Maybe the audience is looking at Cage's melancholy eyes full of fatherly love

Alysa 2022-03-23 09:02:37

From "Stickman" to "Changing Face" to "The Stolen Thing", Nicolas Cage's father figure is always heavy and heart-wrenching. Although the story of "The Stolen Thing" itself is very simple or even thin, Nicolas Cage's restrained but tense performance, forbearance but full of emotion, and tense rhythm, smooth plot, tearing fatherly love, let the characters The fate of the film can successfully affect the emotions of the audience, so that people ignore the requirements for action scenes, so that when evaluating, "the action scenes are not hot enough" are too embarrassed to say. Maybe what the audience sees is Nicolas Cage's melancholy eyes full of fatherly love. Other actors, special effects and even the background of the story are just props.

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Stolen quotes

  • [first lines]

    Drunk Businessman: [drunk and singing] Cigarettes, no sleep, no lights, no sound... Nothing to eat, no one to drink... Sometimes... all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you.

  • [last lines]

    Tim Harlend: Oh, thank you, Will. I'll return to my life now.