![]() ![]() A beautiful ending and beginning to another chapter of their lives. Yet at the end, Lula is stuck in a traffic jam which allows Sailor to catch up with her and finally sing “Love me Tender” to her on the bonnet of her car-the one song he told her he’d only ever sing to his true love. On their night drive through the desert they stop at the scene of a fatal car accident, and on her way to meet Sailor after his parole, Lula tells their son Pace to hide his eyes from the scene of a car crash… random acts that seem to be either divine intervention or demonic attempts to derail the path of true love. ![]() The extent to which David Lynch could expect a regular civilian viewer of Wild at Heart to know about any of these textual and organic connections is: 0 the extent to which he cares whether anybody got it or not is apparently: also 0.The theme of car accidents runs through the movie, too: Lula complains to Sailor about the increase of accidents on the road, before telling Sailor that the sinister ‘Uncle Pooch’ who introduced her parents to Carlos Santos and raped her as a teenager, died in a mysterious car accident. The Fugitive Kind happens to be the film version of Tennessee Williams's little-known Orpheus Descending, a play which in 1960, enjoying a new vogue in the wake of Lumet's film adaptation, ran Off-Broadway in NYC and featured Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Laura Dern's parents, who met and married while starring in this play. The fact that Cage's performance in Wild at Heart strongly suggests either Brando doing an Elvis imitation or vice versa is not an accident, nor is the fact that both Wild at Heart and The Fugitive Kind use fire as a key image, nor is the fact that Sailor's beloved snakeskin jacket - "a symbol of my belief in freedom and individual choice" - is just like the snakeskin jacket Brando wore in The Fugitive Kind. Wild at Heart itself, for all its heavy references to The Wizard of Oz, is actually a pomoish remake of Sidney Lumet's 1959 The Fugitive Kind, which starredĪnna Magnani and Marion Brando. ![]()
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