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Con Air A stand-up guy with a murder wrap, Jesus hair, and a heart of gold, Nicolas Cage’s Con Air character isn’t nearly as cartoon-y as his Face/Off one, but there is his jet landing on the Vegas strip scene to consider, as well as the “It’s not all mai tais and Yahtzee out there, but let’s go!” line before running through an avalanche of gunfire. Why am I hankering for a terrible Nicolas Cage action marathon now?
Honeymoon in Vegas
“I haaaaad ASTRAIGHTFLUSH!” Private eye, commitment-phobe, over-confident gambler, and idiot prone to yelling and pimping out his fiancée, the role of Jack Singer is undoubtedly one of Cage’s finest overacting moments. Remember the scene where he has to skydive dressed as Elvis without knowing which string to pull on his ‘chute? Classic Cage.

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Spike Lee and Antoine Fuqua are heading together where many others have gone before: Graphic Novel adaptations. Probably in a bid to reignite both of their careers. And their fuel of choice is a French one, you’re welcome.
Vigilante Entertainment is mounting an adaptation of the French comic book “Miss: Better Living Through Crime” for Fuqua to direct and Lee to produce. Project is said to be shopped around studios for some backing, so let’s assume the plan is to present it with a franchise in mind; the original French books come in 4 tomes after all. 
written by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux, the comic centres on the 1930s adventures of a streetwise white girl and a black “pimp” who hook up as assassins for hire. Top of my head, I say Taye Diggs and Jennifer Carpenter. Who says what?

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Antoine Fuqua, the director of Training Day and Shooter, has signed on for another crime thriller, called Miss: Better Living Through Crime.
The film, based on a French graphic novel, will be produced by Spike Lee.
Written by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigoroux, Miss: Better Living Through Crime tells the tale of Nola and Slim, a white hooker and black pimp who team up together and embark on a life of crime and murder in New York at the turn of the 20th Century.
Sounds very intriguing, and the period setting means this could be right up Fuqua’s street. We’d love to see Lee’s take on this material, of course, but it will also be mighty interesting to see how this collaboration between the two pans out. Is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

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PLOT: New Orleans cop Terrence McDonagh (Nic Cage) slides into drug abuse after a back injury during Hurricane Katrina. He falls further and further into corruption as he accosts club goers, steals cocaine from his precinct and joins a gang of drug lords. He gambles to excess, he hallucinates iguanas. He clings to his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes), he takes care of his alcoholic dad’s dog…there is a murder investigation in here somewhere as well.
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I’m pretty sure this would have made total sense if I was on some of the drugs that McDonagh was taking. He’s screwing a call girl (though I don’t think anyone is going to argue with his choice of Eva Mendes, who seems to be the only normal thing in the film) and performs a monologue for her about his childhood discovery of a spoon. He likens it to pirate treasure that he’s lost. He finds it and gives his culinary treasure to his adored hooker. Yes, yes. Ve …

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… Werner Herzog’s hallucinogenic film noir features Nicolas Cage in a brilliant performance that’s almost psychotic.Photograph by: Handout, Handout
Werner Herzog’s Byzantine and hallucinogenic film noir features Nicolas Cage in a brilliant performance that’s almost psychotic. He plays a drug-addicted policeman investigating a murder while trying to protect his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes). He has visions of iguanas, and in the druggy, hypnotic world, so will you.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes
Rating: Four and a half stars out of five
Werner Herzog has been involved in a lot of strange projects — he once threatened to eat his shoe if Errol Morris finished his movie about pet cemeteries, a wager whose upshot is recorded in the documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — but turning Nicolas Cage into an iguana stands as one of his greatest cinematic achievements.

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The movie opens in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Terence McDonagh (Cage) is an officer in a rapidly flooding precinct where the other cops are tacitly allowing prisoners to drown as the holding area fills. In his sole heroic moment in the movie, Cage decides to dive in and save one of the holdees.
Flash ahead several months later. Having severely injured his back in the incident, McDonagh has been promoted and also carries on his back a huge addiction to Vicodin, and any other pain-ameliorating substance he can scam, all the way up to crack.
With or without the help of his also-using prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes, channeling her character from We Own The Night), McDonagh scores enough for 10 junkies, shaking down club kids, short-changing the evidence room drug bags, etc.

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The setting is post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, where a swimming snake leads things off and the skies are an apocalyptic shade of gray. Clearly, old codes of decency don’t apply.
Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a detective who, after an early scene that establishes his essential decency — he saves a prisoner from drowning — becomes hooked on the Vicodin he consumes for back pain, eventually leading to a heroin addiction.
His habit, compounded by gambling debts, prompts egregiousness: pocketing dope from the police property room, robbing trendy nightclubbing couples of substances, or, in a particularly crazed episode, temporarily depriving an old woman of her oxygen.
The police-procedural element centers on an investigation into a massacre involving a drug kingpin (Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner). We also get a love story between Terence and call girl Frankie (Eva Mendes).

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If anything, Herzogs tone is lighter, more playful. He ratchets up the tension deliberately, pushing Cages frazzled lieutenant to his breaking point and sitting back to watch the fireworks. And Cage, whos at his unbridled best when he lets loose with the loony, doesnt disappoint. Watching him transform himself into a wild-eyed urban cowboy is a giddy pleasure the man can still act when he wants to and his performance lends itself as much to his desperation as to the dark comedy implicit in his mania.
Its not that Terence McDonagh (Cage) is an unrepentant wretch or even a bully with a badge, though at times he fits both profiles comfortably. He is a man compromised by his addictions — to gambling, booze and whatever drugs he can buy or steal. At first its prescription pills to ease his aching back, injured while saving a convict from drowning in his cell during the Katrina floods. McDonagh quickly graduates to the harder stuff, much to the delight of Frankie (Eva Mendes), his prostitute girlfriend.

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Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) was once a respected and medaled cop. That isn’t the case anymore. Once his back problem kicked in he turned to hard drugs to ease the pain. Now he’s either coked up all the time or all whacked out from his medicine. At the worst time possible he is given the responsibility of taking down a heavy drug dealer (Xzibit) who slaughtered an innocent family. McDonagh isn’t in particularly good shape with his coke problem, gambling problem, and the fact he also has to deal with some thugs who are messing with him and his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes).

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In 1992, Abel Ferrara wrote and directed Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel. The film’s unnamed lieutenant was confronted by his sins while investigating the rape of a nun. This graphic depiction of a New York cop mixed up in hard drugs, sexuality and violence was the most profound expression of Catholic guilt since Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
Herzog removes religion, relocates to post-Katrina New Orleans and polishes the rough edges for his 2009 remake. Nicholas Cage stars as the law-bending, gambling-addicted, coke-snorting Terrence McDonagh. His lover is a prostitute (Eva Mendes), and he has no problem stealing from the property room of the police department for a good hit. In short, McDonagh initially investigates a mass murder but ends up partnering with the crime’s mastermind (Xzibit) to make money and score coke.

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