The extravagant life of Nicolas Cage, an actor who accumulates an Oscar and an endless list of memes

You’ve most likely seen a movie with Nicolas Cage or come across a meme about him on social media. Some people consider him a terrible actor, while others love his work and think he really deserved the Oscar for Best Actor in 1996. Regardless of one’s taste, what really matters is that this famous actor is always on people’s lips , either because of the many films he starred in, or because he became a stamped figure in Internet memes.

With that in mind, the team at awesome.club decided to tell a little about the career of actor Nicolas Cage through the films he played and the memes that were created about him.

Nicolas Kim Coppola was born into the Coppola family and at the beginning of his career he decided to adopt the stage name Nicolas Cage, most likely thinking about the individual success he wanted to achieve. The first three films he worked on were directed by his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, but they were just the beginning of a long career that, as you may know, had many ups and downs.

Part of the actor’s success is due to a very peculiar acting technique; it is because of her that many people so easily remember his face. We are referring to a type of performance that, although it may seem exaggerated, is a kind of experiment in modern expressionism. It is also thanks to this “technique” that we were able to see great movies (which also yielded unforgettable memes), such as A Strange Vampire, in which his character goes crazy believing he was kissed by a vampire. “Think of the stars of silent films and German expressionism. I was trying to be abstract. Naturalism is a style, and I wanted to be more expressionist”, commented the actor.

The first phase of Nicolas Cage’s career was marked by experimentation and featured films such as Rebel Dreams, Moonspell and Wild Heart. Little by little, the actor improved his technique and understood better in which films it was convenient to use it. The actor explains that he always tries new styles of interpretation when his characters “have problems, which could be a mental illness, an addiction or whatever. There is an organic engine that drives this behavior, and so I made the decision to apply it and try it out.”

As time went by, Nicolas Cage began to play more important roles that made him even more famous. In this other stage, he participated in great blockbusters, such as Con Air: Rota de Fuga, A Outra Face or A Rocha. These movies also spawned viral memes that made the actor even better known, including among people who had never seen his movies.

However, he did not see this as the end of his prestigious career, after all it was during this phase that he won an Oscar (Leaving Las Vegas) and was nominated for another (Adaptation).

Everything seemed to be going smoothly for the actor, but some personal and financial problems caused him to fall into a kind of oblivion.

There are those who say that this phase was just the result of his technique, used at inappropriate times, and his participation in films that received terrible reviews. Among them are The Sacrifice, Ghost Rider, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Seer. However, if it weren’t for this “bad phase” in the actor’s career, we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to read memes like the famous “Your argument is invalid”.

That’s why the actor has become one of the Internet’s favorite faces. The euphoria about him is so great that anything about his life can become a meme, as long as it contains his face, of course.

One of the reasons that could explain the fact that the actor’s face is so well received by Internet meme creators is that he is not just eccentric on screen. Nicolas Cage is also a very peculiar character when he’s off camera. For example, he named his son “Kal-El”, after the character in the DC comics. In addition, he has a strange obsession with exotic animals, including octopuses, snakes, sharks; plus he sleeps with his crocodiles. His fascination with different animals also led him to buy, through an auction, a tarbosaurus fossil, but for legal reasons he was unable to keep it.

Another proof of his eccentricity is his interest in “enchanted” properties. The actor bought several “cursed” mansions, and even acquired a sarcophagus that has specifications for his eternal rest.

Some things seem a little too crazy, don’t they? However, all of this explains the existence of people on Twitter who say things like, “I really understand that there is a whole genre of Nicolas Cage memes about other people.”

Anyway, lucky for the actor and his fans, everything seems to indicate that his career will once again change direction, and it seems that the return is being very positive🇧🇷 In recent years, he has appeared in films that have been well received by critics, such as Mother and Father, Mandy: Vengeance, PIG: The Revenge and The Weight of the Talent. In the latter, he had the opportunity to play himself and take a nostalgic trip through his performances, proving once again why he has already won an Oscar.

Do you like Nicolas Cage movies? And how would you react if it suddenly turned into a meme? Tell in the comments.