{"id":415479,"date":"2022-03-13T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T12:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T09:56:47","slug":"watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8217;: Nicolas Cage Plays Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4196a75813c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4196a75813c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Unbearable_Weight_of_Massive_Talent_Nicolas_Cage_Plays_Himself%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8217;: Nicolas Cage Plays Himself&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Unbearable_Weight_of_Massive_Talent_Nicolas_Cage_Plays_Himself%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8217;: Nicolas Cage Plays Himself&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-nicolas-cage-plays-himself\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Unbearable_Weight_of_Massive_Talent_Nicolas_Cage_Plays_Himself%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8217;: Nicolas Cage Plays Himself&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Unbearable_Weight_of_Massive_Talent_Nicolas_Cage_Plays_Himself%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8217;: Nicolas Cage Plays Himself&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,\u201d Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage, a conceit we get used to in a matter of seconds, even as it turns into a gift that keeps on giving. There\u2019s a reason we get used to it so quickly: <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a> with a meta dimension have been with us for years \u2014 movies like \u201cThe Player,\u201d where Robert Altman cast a galaxy of Hollywood stars as their real-life selves, or \u201cBeing John Malkovich,\u201d where John Malkovich played John Malkovich, or \u201cAdaptation,\u201d where Cage played Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of the film we h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to be watching. Unlike those movies, \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d isn\u2019t a floridly ambitious pretzel-logic art film. It\u2019s a commercial comedy that has a delirious good time poking fun at Nicolas Cage, celebrating everything that makes him Nicolas Cage \u2014 and, in the end, actually becoming a Nicolas Cage movie, which turns out to be both a cheesy thing and a special thing.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Gormican, the director and co-writer of \u201cUnbearable Weight,\u201d knows all too well that when it comes to Nicolas Cage, you can\u2019t separate the specialness from the cheese. That\u2019s the source of Cage\u2019s inside-out cool: that you\u2019re laughing at him the very moment he leaves all subtlety and good taste behind, and he does it with so much shameless commitment and purple passion that our giggles fuse with something like awe.<\/p>\n<p>Actors have onscreen lives and offscreen lives, and in most cases that\u2019s all there is to it. But Nicolas Cage, in addition to having both those things, has a third life \u2014 as a meme, an unintentional tongue-in-cheek identity that has emerged from the mountains of outrageously over-the-top acting he\u2019s done. Of all the actors of the last three or four decades who\u2019ve been willing to squander their talent on what we call paycheck movies, Cage is the unabashed king (though Bruce Willis, in recent years, has given him a run for his easy money). And that says something about who he is. Each time Cage makes one of those films, like \u201cGhost Rider\u201d or \u201cBangkok Dangerous\u201d or \u201cMandy,\u201d what you see on some level is a projection of his desperation \u2014 the fact that he\u2019s a dude who needs the money this badly, or has simply fallen out of respectability and will take whatever role comes his way.<\/p>\n<p>But you also see that Cage is addicted, on some squalid but weirdly innocent level of acting-as-exhibitionism, to doing movies that allow him to completely cut loose. Even when the film he\u2019s starring in is trash, his need to act \u2014 his need to be Nicolas Cage \u2014 has given him a kind of kitsch purity.<\/p>\n<p>In his way, Cage has become an ironic legend: the superhero of slumming. And the unique thing about him is that you can no longer separate the grade-Z Nicolas Cage movies from the grade-A Nicolas Cage movies. That\u2019s because they share the DNA of his compulsion to express who he is by leaving all restraint behind. He first started doing that back in the \u201980s, in prestige Hollywood films like \u201cPeggy Sue Got Married\u201d and \u201cMoonstruck.\u201d By the time he made \u201cWild at Heart,\u201d in 1990, playing a kind of postmodern bad-boy Elvis, he seemed to be directing every line toward the peanut gallery, or maybe to the legend in his own mind. A Nic Cage Moment will be all about his eruption \u2014 that instant when he slides from normal acting into operatic overacting, as if the devil made him do it. What Cage\u2019s fans know is that there\u2019s a metaphysic to being Nicolas Cage, and it is this: Any actor who needs to act <em>this<\/em> much can only be satisfied when he\u2019s acting\u2026<em>THIS MUCH<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Unbearable Weightiness of Massive Talent\u201d opens with a canny portrait of Cage, wearing a beard that seems to signify bourbon-sozzled middle-aged depression, as a fallen Hollywood player who is no longer in line for the good roles. The portrait is fiction, of course, but it\u2019s rooted in our highly detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> perception of Cage. So it seems real. This Nic is a divorced dad who\u2019s got a crummy relationship with his teenage daughter, Addy (Lily Sheen), because all he ever thinks about is his acting career. After a meeting with a prestige director at the Chateau Marmont, his hunger to land the role he\u2019s up for is so intense that he offers to read for the part \u2014 and does, complete with bad Boston accent \u2014 right there in the parking driveway. At a therapy session with Addy, the two discuss how he made her watch \u201cThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\u201d with him because it\u2019s one of his favorite movies, never suspecting that his 21st-century daughter might not be so interested in a 100-year-old silent film with expressionist madman sets.<\/p>\n<p>A fading star who\u2019s a ruthless narcissist sounds like a clich\u00e9. But in Cage\u2019s case the joke is that it\u2019s the very fuel of his persona \u2014 his need to go over-the-top, because it\u2019s all a way of seizing the attention he thinks he deserves. In the movie, Cage has conversations with himself in the form of a cooler, younger alter ego \u2014 a de-aged Nicolas Cage, in a swath of honey-blond hair and a shiny leather jacket, who tries to coax him into being the Cage he should be. The \u201creal\u201d Nic is riddled with self-doubt; the imaginary Nic is all teeth-flashing bravado. But, of course, that\u2019s exactly who Cage has been in movies like \u201cCon Air\u201d and \u201cFace\/Off\u201d and \u201cWild at Heart\u201d and \u201cNational Treasure\u201d \u2014 an actor who represses all doubt, and therefore seems heroic and ridiculous at the same moment.<\/p>\n<p>After a spa meeting with his agent (Neil Patrick Harris), it becomes clear that the only thing Cage is being offered isn\u2019t a movie. It\u2019s a $1 million gig to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to the Spanish coast of Mallorca and hang out with Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal), a wealthy arms dealer, on his birthday. Since Cage owes 600 grand to the Sunset Tower Hotel, the West Hollywood spot where he\u2019s been living for a year, he flies out to take the gig. Javi is a genial, flaked-out fan who has written his own script for Nic; he may also be a ruthless criminal. But either way, Javi believes in Nicolas Cage \u2014 in the myth of his flamboyant hyperbolic acting as a kind of mad-dog perfection. And so, of course, does Cage. They\u2019re perfectly matched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d is at once a gently preposterous buddy movie; a poker-faced crime thriller in which Nic is coerced, by a couple of CIA agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz), into spying on Javi, who they allege has kidnapped the daughter of the president of Catalonia; and a hall-of-mirrors romp in which the life of Nicolas Cage turns into a movie and then back again. Gormican stages it all with a witty instinct for how suspense can acquire comedy without losing its tension, but mostly he attunes every moment to Cage\u2019s hangdog anxiety, and to the drama-queen dimension that allows him to oscillate between the \u201creal\u201d Nic Cage and the Cage of his dreams. As Nic and Javi become friends, the two drop acid (in a sequence of hilariously precise paranoia) and they goad each other into taking each moment and kicking it up into their very own \u201cmovie.\u201d As Cage\u2019s ex-wife (Sharon Horgan), along with Addy, shows up to save him, and the real criminals come to the fore, the entire situation begins to coax Nicolas Cage into becoming\u2026<em>Nicolas Cage<\/em>. It\u2019s his destiny.<\/p>\n<p>The film is speckled with clips from Nicolas Cage movies, quotes and gestures form Nicolas Cage movies, and a visit to Javi\u2019s museum of Nicolas Cage memorabilia. Yet what makes \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d a joke thriller with an exuberant resonance is that its true subject is the magic of movies. It\u2019s about how an actor like Cage can mean so much to us because, in the very extremity of his flamboyance, he\u2019s acting out something that means so much to him. 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