Why is Nick Cage still Employed?
Last night walking home from the RedLight Children Campaign & Marie Claire event at Japanois, I stumbled upon the filmming of that tired actor, Nicholas Cage’s, new movie “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
I learned this because while riding in a cab down the closed off 17th Street, I stuck my head out the window and asked one of the PA’s if, quote:
“That movie they crashed the ferrari in Times Square?”
to which he replied,
“It was a Lambo.” to which I thought to myself…
Why is Nick Cage still getting paid to make movies? At best, he’s a now B-List actor who, I’m assuming, movie studios believe he attracts a following without the hefty paycheck Travolta or Washington will demand. This thought immediately segwayed into the last “good” Nick Cage movie being Face/Off and my close confidante proclaimed it was Leaving Las Vegas (which I’ve never seen).
In all fairness, the Cage did have some good films in his reel of credentials, watch The Rock, but seriously he’s tired, old and kind of freaks me out now with his bug eyes and a presumed face lift. His “National Treasure” movies are mere rip offs of Dan Brown novels and he had that recent flop of a movie “Knowing” (yea, you didn’t know it was a movie did ya?).
I was also baffled err in awe of what a production this whole shananigan of a movie it was. They closed down 6th Avenue and all of 17th street to film a “20 second scene” in which the Cage wasn’t even in! To make matters worse, there was endles PAs sitting around twittling (or were they tweeting?)….recession? what recession? The movie industry is booming, baby! booming!
I will admit that it never gets old watching movies being made on the busy streets. I’m kind of still hoping that one day I’ll walk through a set and the director will be like:
“Who is that strapping young buck of a man dressed so dapperly?” to which I’ll reply:
“My name is Andres Leonardo Ortega, and here is my head shot.” And I’ll flash my driver’s license pretending it was a headshot because I don’t really have a head shot. Then he’ll offer me the lead role in his movie, assuming its something I’ll actually want to be in— that’s to say NOT A NICK CAGE movie. And I’ll be the next “It Guy” and the rest will be crab cakes.
I wonder how many New York waiters, I mean actors, have the same ambition as I?
I also stumbled upon the set of Step Up 3D the other day walking down 10th Street in the East Village…maybe I can just jump into their choreographed number and make my big break happen there, but seriously a third Step Up? WHY?!
