Unlike most movie stars - who are walking answers, machines who reliably fill expectations rather than confound them - Nicolas Cage rarely does the obvious thing, whether in his choice of roles or how he plays them.
(His most recent release: the straightforwardly titled thriller “A Score to Settle.”) But mostly I wanted to know the method behind the seeming madness that informs so many of his performances. I wanted to know why Cage, Hollywood’s greatest surrealist, whose personal and creative unpredictability has led him to attain near-mythological status in certain corners of the internet, acts in so many movies - 20 in the last two years - and why so few of them make mainstream ripples. I wanted to know why this divisive, mercurial actor has waged a career-long, one-man war against naturalism, refusing to let staid ideas about how people might behave in “real life” dictate his performances. There are questions I’ve wanted to ask Nicolas Cage for years.
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