![]() ![]() To support the heroine's evolution towards maturity, Amy Stofsky relied on a neutral color palette and a sophisticated pattern. Her hair is voluminous, but neat and less wild than when she was running around the country with Sailor. True to her character's flamboyant personality, Laura Dern is sporting a pair of flashy hoop earrings, scarlet lipstick and red pumps. However, the David Lynch style fairy tale ends well because moments later, Nicolas Cage comes running over the roofs of cars with the sunset behind him, to find her while singing Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley. She bursts into tears watching him moving away from her, unable to stop him. However, he leaves her because he doesn't want to cause any more problems. New mother Lula Fortune awaits the return of her lover after his release from prison. ![]() It is sensual with its plunging neckline and its bare back, without being vulgar. For the famous polka dot dress that the actress wore in the final scenes of the film, it is seen as the outfit of maturity. 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.Laura Dern in “Wild at Heart” Photo12 via AFP The final dressĭesigned by costume designer Amy Stofsky, Laura Dern's wardrobe in Wild at Heart was not chosen at random. 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |