History Film / TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans

* MushroomSamba: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"

* HardboiledDetective: [=McDonagh=].

->'''[=McDonagh=]:''' His soul's still dancing!

* AntiHero: [=McDonaugh=]. He's on the side of good and working to solve the murders, but he comes ''this'' close to almost being a villain in his own right. He's corrupt, a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. He still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. The circumstances that caused him to become a drug addict in the first place are also somewhat tragic.

** Stevie [[UpToEleven even moreso]].

* DevilInPlainSight: [=McDonagh=].
* DirtyCop: Oh, ''so'' dirty.

* RabidCop: Stevie. [=McDonagh=] starts turning into one over the course of the film.

* ActorAllusion: The second time Cage has played a character with the last name [[RaisingArizona McDonagh]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Just in case we were thinking that [=McDonagh=] himself had changed his ways during the ending, [[spoiler:he is still addicted to cocaine and commits one more act of PoliceBrutality out of spite.]]

* VillainProtagonist: Terrence [=McDonaugh=] is a RabidCop who's also a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. The only redeeming qualities he has is that he still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. [[spoiler:By the time the film's ending comes around, he still hasn't changed his drug-inducing habits one little bit and goes largely unpunished for all his crimes.]]

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: 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.

The film is openly inspired by the 1992 crime drama ''Film/BadLieutenant'' by Abel Ferrara (which was set in UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}}). 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.

''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by Creator/WernerHerzog, follows Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage), a police officer in post-Katrina NewOrleans, 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.

->'''Gangster:''' What for?

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:[=McDonagh=] himself, as revealed by the ending.]]

!!This film provides examples of:

* TheHedonist: [=McDonagh=], whose pursuits mostly consists of getting high and getting laid. When they say he's "bad," they're not kidding around.

* VillainProtagonist: [=McDonaugh=] is a RabidCop who also a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. The only redeeming qualities he have is that he still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. [[spoiler:By the time the film's ending came around, he's still haven't changed his drug inducing habits one little bit.]]

The film is openly inspired by the 1992 crime drama ''Film/BadLieutenant'' by Abel Ferrara (which was set in NewYork). 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.

* TheHedonist: [=McDonagh=].

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:[=McDonagh=] himself. As revealed by the ending.]]

* VillainProtagonist: [=McDonaugh=] is a RabidCop who also a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. The only redeeming qualities he have is he still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. [[spoiler:By the time the film's ending came around, he's still haven't changed his drug inducing habits one little bit.]]

* AntiHero: [=McDonaugh=]. He's on the side of good and working to solve the murders, but he comes ''this'' close to almost being a villain in his own right. He's corrupt, a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. He still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. The circumstances that caused him to become a drug addict in the first place are also somewhat tragic.

* GainaxEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler: [=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] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' provides examples of:

* KavorkaMan: Cage plays [=McDonagh=] like RichardNixon mixed with Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of Theatre/RichardIII, yet he still has EvaMendes and Creator/FairuzaBalk falling all over themselves to get him into bed.

* KavorkaMan: Cage plays [=McDonagh=] like RichardNixon mixed with LaurenceOlivier's version of Theatre/RichardIII, yet he still has EvaMendes and FairuzaBalk falling all over themselves to get him into bed.

* NiceShoes: [=McDonaugh=] clearly has a thing for Heidi's motorcycle-cop boots.

* KavorkaMan: Cage plays [=McDonagh=] like RichardNixon mixed with LaurenceOlivier's version of RichardIII, yet he still has EvaMendes and FairuzaBalk falling all over themselves to get him into bed.

* InNameOnly: Herzog outright stated that ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' was neither a sequel nor a remake. Didn't stop Ferrara from screaming that everyone involved in this film should die.

''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by Creator/WernerHerzog, followed Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage) as he investigated 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.