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When people ask me what i think of werner herzogs bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, my son, my son, that was all in the last 10 years. Bad lieutenant downloadable video tulsa citycounty. Its primarily a cop procedural about the murder of a family in postkatrina new orleans. Only herzog could take something as soul deadening as a multiplex shootemup and turn it into a. Port of call new orleans as it wasnt really a remake, though almost everything in my summary of the plot of the original is in. I tell them that its absolutely greatjust not by typical crime drama standards. Nicolas cage as a cop so bad, hes good the new york times.

Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama film directed by werner herzog and starring nicolas cage, eva mendes, tom bower, jennifer coolidge, alvin xzibit joiner, val kilmer, and brad dourif. Bad lieutenant port of call new orleans is screening as part of an all day celebration of nicolas cage. If anything worth checking out for cages performance. Pork of cold two orleans, nicolas cage plays a crooked cop named terrence mcdonagh. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing bad lieutenant. If youre interested in either of the two insane pieces of cinema werner herzog completed this year, youve probably seen the crudely cut, salestype trailer for bad lieutenant. Although the title and the main character would suggest a remake of aber ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant, its not. At one point, he orders that a dead man be shot again because his soul is still dancing. Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans, all the rights belong to wga and i dont have any relations with them.

Port of call new orleans will appeal to fans who know the work of germanborn maverick director werner herzog. Dec 06, 2009 awesome scene from the bad lieutenant. Eventually they came to a compromise and combined both titles into one. Port of call new orleans, made in 2009 by werner herzog, follows terrence mcdonagh played by nicolas cage, a police officer in postkatrina new orleans, as he investigates the deaths of five senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. In this book devoted to the film, renowned photographer lena herzogs. Port of call new orleans is for everyone whos ever yearned to see a movie featuring a recently departed soul a literal soul break dancing, and point of view shots taken from the perspectives of imaginary iguanas. Werner herzogs remake of bad lieutenant is a bizarre triumph in which nicolas cage gives his best performance for years. Dec 16, 2009 and of course i have made quite a few feature films recently, like invincible, rescue dawn, bad lieutenant. I write poetry and short stories and watched a bunch of nicolas cage movies. Werner herzog wanted to call the film port of call. Gone is the man who gave face in dreck like the wicker man and ghost rider. Like much of the herzogkinski catalogue, its a case study in bugeyed monomania, and like ferraras original, its a descent into the swamplands of the human soul with a drugaddled, quasirighteous, borderlineinsane cop as your tour guide. I would imagine most people would consider that moment to be when nic cages bad lieutenant, terrence mcdonagh, watches two imaginary lizards cavorting on his coffee table while conducting a police stakeout. According to director werner herzog in paul cronins interview book.

The bad lieutenat nick cage threatens an old lady and. Cage plays a new orleans cop terence mcdonagh who is addicted to painkillers, cocaine, just drugs in general, likes to gamble, has a prostitute gf eva mendes, has a recovering alcoholic father. Top 10 crazy cocaine movie scenes 2016 tv episode shoot him again, his soul s still dancing gets an honorable mention. What it isnt, despite its cumbersome title and narrative similarities, is a remake of abel ferraras scummy 1992 masterpiece. New orleans, but the producers wanted to call the film the bad lieutenant they had purchased remake rights to the 1992 film bad lieutenant and wanted to make a franchise. The road to his drug addiction is not clearly presented either. The dancing soul scene is an obvious homage to herzogs early classic. Bad lieutenant and recent comicbook caper kickass slapped down. I felt the original was awesome, a masterful movie but yet so dark, so sad, but unflinching, and depressing, this bad lieutenant port of call new orleans didnt leave me with that feeling, it was cages performance that hooked me and had me laughing at some of the crazy scenes. Even ten years on, its strange to contemplate just how weird a project 2009s bad lieutenant.

A new trailer for werner herzogs grizzly man bad lieutenant. Nicolas cage celebrity profile check out the latest nicolas cage photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. This movie is not a good choice for a youth to watch. Werner herzogs first americanset fictional feature since stroszek, the canniest use in recent memory of nicolas cages bruisepurple twitchiness, and, pound by pound, arguably the years funniest film.

Port of call new orleans is my favourite amongst these later films, but i wonder if this is partly because herzogs personality is contained within the generic format. This includes the ideas for the scenes at the beginning and at the end aquarium, the dancing soul scene, the inclusion of the iguanas, the alligator lying on the highway run over, mcdonaghs monologue about his silver. Jun 01, 2011 abel ferraras cult crime drama bad lieutenant is given a sister film with this werner herzoghelmed production that takes its inspiration from the original, but focuses on new characters and. Port of call new orleans, all manner of tricks blend with.

Port of call new orleans is not its title, but the point of it. Port of call new orleans, which is only a few years old but has a justifiable cult following all the same, i hedge a little. Port of call new orleans where the absurdity hits a boiling point and it goes from an ok police procedural to an absolutely nutso character study. According to director werner herzog in paul cronins interview book, some of the most. In bad lieutenant we discover a cage clearly tapping a new, electrifying energy. The film is a quasiremake of abel ferraras infamous 1992 film, which. Aug 05, 2009 i f i had to choose the most important films of the 1990s, within the top three would probably be abel ferraras bad lieutenant. But this bad lieutenant is far far different than the gritty, dark, depressing original, played by perfection by keitel. May 22, 2010 he later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. But its not a sequel, nor really a remake, nor was it authorized by the ferrara who, somewhat.

Either you see mcdonagh as someone who deserved every bad thing he got during the movie and manages to avoid all that, or as a designated hero whose life gets piled by problem after problem and had to set. Port of call new orleans, tacitly addresses this dilemma. Abel ferraras cult crime drama bad lieutenant is given a sister film with this werner herzoghelmed production that takes its inspiration from the original. And indeed, the new film has much in common with some of herzogs crazed past masterworks like aguirre, the wrath of god 1972 and fitzcarraldo 1982. Port of call new orleans is one of the most brilliant portraits of true hell ive ever been exposed to. It wants to tell that a good cop turns bad because of back pain, but this transition is so unconvincing. Bad lieutenant 2009 is a good movie for cage to go crazy. Abel ferraras crazed tale of a crackaddled cop turns into something totally different albeit equally deranged in werner herzogs funky. Port of call new orleans was the film shares a title and a barebones plot similarity with bad lieutenant, abel ferreras acclaimed 1992 drama about a troubled, drugaddled new york city cop. Not since martin scorsese bared his faith in the last temptation of christ did a film so aggressively contemplate the horror of grappling with body and soul. Pocno fresh off the heels of the hour and a half long boredom parade that was the runner, and holy fucking shit, this movie is how nicolas cage should be used. Port of call new orleans what an ungainly title for a movie. Jacob weisberg talks to werner herzog about bad lieutenant.

Bad lieutenant is a 1992 american neonoir crime drama film directed by abel ferrara. Port of call new orleans succeeds brilliantly as failure, as herzog and the terrifically inept nicolas cage manipulate the conventions of the police genre for their own personal amusement, foregoing the standard tedium of inflated narrative tension and scoredriven suspense in favor of moments of delirious dissonance and. The bad lieutenant port of call new orleans when i wrote about abel ferraras bad lieutenant about 2 years ago i said that should be one of the movies they remake in be kind rewind, or some kids should do a remake in their backyard, or you should use scenes from it for your monologue in acting class. Cage orders the dealers to shoot the body again because his soul is still dancing, before he breaks. Port of call new orleans 610 movie clip 2009 hd duration. New orleans dvd 2010 very strong content and well played the lieutenant is addicted to drugs played by nicolas cage he is, in his roll, a very foul leader of crimes in order to lead this chosen path.

The film stars harvey keitel as the titular bad lieutenant as well as victor argo and paul calderon. Befitting its unorthodox origins, this bad lieutenant benefits from werner herzogs typically fearless direction and a delightfully unhinged nicolas cage in the title role. He later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans has an unbelievably bad plot. For the band that includes former members of new order, see bad lieutenant band. It gives us a lead character thats as immoral as they come and whose prime determination in life is to go as far down the downward spiral as life will allow him. Soul still dancing one of the best scene in this movie. Bad lieutenant may be a fairly conventional police thriller but it also. You might ask the same questions of the film itself, directed. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time. Port of call new orleans is an interesting and entertaining combination of werner herzogs direction and nicolas cages acting, a movie that is a more surreal and energetic take on the kind of corrupt cop story which has been played out in so many other films. Sean bonnette shoot him again cause i can see his soul dancing shoot him again cause i can see his soul dancing im gonna miss this place if you give it to me ill give it back much harder if you treat me like a son, then ill treat you like a daughter everyone has a future, everyone has a soul everyone has a heart, they have a mind, they have control ohoh xiu xius jamie. Or the notorious dancing soul scene which, srsly, is better than it sounds.