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The Evolution of Nicolas Cage's Hair

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Guides | Comments (45)

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A month after unleashing Nicolas Cage Loses His Sh*t, Harry Hanrahan has returned in this spin-off of sorts to that video, The Evolution of Nicolas Cage’s Hair. If there’s one thing more versatile than Cage’s level of crazy, it’s Cage’s hairstyles over the years, which come complete with their own personalities. It’s like a Chia of Crazy. It will amaze and confound you.

Prepare to be follicly-hypnotized for the next two-and-a-half minutes.


Here is a list of movies used in the video:

00’08 - Valley Girl

00’14 - Rumble Fish

00’18 - Racing with the Moon

00’21 - The Cotton Club

00’23 - Birdy

00’27 - The Boy In Blue

00’31 - Peggy Sue Got Married

00’35 - Raising Arizona

00’40 - Moonstruck

00’44 - Vampire’s Kiss

00’49 - Fire Birds

00’52 - Wild at Heart

00’55 - Zandalee

00’59 - Honeymoon In Vegas
01’02 - Amos & Andrew

01’05 - Red Rock West

01’08 - Deadfall

01’13 - Guarding Tess

01’15 - It Could Happen to You

01’17 - Trapped In Paradise

01’19 - Kiss of Death

01’24 - Leaving Las Vegas

01’27 - The Rock

01’30 - Con Air

01’35 - Face/Off

01’38 - City of Angels

01’39 - Snake Eyes

01’40 - 8MM

01’42 - Bringing Out the Dead

01’44 - Gone In Sixty Seconds

01’46 - The Family Man

01’48 - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

01’50 - Windtalkers

01’52 - Sonny

01’54 - Adaptation

01’56 - Matchstick Men

01’58 - National Treasure
02’00 - Lord of War

02’02 - The Weather Man

02’03 - World Trade Center

02’05 - Grindhouse: Werewolf Women of the SS

02’07 - The Wicker Man

02’09 - Ghost Rider

02’11 - Next

02’13 - National Treasure 2

02’14 - Bangkok Dangerous

02’16 - Knowing

02’18 - Bad Lieutenant

02’20 - Kick-Ass

02’21 - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice


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    Comments

    Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Nicolas Cage and his Amazing Moving Forehead!

    Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at January 18, 2011 2:11 PM

    • Glorious.

    Posted by: jM at January 18, 2011 2:14 PM

    Never has 2 1/2 min passed so quickly for me.

    Posted by: brdkelli at January 18, 2011 2:21 PM

    Loved the video, but the list, my god the list! I had no idea how many Nicolas Cage movies I had seen. Apparently, I'm a really big fan.

    Posted by: Jen at January 18, 2011 2:31 PM

    Every one of these winds up making my whole entire day okay again, which for someone as cynical as me is no small feat.

    Posted by: Lindsay at January 18, 2011 2:34 PM

    Bravo.

    Posted by: twig at January 18, 2011 2:35 PM

    Great musical choice. "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has been one of my favorite songs for a long time, since the album "Joy" came out, what, 1976 or so?

    Yeah, I'm old.

    I kindly request that you remove yourself from the grassy area in front of my house.

    Posted by: No Pithy NAme at January 18, 2011 2:39 PM

    Just what I need to see right now. Actual proper guffaw of a laugh. And the best choice of music. Brilliant!

    Posted by: Carrie at January 18, 2011 2:42 PM

    Bless you, sir. Nothing cheers up a dull afternoon like a little Cagearifficness.

    Posted by: Siege at January 18, 2011 2:55 PM

    pen? check.

    bucket list? check.

    I can now die in peace.

    Posted by: beet salad at January 18, 2011 3:07 PM

    Your argument is invalid.

    The man is a god, and HH is the lowly mortal's only connection to Him.

    Posted by: zeke the pig at January 18, 2011 3:17 PM

    Blond and Poofy in Peggy Sue Got Married! That's the first Cage movie I watched with my hubby. That hair was crazy all by itself.

    Great Music Choice, captures the building frenzy that is Mr. Cage.

    Posted by: spljt at January 18, 2011 3:25 PM

    This made me realize a few things:

    1. With the exceptions of Leaving Las Vegas (pretty damn good, I thought) and Family Man (UGUGUGUGUG MAKE IT STOP), I haven't watched this guy since Moonstruck. I think it was a good decision.

    2. It's weird how he can look so incredibly handsome at just the right angle/or with just the right light, but then change it just a fraction and he's butt-ugly. Sorry if that sounds awful, just a subjective observation.

    3. The last several seconds was total visual persuasion that the guy needs to just shave his head and embrace the bald, a la Bruce Willis. Just go with it, dude. Even John Travolta has better hairpieces than Cage. Arg.

    Posted by: Snuggiepants at January 18, 2011 3:43 PM

    The career PEAK right there...
    Leaving Las Vegas
    The Rock
    Con Air
    Face/Off
    City of Angels

    Followed by a long slow slide into the shitter!

    Posted by: ColostomyBaggins at January 18, 2011 3:48 PM

    No Pithy NAme : Great musical choice. "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has been one of my favorite songs for a long time, since the album "Joy" came out, what, 1976 or so?


    "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has been one of my favorites ever since it premiered in 1876. Please tell me you meant 1876, and not 1976.

    Posted by: BWeaves at January 18, 2011 4:00 PM

    I want to see "Brad Pitt staring into fire"

    Posted by: whocares at January 18, 2011 4:19 PM

    I know you said I should be looking at his hair or something but I have to admit that I have been captivated by those GLORIOUS BROWS.

    Posted by: Hayden Tompkins at January 18, 2011 4:44 PM

    Just popped by to say whocares wins the thread with his comments.

    Posted by: Captain Splendid at January 18, 2011 4:46 PM

    Man, blond is soooo not a good look for him.

    Posted by: linny at January 18, 2011 5:00 PM

    AHAHAHA I loved how the music got more and more intense as his hair got further and further out of control. That was brilliant.

    Posted by: camytaru at January 18, 2011 5:11 PM

    So I thought this was a little "meh"...Then I turned the volume on. Now it all makes sense.

    Posted by: valerie at January 18, 2011 5:58 PM

    I am unashamed of my love for Nic Cage...and might I say thrilled that Ihave a safe place here in which to express that love.

    Posted by: the bees knees at January 18, 2011 6:06 PM

    Thank you! Thank you for that! The music made it! I'm gonna go look for that CD now!

    Posted by: Four Eyes at January 18, 2011 6:24 PM

    I love how you can see the slow yet inevitable build towards WHAT THE HELL IS THAT, played with that brilliantly frenetic music at the end.

    Posted by: Figgy at January 18, 2011 6:36 PM

    That was great. Perfect music.

    Which movie of Cage's is the one where he's screaming the alphabet?

    Posted by: Chickaboom at January 18, 2011 7:10 PM

    Chickaboom, it was The Vampire's Kiss.

    I have to say, I absolutely LOVE Nicolas Cage. Maybe its his hair, or the fact that he overacts to absurd levels, or simply because everyone else hates him. But the main reason is because the man excepts EVERY SINGLE MOTHER FUCKING SCRIPT THAT SLIDES ACROSS HIS DESK.

    I'm serious. Every script. He really doesn't give a shit, send him a script, and he'll be in your movie.

    Posted by: Vick at January 18, 2011 7:38 PM

    It's also a swing through Nic Cage's horrid shirts!

    Posted by: El L Cool J at January 18, 2011 8:32 PM

    We are not worthy.

    Posted by: Mick J at January 18, 2011 9:13 PM

    that was amazing slathered in awesome sauce.

    Posted by: stopthemadness formerly and currently known as Angry Black Lady at January 18, 2011 9:48 PM

    I'll have another in a Samuel L. Jackson, please.

    Posted by: rosabel at January 18, 2011 10:00 PM

    Thanks, Vick!

    Posted by: Chickaboom at January 18, 2011 10:10 PM

    @vick... accepts

    sorry, it's pajiba and them the rules...

    i love cage. what a guy.

    Posted by: ashton koosher at January 18, 2011 11:06 PM

    Last image got me real bad. XD Perfect music choice as well.

    Posted by: duckandcover at January 18, 2011 11:33 PM

    This reminded me of the days when Cage actually took the time to build characters and ACT.

    Sad, really. He was really quite good in a lot of films until he started taking himself seriously as a leading man.

    Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at January 19, 2011 12:45 AM

    It was about a year ago when I realised that I love me some Nic Cage. Why? Well, I was IMDBing a few actors of a certain vintage, and realised that they are at the point of their career that they are just doing whatever the hell they want, as long as they are entertaining themselves - and I can respect that.
    Then it turned out that Nic Cage has been at that point his entire career. And I can't take that away from the man.

    Posted by: Shane at January 19, 2011 4:08 AM

    The career PEAK right there...
    Leaving Las Vegas
    The Rock
    Con Air
    Face/Off
    City of Angels

    Followed by a long slow slide into the shitter!

    Posted by: ColostomyBaggins at January 18, 2011 3:48 PM

    ---------------

    But, all of these came after that:

    + Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Bad Lieutenant, Lord of War, Kick-Ass...

    - Knowing, The Wicker Man, Bangkok Dangerous, National Treasure, Gone in Sixty Seconds...

    NICOLAS CAGE DEFIES YOUR ATTEMPT AT PLOTTING A GRAPH OF THE QUALITY OF HIS PERFORMANCES.

    Posted by: zeke the pig at January 19, 2011 5:01 AM

    I had never noticed he and David Schwimmer are long lost brothers.

    Posted by: james at January 19, 2011 5:32 PM

    You know, the man is certainly one of a kind.

    Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 21, 2011 10:36 AM

    we always joke about cage being in every other movie that comes out, and that he'll take anything. He has 66 acting credits over the last nearly thirty years. the thing is we remember most of these films. or when we are reminded of them, we remember the bad ones as fun and the good ones as awesome.

    I compared him with Matthew Modine(after reading about Birdy). His career is one year shorter than Cage's. He has 68 acting credits, but i can't think of anything he's been in for probably twenty years.

    i had a point, but now my short attention span has fallen out of bed.

    Posted by: idleprimate at January 21, 2011 8:06 PM

    That was just beautiful. The choice of music was a stroke of genius, and that final image had me on the floor.

    Posted by: Jelinas at January 30, 2011 2:53 AM

    I was seriously hypnotized by this.
    My vision would blur and I was all, "SNAP OUT OF IT AND LOOK AT HIS HAIR!"
    it was a challenge.

    Posted by: Helen at February 1, 2011 1:30 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJEUqAbiqfg

    It's okay to be bald, Nic.

    Posted by: Becca at February 9, 2011 11:42 AM

    Anyone else feeling odd about all the chaos in Egypt? Sure feels like a good time to repent and look to the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness and hope don't you agree? God have mercy on us.

    Posted by: Blogging King at March 1, 2011 12:13 PM

    I am unable to thank you adequately for the blogposts on your web site. I know you add a lot of time and effort into these and hope you know how considerably I appreciate it. I hope I'll do a similar thing person sometime.

    Posted by: zero friction marketing at March 3, 2011 10:05 PM

    1. With the exceptions of Leaving Las Vegas (pretty damn good, I thought) and Family Man (UGUGUGUGUG MAKE IT STOP), I haven't watched this guy since Moonstruck. I think it was a good decision.
    2. It's weird how he can look so incredibly handsome at just the right angle/or with just the right light, but then change it just a fraction and he's butt-ugly. Sorry if that sounds awful, just a subjective observation.
    3. The last several seconds was total visual persuasion that the guy needs to just shave his head and embrace the bald, a la Bruce Willis. Just go with it, dude. Even John Travolta has better hairpieces than Cage. Arg.
    Posted by: Snuggiepants at January 18, 2011 3:43 P

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