#327: Cage Match, Pt. 2 — The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The new THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT contains a lot of the same DNA as ADAPTATION, but instead of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the film’s meta energy is focused on star Nicolas Cage, once again playing two competing sides of the same tortured talent. This week we get into how the confluence of actor, persona, and screenplay works differently in each film, but first we process UNBEARABLE WEIGHT’s lighthearted excavation of its central talent, and consider whether we may have already moved past the stage of Cage’s career that the film is commenting on. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about ADAPTATION, THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, Nicolas Cage, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected]. We may respond to it on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes, recommendations, and more. Outro music: Kesha, “Nicolas Cage” Next pairing: Sam Raimi’s DARKMAN and DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:41.8	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:45.2	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:54.1	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:57.1	I'm Keith Phipps here with...
0:59.0	Genevieve Kosky.
1:00.2	Scott Tobias.
1:01.4	And Tasha Robinson.
1:02.9	On last week's episode, we talked about adaptation, a Charlie Kaufman scripted Spike Jones
1:07.6	directed film starring Nicholas Cage as a fictionalized version of Charlie
1:11.1	Kaufman and a wholly fictionalized version of his brother Donald. It's an exploration of the themes
1:16.4	of its ostensible source material, Susan Orleans, The Orchid Thief, and a reflection on the
1:20.9	process of creation and Hollywood expectations. There's a lot of adaptation DNA in the unbearable weight
1:26.7	of massive talent, as we'll no doubt
1:28.3	cover in our discussion.
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