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Psychosis | Nightclub
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1989 | Nicolas
1990 | Robert
Best Male Lead | 1990 | Nicolas
1989 | Robert
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 725,131 USD
Nicolas Cage playing Peter Loew ate a real cockroach for this film - it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."
Christian Bale had used Nicolas Cage's performance in this film as inspiration for his role as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000). The characters and films share striking similarities.
The 'cockroach scene' was entirely Nicolas Cage's idea, a decision he greatly regretted later on. Cage also received a number of calls from animal rights activists about the scene and defended his actions by asking them if they could honestly declare that they'd never used a can of 'Raid' in their homes.
Peter's strange accent is supposed to be a fake accent used by the character because he thinks he sounds more "elegant" and "smarter" (hence the literary agent job). The accent comes and goes throughout the movie and is more prominent when trying to impress people, and less in scenes with people like the psychiatrist.
Much to the chagrin of director Robert Bierman and Nicolas Cage, there were some scenes removed from the film and multiple cuts of the film suggested. Cage states that those lost scenes represented some of his best work and that he longs for those scenes to be restored someday.
"Peter Loew: Shouldn't the copy be in that file? It should, right? Dr. Glaser: Yes. Peter Loew: Right? Hmmm. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Dr. Glaser: Unless, of course, it's somehow been somehow misfiled. Peter Loew: MIS-filed? Dr. Glaser: Yes, misfiled. Sometimes somebody puts a document in the wrong file and then it's misfiled. It makes it much harder to find. Peter Loew: Who? Who? What do you mean, who? How could somebody MIS-file something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just PUT it IN the RIGHT FILE! According to ALPHABETICAL ORDER! You know - A, B, C, D, E, F, G! Dr. Glaser: Peter... Peter Loew: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P! Dr. Glaser: Peter... Peter Loew: Q, R, S, T, U, V! Dr. Glaser: Oh, Peter... Peter Loew: W, X, Y, Z! HUH? THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO! Dr. Glaser: Very good, you know your alphabet. Peter Loew: I NEVER MISFILED ANYTHING! NOT ONCE, NOT ONE TIME! I wanna know, really, WHO DID? Dr. Glaser: I cannot possibly tell you that. Peter Loew: You can't? Dr. Glaser: No, I can't. Peter Loew: Hah! And you call yourself a psychiatrist?"
"Peter Loew: [staring at Alva, his eyes getting increasingly wider and more crazed-looking] Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest. Do you realize that? Every other secretary here has been here longer than you, Alva. Every one. And even if there was someone here who was here even one day longer than you, I still wouldn't ask that person to partake in such a miserable job as long as you were around. That's right, Alva. It's a horrible, horrible job; sifting through old contract after old contract. I couldn't think of a more horrible job if I wanted to. And you have to do it! You have to or I'll fire you. You understand? Do you? Good."
