First and foremost, I’d like to thank everybody who has read this blog. It has been great writing for you and I hope you’ve enjoyed.
Nic Cage is an enigmatic figure. 99% of his movies are completely nonsensical and feature inexplicably bad acting, particularly from Nic himself. Most people were first exposed to the worst Nic Cage possible, whether it be Contract Killer Nic or Beekeeper Nic.
But I didn’t. I first saw him in Leaving Las Vegas; a phenomenal movie in which Cage’s suicidal alcoholic character falls in love with a Las Vegas prostitute. His performance was phenomenal and I was unsurprised that he had won an Academy Award. He even did research for the role by drinking heavily in Dublin for 2 weeks. So he was somewhat relatable as well. The full package.
The next night, a Friday might I add, I recorded and watched The Wicker Man. I expected greatness. I didn’t get that. I got this. Why was he screaming? What is he doing with his face? It was all terrible. I thought it must be a one-off so I watched Ghost Rider. Even worse.
How could an Academy Award winning actor and nephew of Francis Ford Coppola be this awful. What possibly made him willing take such awful parts and follow such awful direction?
Money.
He gained the necessary accomplishments to reel me in and let me place my trust in his acting. The result for me? Probably the worst Friday of 2012. The result for him? Dollars. Lots of them. He is now past the point of pretending to care anymore. Well-qualified and talented people sell out regularly but it is important to reserve your energy for the most egregious cases.
Net neutrality protections were repealed yesterday in the US. Former Verizon lawyer and now Federal Communications Commision chairman, Ajit Pai, has campaigned and ultimately voted in favour of this deregulation. He has since released videos mocking the fact that people hate him for this.
The protections protected people from internet provider’s predatory behaviour, such as slowing of Internet for websites the providers don’t like and speeding up ones they can profit from. Without these protections, people may be charged to use websites such as Facebook and youtube in the future. One of the internet providers, Pai’s former employer, Verizon has paid $28 million dollars to lobby for these protections to be removed.
Ajit Pai is an award-winning Harvard alumni. He was nominated to the FCC by Barack Obama, who instituted the aforementioned net neutrality protections. He should be trusted to do the right thing for the people he represents. Why is he doing this?
The same reason Nic Cage still makes movies.
Nic Cage……I mean, Ajit Pai has threatened millions of people’s ability to access a free and fair internet. And it isn’t just a Friday night he has ruined by selling out.
It’s freedom.
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