Why Does No One Talk About This?!!: Nicolas Cage Punching a Woman Whilst Dressed As a Bear

You read that title right. Nicolas Cage punches a woman in the face whilst dressed as a bear. A realistic bear. Even in context this scene makes little sense. But I'll try.\

The Wicker Man remake is an atrocious film even by remake standards, if you ever get into an argument over someone over the negative impact of remakes this film serves as both the best and worst argument ever. It's the best argument is that it doesn't have a single redeeming quality and that's just weird because the director is a guy I actually like. Neil LaBute made a few films like Lakeview Terrace a film that makes the idea of being neighbours to a police officer actually legitimately scary. In the Company of Men has the sort of Fight Club level of What the hell to it but in two guys who are more than willing to destroy an innocent deaf womans life just because they can. The premise alone makes it one of my favourite movies. Actually looking at it Mr LaBute doesn't have a high opinion of women does he?

So when he directs a remake of Wicker Man a film i've never seen but have grounds to believe is legitimately scary I have high hopes. Not since Mortal Kombat Annihilation or the ideas that I hope may help me maybe fit in with society has my hopes been dashed so quickly. Everyone remembers this scene for that scene. The scene with the bees. Yeah that stupid scene that wasn't even in the original theatrical release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrB6z3VMak

And that ridiculous bee scene ended up overshadowing the real meme worthy moment of this film. The scene where Nicolas Cage punches a woman whilst dressed as a bear. Every time I type that it gets funnier.

This scene is the worst argument ever for remakes. The original didn't have anything half as awesome as this. I don't even need to see it to know that. This is why we need remakes because sometimes a remake does something so bad it redeems the entire film. And then that stupid bee scene

To put it simply Nicolas Cage knocks out another woman and steals a bear suit she will be wearing for the festival they keep talking about, and then he dons the costume and infiltrates the festival dressed as a bear, it's not a bad strategy by any means it's something Solid Snake would do if he had no cardboard boxes. The problem is when he blows his cover by punching a woman in the face. dressed as a bear. Why does no one talk about this?!

The fact is this scene is so perfect it can lead to far too many jokes. So I leave you with the glorious scene itself played over Chariots of Fire. Because it just works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpsbAUEe90