Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 61st birthday to the great Nicolas Cage.  Over the years, Cage has become an icon of everything that we love about the movies.  He’s appeared in great films.  He’s appeared in bad films.  He’s done films that barely had a budget and he’s appeared in blockbusters.  He can do drama.  He can do comedy.  He can do horror.  He can do action.  His performances are often so wonderfully bizarre that will sit through the worst films ever made just to catch a Nicolas Cage cameo.  And yet, for every strange Cage performance, there’s a Cage performance that is undeniably brilliant, like his performance in Pig.

Today’s scene that I love comes from 1990’s Zandalee.  In this scene, Nicolas Cage and Judge Reinhold share a dance on a Louisiana pier.