Film Courage: What are some of your favorite film characters of all time and what makes
them so cherished? Writer/Director/Actor Adam Cushman: Cherished characters, that's a great question. Usually it's the
film's you get asked about. Randall P McMurphy Cuckoo's Nest. Nick Cage's
character in Leaving Las Vegas Bodie in Point Break. This is just what's
coming to my mind you know as soon as I leave I'll think of others those are
some examples I mean I got there's so many well let's talk about let's talk
about Nicolas Cage's character okay leaving Las Vegas so why why is he so
special to you I don't know that movie really touched me man
like yeah I was very moved by it when I saw it I'd never seen anything like it
I'd never seen him do anything like that I I understood his sadness I really did
it I understood that alienation I got it not and not even necessarily relative to
myself just relative to the world and maybe a little bit myself and I had a
lot of compassion for him that was one of the first times I remember as a
viewer like really feeling that I didn't feel but um I just really identified and
felt for that guy and I wanted it to be okay for him maybe he's like a very
poetic soul you know lost there's so many of those guys I mean people that
would that was definitely one bori and Point Break Patrick Swayze's character
is the complete opposite that movie for me was like like on the road for for you
know generations they really turned on the lights for me and philosophically
and a lot of us I think I was 17 when I saw it I was just figuring shit
and something that he says I think he's giving a speech to his his surfer bank
robbery crew on the beach and he's explaining why they do what they do and
it had not been a bastardized it but it's something to do with you know we're
we're not gonna you know everyday inch along the freeway in our tin coffins to
a job that destroys our soul and I'm like yes that's what I've been trying to
say and try to understand like the few years I've been on this earth them that
exactly nails it so I think when there's characters that more films or characters
that make you rien things and reexamine life and and how you think about things
you have a memorable character for sure that those are some of them but um I
mean there's so many I wouldn't even know where to stop I think with um
Nicolas Cage's character and leaving Las Vegas - there were times when he was
super fun he was ki chaotically fun yeah and and damaged but there was just you
could just I don't know I enjoyed that movie to read the book it's a really
good book I did not know the author kind of lived that well this is a fear and
loathing you know that's the contrast I know this is an author named John
O'Brien and I think he had lived this to some extent but he said he was a
beautiful writer and the book is wonderful I know that I doubt you
actually didn't know that it's oh is it an adaptation it's not it's just lose
grip ease about it it is okay Wow yeah it's a wonderful book I mean
obviously know right right the outcome but the prose itself is very beautiful
wow did you see bodies rest in motion because there was a cat the best
questions didn't know I was like there's a--there's a character very similar to
that in the movie it's Bridget vonda's boyfriend in the film someone to eat Tim
Roth yeah uh-huh it looks sort of a similar loosely I
mean I probably saw when it came out in 94
yeah I think that's when I saw it okay yeah I think I saw more recently than
that I've watched it again but anyone stayed with you I mean it yeah well
because he has a very similar personality to the Nicolas Cage
character mmm like this lovable but out of control sort of mess yeah and not a
bad person but just overtaken by things that you know bring chaos into his life
and so I just just has a very similar feel yeah yeah I had a review that yeah
you know it's good 90s movie night there's something I know a little man
Tate such a great film
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