Port of call new orleans 210 movie clip i love it, i just love it. Port of call new orleans, but it might more usefully have. Port of call new orleans 2009 and i was wondering about the ending. The biggest new release of the week is bad lieutenant.
During his heroic act, mcdonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to. Port of call new orleans, was released in 2009, seventeen years after the first films release. The film takes its title from abel ferraras 1992 film, bad lieutenant. Hunched over by chronic back pain, cages crooked cop terence mcdonagh hauls his torqued frame by crackfueled force of will through a nearly deserted. A drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal. 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,xzibit, val kilmer and brad dourif. In bad lieutenant we discover a cage clearly tapping a new, electrifying energy. Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing bad lieutenant. Nicolas cage as a cop so bad, hes good the new york times. Port of call new orleans 610 movie clip 2009 hd duration. Director werner herzogs career is a catalog of extremes, and bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans has got to be one of the most insane films ive seen come out of this century, which doesnt seem all too shocking because herzog is apparently one of the craziest filmmakers who has ever lived and unsurprisingly nicolas cage is one of the craziest actors to step in front of the camera. Port of call new orleans, performance comes from the shoulders. Immediately after nicolas cages character snorts a line from the bag of uncut heroin and sits next to his fathers wife to watch the football game, it cuts to a scene in which hes walking into the police station, sitting down at his desk.
Nicolas cage steps into harvey keitels mold of a corrupt and drugaddled police officer, with the scummy setting moving from new york city to new orleans. The biggest selling release of the week is the lord of the rings the theatrical trilogy on bluray, but the extended edition has already been announced. A new trailer for werner herzogs grizzly man bad lieutenant. Terrance mcdonagh nicolas cage, under the influence of cocaine, imagines a pair of iguanas in the midst of a police stakeout and asks his partner val kilmer, what are those fuckin iguanas doing on.
A man snorts cocaine while driving a car with a teenage boy sleeping in the passenger seat. He later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. 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. Port of call new orleans not a sequel, dammit hits theaters on december 11, 2009. It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. Bad lieutenant abel ferraras crazed tale of a crackaddled cop turns into something totally different albeit equally deranged in werner herzogs funky, surreal reboot. The film was directed by werner herzog and stars nicolas cage and eva mendes. Bad lieutenant is set in new orleans after katrina. Port of call new orleans 2009 is a pretty surreal herzog film that features one of my favorite nicolas cage performances one as a deranged crackaddicted cop. I also think its interesting to note that the title screen calls it the bad lieutenant. 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. Shot in postkatrina new orleans presumably so that herzog could take advantage of an atmosphere of decay and wreckage that no production design could match, bad lieutenant stars nicolas cage as terence mcdonagh, a cop who. The plot is secondary to the performances and herzogs bold visual style, which goes off the rails accordingly with each mcdonagh drug binge. Port of call new orleans, cage is a drugaddicted cop who bends the rules and breaks the law even as he risks.
Though theres a legitimate attempt to engage with new orleans postkatrina, the tone is one. Port of call new orleans haters outside of the fact that the cop does drugs, its quite different, actor says to fans of the original. Pocno is something of a lark, an opportunity for herzog to thumb his nose at genre convention and fuck around with goofy visual conceits like iguanacam and for cage to reach a new stratosphere of overthetop. Port of call new orleans has been done to twisted perfection. A woman unzips a mans pants and they begin to have active, thrusting intercourse as she stands in front of him in a parking lot, and another man watches the womans bare buttocks are seen as the man lifts her skirt and grabs her butt while asking her sexually explicit questions. Port of call new orleans will appeal to fans who know the work of germanborn maverick director werner herzog.
Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans, it was described as a sequel to bad lieutenant, abel ferraras 1992 cult favorite about a drug and gamblingaddicted police. Port of call new orleans, tacitly addresses this dilemma. A man has a woman blow smoke from a crack pipe into his mouth. Drug bust, by kurt loder nicolas cage is illserved by this very silly movie.
It places him in a devastated new orleans not long after hurricane katrina. 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. Herzogs maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in. 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. I think we finally found the missing the from the fast and the furious. Port of call new orleans 2009, theyll be adding one more scene to that list. Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. Im not sure what the whole film amounts to, and im not sure it amounts to anything.
Nicolas cage steps into harvey keitels mold of a corrupt and drugaddled police officer, with the scummy setting moving from new york city to. Port of call new orleans is a terrible title for werner herzogs new film. We only see one act of bravery, and that is not enough to establish him as a good cop. R, 2 h 2 min nicolas cage, eva mendes, val kilmer, xzibit director. It has swearing, drug use, sexual situations and violence that is, all things considered, fairly restrained. Pressman films isnt really a remake of bad lieutenant, abel ferraras 1992 exploration of a crooked cops journey through the depths of. Terrence mcdonagh, a new orleans police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during hurricane katrina. The original draft of the screenplay took place in new york like abel ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant a film to which herzogs film of william finkelsteins screenplay owes essentially no debt whatever, but the transfer of the action to new orleans in 2006 is essential what makes port of call. And it gradually reveals itself as a sly comedy about. Port of call new orleans is not its title, but the point of it. The film is a quasiremake of abel ferraras infamous 1992 film, which.
Port of call new orleans has an unbelievably bad plot. This tidbit of information appears in the closing credits of herzogs bad lieutenant. The road to his drug addiction is not clearly presented either. In the first scene he and his police buddy val killmar scabrously powerful, the film dives into the addictive psyche, mixing. It wants to tell that a good cop turns bad because of back pain, but this transition is so unconvincing. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time. Gone is the man who gave face in dreck like the wicker man and ghost rider. Port of call new orleans, nicolas cages drugaddicted police detective walks into a room where several of his coworkers are conducting a surveillance operation. Werner herzog has said that cinema comes from the knees and thighs, but for nicolas cage in the nonremake bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans 2009 parents guide add to guide. Port of call, new orleans creates a dire portrait of a rapist, murderer, drug addict, corrupt cop and degenerate paranoid whos very apprehensive about iguanas. Port of call new orleansthe subtitle makes it charmingly unwieldyis everything the trailer promised and so much more, a batty policier fueled by evocative local color and a sublimely deranged lead performance that recalls herzogs work with the wildeyed klaus kinski. Nicolas cage terence mcdonagh, eva mendes frankie donnenfield, val kilmer stevie pruit, alvin xzibit joiner big fate, fairuza balk heidi, shawn hatosy armand benoit, jennifer coolidge genevieve. This crackinduced rant is just one of many ridiculous scenes that you will behold when bad lieutenant.