Ok, you’ve heard of the lunacy in Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans” starring Nicolas Cage. The iguana hallucinations, the lucky crackpipe, the alligator POV shots, the breakdancing spirit of a dead guy and more. We still can’t say it’s an overall great or successful film, but we suppose if you just want to take the madness as it comes you’ll at least enjoy the absurdist parts of the film which are many (and though the New York Times devoted a whole feature this weekend to Cage’s wild performance and how it flirts on the edge of unintentional laughter with precision, we’d say it’s definitely less self-contained and genius then they posit).
Warning, this is pretty much safe for work, but it might be the centerpiece scene in the film. So if you don’t want to spoil anything for yourself, don’t watch it (but don’t worry, it doesn’t spoil the “plot”). “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans” hits theaters in select cities (eight of them) on November 20 and then will eventually expand to nineteen cities in total across the U.S. and Canada, so far. If it goes wider depends on how it does.
Oh man, this clip, edited by a YouTube user is gold (via Jeff Wells).
