![]() ![]() The Wicker Man (2006) (Photo: Millennium Media) While this could just be a coincidence, it's more fun to think of it as an Adaptation deep cut. Similarly, Cage's Adaptation character also turns the events of the film into a screenplay.įinally, one of the trailers for Massive Talent includes The Turtles' classic song, "Happy Together," which plays an important role in Adaptation. However, the big connection between the two movies is the fact that the plot of Massive Talent becomes the plot of Javi and Cage's screenplay, which they eventually make together. ![]() Of course, Cage also plays two versions of himself in Massive Talent. Adaptation was also the only movie after Leaving Las Vegas that earned Cage an Oscar nomination. ![]() In fact, he was the first fake person to be nominated for an Academy Award that wasn't a pseudonym for someone real. Charlie is the real-life screenwriter of the film and Donald is a fictional person created for the movie. In the Academy Award-winning Spike Jonze film, Cage plays brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman. However, Massive Talent has similar themes to Adaptation, and it's hard to believe that's just a coincidence. And I'm glad John Madden, I'm sure he'll be happy the director, so that was nice." prev nextĪdaptation (2002) (Photo: Intermedia Films)Īdaptation is a bit of a stretch because the movie is never directly mentioned, nor is there any noticeable memorabilia in Javi's collection. ![]() Because that movie is underrated and I'm glad this movie gave it some props. I thought the reference to Captain Corelli's Mandolin was a good one. "Those were all in the script," Cage explained. While chatting with Javi about the movie, Cage says it's "underappreciated for sure." In his interview with, Cage cited the Captain Corelli's Mandolin reference as one of his favorites in Massive Talent. However, it's especially important to Massive Talent's version of Cage, because it's revealed he met his wife Olivia (Sharon Horgan), a make-up artist, on the set of the period drama. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) (Photo: Universal Pictures)Ĭaptain Corelli's Mandolin is not a Cage movie that comes up often, which isn't surprising considering it has a 28% critics score and a 50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (personally, I didn't hate it). ![]()
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