The lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange. Abel ferraras cult crime drama bad lieutenant is given a sister film with this werner herzoghelmed production that takes its inspiration from the original, but focuses on new characters and. Port of call, new orleans is not about plot, but about seasoning. It was described as being neither a sequel nor a remake. I think we can all agree we need more warner herzog movies starring nicolas cage. Port of call new orleans where the absurdity hits a boiling point and it goes from an ok police procedural to an absolutely nutso character study. Port of call new orleans, nicolas cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs while playing fast and loose. It is something much better than that, being fresh, unique and original. Apr 08, 2010 nicolas cage is the bad lieutenant in bad lieutenant. Not all of bad lieutenants humor comes from the rapid fire alternation between mcdonaghs public persona as an honorable police officer and his reality as a doped up crook.
Port of call new orleans, made in 2009 by werner herzog, follows terrence mcdonagh played by nicolas cage, a police officer in postkatrina new orleans, as he investigates the deaths of five senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. Nicolas cage is illserved by this very silly movie. I would imagine most people would consider that moment to be when nic cages bad lieutenant, terrence mcdonagh, watches two imaginary lizards cavorting on his coffee table while conducting a police stakeout. The film takes its title from abel ferraras 1992 film, bad lieutenant.
I was working parttime as a video store clerk for the first of many times when bad lieutenant was released by live home video in 1993, and because of that fact, it has always been, in my mind, inexorably linked to reservoir dogs. Eva mendes back with nicholas cage for bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, and considering his current financial straits, the prospects seem dim. Mar 31, 2012 to celebrate tiffs ongoing bangkok dangerous. Self decides upon new nonharveykeitelstarring werner herzognicolas cage endeavour the bad lieutenant. Bad lieutenant 2009 is a good movie for cage to go crazy. Both bad lieutenant films were produced by edward r. At an apartment, the lieutenant gets drunk and engages in a threesome with two women. After relentless scouring of doodoo detritus on inner rim of toilet bowl, self deserving of longer lunchbased break. May 28, 2009 bad lieutenant trailer stars nic cage and his lucky crack pipe some folks were outraged when news first hit that nicolas cage would be.
It takes alot to make up for ghost rider, national treasure and all that shit, but this and knowing might do it. Nov 16, 2009 in werner herzogs new film bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, nicolas cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. Like any good comic hero, nicolas cages problems just sort themselves out. Port of call new orleans 610 movie clip 2009 hd duration. Mcdonagh implores big fate to smoke pure cocaine with his lucky crack pipe. The cinema of nicolas cage series, alan jones has resurrected his retrospective of the actors work entitled the nic cage project. In august 2005, terence mcdonagh nicolas cage is a new orleans police sergeant. I love the bad lieutenant port of call new orleans, and it gives me a new respect for nicolas cage. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time. Like new orleans cuisine, it finds that you can put almost anything in a pot if you add the right spices and peppers and simmer it long enough. The new york city of ferraras movie is filled with all of the venial and most of the deadly sins. Befitting its unorthodox origins, this bad lieutenant benefits from werner herzogs typically fearless direction and a delightfully unhinged nicolas cage in the title role.
May 20, 2010 nicolas cage and eva mendes in bad lieutenant. Terrence mcdonagh nicolas cage is an outofcontrol police detective and frankie eva mendes is his hooker girlfriend in bad lieutenant. Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. Self decides upon new nonharveykeitelstarring werner herzog nicolas cage endeavour the bad lieutenant. When werner herzogs nicolas cagestarring remake of bad lieutenant was first announced, we only asked that its trailer be as baffling and wtf.
The bad lieutenat nick cage threatens an old lady and. Trespass bad lieutenant port of call double feat by nicolas. Simultaneously being werner herzogs and nicolas cages finest work, the bad lieutenant is a story of selfhatred and disillusion set against a landscape of both physical and emotional devastation, that being the aftermath of hurricane katrina. The title invites an understanding and comparisons that dont really fit, but werner herzogs film merits consideration of its own.
Nov 19, 2009 movies nicolas cage takes on bad lieutenant. The story is about terence mcdonagh, an unstable individual employed in law enforcement, and his crazed lifestyle. Port of call new orleans, nicolas cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as. Port of call new orleans playing tonight at the lightbox. The acceleration to lunacy pulls the story off course, encouraging cage to pop a few veins as mcdonagh dissolves, forcing the material into iffy irony and magical circumstances to make a bootleg turn into a suitable ending. Nicolas cage gets a lot of guff these days, and not without reason. Port of call new orleans 2009 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Its a critical commonplace to describe a movie or book as suchandsuch on crack superfluous in this case, because nicolas cages. The nicolas cage version of bad lieutenant has a trailer, favorite crack pipe.
Harvey keitel, not nicholas cage, is the bad lieutenant abel ferraras 1992 cult film, bad lieutenant, is a bleak, dismal, and punishingly grim film. Boasting hallucinatory reptiles, a harmonicafueled shootout, and an utterly unhinged nicolas cage performance, bad lieutenant entertains most frequently as a dark comedy trip. May 28, 2009 may 28, 2009 bad lieutenant trailer stars nic cage and his lucky crack pipe some folks were outraged when news first hit that nicolas cage would be starring in a remake of bad lieutenant. Get in the cage with nicolas cage and nicolas cage snl. Port of call new orleans not an ordinary cop drama. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama film directed by werner herzog and starring nicolas cage, eva mendes, tom bower, jennifer coolidge,xzibit, val kilmer and brad dourif. Port of call new orleans haters outside of the fact that the cop does drugs, its quite different, actor says to fans of the original.
I would imagine most people would consider that moment to be when nic cages bad lieutenant, terrence mcdonagh, watches two imaginary lizards cavorting on his. Port of call new orleans features nick cage and xzibit smoking crack, some gangsters getting killed. Nicolas cage makes werner herzogs bad lieutenant almost fun. I enjoyed nicolas cage hallucinating a mile a minute, talking to iguanas and laughing manically in his, shall we say, idiosyncratic interpretation, the oddly titled bad lieutenant port of call new orleans. In this edition, jones takes a look at werner herzogs hypnotizing genre exercise the bad lieutenant. If anything worth checking out for cage s performance. Abel ferraras cult crime drama bad lieutenant is given a sister film with this werner herzoghelmed production that takes its inspiration from the original. It centers on a postkatrina new orleans police lieutenant junkie nicolas cage who curses, steals, issues bribes, gambles, threatens people, associates with thugs, has sex with multiple partners, engages in needless violence, dates a.
Port of call new orleans is een film uit 2009 van regisseur. Nicolas cage is the bad lieutenant in bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, a weird, funky cop drama with a tremendous lead performance by cage. Clooneys comically existential up in the air 10232009 05. A typically strange cage outing, but interesting in a way that keitels movie no longer is. Nicolas cage s most disgusting horrible memory from movies duration. Bad lieutenant trailer stars nic cage and his lucky crack pipe. Port of call new orleansthe subtitle makes it charmingly unwieldyis everything the trailer promised and so much more, a batty policier fueled by evocative local color and a sublimely deranged lead performance that recalls herzogs work with the wildeyed klaus kinski. Port of call new orleansa is set ablaze early enough to accurately maneuver through patches of. Port of call new orleans, was released in 2009, seventeen years after the first films release. Like any good comic hero, nicolas cage s problems just sort themselves out, not that he has anything to do with it. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama film directed by werner herzog and starring nicolas cage, eva mendes, tom bower, jennifer coolidge, alvin xzibit joiner, val kilmer, and brad dourif.
Cage shines in bad lieutenant news gainesville sun. In the aftermath of hurricane katrina, he becomes a highfunctioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless. Werner herzog has said that cinema comes from the knees and thighs, but for nicolas cage in the nonremake bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans 710 movie clip 2009 hd duration. Hunched over by chronic back pain, cages crooked cop terence mcdonagh hauls his torqued frame by crackfueled force of will through a nearly deserted. The film was directed by werner herzog and stars nicolas cage and eva mendes. The bad lieutenat nick cage smokes crack, breakdancing, and. Herzogs fascination with animals, the films musical cues and the sheer erratic nature of nicholas cages character in the film. Loved it, especially this trippin scene with iguanas. Aug 29, 2018 something magical happened with nicolas cage and new orleans in a cult movie that gave the oscarwinners character he portrays the role of bad lieutenant and the legendarily flavorful city where the movie is set equal billing in the title. Nicolas cage hasnt delivered a performance as intense and farout since he pushed it to the limit in films like wild at heart and vampires kiss in werner herzogs bad lieutenant. In the aftermath of hurricane katrina, a heroic act has left lieutenant terrence mcdonagh nicolas cage with severe back pain, requiring a steady stream of prescription drugs to temper. R, 2 h 2 min nicolas cage, eva mendes, val kilmer, xzibit director. Nov 10, 2009 nicolas cage hasnt delivered a performance as intense and farout since he pushed it to the limit in films like wild at heart and vampires kiss in werner herzogs bad lieutenant.
Bad lieutenant trailer stars nic cage and his lucky. Before we decamp from the colorado mountains, heres a brief look at some of the 36th annual confabs more notable or notorious entries, which included the world premieres of jason reitmans up in the air, the last station, and bad lieutenant nic cage version, as well as north american premieres of the highly anticipated the road, todd solondzs life during wartime, and an. Aug 04, 2010 after relentless scouring of doodoo detritus on inner rim of toilet bowl, self deserving of longer lunchbased break. Written by nicole pedersen eva mendes is in talks to costar, along with nicholas cage, in director werner herzogs remake of the classic harvey keitel vehicle bad lieutenant. Mcdonagh implores big fate to smoke crack cocaine with his lucky crack pipe.
In this movie nicolas cage does one of his best performances, playing a complete opposite character of his usual roles, and i have to admit that he did an extraordinary work here. Port of call new orleans photos view all photos 35. Keitels unnamed lieutenant desecrated churches and pranced about in a naked, drunken stupor, but cage s cop cant summon up the cojones to do anything that wild and crazy. Email a moderator two quarters got stuck in machine. Port of call new orleans when it was announced at cannes that werner herzog and nicolas cage were planning a remake of abel ferraras notorious 1992 provocation bad lieutenant, im sure i wasnt alone in.
Jun 16, 2008 written by nicole pedersen eva mendes is in talks to costar, along with nicholas cage, in director werner herzogs remake of the classic harvey keitel vehicle bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, performance comes from the shoulders. Or maybe its just that were all so numb to outlandish on screen behavior that theres not much that cage and herzog could have done to shock and awe us. Port of call new orleans rookt agent terence mcdonagh, gespeeld door nicolas cage, crack. I felt the original was awesome, a masterful movie but yet so dark, so sad, but unflinching, and depressing, this bad lieutenant port of call new orleans didnt leave me with that feeling, it was cage s performance that hooked me and had me laughing at some of the crazy scenes. A crack pipesmoking breath of fresh air, lieutenant predated the. While cleaning out a locker after hurricane katrina, he notices that a prisoner may not have been transferred. Its star, nicolas cage, has been almost ubiquitous in the uk press in the runup to the films release, with the general consensus being that the oft. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way.
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