![]() ![]() But when he won Best Actor for 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas - still one of the youngest men to ever win a prize that often feels like a lifetime-achievement award for a long career - it was a coronation for this actor’s actor, the sort celebrated for his intense, burning performances. He was a mainstay of daring independent cinema, starring in Wild at Heart and Red Rock West, while occasionally nodding to the mainstream by doing bad comedies ( Amos & Andrew) and okay rom-coms ( Honeymoon in Vegas, It Could Happen to You). in Raising Arizona or his nervy, cockroach-eating character in Vampire’s Kiss.)Īs the 1990s got underway, Cage’s reputation only grew. (And that’s not even mentioning his iconic H.I. From a small part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High to roles in his uncle Francis Ford Coppola’s films - Cage didn’t perform under the Coppola name because he didn’t want to get by on nepotism - to being the romantic interest in the Oscar-winning Moonstruck, he’d watched his profile rise significantly in the 1980s. It felt like a sellout - a very 1997 thing to say.īy the time of Con Air’s release, Cage (who turned 33 earlier that year) had been part of movies for nearly two decades. Sure, he had starred in Hollywood movies prior to Con Air - including action flicks - but it was jarring to see one of America’s most exciting, challenging arthouse actors as Cameron Poe, a modest Alabama military veteran who goes to jail after accidentally killing a guy who’d been harassing him and his wife. But in the early summer of 1997, it was clear that there was something different about the Leaving Las Vegas Oscar-winner. It wasn’t necessarily the Southern accent, because Nicolas Cage had done that before. ![]() ![]() Maybe it was the tanktop and the bulging biceps. Come for the Chumbawamba, and stay for the return of the Mack. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and we’re here to relive every minute of it. 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened - 1997. ![]()
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