By Robert Scucci
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Question time: what does 1992 do Bad lieutenant and Nicolas Cage in 2009 with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Have in common? Absolutely nothing, because Werner Herzog, the director of this last title, had not seen Abel Ferrara’s original film at the time Call port in New Orleans was produced. While Ferrara was vehemently against this alleged remake, Herzog has repeatedly recorded that the films had nothing in common apart from the title, which refers to his corrupt police officer, otherwise called the bad lieutenant.

The two filmmakers had a quarrel drawn on the issue, but apparently buried the ax in 2018.

In other words, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is not a remake when you compare it to the Ferrara film, but an archetype of similar character is explored via the lieutenant of Nicolas Cage, Terence McDonagh.

From the good officer to the bad lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansAs its title suggests, concerns Terence McDonagh by Nicolas Cage, a very bad lieutenant. Supporting a life injury after saving a drowning prisoner, Terence is promoted to the lieutenant, and thanks to his prescription doctor has a script open to Vicodin to help manage his chronic pain. Noting that he can barely spend the day with what is prescribed to him, Terence turns to gradually more difficult drugs, leading him to steal all the narcotics in Annex 1 of the proof room on which Nicolas cage.

Despite the deterioration of McDonagh in the mental and physical state Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansHe always does a first -rate detective work … in a way.

Although the instincts of Terence often lead him to the right places during his current investigation into the brutal murder of five illegal immigrants, he has little or no control over his impulses or his dependence, which often leads to disastrous results in the form of mess with the bad people in search of a known insulsive gang leader under the name of big fate (Alvin “xzibit” handcuffed).

Not bad in the sense that he is hard, but bad in the sense that he does not do a very good job

Nicolas Cage channels the same addictive behavior in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans This helped him bring back to the house an academy for his representation of Ben Sanderson Leave Las VegasAnd I don’t even want to know what kind of “research” he did to be able to boast if in a convincing and enthusiastic way the virtues of his “lucky crack pipe”. While the professional life of Terence McDonagh becomes more chaotic, it becomes clear that his personal life is not in better form. His girlfriend, Frankie Donnfeld (Eva Mendes), is an escort for high rolls, and Terence frequently strikes her for drugs during the stopwatch, most often in broad daylight when all his eyes are on him.

In addition, his ever growing game debt with his bookmaker, Ned Shoenholtz (Brad Dourif), stimulating just as bad as his drug addiction problem, which only does worse when Frankie moves with her alcoholic father and her mother-in-law, Pat (Tom Bower) and Geneviève (Jennifer Coolidge). Just when you think things can’t get worse Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansTerence still finds a way to achieve it, with results that will ultimately surprise you, given to what extent it becomes disturbed as the film progresses in its second and third acts thanks to Nicolas Cage, understanding of the mission.

Streaming Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Do what it does best in the form of slowly losing your head until Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Degenerates to the point of not coming back, it is one of the films of the filmography of Nicolas Cage which confirms how a legend it is. Having recently looked at Tap For the first time, I have the impression that Cage decided to perfect the atmosphere and the attitude he originally wanted to capture in the 1993 neo-ou disaster, and does it to the shovel thanks to the brilliant scenario written by William M. Finkelstein and the director of Werner Herzog.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is an odyssey in drug addiction about a corrupt cop at the height of dependence which still knows how to do a good work of old -fashioned detective when he puts his mind. Although it is difficult to seek a character as unthinkable volatile and above all irremediable, you will always encourage him, hoping that he is not that far that he has completely lost his way.

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