Crazy Actors Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Play Crazy Inventors Nikola Tesla And Thomas Edison

[Mark Kohut]

What's Pynchon have to do with Nicholas Cage? 
I think he invented him.

From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Crazy Actors Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Play Crazy Inventors Nikola Tesla And Thomas Edison


Bale's got incredible range (when he's not ensconced in a bat suit):  The Prestige (his greatest, in my opinion), Rescue Dawn (see Werner Herzog's documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, to appreciate Bale's fictional portrayal), American Psycho, Velvet Goldmine, The Machinist,  Cage has two modes: goggle-eyed, and slightly less than goggle-eyed.   


Laura

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>From: Madeleine Maudlin 
>Sent: Jul 16, 2012 10:04 AM 
>To: kelber at mindspring.com 
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
>Subject: Re: Crazy Actors Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Play Crazy Inventors Nikola Tesla And Thomas Edison 
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>I am absolutely, totally fuckin shocked that you, Laura, who I've always had the greatest admiration for, would publickly denounce one of the greatest gifts to American screen of his generation, the immortal Nicholas Cage.   Don't get me wrong, Bale's a good actor, Cage is a greater actor, one of the greatest.  It goes Brando, then...then...well I won't get into listing it would take all morning, but Bale's way fucking lower than Cage, because Cage is way high, up there. 
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>And Maligned, saying Cage is unwatchable?  Calls herself Maligned, but cannot watch he who is most-maligned?  Especially for a Pychonhead.  Cage was custom built for Pynchonland.  To diss him on a Pynchonboard is unconscionable, if that's a word, I'm not getting redlined so I feel good about it.
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>On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:05 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>Christian Bale may be an asshole and/or have psychiatric issues, but he's one of the most brilliant actors of our times.  I'd love to see him play Tesla.  I'm less enthusiastic about Cage, but I'm willing to see him bungle Edison so long as Bale's in the film.
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>>Laura
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>>>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>>Sent: Jul 14, 2012 5:40 PM
>>>To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>Subject: Re: Crazy Actors Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Play Crazy Inventors Nikola Tesla And Thomas Edison
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>>>On 7/13/12, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/2012/07/crazy-actors-christian-bale-nicholas-cage-to-play-crazy-inventors-nikola-tesla-and-thomas-edison/
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>>>http://wild-rooster.com/nikola-tesla-story-told-in-two-new-films/
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