#31: The General's Daughter/Gone in 60 Seconds (with Simon Barrett)

This week, the realms of Travolta and Cage come perilously close to merging, as our double feature covers films directed by fillmmakers who either have or will directed the other! In The General’s Daughter, we’ve got a steamy, somewhat dated legal thriller/airport potboiler courtesy of Con Air director Simon West, in which a warrant officer (John Travolta) investigates the rape and murder of a young female captain on a Georgia army base. On the other, deliberately dumber side of the coin, we’ve got Gone in 60 Seconds, the Dominic Sena-directed car-heist remake starring Nic Cage as the leather-clad, “Low Rider”-jamming gentleman thief “Memphis” Raines. It came out a year before The Fast & The Furious, but it’s got a lot of neon-soaked machismo under its hood, alongside some neat turns from the typical Bruckheimer stable of too-good-for-this-actors (Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo). But does its goofiness hold up for two entire hours? Luckily, we’ve got a character witness in the passenger’s seatl, in the form of screenwriter extraordinaire (and scribe of the upcoming Face/Off sequel!) Simon Barrett! Together, the three of us discuss the shortcomings of women-in-the-military dramas, Nic Cage’s budding association with muscle cars, and much more. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at [email protected] Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro