Mandy
Nicolas Cage has revealed that part of his performance in the crazy revenge thrillerMandywere inspired byFriday the 13thkiller Jason Voorhees . take by Panos Cosmatos , Mandyfollows Cage ’s character Red Miller - described as a " broken and obsessed man " - as he endure on a berserk violent disorder of revenge against the religious sect who savagely butcher the honey of his life . The movie currently carries a 97 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes , with reader squall it everything from " visionary " to " brain - melting , " while hailing Cage ’s performance as one of the best of his long , storied career .
Cage of courseis known for his over - the - top actingin motion-picture show ranging fromCon AirtoThe Wicker Man , but whenthe lagger forMandycame out , it became vindicated that this finical coop performance is even crazier than usual . In the trailer , a line of descent - pitter-patter Cage rants and jabber in grief over the death of his titular love , and goes to warfare against his enemies armed with a bizarre axe that seem like something out of Norse mythology . At one point , a chainsaw - wield coop does battle against a man arm with an even heavy chainsaw . It ’s that form of movie .
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speak toEW , Cage explained that he andMandydirector Cosmatos delineate on a very unusual - but queerly appropriate - source when working out how Cage ’s character should behave later on in the movie after he turns into a relentless killing motorcar . That strange inspiration ? The hockey - masked slayer Jason Voorhees from theFriday the 13thmovies . Cage said :
" Before he wassail that supernatural drug , or whatever it is , his combat style is more ferocious , is more cat - corresponding and feral . Whereas after the drug , there ’s a transmutation where he becomes almost like a golem , the ancient Jewish robot that was a supernatural statue that came to lifespan . And I cerebrate Panos want that , he want me to be almost like Jason - esque , you recognize , from those repugnance picture show that were so popular . Panos and I really both decided what the graph of the performance would be . How much more Jason - esque is he there ? Or like a statue there ? We work up this both together . ”
In most of theFriday the 13thmovies , Jason Voorhees is essentially a fatuous , soulless killing car who has perfectly no human qualities bequeath at all . The hulking Jason spends most of his clock time stalking his ( ordinarily ) adolescent victim with a inexorability that is really terrifying . It makes sense then that Cage and Cosmatos would release to Jason for inspiration in working out how Red Miller should look and behave after he ’s taken the psychodelic drug that unlock his privileged liquidator , and permit him to search revenge on the people who kill his Mandy .
When it total to screwball thing Cage has done in moving-picture show , channeling the faceless , mute killer from a serial of slasher films is n’t even that high on the list . This is after all the military personnel who hold his carrying out inPeggy Sue Got Marriedwas inspired by the quality of Pokey from Gumby . He also revealed that , to get angry enough for his performance inMom and Dad , he thought about how much he hated " The Hokey Pokey " ( a moment of genius that waslater exercise into the film ) . Now that he ’s done Jason Voorhees inMandy , perhaps Cage could channel some other famous speculative guy wire from horror movies in the future . Of course , there ’s one specific high-risk guy - not from a horror movie - John Cage admitshe would be game to sample .
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Source : EW
