Wild at Heart (David Lycnh)

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Wild at Heart Blu-ray 4 June 2012




Wild at Heart Blu-ray

Wild at Heart Blu-ray Review




David Lynch's Wild at Heart has received a preliminary release date: October 25th.


Julia Monelle:

Elvis devotee Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage), 23, and his devoted lover Lula (Laura Dem), 20, are on the run in the deep south - mostly from her crazy psychotic Mother, and as the twisted events unfold, the jaw. He commands respect and wears his snake skin jacket like a badge. He's also in the wrong place at the wrong time too often. She struggles between love for her mother and love for her man; is she being led astray or not?

The peripheral characters are the kind of outrageous characterisations that seem to be part of a dream or a nightmare - obscure, dangerous, menacing, and eccentric people that you can imagine but never encounter. This strangeness and perversity is characteristic of Lynch's work where there is no clear division between good and evil, just some kind of kind of surreality.

When casting, Nicolas Cage wasn't even auditioned - he already had a reputation that put him in the slightly-surreal-and-definitely-nuts bracket. Laura Dern was also ideal for Lynch, partly because he wanted Dern's real mother - Dianne Ladd - to play the part of her screen mother.

This is a love story typical of David Lynch, who described it as a violent comedy. The book by Barry Gifford appealed to him so much that he wrote the screenplay in just six days, but then this is the man whom Mel Brooks described as "Jimmy Stewart on Mars" - appropriate considering this is meant as a homage to The Wizard of Oz, the original road movie.

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