Actor Nicolas Cage, who won an Oscar for the movie "Leaving Las Vegas", has performed in many blockbuster films such as "Ghost Rider", "National Treasure" and "Changing Face", and was once called "Hollywood's most profitable" actor, but his exaggerated acting skills always brought polar evaluations.
A few days ago, Nicholas Cage was interviewed on the Podcast, and when asked by the host "why is acting always so crazy", he proposed an interpretation of his own performance method, which received a lot of discussion in the industry.
Was evaluated as "acting too pompous"
Nicholas Cage bluntly said, who said that there is only one style?
Nicholas Cage admits that many actors and directors nowadays promote "naturalistic" performances, advocating that actors can be close to the character of the character and presented in the most realistic way, but he believes that this is a very narrow performance mode.
The actor, who wants to constantly explore and break through his own performance methods, includes some "slightly dangerous attempts", which is the theory of Nicolas Cage, and he reveals that this idea is due to his aunt Talia Charles, who has become popular in the past with the legendary films "Rocky" and "The Godfather".
Talia Charles told the young Nicolas Cage, "Naturalism is just a style."
The implication of my aunt, Talia Charles, is that there will not be only one style, and if naturalism were one, there would definitely be "other styles" to be developed.
Nicholas Cage said: "I deliberately want to overdo it, I just want to break the 'naturalistic' form of performance, like painting, since you can draw abstract winds, you can also draw realism, you can also paint Impressionism, then why can't the camera performance work?" 」
"If someone says to me, 'You're acting too much,' I usually respond to him: 'You tell me where the line is, and then I can tell you if I'm out of bounds.'" 」
So in films like Prisoner of the Ghost Nation, Face Change, and Vampire's Kiss, Nicholas Cage bluntly says that he is experimenting with a performance similar to Western kabuki, or a more baroque, opera-style performance, "I want to jump out of naturalism and try to present a broader way of acting."
The new work "Pig" is regarded as a return to glory
Nicolas Cage returns to the natural evolution
Although Nicholas Cage once had a position in the Hollywood film industry, but in recent years, he has lost his family property due to investment failures, and has successively performed many B-grade films to save the day, so that he has won the title of "King of Bad Films", and many works have even directly become DVDs on the shelf, and even the theater line cannot be put on.
For a while, Nicolas Cage was directly attacked by the media in the casino drunk, dressed like street friends, even passers-by and waiters could not recognize him as an Oscar winner.
Just the feng shui turns, the next 2022, foreign media said that this will be the year that Nicolas Cage turned over again, because his recently launched work "Pig" not only won 98% freshness in "rotten tomatoes", the film website Metacritic also gave an 85-point "must see" evaluation, which is expected to be shortlisted for the major film awards in 2022.
The media also bid that "Nicolas Cage is about to return to glory."
However, some netizens pointed out that Nicolas Cage has always selected films according to his own preferences, not that he can't act, but the world can't understand, and now through Nicolas Cage's interview, everyone understands that he is indeed constantly trying new dramas, no wonder people are confused.
But Nicholas Cage mentioned that Pig is his more restrained approach, saying, "I've tried theatrical style several times and I've been a little tired of acting, and I think it's time to remind the audience that I can be a little more self-controlled, so Pig is a great example of how I can do it again."
Well, listening to it this way, it can be seen that film critics and the media still prefer the naturalistic style.