![]() ![]() You just tend to remember the raging infernos more - the bad lieutenants and ghost riders, the bug-eyed, roach-chomping, bee-hating turns. His simmering-below-the-surface game is strong. ![]() And even though he’s risked devaluing his currency by working at an insanely prolific rate - scrolling down his IMDb page will give you carpal-tunnel syndrome - Cage is the sort of person who can wow you or wound you be playing either extreme. “I design where the top is.”) They just aren’t allowed to do both, which vexes him to no end. (“You show me where the top is, and I’ll let you know whether I’m over it or not,” he told Variety. He once lamented that actors can either pitch things slow and low or at “scraping at THE DOOR” levels of Kabuki-like performance. We’d simply like to point out that there are few, if any, movie stars working today who’ve been so determined to explore the outer limits of their roles, even if that means going to truly ridiculous places. We’ve come to neither bury nor praise this Caesar of screen emoting/screaming. And then there are others for whom no gesture is too broad or baroque, the kind who not only want to play all the scales but to play every single one of them all at once. There are some performers who prefer a more minimalist approach, for whom less-is-more is a mantra. There are some actors who aim for a sort of modest-to-Method-run-amuck realism - they want/need you to see every muscle straining in the name of disappearing into an everyman character, to prove they can turn the quotidian task of putting on socks into an elaborate tribute to commitment.
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