This is a section of my writing project based around a nameless adult struggling through growing up. Really it’s an exercise in writing different genres while speaking to a part of life I also struggle with. The project is incredibly silly but also endearing, often I found myself in every story.
This passage is a rant the nameless adult goes on about his (and my) favourite actor.
Nic Cage
ok so i have a confession to make, i don’t know i need to confess this, my personal feelings on the matter are much stronger than most but in no way inappropriate. actually, it really bugs that i have been made to feel this way by the world around me, personally i feel this man (it’s a man i’m talking about, a great man) is very, very under appreciated and misunderstood by the world around us.
so here it is, i love Nicolas Cage, or Nicolas Coppola, he is the greatest living actor alive today, period. no one takes the risks he takes and the fact that he is misunderstood should tell you that he takes risks.
he reflects the crazier, wilder aspects of our world, he encapsulates the weird that exists in this world. when he takes on a role, he portrays his characters in ways that no one else would do or even think to do. he is an innovator of the art form. years from now maybe people will understand that and look back at him and understand what he was doing.
from laughing inappropriately, to his bug eyes, to punching out women while in bear costume, to helping us better understand the beauty that exists in death, to sharing in the pains of addiction, to long hair, bad accents and running from explosions. Nic Cage is our finest actor.
no one will every recite the alphabet better, no one will ever talk about anyone else’s hair will such zeal, no one will stare down an iguana that isn’t there and then later threaten an elderly person with a magnum revolver as well as Nic Cage.
his boldness is in his work, in his choices, always doing something different, never letting anyone pigeonhole him and always proving his worth in the field of acting.
there is no actor that has split people so passionately, that has caused such a fervour, both positive and negative. even the Nicolas Cage hate is magnificent!
go home and watch Bringing Out the Dead, Deadfall, Drive Angry, Wild At Heart, The Rock, Joe, Port of Call: New Orleans, Raising Arizona, Wicker Man, Matchstick Men, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off, Lord of War, Vampire’s Kiss, Weather Man, Peggy Sue Got Married, Con Air, Snake Eyes, Trespass, Kick-Ass, Knowing, Red Rock West, Moonstruck and Adaptation. go home and watch these movies, if you open your mind, he will change it.
end (of rant)
