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. Port of call new orleans 2009 terence mcdonagh nicolas cage isnt doing so well. Port of call new orleans, which is loosley based the original film. Port of call new orleans and its actually a remake of the harvey keitel film of the same name minus the bit about new orleans. Port of call new orleans stars nicolas cage, eva mendes, val kilmer, fairuza balk, jennifer coolidge, vondie curtis hall, shawn hatosy, denzel whitaker, xzibit, katie chonacas and. This bad lieutenants pain is less punishment than righteous realignment, a reflection of the nutty, debased, and utterly chaotic world around him. Nov 19, 2009 when i first read about bad lieutenant. He has a nasty painkiller addiction, courtesy of an injury he sustained while rescuing a. Port of call new orleans opens with the image of a snake swimming through the flood waters of new orleans, and youll have go a long way to find a more apt metaphor to kick off a picture with. Though theres a legitimate attempt to engage with new orleans postkatrina, the tone is one. It is, at risk of putting too fine a point on it, almost.
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. Take a look at this anticipated new cop drama starring nicolas cage. Herzogs maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in. 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. The following weapons were used in the film bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, performance comes from the shoulders. This tidbit of information appears in the closing credits of herzogs bad lieutenant. Terrence mcdonagh is a new orleans police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during hurricane katrina. It is showcased by one of the biggest stars in hollywood nicholas cage and joined together by eva mendes, jennifer coolidge, tom bower, val kilmer, xzibit, and brad dourif. The official international title is the bad lieutenant.
He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. We get a few interview remarks from herzog and nicolas cage, but most of it takes a flyontheset approach that conveys a sense of the actual production process. It has nicolas cage playing a bad lieutenant who bullies people, abuses heroin, painkillers and cocaine and is corrupt on many levels. Port of call new orleans 2009 full watch free online on soapgate aka soap2day with english subtitles. 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. Terence mcdonagh ist ein polizist mit einer goodluck crack pipe. Its a different kind of madness, one with the kind of comic lack of restraint youd expectand it doesnt always work. Alan polsky wanted to tell me a story about how werner herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother gabes eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting bad lieutenant. The movie is similar to but neither a sequel nor remake for abel ferraras 1992 classic movie bad lieutenant, which starred harvey keitel as a. 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. Eventually they came to a compromise and combined both titles into one. This bad lieutenant s pain is less punishment than righteous realignment, a reflection of the nutty, debased, and utterly chaotic world around him. Hunched over by chronic back pain, cages crooked cop terence mcdonagh hauls his torqued frame by crackfueled force of will through a nearly deserted.
William finkelstein if there ever was a better example of how to show the old adage true that its not what the film is about but rather, how its about it. Port of call new orleans and bad lieutenant 1992 film back to bad lieutenant. 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 orleansin elevator prank,the bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleansfull movie,the bad lieutenant. Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. To further celebrate their partnership, mcdonagh implores big fate to smoke crack cocaine with his lucky crack pipe. If we can, we can move the remake to the currently redirected bad lieutenant. Director werner herzogs career is a catalog of extremes, and bad lieutenant. Werner herzog wanted to call the film port of call. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama film directed by werner herzog and starring nicolas cage, eva mendes, tom bower, jenn. Imdb reports this subtitle for the remake, but we need to verify this with a reliable source. This is the bad lieutenant port of call new orleans by katie chonacas on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. A drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal.
Next and most significant comes the making of bad lieutenant. Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans succeeds brilliantly as failure, as herzog and the terrifically inept nicolas cage manipulate the conventions of the police genre for their own personal. This 31minute documentary moves us through filming chronologically. Released by promotional release in 2009 containing music from bad lieutenant. 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 soundtrack from 2009, composed by mark isham. 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. Nicolas cage brilliert in werner herzogs bad lieutenantvariation. Port of call new orleans movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on.
He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of african immigrants. New orleans, but the producers wanted to call the film the bad lieutenant they had purchased remake rights to the 1992 film bad lieutenant and wanted to make a franchise. Due to his heroic act, mcdonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. Port of call new orleans 2009 nicolas cage and eva mendes in bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans as it wasnt really a remake, though almost everything in my summary of the plot of the original is in. Terence mcdonagh oscar winner nicolas cage is a drug and gambling addled. Port of call new orleans was released in 2009 on friday, november 20, 2009 in 27 theaters. Port of call new orleans original motion picture soundtrack.
Port of call new orleans, but that was just wishful thinking. In new orleans, a police lieutenant investigates the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama movie. Despite being touted as a remake or sequel to the 1992 film bad lieutenant, the director werner herzog insists that this is an original work only vaguely following the same story of a drug addicted and violent police detective surrounded by crime and sex. Port of call new orleans, made in 2009 by werner herzog, follows terrence mcdonagh played by nicolas cage, a police officer in postkatrina new orleans, as he investigates the deaths of five senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. Port of new orleans was believed to be a rethought of the 1992 film bad lieutenant. Jun 01, 2011 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. Port of call new orleans 2009 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Werner herzog has said that cinema comes from the knees and thighs, but for nicolas cage in the nonremake bad lieutenant. He later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant.
What follows is a wholly indescribable mishmash of the slick and the stank, the cool and the campy. In the aftermath of hurricane katrina he becomes a highfunctioning addict who is a deeply intuitive. It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. Port of call new orleans has been done to twisted perfection. Port of call new orleans follows a crooked cop nicolas cage who is a drug addict and takes sexual favors for bribes. Making a bad movie this good is harder than it looks. There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including planet 51, the blind side and the twilight saga. Port of call new orleanstrailer,the bad lieutenant. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time.
And it gradually reveals itself as a sly comedy about. 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. Port of call new orleans stars nicolas cage, eva mendes, val kilmer, fairuza balk, jennifer coolidge, vondie curtis hall, shawn hatosy, denzel whitaker, xzibit, katie. Wow, what a wild and demented character he plays, but oh, so real, im sure. May 22, 2010 he later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. It places him in a devastated new orleans not long after hurricane katrina. The biggest new release of the week is bad lieutenant.
Port of call new orelans werner herzogs remake of bad lieutenant is a bizarre triumph in which nicolas cage gives his best performance for years, says philip french published. Port of call new orleans 610 movie clip 2009 hd duration. Port of call new orleanscaught on tape,the bad lieutenant. Like werner herzog and nicolas cage working together in bad lieutenant.