(S2, E19) Uncaging the Cage - Revisiting ‘Con Air’
On this week’s Pop Culture Boner takes a look at Nicolas Cage’s performance in the 1997 classic Con Air? Why does John Cusack put all the baddies on one plane? Why is John Malkovich there? Can you redeem yourself by deciding to not murder a small girl in the desert? So many questions. So few answers.
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Some references are below:
Nicolas Cage breaks down his most iconic characters (2018, GQ)
Supermax prisons (Wikipedia)
David McGowan (2017, Celebrity Studies, 8) - Nicolas Cage – good or bad? Stardom, performance, and memes in the age of the Internet
Sean O’Sullivan (2001, The Howard Journal, 40) - Representations of Prison in Nineties Hollywood Cinema: From Con Air to The Shawshank Redemption
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