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Line 2: [[File:badliutenantPCONE_4219.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| '''McDonagh:''' Shoot him again!~~<br />~~ '''Gangster:''' What for?~~<br />~~ '''McDonagh:''' His soul's still dancing! }} ''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by [[~~Werner Herzog (Creator)\|~~Werner Herzog]], follows Terrence McDonagh (played by [[Nicolas Cage]]), a police officer in post-Katrina [[New Orleans]], as he investigates the deaths of five Senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. While tracking down drug kingpin "Big Fate", McDonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex (sometimes at the same time), getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on football games. The film is openly inspired by the 1992 crime drama ''[[~~Bad Lieutenant (Film)\|~~Bad Lieutenant]]'' by Abel Ferrara (which was set in [[New York]]). Both films showcase the same basic character, but the two movies are different enough that Herzog rejected the label of "remake" being applied to his film. Ferrara's Lieutenant and McDonagh are also somewhat dissimilar, with the Lieutenant having actual feelings of regret and remorse about his actions, while McDonagh just indulges in his habits more and more, using his position to get him whatever he wants. ---- {{tropelist}} === ''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' provides examples of: ===▼ * [[Actor Allusion]]: The second time Cage has played a character with the last name [[Raising Arizona\|McDonagh]]. * [[Babies Ever After]]: At the film's end, {{spoiler\|we see that Frankie is pregnant}}. * [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: The NOPD. Most of the other detectives aren't anywhere near as bad as McDonagh (except, perhaps, Stevie), but they do cover for him and some of them are even complicit in his crimes. * [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: {{spoiler\|1=How McDonagh gets rid of the gangsters an angry real estate mogul has set on him.}} * [[Be Asas Unhelpful Asas Possible]]: The chief roadblock to cracking the case. * [[Black Comedy]]: In case you didn't realize: it's a comedy. Probably. * [[Chewing the Scenery]]: [[Nicolas Cage]] plus massive amounts of drugs equals this. Line 33 ⟶ 32: * [[Gainax Ending]]: The film ends with {{spoiler\|1=McDonagh and the guy he saved in the film's beginning hanging out in an aquarium, with McDonagh high as a kite and wondering if fish have dreams.}} * [[The Gambling Addict]]: McDonagh. * [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: McDonagh and Stevie play this while interviewing potential witnesses. (Except they're not playing: Stevie really was going to start beating that guy up.) * [[Hand Cannon]]/[[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: McDonagh carries the legendary .44 Magnum. * [[Hardboiled Detective]]: McDonagh. * [[The Hedonist]]: McDonagh. * [[Hooker ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]]: McDonagh's friend Frankie. * [[Hookers and Blow]]: And pot...and crack...and smack... * [[In Name Only]]: Herzog outright stated that ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' was neither a sequel nor a remake of 1992's ''[[~~Bad Lieutenant (Film)\|~~Bad Lieutenant]]''. Didn't stop Ferrara from screaming that everyone involved in this film should die. * [[Karma Houdini]]: McDonagh spends the entire movie taking advantages of every single person and changing allegiances as soon as he can see a benefit, but in the span of 15 minutes he {{spoiler\|arrests the bad guy, gets the despots after him killed, pays off all his gambling debts, gets promoted to Captain, gets his girlfriend, father and step-mother clean from their personal addiction, has a baby on the way and ''hasn't changed one bit''.}} If that's not evading karma, I don't know what is. * [[Kavorka Man]]: Cage plays McDonagh like [[Richard Nixon]] mixed with [[Laurence Olivier]]'s version of [[Richard III]], yet he still has [[Eva Mendes]] and [[Fairuza Balk]] falling all over themselves to get him into bed. * [[Killer Cop]]: {{spoiler\|Stevie.}} * [[Mushroom Samba]]: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?" * [[My Girl Is a Slut]]: See [[Hooker ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]]. * [[The Oner]]: When arresting a suspect who's holed up in his house, McDonaugh orders his unit to keep their guns trained on the front door. Then the camera follows him as he circles around through the neighbor's adjacent house, enters through the back door, puts his gun right against the back of the suspect's head, and marches him out right through the front door. * [[Police Brutality]]: McDonagh loves to stick his [[Hand Cannon]] in people's faces and there's a scene where he {{spoiler\|deprives an elderly woman of oxygen}} in order to get her nurse to talk. Line 52 ⟶ 51: * [[The "The" Title Confusion]] * [[Title Drop]]: A partial example, or an entire one if you go by the film's original title. {{quote\| '''Chavez:''' Are you still working with the police department?~~<br />~~ '''McDonaugh:''' Port of call still New Orleans. }} * [[A Tragedy of Impulsiveness]]: All of McDonagh's problems stem from his impulsive nature: his back problem, his drug addiction, his gambling debts, losing his key witness, being placed on modified assignment, having gangsters out trying to kill him, etc. None of these things would have happened to him if he had any sort of control over his own behavior. Line 60 ⟶ 59: {{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] ~~[[Category:The Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans]]~~ [[Category:Film]] ▲~~=== ''~~[~~The]~~ [Category:Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans~~'' provides examples of: ===~~]]