Wild at Heart
A wild and crazy love story.
Country
Production
Budget
$9 500 000
Box office
$14 562 443
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Steve Golin, Monty Montgomery, Sigurjón Sighvatsson, Michael Kuhn
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Patricia Norris
Audition
Johanna Ray
Editing
Short description
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel by Barry Gifford.
- Many actors (Sherilyn Fenn, Grace Zabriskie, David Patrick Kelly, and others) "came" to the film from the series "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991), which David Lynch was filming around the same time.
- The snakeskin jacket worn by Nicolas Cage's character belonged to Cage himself. After filming, he gave it to Laura Dern.
- Nicolas Cage sang in his own voice in the film.
- Nicolas Cage himself performed the songs in the film.
- During filming, Laura Dern (who played Lulu) smoked four cigarettes in a row at the request of the director and screenwriter David Lynch and fainted.
- Work on the film was completed just one day before its premiere at the 1990 Cannes International Film Festival. The premiere screening was met with enthusiastic applause from the audience. When the jury chairman Bernardo Bertolucci announced that the Palme d'Or was awarded to 'Wild at Heart', the roar of the dissatisfied audience almost drowned out the welcoming shouts, with film critic Roger Ebert acting as an informal leader of the disgruntled. According to the film's screenwriter Barry Gifford, there was a belief that the media wanted Lynch's film to fail.
- Director and screenwriter David Lynch knew in advance that the actors playing the main characters, Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, would be participating in quite explicit scenes, and he wanted them to play completely uninhibitedly when they began to undress in front of the cameras. Before filming began in Los Angeles, he sent Cage and Dern on a kind of vacation together so that the actors would get used to each other's company. According to Cage, during those few days, he and Dern took a trip to Las Vegas.
- Accustomed to playing more 'intellectual' heroines, Laura Dern experienced some difficulties with the image of Lula, who is obsessed with physical pleasures. Dern found that chewing gum in her mouth helped her maintain the right pace when delivering her lines.
- The results of the first preliminary screenings were somewhat disappointing. According to Lynch, about 80 viewers left the hall after the first showing of the film, and about 100 after the second.
- Nicolas Cage performed the songs in the movie himself.
- David Lynch wrote the music for some of the film's scenes himself.
- Diane Ladd (Marietta) and Laura Dern (Lula), who play mother and daughter in the script, are actually mother and daughter in real life.
- During filming, at the request of director and screenwriter David Lynch, Laura Dern (who played Lulu) smoked four cigarettes one after another and fainted.
- Work on the film was completed just one day before its premiere at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. The premiere screening was met with thunderous applause. However, when jury president Bernardo Bertolucci announced that the Palme d'Or was awarded to Wild at Heart, the roar of the dissatisfied crowd nearly drowned out the cheers, with film critic Roger Ebert acting as the informal leader of the dissenters. According to the film's screenwriter Barry Gifford, there was a prevailing opinion that the media wanted Lynch's film to fail.
- Director and screenwriter David Lynch knew in advance that the lead actors, Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, would be required to film very explicit scenes, and he wanted them to act completely uninhibited when they began undressing before the cameras. Before filming began in Los Angeles, he sent Cage and Dern on a sort of vacation together so the actors could get used to each other's company. According to Cage, during those few days, he and Dern took a trip to Las Vegas.
- Accustomed to playing more 'intellectual' characters, Laura Dern experienced some difficulty with the image of Lulu, who was obsessed with carnal pleasures. Dern discovered that chewing gum helped her maintain the correct pace when delivering her lines.
- The results of the first preliminary screenings were somewhat disappointing. According to Lynch, about 80 viewers left the theater during the first screening, and around 100 during the second.
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