![]() Early test screenings for the film were poorly received, with Lynch estimating that at least 300 people walked out due to its sexual and violent content. The film is noted for its allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley. He disliked the ending of the novel and decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. Lynch intended to only produce the film, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct it as well. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, a young couple who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor. The film, finally, is funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.Wild at Heart is a 1990 American romantic crime drama film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Even more than a virtuoso shoot-out, two scenes - Stanton tortured by a gang of grotesques, a truly nasty car crash - exemplify Lynch's ability to disturb through carefully contrived atmosphere while the performances lend a consistency of tone lacking in the narrative (but ever-present in Fred Elmes' fine camerawork). ![]() But it's churlish to focus on flaws when so much is exhilaratingly unsettling. This déjà vu weakens the film sometimes the weirdness seems so forced that Lynch appears merely to be giving fans what they expect. ![]() ![]() As petty criminal Sailor (Cage) and his lover Lula (Dern) go on the run through a murderous Deep South, fleeing but meeting sleazy oddballs hired by Lula's mom (Ladd) to end their relationship, Lynch evokes a surreal, sinister world a mite too reminiscent of his earlier work: bloody murder, violent sexual passion, kooky kitsch, freaky characters immersed in private fantasies, digressive metaphors, symbols and cultish references, and bizarre humour to lighten the nightmare. ![]()
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