#025 - Wild at Heart (1990)
Hello and welcome to my weblog. Over the weekend I watched Wild at Heart (1990).
I like the idea of David Lynch films because I have fond memories of the original Twin Peaks and because he seems like a sweet little old man but then I try to watch like Inland Empire or something and I can’t do it. I once took a first date to see Eraserhead in an arthouse theater that had popped up in the shell of a bankrupt boutique grocery store because we both liked Twin Peaks and because neither of us looked up what Eraserhead was about ahead of time; the acoustics were abysmal and we slumped through in folding chairs and those of you who have seen Eraserhead can guess how the date went.
But holy shit I loved this movie; this is my favorite of the movies I’ve seen so far for this project. Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage are so good together in this movie that you understand how Laura Dern’s character’s mother comes to the conclusion that the only way to keep them apart is to hire a series of assassins to kill Nicholas Cage. But you can’t kill Nic Cage. Willem Dafoe plays a weird little dude named Bobby Peru and you’re gonna think I’m lying but from just like a sheer quality-of-performance standpoint I think it’s one of his best roles. He does such a good little, weird little, greasy little no good dude in this.
According to Wikipedia, Nic Cage told David Lynch in pre-production that he wanted to wear a snakeskin jacket in the movie and David Lynch said ‘okay’ and he wrote it into the script and I love everything about this story.