{"id":716,"date":"2009-06-08T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/08\/captain-correlis-mandolin\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T08:53:06","slug":"captain-correlis-mandolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/08\/captain-correlis-mandolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Correli’s Mandolin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched Captain Correli’s Mandolin<\/a> last night. Firstly and importantly, I enjoyed it. It did everything I want from a book adaptation – it made me want to read the book.
\nIt’s obvious from the viewing that there has been a lot cut from the book to make the film, but that said, from a story point of view, I never felt I was missing anything that I could not piece together by reading between the lines. So by that measure the film holds its own as a story, if not necessarily the same story as the book.<\/p>\n

What I did take from the film is – just how shit Nicolas Cage<\/a> was. His attempt at being and Italian was really so poor. There were moments when I thought he was going to turn into Borat<\/a>. I have never been a cage fan, although I admit there are films where he seems perfect in, but I thought he was particularly badly cast here. I guess he’s just one of those actors that grate on me, a bit like Jim Carey<\/a>. However, by the end of the film he starts to become acceptable as the film enters the final action stage.<\/p>\n\"Technorati\"\/<\/a> Captain Correli’s Mandolin<\/a>, Nicolas Cage<\/a>, Borat<\/a>, Jim Carey<\/a>\"Wikipedia\"\/<\/a> Captain Correli’s Mandolin<\/a>, Nicolas Cage<\/a>, Borat<\/a>, Jim Carey<\/a>

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