I debated doing a Playlist of both Bad Lieutenant and the new HBO show Treme...both about the city I love New Orleans...but I will wait on Treme till the 10 show season ends I think...by the way, for The Wire fans ...the show features, Cool Lester Smooth, Bunk, Mr Prezbo, Slim Charles and even Bubbles AA Sponser...
A lot has been written about "Crazy Nick Cage"...his performance is less crazy then in the Vampires Kiss, less crazy than Wild At Heart, less crazy then Peggy Sue Got Married...but it's also better than your average Nick Cage performance...Nick Cage on crack would act this way in real life...the film directed by Werner Herzog oscillates between B-Movie schlocky dialogue (see the Val KIlmer parts), serious melodrama (see the Eva Mendes parts) and bad ass cracked out Nick Cage whose desperation and drug addiction leads to some funny and not intentionally funny scenes (see the soul dancing and how he stares at lizards)...I would recommend this film..it gives the vibe of a city and a man on the brink of destruction and the passage of a storm (see Hurricane Katrina)...I also see similarities between the major character and the city they inhabit like Ed Norton and New York in 25th Hour.
By the way, the original Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel is good, too...good if you don't mind seeing Harvey Keitel's penis..and it's not as funny of a film
Till the break of dawn...TILL THE BREAK OF DAWN
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