Nicolas Cage’s latest deranged catchphrase from new gangster surfer film-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Hollywood star Nicolas Cage’s new movie sees him deliver a great new line as he dials his performance up (Picture: Tea Shop Productions/Lovely Productions)

Nicolas Cage introduces fans to a new entry for his quote canon in his latest film, The Surfer.

The Oscar-winner, 60, has long built a reputation for his unique delivery when it comes to lines and how he interprets them.

Combined with his capacity to play intense characters who often flip out in movies like Vampire’s Kiss, The Wicker Man and Colour Out Of Space, and it’s no secret that Cage is a popular meme and star of many ‘losing his s**t’ YouTube montages.

With The Surfer, which sits at a very impressive 88% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes pre-release, he’s ready to serve us some top-tier quotable content once more.

In the film, which screened at London Film Festival, Cage plays a man who returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, only to be humiliated in front of his teenage son (Finn Little), by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.

And this territorial behaviour slowly starts to drive Cage’s character crazy as he contends with what is basically a cult of gangster surfers.

The actor with The Surfer’s director Lorcan Finnegan at Cannes, where the movie premiered (Picture: Getty)

Without giving too much away, it’s a gradual journey that builds up to the Longlegs star barefoot, covered in bird poo and hallucinating thanks to severe dehydration.

And as the teaser clip shows that’s been released, he really wants his surfboard back.

 It’s safe to say, we eventually get Cage dialing it up in his performance when he’s bitten by a rat, which he quickly kills by smacking it against a car door. Later, when he’s so hungry he can’t see straight, he finds the dead rat and bites into it.

After being interrupted he pockets the rat to use later, which comes during a fight when he truly snaps – resulting in his character pulling the rat from his pocket and shoving it into his opponent’s mouth.

‘Eat the rat!’, he exclaims wildly – and thus another iconic Cageism is born, joining his collection of iconic quotes.

Indeed, the star himself seems aware of how fans may catch onto this one, as he whipped the audience at Cannes up into a frenzy by roaring ‘Mangez le rat!’ (his newest meme-worthy line, translated) during the film’s six-minute standing ovation.

Cage’s character is put through the wringer, leading up to a climactic scene with a rat (Picture: Tea Shop Productions/Lovely Productions)

‘A sunburnt miragic descent into madness and male ego’ with ‘reliable crazy man Nicolas Cage’ praised @The13Ben from the BFI London Film Festival screening, while @AlecSaracen described it as a ‘deranged in-your-face nightmare comedy’.

‘Only Nic Cage could bring the unhinged energy and dedication needed for The Surfer to work,’ added @KatieMayBone.

When the footage of Cage’s reaction from Cannes was posted online by Variety’s London Bureau Chief Alex Ritman, fans were into it with @pamela_lpz_ replying: ‘Oh we are so back!!!’

‘He’s the only actor ever actually,’ added @m_midniter. 

The Surfer, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, also stars Julian McMahon) and Nicholas Cassim.

The Surfer premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May, before screening at the BFI London Film Festival. It is yet to receive a UK release date.

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