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CAGE UNCAGED: DARK CIRCLES UNDER THOSE SNAKE EYES
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IN DE PALMA DA HAND, A TRACH
Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma were best buddies in the free wheelin' 1970s who, by the late 1990s, were Hollywood legends with instantly recognizable cinematic styles. Cage was in his box office prime in in 1998 and 1999 with De Palma's SNAKE EYES and Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Two old timers whose kinetic stylish flourishes met their match in big studio era Cage? Perfect, right?
Snake Eyes has energy to spare behind and in front of the camera but is it empty calories? It's a follow-up to director De Palma and screenwriter David Koepp's 1996 smash hit Mission: Impossible, which similarly uses deep-pocketed studio resources to go all-indulgence with obsessively elaborate set pieces. It begins with a 15-minute tracking shot! Yay, cinema!
Bringing Out the Dead reunites Scorsese with Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader and composer Elmer Bernstein. Can the old guys recapture the magic of their 1976 masterpiece while adding Robert Richardson's halo-centric lighting and a crack supporting cast? Cage plays an NYC EMT who can't sleep and sees ghosts. Whoa!
Our six remaining Cage Films:
Con Air, Face/Off, Left Behind, Lord of War, Mandy, Raising Arizona
EPILOGUE: WILLY'S WONDERLAND
Theme Song by: Howling Fantods.
SNAKE EYES: 00:08:57
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD 00:48:51
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