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So technically, I suppose I am going against Guideline #1 (watching movies according to chronological release date) since Racing with the Moon came before The Cotton Club (1984) but because Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club shared so many of the same actors and the same director, I’ve decide to push this one up in…
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The Criterion Collection DVD version of Francis Ford Coppola directed Rumble Fish (1983) includes bonus content in the form of a documentary entitled: Locations: Looking for Rusty James. In it, Alberto Fuguet, a Chilean movie director, explores the profound impact that the movie had upon him and many young South American men in the 1980s.…
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Like totally tubular and bodacious, it’s Nicolas Cage at last! Continuing on a sub-theme of our last post, the mallification of America, I present you with the stereotyped female embodiment of this concept, i.e. the west coast “valley girl”. Here’s a definition: A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s:…
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So, in my first failed attempt to watch a Nicolas Cage movie, I watched a movie in which he did not appear. In my second attempt, I watched another movie in which Nicolas Cage did not appear. A technicality perhaps, but progress was made nonetheless. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Nicolas Coppola plays a…
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[editor’s note: re-dated this blog for chronological consistency, but it was first published on 2/22/23] As previously discussed, I made a bit of mistake when I tried to watch Nicolas Cage’s first film, The Best of Times (1981). After I goofed up, I decided to skip Nicolas Cage’s first credited appearance because I feared I…
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Before I decided to officially begin The World According to Cage journey with all its associated guidelines and disclaimers, I had a simpler aspiration. I just thought I would casually start watching Nicolas Cage movies from the beginning of his career to see how they (and he) evolved over time. After quick search #1 of…
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WATC(H) = World According to Cage (Hee-haaaaaii!*) A guy I know, Tom, has been working his way through all of Nicolas Cage’s movies and has been reviewing them on Instagram where he posts them to the nicolas_cage_is_a_genius. Besides enjoying his Cage-themed artwork (Tom’s an art director at a well-known game company), and the excellent reviews,…
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When Christa came up with this idea six+ years ago, I have to admit I had a lot of skepticism that it could work and be sustainable. But as a pessimist, I am used to being WRONG. And this was one of those times. Because of Christa’s vision/hope and the encouragement and contribution of many…
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It’s been a long and glorious ride for yetispeak but I finally decided I needed a change of scenery and content. Please come see my new blog the (almost) good news with all new content (and hopefully greater frequency of posts.) Thanks for reading and following the journey so far. Alas, we begin a whole…
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From T.S. Eliot’s “The Four Quartets”: In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer By strength and submission, has already been discovered Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope To emulate–but there is no competition– There is only the fight…
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