![]() ![]() 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. (Our expectations for how things look may have also drifted since 2006.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. ![]() I'm in the midst of rewatching "The Return" right now and was struck by how there are parts that look a lot like this - Lynch clearly loves this visual palette and in that, he finds a way to incorporate it without alienating people. Also, this looks so much like so much of Lynch's visual art, something that basically stopped happening in his movies after Eraserhead - it's absolutely Lynch Uncut. ![]() intentional and, I think, even a reflection of what's going on it it, narratively and thematically. Is it 'cinematic' in the way that, say, Wild At Heart is? Nope - this thing is indeed murky. Visually, I have never understood people complaining about this movie - to me, it looks pretty amazing. I still don't really 'know' what is going on plot-wise but to me, that's part of the magic for this one - it's the logical endpoint of Lynch pushing the "interpret it how you want to" feeling of so much of his work and works very similarly to Eraserhead in that way. I was able to see this twice when it came out in theaters and I loved the first time and then even more the second time. ![]()
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