{"id":2207,"date":"2009-05-03T22:05:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T02:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2025-02-08T09:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T14:28:54","slug":"wild-at-heart-1990-david-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2207","title":{"rendered":"Wild At Heart (1990, David Lynch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nic Cage goes to jail. Twice.<\/p>\n

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Harry Dean is a lovestruck sucker, gets killed by three characters who are far more prominent in the deleted scenes: Quiet Dropshadow (Jerry Horne in Twin Peaks<\/em>), talky, over-friendly Reggie (black islander Calvin Lockhart, who played “Biggie Smalls” in Sidney Poitier film Let’s Do It Again<\/em>, which I must see sometime), and creeeepy cane-walkin’ woman Juana Durango (Grace Zabriskie, even creepier in Inland Empire<\/a><\/em>, also Laura Palmer’s mom). Alex de la Iglesia made some sort of a sequel<\/em> featuring these three characters called Perdita Durango<\/em> or Dance With The Devil<\/em>. I guess it’s not really a sequel, but both films are based on novels by Barry Gifford, who also cowrote Lost Highway<\/a><\/em> and Hotel Room<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lynch has plenty of contenders for Creepiest Character In Film History – there’s Robert Blake in Lost Highway<\/em>, Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet<\/a><\/em>… my personal pick is Willem Dafoe in Wild At Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Crispin Glover also gets a bigger part in the outtakes, including the scene below where he’s almost discovered by our heroes working at a gas station. I can’t remember if the revelation that he impregnated cousin Laura Dern when they were younger was in the movie or not… I’m thinking it’s from the outtakes too.<\/p>\n

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“How many stars you think are up there, baby?”
\n“There’s a couple.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nic Cage goes to jail. Twice. Harry Dean is a lovestruck sucker, gets killed by three characters who are far more prominent in the deleted scenes: Quiet Dropshadow (Jerry Horne in Twin Peaks), talky, over-friendly Reggie (black islander Calvin Lockhart, who played “Biggie Smalls” in Sidney Poitier film Let’s Do It Again, which I must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1052,542,209,808,384,861,614,183],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-cannes-golden-palm","tag-crispin-glover","tag-david-lynch","tag-harry-dean-stanton","tag-incest","tag-laura-dern","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-willem-dafoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17208,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/17208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}