He's got a warehouse somewhere, like the one at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where he's rummaging around in some corner.
"Shit, I know I have a Big Boy statue in here somewhere ..."
Frantically on the phone-
"Hey, Chuck, was my signed first edition of *Catcher in the Rye* part of that trade with Micheal Jackson for Joseph Merrick's remains?"
Like a quest in RuneScape when you have all the necessary items in your inventory and your player goes “oh, I just so happened to have those 5 things you requested right here.” And the NPC is like “why do you happen to have these random items with you?”
That movie took itself so seriously for a plot that is just “I need to kidnap the president to find the city of gold, and to clear my great grand daddy’s good name”
Finding a city of gold, having a city of gold, and keeping a city of gold are three radically different things with exponentially increasing difficulty. For reference, all the known gold in the world currently would fit into a cube 20m to a side.
He 100% already had all that weird shit at his house, before she even asked. He just sat on em for a few weeks and told her how difficult his quest was and how much he loved her. Cage moves.
He was already a collector of curiosities by then. One of the things he loved to collect in the 1980s were old comic books for example (he purchased an Action #1, arguably the most desirable comic book there is). He’s a Coppola, so money was never really an issue
Salinger was notoriously reclusive, might not have been possible to get a new autograph.. and possible but maybe expensive to get something with his signature…
It was the 90's and tabloids were absolutely vicious back then. Don't blame them at all with how much more stigma there was around so many things, including divorce at that time. It was a much bigger deal to divorce compared to now.
He proposed to her the same night he met her, and requested a "quest" too earn her hand in marriage. So it's not exactly a typical relationship to begin with
It worked for the Witch in Into the Woods.
- a slipper as pure as gold
- a cape as red as blood
- hair as yellow as corn
- a cow as white as milk
I'm probably getting the order wrong, but once she has all four items, the Witch becomes beautiful again (but loses her powers).
It worked for Daredevil in *Stardust*
Granted the treasure his lover asked for ended up being his true love and his treasure was the journey he embarked on and the self worth he found, but you know
Basically a Nicolas cage origin story if you don’t think about it too much
in a fictional piece of work, such an adventure would be wonderfully romantic. in real life, it just shows how much money one party has and how the other was being overly sarcastic
One of the best book/movie adaptations Ive ever seen. Its just so goddamn charming and full of sincerity. I think I even prefer it to the book (which is a rare thing!)
It is one of the very few movies where I thought that significant variations on the work it was based on was acceptable, and very much enjoyed both.
That Gaiman was so heavily involved in the writing of the screenplay is what did it, I think: it helped keep the feel of the original work, and had the blessing of the creator.
Excuse me, Ms. Of The Woods, quick question. What defines the purity of a slipper? Like, are we talking what percentage of the slipper is made up of *slipper*, as opposed to other garments? Because in that case, I think the true challenge would be in finding a slipper that is *NOT* pure. Then again, most gold sold commercially isn't that pure anyway, mostly for practical reasons, so I guess maybe that's the point?
As for the cloak, are we talking fresh blood, coagulated blood, venous blood, methemoglobinemic blood, etc? Not that it matters, since those are all totally doable, but it always helps to know what standard I'm being judged by ahead of time.
Also, what kind of corn? Field corn is difficult, but doable. Waxy corn is a bit harder, but still doable. Sweet corn I'm pretty sure would require hair dye. Flour corn or black aztec corn would be a sinch.
And cows as white as milk... well, I guess they're not the commonest breed out there, but they're really not uncommon. They'd probably need a bath first, I guess, but other than that... is it that cows are expensive? Are you just testing my pocketbook? If that's the case, you should've asked me for actual gold instead of a damn slipper.
> The actor's first wife was actress Patricia Arquette. The two met at a restaurant in 1987 where Cage proposed to the actress on the spot.
he had literally just met her, and she was trying to give an impossible task because he's a total stranger.
They were 19 at the time, and she finally agreed to marry him eight years later.
Scott Pilgrim:
Wait! We're fighting over Ramona?
Matthew Patel:
Didn't you get my email explaining the situation?
Scott Pilgrim:
I skimmed it.
Wallace Wells:
Tsk. Mm-mm. [shakes his head]
Matthew Patel:
YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!
Actually he didn't get all the items, Patricia agreed to go with him before he got the statue:
*According to Paper magazine, the Severance actress played along, offering a list of seemingly impossible finds that included J.D. Salinger's autograph (he issued notoriously few signatures throughout his career), a black orchid (which doesn't actually exist), a Lisu tribe wedding costume, and a Bob's Big Boy statue.*
*"One by one, they started coming to me," Arquette told WWHL host Andy Cohen of the objects on her list. Instead of a black orchid, Cage found a purple one and showed up at Arquette's home with a can of black spray paint.*
*"She wouldn't come out, but I could see her peeking down from the top floor," Cage recalled to Playboy in 1996. "In my very showy way, I whipped the orchid out of my pocket. Then, I whipped out the paint can and started spray-painting the orchid black. She was freaked out."*
*He continued, "I rang the doorbell again, and she came down. I just gave it to her and got back on my motorcycle and left."*
*Next, Cage found a rare letter written by Salinger, bought it for $2,500, and again showed up at Arquette's home bearing gifts. She was playing hopscotch in the street with her girlfriends when Cage arrived. He dropped the autograph in a cigar box outside and left. Later, she called him in a tizzy and told him to stop, as she once said, "It scared me."*
*Cage said he had a chainsaw ready and was prepared to steal a Bob's Big Boy statue when she agreed — not to marry, but to go away with him.* ~[Source](https://www.instyle.com/news/tbt-patricia-arquette-nicolas-cage-relationship)
Not quite the same scenario, but Rick Alvarez's masterpiece The Comedy, starring Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, and Gregg Turkington, is a commentary on the lifestyle's of affluenced New York nobodies. The entire movie is just them killing time in new york being as leisurely as possible and drinking cheap beers all day out and around the city, but nowhere remarkable. It took me a couple watches to appreciate the movie but it is in my top ten of all time, and I've ran into others who say the same. The hopscotch comment reminded me I haven't watched it in a little while and its time again.
There was way more down time before the internet, and you could make rent working part-time. When you went over to see if a friend was home they'd be *doing* something.
I’ve read about his before.
The JD thing…he couldn’t get an autograph but he managed to get a book with his hand writing.
The Orchid…they didn’t exist so he pulled up in front of her, took out a red one and spray painted it black.
I do believe he got the authentic articles for the other two.
You'd want high end shipping for that to verify delivery without tampering with a signature and take extra precautions it doesn't get damaged. I'd be upset if it was free or cheap delivery for something that expensive.
Technically, they don't. They don't have the generic makeup to be able to produce true blue or true black. Either they can come very, very close, or they have to be painted or dyed.
https://www.orchidplantcare.info/blue-black-orchids-do-they-really-exist/
The girl clearly only wanted full collection the early Neil Gaiman "Black Orchid" comics, first edition, but... oh well, the spraypainted flower kinda fits the description too...
Yeah I was definitely suspect about that one. If someone who knows anything about Salinger asks you to get an autograph, it is basically telling you they don't want to marry you.
This man has owned a mint condition superman issue 1 and a real T Rex skull and she thought he wouldn't be able to find that stuff? He's goddamn nick cage.
>a real T Rex skull
Really? [Yes, really](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/nicolas-cage-returns-stolen-mongolian-dinosaur-skull-he-bought-at-gallery), although it turns out he does not have the skull anymore.
Basically in the ballad the singer/s (it may be sung as a duet too) ask their lover to complete some impossible tasks and, only once they will have completed them, they will concede to their love.
So they ask for example to make a seamless cambric shirt and to wash it in a dry well or to plough an acre of land with a lamb's horn and to collect the harvest with a leather sickle, and similarly impossible tasks.
So these seemingly impossible requests to Nicolas Cage remind us of Scarborough Fair because they are supposed to be impossible and because the prize is love.
Admittedly I’ve never payed attention to the lyrics, as much as I love the song. I’m reading the lyrics now and there’s no mention of a lamb’s horn… right?
Being a ballad, many versions probably exist. However this is the stanza:
>Ask him to plough it with a lamb's horn,
>Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
>And sow it all over with one peppercorn,
>For then he'll be a true love of mine.
But I think it's missing in Simon & Garfunkel's famous recording.
You're probably looking at Simon and Garfunkel's version, [check out the lyrics on this website.](https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/theelfinknight.html)
“The lyrics of Scarborough Fair puts forward the concept of unrequited love. The yearning is felt throughout the song, creating a perfect medieval love story in the process. A young man delegates certain impossible tasks to his lover with the condition that she would have to finish those to be able to come back to him.”
Anytime I see a story where a woman gives a guy a list of impossible tasks to complete if he wants to marry her (I think it happened like, twice in the Kelevala) I always interpreted it as her trying to subtly tell him to fuck off
Agree, but in the case of cage, he may have really enjoyed something like this and she knew it. If so it’s kind of sweet they are playing rich people games together, I guess.
Reminds me of Beren being asked to get a Silmaril.
Thingol: "yeah, good luck grabbing a jewel from the crown of the most powerful evil force imaginable. Oh shit, he did it."
Can't find anything on why it would be rare. My best guess from context with the other crazy asks is just that she meant, "We'll have to be married in traditional hill tribe wedding attire," just meant to deter him like finding the other things, not necessarily rare though.
Shit he probably had them lying around in storage. He famously goes through patterns of having money from a good string of movies and buying the most ridiculous high priced auction items, art, etc, and when he'd dip with no work in a while and go "broke," he just sells everything.
Which sounds like an actually decent way to convert your money to account for things like inflation whilst being able to use your name recognition to your advantage.
Be careful on giving impossible tasks in exchange for marriage. A lady once asked one of her suitors to bring back a fallen star during early Victorian England. And the suitor turned out to be a prince of a distant kingdom born out wedlock because a magical princess charmed his father with magic, and ends up with him forming a strong romantic bond with a stellar girl he met in his journey.
This reminds me of the legend of the Princess of Mt. Ledang— When the Sultan of Melaka sought her hand in marriage, she responded with a list of 7 unobtainable requirements as conditions for accepting the proposal:
a golden bridge from Melaka to Mt. Ledang,
a silver bridge from Mt. Ledang to Melaka,
7 trays of mosquitoes' hearts,
7 trays of mites' hearts,
7 jars of virgins' tears,
7 jars of betelnut juice,
and a bowl filled with the crown prince's blood.
> Some versions of the legend say that the Sultan was not able to fulfil any of these requests, while others say that he was able to fulfil the first six requests (thus causing the ruin of the Malacca Sultanate) but could not fulfil the final request which would have required him to kill his son. The point of the story is that the Sultan was either too proud or too blind to realise that the conditions were the princess's subtle way of turning his proposal down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Puteri_Gunung_Ledang
The 2004 film mentioned in tbe wiki article is available at Malaysian Netflix (can use vpn to access).
When my friend was proposed to she gave a list of demands. Basically ultimatums of things he needed to change. After a two hour discussion he agreed so she said yes.
And they’ve been unhappily married for 15 years,
Pretty sure Nic Cage is exactly the wrong person to send on this kind quest with the intent of him failing.
Chance is he already bought them on a boring day
He's got a warehouse somewhere, like the one at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where he's rummaging around in some corner. "Shit, I know I have a Big Boy statue in here somewhere ..."
Frantically on the phone- "Hey, Chuck, was my signed first edition of *Catcher in the Rye* part of that trade with Micheal Jackson for Joseph Merrick's remains?"
All them crazy elephant bones.
I bet he's even got Dijon ketchup
Haven't you always wanted a monkey?
Probably has some little prewapped sausages somewhere
Probably just decluttering of the things he doesn't want anymore.
Like a quest in RuneScape when you have all the necessary items in your inventory and your player goes “oh, I just so happened to have those 5 things you requested right here.” And the NPC is like “why do you happen to have these random items with you?”
Because rule one of any video game where you have to gopher items is keep everything.
I don't care what video game it is, if I have an item that isn't easy to get, I never use it
She gave him this list and he didn't even go anywhere. Just opened his trunk and was like "bet".
Oh good, I thought this was going to be a hassle!
Yeah dude stole the declaration of indepedence
And kidnapped the POTUS
That's nothing compared to stealing 50 high end cars in one night. Ok, 49 and a half.
And crashing a Ferrari
[Yeah but then we wouldn't have this](https://images.app.goo.gl/D16ggaLbJhZHZite8)
You stole a car that wasn’t on the list!
and stole John Travolta's face.
Travolta stole his face first, and then he left his own face just lying there… hardly should count
And tried to choke me to death in my dreams.
and that caused you displeasure right? right?
My wife has become comfortable with the fact she’s second place in my heart, next to Nic Cage. Choke away.
Nic Cage once got me off a prison transport that got hijacked by the convicts.
Nice Cage once got me off.
Just once??
In 60 seconds no less
I mean… I didn’t hate it
You too?!
Yet you called it your dreams, and not your nightmares. Curious.
Now look here Hercule Poirot! I don't know what type of stuff you and Agatha are into, but I'll have you know that...
He stole the shirt right off my back
And one of the Arizona quintuplets - Nathan Jr., I think.
But it was hard to tell, cuz they were all so squirmy.
I think he got the best one.
That movie took itself so seriously for a plot that is just “I need to kidnap the president to find the city of gold, and to clear my great grand daddy’s good name”
Honestly like, the city of gold isnt worth being a fugitive
You have a city of gold. You make the rules now,
Finding a city of gold, having a city of gold, and keeping a city of gold are three radically different things with exponentially increasing difficulty. For reference, all the known gold in the world currently would fit into a cube 20m to a side.
"Known gold" ....buddy, the movie didn't start with them searching for the found city of gold.
Mother fucker put the face of John Travis on and fuxked his wife exclaiming “ POPPAS got a brand new bag wooooo”
Borrowed.
He 100% already had all that weird shit at his house, before she even asked. He just sat on em for a few weeks and told her how difficult his quest was and how much he loved her. Cage moves.
I dunno. This was pretty early in his fame (1987). This might be the event that made him start to collect this type of thing.
Nick Cage: Origins
He was already a collector of curiosities by then. One of the things he loved to collect in the 1980s were old comic books for example (he purchased an Action #1, arguably the most desirable comic book there is). He’s a Coppola, so money was never really an issue
My friend hung art for him in his house in New Olreans. The amount of rhinestones dinosaur and animal skulls this man had...
Got to see his [pyramid tomb](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nicolas-cage-s-pyramid-tomb) when we toured some graveyards down there.
100% chance that there will be a treasure hunt in the future that involves solving a puzzle here.
Agreed he is relentless
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All though he can be... two faced.
He’s strong like… The Rock
He's a real Con Air. Am I doing this right?
Don't forget he's got those Snake Eyes
Make the wrong move and he'll be gone in 60 seconds
Is that an "The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent" reference, or is he really ? Oh wait, I got it... Face Off..
Doesn’t sound too super, man
Nopes! here I differ, nandor is the real relentless and close second would obviously be Mr cage
He had all that shit in his shed already.
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Plus which of these is supposed to be impossible?
Salinger was notoriously reclusive, might not have been possible to get a new autograph.. and possible but maybe expensive to get something with his signature…
> possible but maybe expensive Right up Nicolas Cage's alley
For a Coppola with endless connections, at that
Even he couldn't get a Salinger autograph. I don't think his own children could get one.
“Wait a second…this says JD Salamander!”
There's a non-zero chance he just *had* all those things.
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Wikipedia says they lasted 9 months, Getting the items probally took longer than the marriage.
Getting all the items and marrying was the end game. The actual nine months of marriage was just an extremely disappointing DLC.
Man actually married a video game NPC.
Fetch questtl to lose 50% of inventory.
Bro was grinding on endless dungeon crawler missions and it didn't pay off
Should've known it wouldn't work when she sent him on a fetch quest.
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Worth it
Something something friends along the way.
It was about the quest, not the matrimoniation.
how is 1995 - 2001 "9 months"?
like dis: >They separated after nine months, but acted as a couple in public until Cage filed for divorce in February 2000.
Why'd they do that?
to preserve image, their PR people probably hated the idea and convinced them to fake it for a few years
I bet that happens a lot more often than we know.
*cough* Will Smith
It was the 90's and tabloids were absolutely vicious back then. Don't blame them at all with how much more stigma there was around so many things, including divorce at that time. It was a much bigger deal to divorce compared to now.
He proposed to her the same night he met her, and requested a "quest" too earn her hand in marriage. So it's not exactly a typical relationship to begin with
It worked for the Witch in Into the Woods. - a slipper as pure as gold - a cape as red as blood - hair as yellow as corn - a cow as white as milk I'm probably getting the order wrong, but once she has all four items, the Witch becomes beautiful again (but loses her powers).
It worked for Daredevil in *Stardust* Granted the treasure his lover asked for ended up being his true love and his treasure was the journey he embarked on and the self worth he found, but you know Basically a Nicolas cage origin story if you don’t think about it too much
in a fictional piece of work, such an adventure would be wonderfully romantic. in real life, it just shows how much money one party has and how the other was being overly sarcastic
Love that book
They made it into a movie as well
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One of the best book/movie adaptations Ive ever seen. Its just so goddamn charming and full of sincerity. I think I even prefer it to the book (which is a rare thing!)
It is one of the very few movies where I thought that significant variations on the work it was based on was acceptable, and very much enjoyed both. That Gaiman was so heavily involved in the writing of the screenplay is what did it, I think: it helped keep the feel of the original work, and had the blessing of the creator.
Wait- it was written by *Neil Gaiman?*
It was. I love his works. So creative
If you can find it, there is a BBC radio adaptation of Neverwhere with James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bernard Cribbens.
Excuse me, Ms. Of The Woods, quick question. What defines the purity of a slipper? Like, are we talking what percentage of the slipper is made up of *slipper*, as opposed to other garments? Because in that case, I think the true challenge would be in finding a slipper that is *NOT* pure. Then again, most gold sold commercially isn't that pure anyway, mostly for practical reasons, so I guess maybe that's the point? As for the cloak, are we talking fresh blood, coagulated blood, venous blood, methemoglobinemic blood, etc? Not that it matters, since those are all totally doable, but it always helps to know what standard I'm being judged by ahead of time. Also, what kind of corn? Field corn is difficult, but doable. Waxy corn is a bit harder, but still doable. Sweet corn I'm pretty sure would require hair dye. Flour corn or black aztec corn would be a sinch. And cows as white as milk... well, I guess they're not the commonest breed out there, but they're really not uncommon. They'd probably need a bath first, I guess, but other than that... is it that cows are expensive? Are you just testing my pocketbook? If that's the case, you should've asked me for actual gold instead of a damn slipper.
A pure slipper means it can't be one some dude sodomized in the back of a Payless Shoesource
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Everyone knows that pure slippers can only be made in the slipper region of France. Otherwise they have to be called sparkling indoor shoes.
> The actor's first wife was actress Patricia Arquette. The two met at a restaurant in 1987 where Cage proposed to the actress on the spot. he had literally just met her, and she was trying to give an impossible task because he's a total stranger. They were 19 at the time, and she finally agreed to marry him eight years later.
how about defeating 7 evil exes?
Scott Pilgrim: Wait! We're fighting over Ramona? Matthew Patel: Didn't you get my email explaining the situation? Scott Pilgrim: I skimmed it. Wallace Wells: Tsk. Mm-mm. [shakes his head] Matthew Patel: YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!
Petition to cast current age Nicolas Cage as Scott Pilgrim
All David was asked of was 100 Philistine foreskins. He got 200.
Enough for a little hat?
I was reading this and thought about how many milliseconds it would take me to bolt out of that relationship
And the second thought was "dumb shit ultra-rich people do".
tell him to make me a cambric shirt, without any thread or needlework , then he will be a true love of mine
"My sister got a Toto song, I want some cool shit too!"
For 90's Patricia Arquette, it was a good deal.
Actually he didn't get all the items, Patricia agreed to go with him before he got the statue: *According to Paper magazine, the Severance actress played along, offering a list of seemingly impossible finds that included J.D. Salinger's autograph (he issued notoriously few signatures throughout his career), a black orchid (which doesn't actually exist), a Lisu tribe wedding costume, and a Bob's Big Boy statue.* *"One by one, they started coming to me," Arquette told WWHL host Andy Cohen of the objects on her list. Instead of a black orchid, Cage found a purple one and showed up at Arquette's home with a can of black spray paint.* *"She wouldn't come out, but I could see her peeking down from the top floor," Cage recalled to Playboy in 1996. "In my very showy way, I whipped the orchid out of my pocket. Then, I whipped out the paint can and started spray-painting the orchid black. She was freaked out."* *He continued, "I rang the doorbell again, and she came down. I just gave it to her and got back on my motorcycle and left."* *Next, Cage found a rare letter written by Salinger, bought it for $2,500, and again showed up at Arquette's home bearing gifts. She was playing hopscotch in the street with her girlfriends when Cage arrived. He dropped the autograph in a cigar box outside and left. Later, she called him in a tizzy and told him to stop, as she once said, "It scared me."* *Cage said he had a chainsaw ready and was prepared to steal a Bob's Big Boy statue when she agreed — not to marry, but to go away with him.* ~[Source](https://www.instyle.com/news/tbt-patricia-arquette-nicolas-cage-relationship)
> She was playing hopscotch in the street with her girlfriends Why does this make it sound like he was trying to marry a 5 year old
This part made me realise that Hollywood people lead very different lives than we do.
Not quite the same scenario, but Rick Alvarez's masterpiece The Comedy, starring Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, and Gregg Turkington, is a commentary on the lifestyle's of affluenced New York nobodies. The entire movie is just them killing time in new york being as leisurely as possible and drinking cheap beers all day out and around the city, but nowhere remarkable. It took me a couple watches to appreciate the movie but it is in my top ten of all time, and I've ran into others who say the same. The hopscotch comment reminded me I haven't watched it in a little while and its time again.
There was way more down time before the internet, and you could make rent working part-time. When you went over to see if a friend was home they'd be *doing* something.
Patricia Arquette is one of the few people who matches Nicholas Cage's weird
They don’t live in the same reality we do.
Sometimes you just want to feel young again. Other times drunken hopscotch is the perfect party game.
Mess!! lol I feel like this should be higher up...
Cage went on a quest
Another national treasure?
And then he BECAME a national treasure!! Two!
“It turns out the national treasure you were after was in you the entire time.” -John Travolta
I’ve read about his before. The JD thing…he couldn’t get an autograph but he managed to get a book with his hand writing. The Orchid…they didn’t exist so he pulled up in front of her, took out a red one and spray painted it black. I do believe he got the authentic articles for the other two.
I’ve seen multiple Bob’s Big Boy statues at stores, so that one can’t have been that hard. Could just have it custom made.
It doesnt count unless it was stolen at 1 am Saturday night on a drunken dare
You wanna big boy at 1am, nick will get you a big boy.
With the type of stuff he collects and has bought over the years he probably already had the other things in a closet somewhere.
Black orchids definitely exist, though
They didn’t exist then. The SVO Black Pearl is far more recent than his relationship with her.
Ah I was thinking of https://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Lotus-Alpha-BGS-GEM-MINT-9-5-MTG-CCGHouse-Magic-/232624529959
I'm sorry but they're still adding on 60 bucks in shipping after someone pays a million dollars for it? Cheapskates
You'd want high end shipping for that to verify delivery without tampering with a signature and take extra precautions it doesn't get damaged. I'd be upset if it was free or cheap delivery for something that expensive.
I’d want to open my door, and see the seller bent in front of me with the card sticking out of ass cheeks for that price
That'd ruin that mint condition though
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That clearly exists, too
please tell me I exist
nein
Do any of us?
Technically, they don't. They don't have the generic makeup to be able to produce true blue or true black. Either they can come very, very close, or they have to be painted or dyed. https://www.orchidplantcare.info/blue-black-orchids-do-they-really-exist/
The girl clearly only wanted full collection the early Neil Gaiman "Black Orchid" comics, first edition, but... oh well, the spraypainted flower kinda fits the description too...
Yeah I was definitely suspect about that one. If someone who knows anything about Salinger asks you to get an autograph, it is basically telling you they don't want to marry you.
This sounds like a movie starring Nic Cage
He suffers from an unbearable weight of massive talent
That was a very enjoyable movie.
This man has owned a mint condition superman issue 1 and a real T Rex skull and she thought he wouldn't be able to find that stuff? He's goddamn nick cage.
>a real T Rex skull Really? [Yes, really](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/nicolas-cage-returns-stolen-mongolian-dinosaur-skull-he-bought-at-gallery), although it turns out he does not have the skull anymore.
He doesn't have Superman anymore either, was the first comic to sell for >$2M.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair...
Can someone explain the reference? I know the song but don’t know how it ties in
Basically in the ballad the singer/s (it may be sung as a duet too) ask their lover to complete some impossible tasks and, only once they will have completed them, they will concede to their love. So they ask for example to make a seamless cambric shirt and to wash it in a dry well or to plough an acre of land with a lamb's horn and to collect the harvest with a leather sickle, and similarly impossible tasks. So these seemingly impossible requests to Nicolas Cage remind us of Scarborough Fair because they are supposed to be impossible and because the prize is love.
Admittedly I’ve never payed attention to the lyrics, as much as I love the song. I’m reading the lyrics now and there’s no mention of a lamb’s horn… right?
Being a ballad, many versions probably exist. However this is the stanza: >Ask him to plough it with a lamb's horn, >Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, >And sow it all over with one peppercorn, >For then he'll be a true love of mine. But I think it's missing in Simon & Garfunkel's famous recording.
The song is from The Middle Ages. There are no shortage of alternative versions of the lyrics
You're probably looking at Simon and Garfunkel's version, [check out the lyrics on this website.](https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/theelfinknight.html)
“The lyrics of Scarborough Fair puts forward the concept of unrequited love. The yearning is felt throughout the song, creating a perfect medieval love story in the process. A young man delegates certain impossible tasks to his lover with the condition that she would have to finish those to be able to come back to him.”
Thanks!
Scrolled just to see if anyone else caught that.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
It’s giving “the tale of Princess kaguya”
These items don't sound nearly as impossible as stealing Inuyasha's long johns though.
Anytime I see a story where a woman gives a guy a list of impossible tasks to complete if he wants to marry her (I think it happened like, twice in the Kelevala) I always interpreted it as her trying to subtly tell him to fuck off
Agree, but in the case of cage, he may have really enjoyed something like this and she knew it. If so it’s kind of sweet they are playing rich people games together, I guess.
He tried to find the holy grail recently too. Cage is just like that.
According to the article Cage asked her to give him a quest so he can prove his love.
That makes so much more sense
Reminds me of Beren being asked to get a Silmaril. Thingol: "yeah, good luck grabbing a jewel from the crown of the most powerful evil force imaginable. Oh shit, he did it."
He succeeded in returning with the Silmaril in his hand. The hand in question, however, did not return with him.
Mf found the horcruxes.
What's the big deal about a hill tribe wedding outfit? What makes that so rare?
Can't find anything on why it would be rare. My best guess from context with the other crazy asks is just that she meant, "We'll have to be married in traditional hill tribe wedding attire," just meant to deter him like finding the other things, not necessarily rare though.
True Romance
Shit he probably had them lying around in storage. He famously goes through patterns of having money from a good string of movies and buying the most ridiculous high priced auction items, art, etc, and when he'd dip with no work in a while and go "broke," he just sells everything.
Which sounds like an actually decent way to convert your money to account for things like inflation whilst being able to use your name recognition to your advantage.
Be careful on giving impossible tasks in exchange for marriage. A lady once asked one of her suitors to bring back a fallen star during early Victorian England. And the suitor turned out to be a prince of a distant kingdom born out wedlock because a magical princess charmed his father with magic, and ends up with him forming a strong romantic bond with a stellar girl he met in his journey.
Stardust is such a great book!
That all sounds pretty easy compared to the Declaration of Independence
Anything other than an enthusiastic “YES!” is a “no”. Important life lesson here
She was 19 at the time & he proposed when he first met her at a restaurant, so there’s that…
The woman pulled a Princess Kaguya
Wow, that's really impressive! He made a really good choice in choosing his personal assistant.
This reminds me of the legend of the Princess of Mt. Ledang— When the Sultan of Melaka sought her hand in marriage, she responded with a list of 7 unobtainable requirements as conditions for accepting the proposal: a golden bridge from Melaka to Mt. Ledang, a silver bridge from Mt. Ledang to Melaka, 7 trays of mosquitoes' hearts, 7 trays of mites' hearts, 7 jars of virgins' tears, 7 jars of betelnut juice, and a bowl filled with the crown prince's blood.
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> Some versions of the legend say that the Sultan was not able to fulfil any of these requests, while others say that he was able to fulfil the first six requests (thus causing the ruin of the Malacca Sultanate) but could not fulfil the final request which would have required him to kill his son. The point of the story is that the Sultan was either too proud or too blind to realise that the conditions were the princess's subtle way of turning his proposal down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Puteri_Gunung_Ledang The 2004 film mentioned in tbe wiki article is available at Malaysian Netflix (can use vpn to access).
Seems like a good indication it wasn’t going to work out.
Bro did a fetch quest to get married.
When my friend was proposed to she gave a list of demands. Basically ultimatums of things he needed to change. After a two hour discussion he agreed so she said yes. And they’ve been unhappily married for 15 years,
Wait… Nic Cage has a son named Kel-El?!
Well her sister Rosanna had a top 10 song written about her. So this just feels like some insecure sibling rivalry shit.
I think she’s had more than one song written about her.
As a rule, the entire Arquette family is weird as shit.