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American film star Nicolas Cage<\/a> has given Hollywood one of its most varied and engaging careers, with his onscreen appearances ranging from thrilling action flicks to panned Marvel adaptations to intense, surreal character studies. Cage is a member of the Coppola family, a widely acclaimed unit of filmmakers and performing artists, upholding one of cinema\u2019s most treasured bloodlines.<\/p>\n A graduate of the UCLA\u00a0School\u00a0of\u00a0Theater, Film and Television School, Cage has been acting since the early 1980s, moving into film production to welcome in the early 2000s. The star has gone on record stating he feels responsible for his own distinct manifesto of acting, which he cited as \u201cNouveau Shamanic,\u201d and said, \u201cat some point, I\u2019ll have to write a book\u201d.<\/p>\n Cage doesn\u2019t want memes to be what people remember most about his contributions to the world of cinema, but when you\u2019ve been as unhinged for as long as he has and won the plaudits to back it up, it\u2019ll be hard to outrun that shadow. The actor has implied that he might only have a\u00a0few more features<\/a>\u00a0left in the tank before exploring other creative avenues, but he\u2019s already left behind one of the most fascinating legacies of any major star, which he\u2019s accomplished by marching almost entirely to the beat of his own drum.<\/p>\n Cage has constructed this method of acting from a compiled list of his favourite films, with some presenting specific performances that he cites as significant to his craft and cinema as a whole. Cage shared five of his favourite movies with Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, expanding on his love for them by mentioning the visual direction and status in filmmaking. <\/p>\n Including book and play adaptations and cinematic landmarks, the actor opens his list with a classic period feature he brands as \u201creally the reason why I became an actor in movies\u201d. Elia Kazan\u2019s East of Eden, adapted from John Steinbeck\u2019s novel of the same name, stars Hollywood bad boy James Dean. The actor gives a performance that Cage said: \u201cbroke my heart; it was not like anything I\u2019d experienced before, in terms of art, and I\u2019d seen a lot of movies at that point\u201d. The film tells a story of identity and adolescence as a young man vies for the affection of his religious father. <\/p>\n
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