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 Nicolas Cage
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime In his over 25 year career, Nicolas Cage has not only managed to impress audiences with his fantastic acting skills, but his incredibly diverse movie roles. They range from a petty criminal in Raising Arizona to a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas to an illegal arms dealer in Lord Of War to playing both Charlie and Donald Kaufman to a code-deciphering historian in the National Treasure movies to even a Chinese villain in the fake trailer Werewolf Women Of The S.S. for the Grindhouse double feature. But even after a Best Actor Oscar win, a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and plenty of devoted fans, the now 44 year-old actor has not relented at all in his pursuit for the next challenging and exciting role. Cage’s latest such endeavor is as assassin Joe in the new Americanized remake of the critically-acclaimed 1999 Thai film Bangkok Dangerous. Nicolas first shared with us what motivated him to be a part of appealing this new remake to Western audiences. “Jason [Shuman], one of the producers, brought it to me and The Pang Brothers were already attached. I was aware very loosely of the original film,” Cage recalls, “But I was thinking more and more about being more global in my work, which means going to foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping that they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, keep it fresh, reinvent me in some way. And that’s largely why I made the movie.” But the Americanization process, Nicolas says, was not without bringing a few changes to the original. In the original film, the Thai counterpart for Joe was a deaf mute, which may not have effectively benefited in utilizing Nicolas’s star appeal in this new, slightly more Westernized version. “I thought it worked out better to have the leading lady in that aspect to her behavior,” he notes, “It made her more emotional. My interests were more about having this white man in a largely Asian world, trying to fit in, trying to connect in some way with the culture.” Despite this change, Nicolas believes that the involvement of an all-Thai crew, including the film’s original directors, The Pang Brothers, keeps intact the film’s distinctly East Asian roots fundamentally intact. “I have to say it still has an Asian look because it’s The Pang Brothers and it’s their point of view,” Cage believes. Remakes in this era have become frequent and routine in Hollywood and have contributed to perpetual criticism of an industry suffering from an embarrassing dearth of new ideas. However, Nicolas believes that doing a Hollywood remake, whether it be of a foreign film or an older American film, is not the easy task it appears to be on the surface. “Remakes are always a challenge and they’re always sitting ducks,” he notes, “But in this case, this remake has the same filmmakers. And I felt that they were going to try to improve upon their movie or at least ... |
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