Monday, September 28, 2009
Bad Lieutenant: good poster?
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM
The first poster for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has surfaced. From the tight focus on Nic Cage's enormous gun (which seems to impress/intrigue Eva Mendes) to his showing-off of the liner of his fly jacket, to the skyline of a city that doesn't seem to be New Orleans, it's really ... something. What do you think?
BL: POCNO screens Oct. 10 at the New Orleans Film Festival.
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Kevin, You must not be familiar with the original movie! This poster is an obvious homage to (or ripoff of, depending on your point of view) the original. See this image: http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/189836.1020.A.jpg for reference.
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Interesting. Let me see if I can guess the plot. Nicolas Cage plays a cop with an absurd southern accent who can see the future. He is chasing down a treasure, buried on Bourbon Street by the Founding Fathers on behalf of The Illuminati (during "the" Mardi Gras, of course). During the hunt, he will run out of the swamp, through a cemetery and onto a streetcar (all within a three block span). Eva Mendes is a direct descendent of a voodoo priestess who cast a spell on Cage's great-great grandfather but who has fallen in love with Cage after a steamy encounter at some random bar/po-boy joint/waterfront location in a fishing village. The point of this ridiculous mess of a movie being he has to find the treasure before a hurricane hits the city. To make him more "New Orleeian", has a penchant for Dixie Beer, crawdads, cafe au lait, and beignets. Thanks, but I'll pass.
I've got to add that I like the original poster much better. It has a raw, gritty quality that perfectly matches the movie and Keitel's ballsy performance. I suspect that Cage won't come anywhere close to Keitel's intensity. That's the real travesty of this film: that an intense director like Herzog would choose such a lightweight mope of an actor like Cage. Cage reminds me of Woody Allen. He always has this befuddled expression on his face and mumbles his lines. He'll just never be a convincing tough-guy; with that in mind the poster seems sad and pathetic.
