īfter a string of middling titles, Cage found himself starring in ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’, directed by his uncle Francis Ford Coppola (‘The Godfather’, ‘Apocalypse Now’) and starring alongside Kathleen Turner. Let’s look back at 5 of the performances that helped to mold his unique screen presence and dedicated following. Thankfully, with the release of 2019’s ‘Color Out of Space’, ‘2021’s ‘Pig’ and 2022’s ‘Unbearable Weight’, it seems like he’s back in the spotlight and clear of the debt that tied him to such unpromising productions. The beloved cult icon has always been in the public eye, though his career seemed to wane in the 2010s with the Oscar-winning actor starring in a series of back-to-back low-quality direct-to-video features. With his latest, self-aware, post-modern film, ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’, this seems truer than ever. Whether it’s drinking a little too much in Las Vegas or dropping huge amounts on obscure items, it seems Nicolas Cage is always in the news.
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