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Wild at Heart (1990)
In director David Lynch's Wizard of Oz-related,
lovers-on-the-run cult arthouse romance film:
- the two lovers: violent 23 year-old ex-con and snakeskin-wearing,
Elvis-obsessed Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and horny goodtime
20 year-old Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern): ("This whole world
is wild at heart and weird on top")
- the scene of Sailor recalling and describing to Lula
(in order to excite her) an especially memorable sexual encounter
he once had with Irma (Charlie Spradling) when he was visiting his
cousin, Junior Train, in Savannah: "When she got almost to the
top step, I stuck my hand between her legs from behind...Man, I had
a boner with a capital O. Anyway, I found her lyin' in her room filled
with assault weapons and 'Spankhouse' magazines, so I slid my hand
between her legs again and she closed her thighs on it....Well, her
face was half-pushed into the pillow, and I remember she looked back
over her shoulder at me and said, 'I won't suck you. Don't ask me
to suck you.'...Anyway, dig this. She turns over, peels off them
orange pants, spreads her legs real wide and says to me: 'Take
a bite of Peach'." In response, Lula urged him: "Jesus,
honey! You more than sort of got what you come for. Uh, oh. Baby,
you'd better run me back to the hotel. You got me hotter than Georgia
asphalt"; he responded: "Say no more, but go easy on me,
sweetheart. Tomorrow we got a lot of drivin' to do"
- the character of Lula's monstrous and vindictive homicidal
mother Marietta (Oscar-nominated Diane Ladd, Dern's real mother)
- their encounter with a dying and bloody car wreck
victim (Sherilyn Fenn), who complained about "sticky stuff in
my hair"
- the startling death scene of psychotic hitman Bobby
Peru (Willem Dafoe) who knelt down and blew off his own head with
a shotgun, during an aborted robbery of a feedstore
- the final scene of Ripley being visited by the Good
Witch (Sheryl Lee)
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