![]() ![]() ‘ I am aware of it, I admit to it, but I cannot think my way around it. ‘ There is something inside of me that resists the films of David Lynch, ’ Roger Ebert wrote in his 1990 review. Winning the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival in what was considered a controversial decision at the time, Wild a t Heart has endure d as one of Lynch’s best and most accessible films. Together the pair hit the road with the law and an array of assassins on their tail thanks to Lulu’s deranged mother Marietta (played by Dern’s actual mother, Diane Ladd, in a role that earned her an Academy Award nomination).Īs in all Lynch properties, the supporting cast is an eclectic concoction of character performers like Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, JE Freeman and Isabella Rossellini. The extent to which David Lynch could expect a regular civilian viewer of Wild at Heart to know about any of these textual and organic connections is: 0 the extent to which he cares whether anybody got it or not is apparently: also 0.Frequent Lynch collaborator Laura Dern plays Lulu, the sexually charged partner to Sailor ( Nicolas Cage, giving his most erratic take on an Elvis - Johnny Cash archetype ). The Fugitive Kind happens to be the film version of Tennessee Williams's little-known Orpheus Descending, a play which in 1960, enjoying a new vogue in the wake of Lumet's film adaptation, ran Off-Broadway in NYC and featured Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Laura Dern's parents, who met and married while starring in this play. ![]() The fact that Cage's performance in Wild at Heart strongly suggests either Brando doing an Elvis imitation or vice versa is not an accident, nor is the fact that both Wild at Heart and The Fugitive Kind use fire as a key image, nor is the fact that Sailor's beloved snakeskin jacket - "a symbol of my belief in freedom and individual choice" - is just like the snakeskin jacket Brando wore in The Fugitive Kind. ![]() Wild at Heart itself, for all its heavy references to The Wizard of Oz, is actually a pomoish remake of Sidney Lumet's 1959 The Fugitive Kind, which starredĪnna Magnani and Marion Brando. ![]()
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