New Orleans Adult Entertainment: Cage’s bad behavior makes ‘Bad Lieutenant’ a guilty pleasure
February 5, 2010
German director Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant depicts New Orleans as a gloomy character trapped beneath otherworldly clouds of doom. Poverty, drugs and death rule the traumatized city. As the town crawls back from oblivion, neither funky brass bands nor second lines nor elated chants of “Who ’dat!” are heard.
Filmed in large part in New Orleans, Bad Lieutenant’s look, characters and voices do indeed reflect the place. Cage, a fan of the city and frequent visitor, even delivers the correct local pronunciation of Burgundy Street.
A great example of no good deed going unpunished, Cage’s Lt. Terence McDonagh injures his back when he jumps into the flooded parish jail to rescue a trapped prisoner. Afterward, he soothes his pain through prescribed and non-prescribed pain killers and whatever hard stuff he can score by whatever means necessary.
In addition to his drug use, McDonagh is a high-stakes gambler and boyfriend to Frankie, a coke-sniffing prostitute played by Eva Mendes. His judgment impaired, the detective hurls himself into an escalating series of deadly situations.
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