Improbable Infant Survival: Played with, since Lula finds out she's pregnant midway.Dark and Troubled Past: Sailor's childhood is only alluded to via dialogue, but that's what we discover:.Curb-Stomp Battle: An extremely brutal and bloody one opens up the film.

Crapsack World: Lots and lots of violence everywhere.Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Double-Aught Spool, the rocket scientist who won't stop talking about his dog (assuming he even is a rocket scientist, since we only have the word of another minor character on this matter).Blood from the Mouth: The girl from the car crash vomits up a little blood right before she dies from her injuries.

Big 'NO!': The whimpiest one ever captured on screen.

Black Dude Dies First: The opening scene has Sailor kill Bobby Ray Lemon, a black assassin hired by Lula's mother.

Berserk Button: Whatever you do, don't insult Sailor's snakeskin jacket.

Arc Words: More like Arc References, as many characters allude to The Wizard of Oz throughout the film.

Oh, and the actress? Isabella Rossellini.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Mob lady Perdita Durango was supposed to be 'a hairy, ugly woman', and the actress who played her was quoted as being 'overjoyed' at the chance of grunging it up as a result, 'ugliness' comes down to a cheap blond dye job with visible dark roots.

Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or in 1990, and was infamously booed when it was announced as the winner. Regardless, it's one of Lynch's most distinctive examples of American grotesquerie. One of the most divisive films of Lynch's filmography: those who love it consider it one of his best, while those who hate it ( Roger Ebert among them) consider it laughable, melodramatic trash. Hilarity, Elvis Numbers and Oz Allusions Ensue. Freeman, respectively) try to track down Lula and dispose of Sailor. As they travel and come across Lynchian situations, Marietta has both of her boyfriends, private detective Johnnie Farragut and gangster Marcello Santos ( Harry Dean Stanton and J. The film follows Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage), a recently released convict, and his lover Lula Fortune ( Laura Dern) going on a road trip from North Carolina to California in order to escape the clutches of Lula's extremely overbearing mother Marietta ( Diane Ladd). Wild at Heart is a 1990 dark comedy/crime/ road movie written and directed by David Lynch while he was taking a break from Twin Peaks, based on the novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford.

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