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Rolling Stone presents: The most overestimated films ever. In our series we present works that are good, but not as good as most critics find (“Fitzcarraldaldo”); Works that are less clever than expected (“Blade Runner”); As well as works that just hurt (“True Romance”, which of course only someone like Tony Scott could turn). Part eight:
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991)
“Method acting? What is that supposed to be? I go to the shooting, play my role, then I go home and am again a normal man. I don’t need a method acting”. And he still got the Oscar for one of his roles, as the best male main actor.
That didn’t say Robert de Niro, which should actually be about here, but Anthony Hopkins. Now both were nominated for the Oscar in the same year, in 1991 it was, Hopkins for “The Silence of the Lambs”, de Niro for “Cape Fear”. Both played abysmally evil people. But while Hopkins created a completely new type with Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal with the appearance of an art dealer, de Niro marked the Hampelmann in the Hawaii shirt. And during the breaks, the Hampelmann is said to have continued to have performed like a Hampelmann. Method acting until delivery.
De Niro hadn’t got an Oscar for 11 years, for him an outrageously long time. Everything in his representation of the Max Cady, which is guilty of revenge, was therefore trimmed to price: nobody screamed Lauter, nobody laughed Lauter, nobody stuck the thumb deeper in Juliette Lewis’ mouth. The 47-year-old trained his body for a muscle measure, in front of which Travis Bickle, 15 years younger, and the-fit-Jake La Motta, 10 years younger, would be pale with envy.
Jumping all over the Shark
Director Martin Scorsese drives his “Cape Fear” remake of the 1961 film of the same name in front of the wall. Perhaps it was due to the self -imposed pressure to have to make a new film. Perhaps Scorsese was just turned up after the sovereign, highly promised “Goodfellas” (1990). In any case, “Cape Fear” is like a cartoon in which two characters fight, and in his variety of ideas with the malicious traps reminds of the history of Roadrunner and Kojote, only with the opposite sign. Rapidly cut strokes, non-stop nonsens: The dismissed convict Max Cady (de Niro) always thinks new tricks to torment his ex-lawyer Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), dresses up as a housekeeper or-Attention: In thrillers, the four-legged friends always die first, as a first as an escalation level-over the dog in the family.
In “Cape Fear” there is a magnificent scene that has to be viewed and therefore entered into cinema history but therefore no less stupid. When the Bowdens flee to the country with their car, we discover the oil-smeared Max Cady on the underside of the car, he had cheated there for hours. An over -man. For such “Jumping the Shark” moments, some series need four seasons, this film does it after just 100 minutes.
“I am like God, and God is like me,” chanted the Cady, which has become a philosopher through years full of junction, and tears a genuine fight between him, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange (wife) and Juliette Lewis (daughter) – even as a charred torch. Even when he finally sinks into the water forever, he still talks to tongues. The type is more difficult to defeat than the terminator.
The “Simpsons” also recognized the involuntary fun of the film. Almost the complete finale, from car ride with a blind passenger to the showdown on the boat, they add. In the leading role as Max Cady: The biggest clown of all-Sideshow-Bob.
Other overestimated films:
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
The life of the others (Florian Henckel from Donnersmark)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
The Omen (Richard Donner)