Spider-Noir director reveals the iconic noir actor who inspired Nicolas Cage’s performance

Just a few minutes into Spider-Noir, it’s clear the Prime Video show not only features a very different take on Spider-Man, but also a very different take on Nicolas Cage. While not as cartoonishly silly as he is in Raising Arizona or as manic as in The Wicker Man, Cage performs as Ben Reilly (aka, The Spider) in a snappy, heightened style that was far more common in noir films from the 1940s and 1950s, before more naturalistic acting became dominant in the following decades.