While Sailor is singing he’s circled by a crowd of screaming girls. The weird part though is that Sailor then just grabs the mic and says “you guys know this one” and Powermad proceeds to play “Love Me” by Elvis Presley while Sailor sings the song.
Instead of just going into another song the band, along with the rest of the crowd, watches as Sailor forces this guy into apologizing. When the song ends Sailor makes the punk apologize. But anyway, at this show they’re dancing away as Powermad plays their most popular song “Slaughterhouse” – basically the film’s theme song – when some punk starts dancing up against Lula. Sailor and Lula love them and talk about them and listen to them throughout the film. And Powermad is sort of a big part of the film.
Just the fact that the band they go to see is Powermad is strangely bizarre. Where they end up going to dance is at a show for thrash metal band Powermad. Sailor and Lula go out dancing, which is probably their favorite thing to do. Here’s an example of a scene in Wild At Heart. You have to actually see Wild At Heart to truly believe Wild At Heart. And it’s not because it’s his best, though it’s up there and if someone wanted to argue it was his best they could build a strong case, but it’s one of the hardest ones to describe.
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Wild At Heart is the Nicolas Cage movie I most frequently find myself telling people to watch. But these aren’t your typical people making this movie and so what happens is well, weird. On the surface Wild At Heart is a pretty typical road movie about young lovers trying to escape from a parent that wants to break them up. Not only do Sailor and Lula have to worry about both Johnnie and Santos, but they encounter some strange occurrences and characters along the way that delay their California destination. The trackers are her goodhearted boyfriend Johnnie Farragut (Stanton) and her evil, criminal lover Marcelles Santos (J.E. Marietta catches wind of this and sends not one, but two trackers out to find them and bring Lula back to her. Sailor decides he’s going to break his parole and take Lula cross-country from their home state of North Carolina to California. This is good because Lula’s mom, Marietta (Ladd), will go to great lengths to tear them apart. Sailor and Lula are a young couple wildly in love and they won’t let anything keep them apart. When Sailor gets out of jail Lula Fortune (Dern) is waiting for him with his snakeskin jacket, which represents a symbol of his individuality and his belief in personal freedom. This of course kills the man and Sailor goes to jail for nearly two years. In what would be best described as self-defense taken to the extreme – something Cage would do again years later in Con Air - Sailor beats the dude’s head in until his brains are exposed. For someone like me this is an orgy of weirdo film goodness.Ĭage stars as Sailor Ripley (awesome name!) and in the film’s opening scene a man approaches him with a switchblade. Joining Cage is Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini and just a dash of Crispin Glover. At least I think I do.įor those that haven’t seen Wild At Heart it’s important to understand that this isn’t just a Nicolas Cage movie but rather it’s a David Lynch film that happens to star Nicolas Cage. I still love the movie very, very much but the difference is I understand it better. And every time I end a viewing I think I probably still have that same look on my face. Now some 12 years later after that first viewing and I’ve seen the movie a number of times. I honestly had no idea what I had just watched but I knew that I loved it. Two hours later I sat there, staring at the TV, a dumbfounded look on my face, I’m sure. A friend came over and we tossed it in the DVD player. On this particular Friday I had purchased Wild At Heart. I would go to Borders (shout out to those that remember Borders) just about every Friday and pick up a new DVD. By that time I was already a huge fan of Cage so I was making my way through his back catalogue, tracking down all the stuff I hadn’t seen yet. I saw it for the first time when I was about 18, roughly 13 years or so after the film was released. Wild At Heart is a first-time viewing I will most certainly never forget. I don’t remember the first time I saw every Nicolas Cage movie I’ve seen but the ones I do remember I’ll never forget. “Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?”
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