Leaving Las Vegas
Recognizing, too late, the end of a relationship. But nothing is forever
Sweet Home Alabama
That’s what triggered the realisation, 17 years after the event.
Yesterday, I was on the deck of my boat (at anchor), doing one of the never-ending maintenance chores that living on a boat entails, when ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ (Lynyrd Skynyrd) started playing on the radio.
Brain Jump
And then in a flash my brain jumped inexplicably to ‘Raising Arizona’, the Nicholas Cage film about the kidnapping of a baby. Alliteration, maybe.
Again
Then another instantaneous brain jump to one of my favourite Cage films, ‘Leaving Las Vegas’. I worked away at shaping the piece of wood in my hand in the Southern Hemisphere spring sunshine. Thinking.
Leaving Las Vegas
My brain went back to the night I first saw the film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ in a movie theatre. Unforgettable, for many reasons.
Cage received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actor, while Shue was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress — Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also received nominations for Best Adapted…
