Nicolas Cage, full name Nicholas. gold. Coppola, his uncle was the famous Francis. Coppola, as an actor, Cage's way of acting has always been quite unique, his maverick, hysterical, emotional but very screen charm of the performance style, looking at the Hollywood film industry, few people have a similar aura to him.
Cage's first performance was a pilot episode of the 1981 television series Good Times, when he used the name Nicolas Coppola, and it wasn't long before he changed his stage name to Cage, which was taken from the Marvel Comics Luke Cage.
In the early days, Cage's performance opportunities were mostly supporting roles, but the maverick performance style was immediately noticed, so he was invited to work by many cutting-edge directors.
Such as 1982's "Open American Academy", Francis Coppola's "Cotton Club", Aaron Parker's "Birdman", Cohen Brothers' "Raising Arizona", David Lin district's "My Heart Wild" and other works, can be seen, this period Cage's acting skills have been affirmed by the industry, but has been difficult to be accepted by mainstream culture.
In 1984's "Summoning Order of Love", he played The death party of Sean Pan, but he was a wandering skeleton, noisy and always a bucket basket person, quiet and handsome Sean Pan mostly had to help him deal with problems, which was a work that he had more performance opportunities in the early days and was more entertaining, and then cooperated with Cher in "Dizzy", which once made him nominated for the 1987 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, but his career has not improved since then.
In the early 1990s, Cage began to develop into mainstream films, began to play the main role, during this period, he mostly performed some medium-cost romantic comedies, police films and gangster crime films, such as "Love in New York", "The First Lady's Bodyguard", but most of the box office was not satisfactory, such as 1993's "Black and White Pursuit Order"
With a budget of $17 million and a box office receipt of only $9.7 million, he has fewer and fewer opportunities to appear in mainstream films because he does not have box office guarantees.
In 1995, Nicolas Cage starred in the $4 million independent film Far from the Casino, in which he played a desperate drunkard who planned to end his life in Las Vegas, but met elizabeth, an equally desperate prostitute on the street. sue.
Cage binge-boozed for the role for two consecutive weeks and recorded his drunken reactions in order to research and develop his own performance, after which he said: "This is the most enjoyable research I've ever done for a role" His efforts paid off, and Cage won the 1995 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor, and since then, his star has been a star.
In 1996, Cage participated in the action film "Brave Island" directed by Michael Bay and starring Sean Connery, playing the FBI biochemical weapons scientist who is a weak student, who is always out of trouble in the film, and is often ridiculed by Mason, the protagonist played by Connery, but has a strong sense of responsibility, and will become desperate in the face of crisis.
One of his most classic scenes in the film is to remove all the gas missiles at the end of the film, hold the signal flares, kneel on the shore of Alcatraz Island in an attempt to stop the fighters who come to bomb, and dispatch and edit through the wonderful scenes of Michael Bay
With tragic music, Nicolas Cage was pushed into the international film world in one fell swoop, and "Brave Island" earned $300 million at the global box office that year, and Cage has since become a world-class movie star.
Due to the success of "Brave To Die Island", Cage took advantage of the hot iron to perform two action movies in one go in 1997, West's "Prison in the Air" and Wu Yusen's "Changing Face".
In Prison in the Air, Cage plays a Special Forces veteran, Cameron Poe, a movie that became a hit, and Cage wore an undershirt and a shawl that became a scene that fans talked about after years.
Then, "Changing Face" directed by Wu Yusen made Cage change from a righteous incarnation to a gangster madman, and Wu Yusen's slow-motion photography made him impress almost every scene, whether it was the crazy priest's appearance, taking off his coat and pulling out a golden double gun, or even the picture of a person looking at himself in front of the mirror and laughing madly, which is the root of the image of The Cage screen in the future.
After the success of "Daredevil Island", "Prison in the Air" and "Face Change", Cage returned to acting in film noir, Brian Depamar's "Snake's Eye", Joe Schumacher's "8 Cm" and Martin Scorsese's "Through the Yin and Yang World" did not do well at the box office.
Although in "Snake's Eye", Cage's one-shot performance has made fans relish it, but because of the gap between his previous action movies and the image of his previous action films, the market response is not ideal, and the film critics' reactions are also mixed;
Instead, it was the unexpected brilliance of "X Lover", which tried romantic themes, in which he played the angel who fell in love with Megline, and the performance style turned introverted, and the accumulated screen charm of several previous blockbuster movies made him still quite popular.
After entering 2000, Cage's genre expanded significantly, and he could continue to perform popcorn adventure themes "Earth-shattering 60 Seconds", "National Treasure" series, "The Magician's Apprentice", "Twisted Miracle" with warm family themes, "War Lover" with romantic themes, war movie "Operation Wind Hunting", black comedy "Orchid Thief" and "Stickman", "King of Arms", "Meteor Man" and so on, these years, undoubtedly Cage's most famous and profitable period, all types can be competent, The wind reviews are also quite good.
Since he used the comic book character name as a stage name, it means that Cage loves American comics quite a lot, not only has the first version of Superman's first issue, but also named his son Kayel (Superman's real name for Krypton), but he has never had the opportunity to play the comic book adaptation character. In fact, Cage was once invited to perform the dark version of Superman with a long-haired shawl in the 1990s, and the progress has once progressed to the stage of trial fitting, but unfortunately, in the end, the production of this movie is stillborn.
In 2007, Cage, who loves comics, finally received a superhero movie "Ghost Rider", becoming a ghost rider riding a flame motorcycle with a flame skull, and in 2010, he starred in "Special Attack League", he did not play much in the film, and still appeared impressively, such as the screaming scene of his daughter being burned while directing his daughter to kill the enemy when he left the scene.
After entering 2010, Cage's star fortunes have gradually weakened, and the divorce lawsuits faced in real life and the personal problems of spending money too much privately have made financial difficulties, which may also be the reason, so that his number of films is more, but Cage's past pick-up taste has been fishy
He never rejects eerie and cold subjects, which makes his film style extremely diverse, the former may be a warm comedy for family watching, the next is a different color work that only a few fans can nibble, although the style is changeable, but it also often loses the general public fans.
In 2010, Cage's cooperation with a number of cutting-edge directors caused the quality of film works to become unstable, film criticism and box office were not ideal, making him no longer a box office guarantee in the film industry, and also won the title of "King of Bad Films".
Perhaps, too much belief in the talent of the creator, but ignoring the taste of the mainstream audience, is an important factor in Cage's loss of the public box office in the 2010s, however, as an actor, even in the very low-rated film works, Cage's performance energy has not declined, it is still extremely exuberant, even if Cage's recent film works have been bad reviews, but these negative images have not affected his popularity among fans, for many years Cage has always had a considerable number of quite determined fan base, hoping that Cage can take a good work, Reinventing one's position in the film industry.