cult film freak: alan parker

Written by James M. Tate / 5/21/2020 / No comments / alan parker , arthouse , buddy , coming-of-age , eighties , elizabeth whitcraft , matthew modine , nicolas cage , vietnam

NICOLAS CAGE & MATTHEW MODINE IN ALAN PARKER'S 'BIRDY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nicolas Cage looking a hybrid of middle eighties and early sixties in Alan Parker's BIRDY Year: 1984 Rating: ****</u></td></tr>
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Alan Parker was an inspired choice to direct a feature combining anti-war sentiment and tortured, surreal insanity having pulled off PINK FLOYD: THE WALL a few years before BIRDY...<br>
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A neglected gem that, despite the title, centers equally on two "Philly Kids" Nicolas Cage as alpha male Al and passive Matthew Modine nicknamed BIRDY, living more in his mind (and with his bedroom birds) than on the outside, where Al revels in girls and muscular bravado...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nicolas Cage and title character Mathew Modine in the present story of BIRDY</u></td></tr>
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Yet the frame story has a meek, post-war/face-bandaged Cage at a military psych-ward trying desperately to bring his friend back to reality: mostly by reminding him (and us) of their fairly recent high school era past... <br>
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Modine, with lanky bird-like features to begin with, spends the present-time silently perched in locked quarters while Cage provides the hot and cold acting, which includes plenty of diatribes to sink his teeth into...<br>

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NICOLAS CAGE & MATTHEW MODINE IN ALAN PARKER'S 'BIRDY'

Nicolas Cage looking a hybrid of middle eighties and early sixties in Alan Parker's BIRDY Year: 1984 Rating: **** Alan Parker was an...

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