"Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom?"
"About fifty thousand times."
-- Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, Wild at Heart
It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! In this episode, we discuss Wild at Heart, the 1990 romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage as Sailor Ripley, Laura Dern as Lula Pace Fortune, Diane Ladd as Marietta Fortune, and Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru!
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan and I being able to talk about almost anything, why Xan wanted to discuss Wild at Heart, David Lynch and Crispin Glover's quirkiness not meshing with one another, Bobby Peru belonging to Frank Booth's side of the family, Sailor and Lula being a white-trash Bonnie and Clyde, David Lynch not liking Barry Gifford's ending for the book, Xan meeting Crispin Glover, Mr. Wint in Diamonds Are Forever, running down the various Twin Peaks actors appearing in Wild at Heart, Lynch making Wild at Heart after filming the Twin Peaks pilot, Nicolas Cage asking Lynch if he could wear a snakeskin jacket in the film, more explicit erotic scenes between Sailor and Lula that didn't make the movie, people walking out of early test screenings, people becoming numb to movie violence after Pulp Fiction, the MPAA planning to give Wild at Heart an X rating unless cuts were made, the Chris Isaak song "Wicked Game", Cicely Tyson dying, Marietta wanting Sailor to stay away from Lula but hitting on him in a men's restroom, Sailor being the King of Bad Decisions, Sailor committing manslaughter, the speed metal band who plays "Love Me (Treat Me Like a Fool)" while Sailor sings to Lula, Mr. Reindeer being the middleman to arrange contract killings, Marcellus Santos taking Johnnie Farragut off the board, Sherilyn Fenn's scene as a dying automobile accident victim, Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona, pantyhose being really bad for robbing banks, Willem Dafoe vs. Steve Buscemi, Sailor's Cowardly Lion stuffed animal gift for Pace, Sailor's homophobic insults to gangbangers, Sheryl Lee being the perfect Glinda the Good Witch, Sailor singing "Love Me Tender" to Lula being the perfect ending to the movie, Nicolas Cage capturing the spirit of Elvis Presley, my never eating a candy necklace before, paying tribute to the late Cloris Leachman on Drunk Cinema when we talk Young Frankenstein, the greatest Robert Loggia scene ever in Lost Highway, and more!
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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 092, as Xan and I discuss Lost Highway, the 1997 Neo-noir film co-written and directed by David Lynch, starring Bill Pullman as Fred Madison, Patricia Arquette as Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield, Balthazar Getty as Pete Dayton, Robert Blake as Mystery Man, and Robert Loggia as Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent!