I really know Cage when I was in college.
In those years, not to mention the popularization of the Internet. Even the computer classes at the university were just a few simple instructions for taking a few Dos in the 286. In middle school, I had a good relationship with my classmates who were from Zhujiang Film Studio. I often went to my classmates after school and vacations. The video tapes and foreign film magazines collected by her parents have been exposed to European and American movies (such as "Four Hundred Strikes" and "Course Through the Dragon Pool") earlier than her peers. However, when she got to university, she lacked such channels. The enlightenment at that time was mostly From the expired "Film Biweekly" on the magazine stand.
Don’t underestimate the magic of "Cinema Biweekly". In addition to saving money, you must also ride bicycles with your friends on weekends, take a ferry to the Zhongda Wharf, and travel more than 20 kilometers back and forth, just to go to Guangzhou. The two magazine stalls in Weilu--because I have never seen "Film Biweekly" exist systematically in other places, and this habit continued for many years after work.
In one issue, there is an article called "A Weird (or Strange Chicken?) Heart", which introduces Cage. It is about the popularity of "Two Desperate Hearts" (the Hong Kong translation of Leaving Las Vegas) and tells the story of this art. How to give up the halo-shrouded surname of Coppola, how to give birth to Xiaoqiang, and how to shine in "My Heart is Wild", and how to highlight the "strange chicken" in the gap between rebelliousness and orthodoxy "On the side.
I like the "evil" spirit in him. Compared with John Travolta's "demon", he has a melancholy and destructive nature. Even if he plays a good person, he seems to have to fight hard with the dark side of his heart at any time. To me, he is one of the few Hollywood male stars who have some characteristics in mainstream commercial films.
Therefore, before "Mandy", the most suitable for him was really a desperate middle-aged man who bought drunk and begged to die, and the agent who was struggling with pain in "8 Centimeters", on the contrary, under the pressure of powerful medicine, he would only stare at revenge. The role of howling is invisible. It is not so much that it requires acting skills and breakthroughs. It is more appropriate to say that Aaron Kwok of the United States.
The cult film is originally the private work of the director of the cult and evil flowers. How can there be any rules and patterns to follow? In "Mandy", there are impressive photography, a slightly cold soundtrack other than madness, a tired vision as if film negatives have been continuously shot for several hours in a darkroom, and a wish to pay tribute to the classics, but more It is like an image that pops up in the mind of a person who believes in a cult after taking a lot of psychedelics. It is not that the plasma is not enough and the scene is not violent enough, but that he is too eager to combine various cults to create his own style. Greatly hindered the smoothness of watching movies, and failed to fly unscrupulously during the climax, and the unexpected fatigue was not as sincere as Troma back then.
Perhaps it is not me who is addicted, but the cage who has been tired of paying off debts over the years. The old person I like is frozen in the bright lights of Las Vegas, and it is another mourning to awaken youthful memories with "Mandy".
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