@alexmonte21 Its not set in the 40s though, its only based on a 40s screenplay. You didn't get speed metal bands (like the band Powermad in this film) in the 1940s!
Wow. I like Lynch and Cage and have nothing but contempt for thugs black or otherwise but this is but this is some unavoidably racist stuff.
It is very implausible that a trailer trash chick henchman would be a black guy. More fake that Cage's character got a conviction for killing a black guy in self defense in the SOUTH. NEVER EVER WOULD HAPPEN. More likely the reverse would happen. This black guy getting killed to swing and rock music that blacks invented makes it even worse. Racist in deed.
That's an interesting point of view. I suppose it's possible Lynch was saying "Look at the obvious racist view of reality I am using to stage this scene everybody. I dare yo to accept this and still watch this film."
Sort of a reverse psychology catharsis kind of a thing that dares people to question their own sensibilities.
Almost too clever for me to swallow but you could be right. It certainly did get people talking.
But if I were just to declare it "RACIST" people might get upset.
So I 'm trying to be openminded. Someone can legitimately claim it's overtly racist or trying to subversively call attention to subconscious racist drives thus in a way being anti racist.
But you're probably right. This is clearly racist. But like someone else said...maybe that was the ugly point.
@o82774 I don't think it's racist. He kills him out of self defense and Sailor didn't do or say anything to make it a hate crime. It's just a coincidence that the guy was black.
I don't know what it is about David Lynch movies. They always have the worst dialogue ever. I mean "uh oh"? The scene itself is great. But then there's the dialogue.
I mean I personally don't think white people or any people should be fucked with by anybody. But why direct this "don't fuck with the white man" at black people? Seriously whites have fucked with whites WAY MORE than Blacks ever could. At least in America. In Europe blacks oppressed whites for millennia :( Now blacks give HELL to other Blacks in america lol. Whites? Not so much.
It is great, thanks in part due to the excellent feedback from intelligent, likable, people like yourself. I wish you the best of success and peace & fulfillment in 2011.
Classic, had that been real life, 3 black dudes would have jumped in to attack Nick Cage, and then left wing judges would say Cage violated their rights.
@sidislike: Well, at least you can tell my erudite comments come from an intelligent, educated mind. I have always done quite well one-one one fights, but it's pretty common knowledge that 'the brothas' will only attack a Caucasian male when they have two-three on one. They will however attack women when there's only one of them. LOL The truth isn't always pretty. Deal with it.
I wasn't offended by this scene at all. However, I was more puzzled by the gang of men that attacked Sailor at the end. It seemed to be comprised of ethically ambiguous men. The writer David Foster Wallace has probably responded to the issue of race in Lynch films. I got to re-read that article.
When he lifts the guy off the floor after smashing his head and part of it sticks to the floors' surface, that is, well, the singular greatest fraction of a second in the entire scene.
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This movie and Raising Arizona are the movies that really turned me on to Cage. Still enjoy watching him but so many of his roles have been junk lately.
a great rendition of the wizard of oz, superb use of music, especially slaughter house. And David Lynches last GREAT film, before he went just plain weird mode
It's outright Ignorance U speak From. It's this easy: A white person hired A black person to do her/their dirty work, did you even see what happened? And it's in the south even case closed,it's A movie ,,,,my point? MONEY WAS WHAT THAT GUY WORSHIPED= KARMA! You guys crack me up. Enjoy the movie not,it's correctness in your view.
Racist? People just need something to whine about. Reverse the roles and the black man kills the white man who is attacking him with a knife. Noone would utter a peep about racism. David Lynch is not a racist.
Agreed. People are either babies or PC nazi's or both. The same people that complain about this movie being to violent or racists are the same people who would never understand any of Lynch's works in the beginning.
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it's racist because the director was stroking himself off in delight while watching the black man's cranium being collapsed and oozing fleshicles and blood from the gaping hole.
If the roles were reverse, you'd still say it's racist because it's a black guy killing a white guy. To you, racism means anything that involves a black guy.
seems to me that cage can work with any kind of director and deliver an effective performance with any kind of material. he's not myopically focused on his role. he understands the film.
Ill never forget when Roger Ebert of Siskel & Ebert fame called this scene racist and gratuitous. Gratuitous violence maybe but what part of this is racist? Sailor is attacked by a man who is black man (which of course is not racist in the mind of Mr. Ebert) who in turn gets killed by a white man. = racist. Are you fucking serious?
@plutonium9 Siskel understood the movie, Roger, on the other hand, has something against Lynch. Personally the only thing I have against him is the evilness he puts in his films. Anyway, Roger said he didn't like how Cage pointed at the mother, like it was a joke that somehow excused the violence. What joke? It wasn't a joke, it was a point. Anyway, the only racism I could imagine is that the black guy dies first, which I've heard is a trend in hollywood, maybe lynch is satirizing it.
@plutonium9 Agreed. Ebert has always been kind of a prude though. in his review of blue velvet (another classic by lynch) Ebert said that Lynch was cruel to his cast for asking Isabella Rosselini to be undressed and "humiliated on stage like few actresses ever have been". Sure Rosselini has to act out some pretty viceral stuff in the movie but its just that acting! its surprising that a guy who wrote beyond the valley of the dolls could be such a prude and dismiss some real classics like this
@plutonium9 Yeah, I remember he said that Lynch seemed to portray it all as a big joke or something like that, but this is completely brutal, I'm struggling to see the joke here...
@plutonium9 Roger Ebert is an inconsistent fat fuck. He'll trash something good like "Wolf Creek" because it's too disturbing, then he'll praise something as stupid as "The Devil's Rejects." They trash good movies for the stupidest reasons, then praise bad movies... I don't know why.
@plutonium9 You misrepresent Mr. Ebert's words. He refers to the entire scene as 'racially charged', rather than saying that Sailor's actions alone are racist. His criticism of Wild at Heart, and Lynch's films more generally, is not simply that there are gratuitous, but that they fail to be honest about their violence. He believes, (quite correctly), that Lynch plays off the brutality here as a joke, so as to avoid confronting the issues of race and violence that the action brings up.
@plutonium9 Roger Ebert is a fucking idiot. I've never payed much attention to his reviews because he rampbles about moralistic issues that has nothing to do with filmmaking, if he doesn't understand this basic principle I don't see why I should waste a second reading his reviews. maybe if I had the printed version of them I would take a look sitting on the crapper.
I just love how the movie just opens with the jazzy music, then out of nowhere nicolas cage is bashing a guys skull in while heavy metal kicks in. It's more hilarious than shocking. Classic David Lynch.
i love David Lynch, but this film doesn't stand out in the list of the top films for hardcore Lynch fans who prefer weaker and more bizarre films such as Lost Highway. I personallty think WAH is a very good film, but far behind Lynch's best: Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.
Where can I see the whole movie online? One video store near me has a "lost copy"... thats no good... at the other store it is always checked out... and my credit is no good at the library!
Best opening to the best film ever, love it. By far Lynches most coherent film with the widest appeal, those who say "I don't get it" didn;t watch it, how can you not get it?. It's a love fairy tale, fairly tales usually have a fairly violent theme if you don't Disney them. It's pretty straightforward to me, am I wrong? Just people who didn't watch it properly, heard Lynch directed it so said, "It was too hard to follow" just to be safe.
And don't get me started on the perfect casting......Nick Cage..perfect Elvis styles, Laura Dern, southern belle Southern Dolle (Jamie Presley could've done a good job lately though), Willem Dafoe, who could've done that better, love 'im, and Harry Dean Stanton kick ass always.
There are simularities with this and 'True Romance' such as an 'Elvis' theme throughout the movie, and both movies are about a couple on the run. I need to watch them both back to back.
this is the worst fuckin movie i ever set through
butchy586 6 days ago
1:47 Dead man walking xD???
hamajuggle 2 months ago 2
1:45 The noice when he pulls him off the floor xD
hamajuggle 2 months ago
Glenn Miller is an old favourite lol
wawei67 2 months ago
This was Cage's reaction to me when I asked him about the Wicker Man
JDELUX237 2 months ago
Well that's just gross.
MandieRenee07 3 months ago
HOLY SHIT!
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Cage's trademark: his "point" at 2:12
Setebos 4 months ago
Cage's trademark: his "point" at 2:12
Setebos 4 months ago
nick cage is a legend
stefanoisthebest 4 months ago
Tasty :]
Smile4TheCok 5 months ago
What is the name of that jazz song in the opening? It's been in my head and it's killing me.
underqwerty 6 months ago
@underqwerty Glen Miller - In The Mood, says it under the video.
RagdollDude 5 months ago
the rock music screams shit just got real
vgmeszaros 6 months ago
its based in the 40s alot of rasim was based in those days
alexmonte21 6 months ago
@alexmonte21 Its not set in the 40s though, its only based on a 40s screenplay. You didn't get speed metal bands (like the band Powermad in this film) in the 1940s!
mardyben137 6 months ago
@alexmonte21 erm, have you seen the film? or just this scene? there's a thrash band in the club lateer on, ¬.¬
dred606 5 months ago
@dred606 seen the whole flim
alexmonte21 5 months ago
@alexmonte21 Yeah. It's not set in the 40's muh.
coreymitchelhoulden 5 months ago
@coreymitchelhoulden i fought it was but not its set when it was made i fought it was cause of te music and that black guy dying
alexmonte21 5 months ago
@alexmonte21 you fought? you mean you THOUGHT? are you retarded or foreign?
gfrantic87 2 weeks ago
@gfrantic87 shut up you dumb fuck
alexmonte21 1 week ago
Wow. I like Lynch and Cage and have nothing but contempt for thugs black or otherwise but this is but this is some unavoidably racist stuff.
It is very implausible that a trailer trash chick henchman would be a black guy. More fake that Cage's character got a conviction for killing a black guy in self defense in the SOUTH. NEVER EVER WOULD HAPPEN. More likely the reverse would happen. This black guy getting killed to swing and rock music that blacks invented makes it even worse. Racist in deed.
o82774 8 months ago
@o82774 Thats the point... its supposed to be symbolic of racism.
KyUHLz 7 months ago
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That's an interesting point of view. I suppose it's possible Lynch was saying "Look at the obvious racist view of reality I am using to stage this scene everybody. I dare yo to accept this and still watch this film."
Sort of a reverse psychology catharsis kind of a thing that dares people to question their own sensibilities.
Almost too clever for me to swallow but you could be right. It certainly did get people talking.
o82774 7 months ago
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TheTrainRex 6 months ago
@o82774 You're over analyzing the hell out of this scene.
TheTrainRex 6 months ago
@TheTrainRex
Maybe you are 100% right.
But if I were just to declare it "RACIST" people might get upset.
So I 'm trying to be openminded. Someone can legitimately claim it's overtly racist or trying to subversively call attention to subconscious racist drives thus in a way being anti racist.
But you're probably right. This is clearly racist. But like someone else said...maybe that was the ugly point.
o82774 6 months ago
@o82774 I don't think it's racist. He kills him out of self defense and Sailor didn't do or say anything to make it a hate crime. It's just a coincidence that the guy was black.
TheTrainRex 6 months ago 2
definitely my favorite movie now. u were right
texaschilibowl19 8 months ago
this is like the only david lynch film I havent seen; I'm starting to feel like I'm missing out
texaschilibowl19 8 months ago
@texaschilibowl19 You are!! This my fave Lynch flick .... its exploitation and surrealism and Nic Cage in his best role ever.
shooboxx 8 months ago
When Cage was good.
sydneymassive 9 months ago
Laura Dern's giant screaming mouth will swallow the world.
Kwimalo 9 months ago
Gotta love that metal score that kicks in when Nic Cage goes to work...
CitySkin09 9 months ago
One of the greatest movies. I dont know why no one my age has seen it! Same gos for Twin Peaks great show!
Bloodhound19830 9 months ago
I don't know what it is about David Lynch movies. They always have the worst dialogue ever. I mean "uh oh"? The scene itself is great. But then there's the dialogue.
juliabohemian 9 months ago
Serious beat down!! Go sailor! Don't fuck with The White Man....
theunknowndrunk1 9 months ago
@theunknowndrunk1
"Don't fuck with The White Man"
This is EXACTLY the point of this scene.
I mean I personally don't think white people or any people should be fucked with by anybody. But why direct this "don't fuck with the white man" at black people? Seriously whites have fucked with whites WAY MORE than Blacks ever could. At least in America. In Europe blacks oppressed whites for millennia :( Now blacks give HELL to other Blacks in america lol. Whites? Not so much.
o82774 8 months ago
Epic heavy metal killing scene!
liamzuid 9 months ago
He had a right to defend himself, but went entirely too far in the eyes of the Law.
Gilsams 10 months ago
what brand are the nicolas cage's sunglasses?????????
oOokratosoOo 10 months ago
that is one blood curdling scream
teameymelli1 10 months ago
Well... I can't say I was expecting that lol
KingLes98 10 months ago 2
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what does "lol" mean?
geliraubl 10 months ago
god the bitch is annoying with her screeching like a banshee.
chittyx2bangx2 10 months ago
This film was Nicholas Cage's 'Sistine Chapel'.
mucalinda 11 months ago 2
Shit got real...fast
krazylikeafox9 11 months ago 11
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TonyManeroNY 1 year ago
The black guy always dies first....
Geniemadman 1 year ago 35
@Geniemadman meh, this time he had it comin.
Dawnandlo 6 months ago
It is great, thanks in part due to the excellent feedback from intelligent, likable, people like yourself. I wish you the best of success and peace & fulfillment in 2011.
themarkhopkinsshow 1 year ago
0:09 good movie
wobhouse 1 year ago
Classic, had that been real life, 3 black dudes would have jumped in to attack Nick Cage, and then left wing judges would say Cage violated their rights.
themarkhopkinsshow 1 year ago 2
@themarkhopkinsshow That's never actually happened in real life, but at least we all can tell you're really really smart
sidislike 1 year ago
@sidislike: Well, at least you can tell my erudite comments come from an intelligent, educated mind. I have always done quite well one-one one fights, but it's pretty common knowledge that 'the brothas' will only attack a Caucasian male when they have two-three on one. They will however attack women when there's only one of them. LOL The truth isn't always pretty. Deal with it.
themarkhopkinsshow 1 year ago
@themarkhopkinsshow Your life is great
sidislike 1 year ago
This scene never gets old.
OilofPuppies969 1 year ago
damn!
NolaTom91 1 year ago
when he pointed it felt like he was pointing directly into my soul
cebwg7 1 year ago
I wasn't offended by this scene at all. However, I was more puzzled by the gang of men that attacked Sailor at the end. It seemed to be comprised of ethically ambiguous men. The writer David Foster Wallace has probably responded to the issue of race in Lynch films. I got to re-read that article.
brackets08 1 year ago
Lucky "man", he dont need dressed over for his funeral :D
Gu5rrg 1 year ago
@SWANvideo Nice. ;)
xUbastardx 1 year ago
"uh oh" haha
zodiacchiller 1 year ago 2
Watched the movie again in the TV today. Epic great
pitermasterek 1 year ago
When he lifts the guy off the floor after smashing his head and part of it sticks to the floors' surface, that is, well, the singular greatest fraction of a second in the entire scene.
TheNinthAngle 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS GOLD
Snakezzz 1 year ago
After killing someone in front of a million witnesses I too would probably smoke a cigarette in a public building.
omarfrancis 1 year ago 2
@omarfrancis No way dude, second hand smoke is dangerous.
aluisious 1 year ago
Nicolas Cage actually killed three men in this scene.
Zhejiangopterus 1 year ago
@Zhejiangopterus What men are you talking about?
TonyDopfer 1 year ago
Fatality!!
Foggemannen 1 year ago
I bet for a moment he wished he had skipped the fancy chat and just stuck him with the knife...hey ho
TheGodParticle 1 year ago 2
It's fucking amazing.
Radament123 1 year ago
"Anyone ELSE wanna make a Wicker Man joke? HUH?!"
ivand1979 1 year ago 6
Anything in America is racist
Kikinahm 1 year ago
That's how you fucking start a movie.
WithNoEndInSight 1 year ago 80
@WithNoEndInSight
marion333able 1 year ago
it's david lynch. he wants to remove you from the normal. embrace it or get lost.
marion333able 1 year ago 4
@WithNoEndInSight Fucking A Rights.
chadcassidy100 6 months ago
Awww man thats gross. I'll never watch the movie man!
PeeWeesPlanet 1 year ago
amazing
aznturtle 1 year ago
si ça c'est pas de l'introduction!!!...putain,, ça te plante un décor!!
lulanne 1 year ago
Nic Cage is so so good in this movie
lalalalala5151 1 year ago
That's usually how I greet people.
JesusCristo2002 1 year ago
How's that for an opening scene? David frightens me....
JesusCristo2002 1 year ago
well thats that then
PANZYUTUBEIS 1 year ago
David Lynch at his very best........
meeestersaaarmo 1 year ago
Damn...he busted that dude's head until the white meat showed.
CitySkin09 1 year ago
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over9000christian 1 year ago
I remember my date becoming flushed and excited while watching this. She basically ripped my clothes off as soon as we got home. Bless you David.
agnernai 1 year ago
@agnernai lol Whatever it takes to get some action. haha
mavsfan1000 1 year ago
brutal fucking murder!
okendido 1 year ago 4
This is the way you start a movie!
jupiter0225 1 year ago
I'll open up up like this adreniline-fueled scenes in any of goddam future movies any ol' time.
rhythmcorp 1 year ago
This movie and Raising Arizona are the movies that really turned me on to Cage. Still enjoy watching him but so many of his roles have been junk lately.
xUbastardx 1 year ago
somewhere out there a white supremacist is jerking off to this.
zackhanscom 1 year ago 2
nicolas cage earned my respect. now i dont care (too much) about national treasure and shit
pascual92 1 year ago
pwned.
shannonisalive 1 year ago
it's a beautiful day
DarthMoltazar 1 year ago
Laura Dern is SMOKIN' HOT!!!!!
1santos1 1 year ago 3
One of my favorite movies of all time. When Nick was King! -viCioS-
viciousbloodbath 1 year ago 2
holy shit
fraggle001 1 year ago
fuck yeah, this is when cage got roles that SUITED him he fucking owned this film
GreenSmog17 2 years ago 27
he's great in the new bad lieutenant
nickbeamwoadie 2 years ago 5
@GreenSmog17 Got that right.
Guitfiddlejase 9 months ago
a great rendition of the wizard of oz, superb use of music, especially slaughter house. And David Lynches last GREAT film, before he went just plain weird mode
Rourkeangel 2 years ago
David Lynch has always been weird and always will be, and that's why we love him.
s3ac0w 2 years ago 2
i'm going to take a wild guess you've never seen eraserhead based on this comment...
shannonisalive 1 year ago
pure comic horror, so lynchesque.....
texaspete66 2 years ago 2
Uh oh...!
SoEightiesItHurts 2 years ago
I'd have done the same thing if that douchebag tried to gut me on a flight of stairs. Don't see why he was sent away.
Spartacus217 2 years ago
Classic Movie!!! Best of Nick.
Racist DUH..LOL
It's outright Ignorance U speak From. It's this easy: A white person hired A black person to do her/their dirty work, did you even see what happened? And it's in the south even case closed,it's A movie ,,,,my point? MONEY WAS WHAT THAT GUY WORSHIPED= KARMA! You guys crack me up. Enjoy the movie not,it's correctness in your view.
LOSTINYOURSPACE 2 years ago
1:46 Hilarious
paul45862 2 years ago
Lol at the sound made when Cage pulls the black guy from the ground. it sounds *sploosh*
FractalBolt 2 years ago
@FractalBolt well, 1:57 shows WHY there was that particular, gooey sound.
simonjeste 1 year ago
Racist? People just need something to whine about. Reverse the roles and the black man kills the white man who is attacking him with a knife. Noone would utter a peep about racism. David Lynch is not a racist.
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 2 years ago
Agreed. People are either babies or PC nazi's or both. The same people that complain about this movie being to violent or racists are the same people who would never understand any of Lynch's works in the beginning.
fathead8489 2 years ago 2
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it's racist because the director was stroking himself off in delight while watching the black man's cranium being collapsed and oozing fleshicles and blood from the gaping hole.
zackhanscom 2 years ago
If the roles were reverse, you'd still say it's racist because it's a black guy killing a white guy. To you, racism means anything that involves a black guy.
420Slaterson 2 years ago
@zackhanscom
No, that's just us viewers doing that....
johnnyphoenix74 2 years ago
@zackhanscom
so stupid. so, so stupid.
rickardo89 2 years ago
@zackhanscom He really did that? How do you know? Did you peep inside his window?
brottarnacke 1 year ago
I love it
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Whoa. That was crazy, I think I need to check this out.
krushjudgement 2 years ago
I wouldn't call this scene racist. Just seriously fucked up ultra-violence. No chance the dude wouldn't have gotten 20 years at least.
daesim 2 years ago 2
Performances like this are why I will never write off Nic Cage.
Lambeaux 2 years ago 4
seems to me that cage can work with any kind of director and deliver an effective performance with any kind of material. he's not myopically focused on his role. he understands the film.
clemtoe 2 years ago
geez i forgot how fierce that scene was...then Cage had to go and do National Treasure LOL
jonesey5168 2 years ago
...mi ha segnato..come tutti i film di lynch del resto...lo adoro
YUMYUMYAAH 2 years ago
Fuckin great! A truly awesome film.
joeydangerously 2 years ago 3
Ill never forget when Roger Ebert of Siskel & Ebert fame called this scene racist and gratuitous. Gratuitous violence maybe but what part of this is racist? Sailor is attacked by a man who is black man (which of course is not racist in the mind of Mr. Ebert) who in turn gets killed by a white man. = racist. Are you fucking serious?
plutonium9 2 years ago 50
Ebert can be a fucking moron a lot of the time.
Lambeaux 2 years ago 4
yeah just cos he's married to a black lady. any movie with black issues he automatically loves even if its shit
dontleademsomuch 1 year ago
@plutonium9 Siskel understood the movie, Roger, on the other hand, has something against Lynch. Personally the only thing I have against him is the evilness he puts in his films. Anyway, Roger said he didn't like how Cage pointed at the mother, like it was a joke that somehow excused the violence. What joke? It wasn't a joke, it was a point. Anyway, the only racism I could imagine is that the black guy dies first, which I've heard is a trend in hollywood, maybe lynch is satirizing it.
TMundo 1 year ago
@plutonium9 Cause Eberts a fucking idiot with shit for brains and the taste of a quasi retard. People take this PC/racial bullshit way too far.
Crown: That black/asian/hispanic murdered that man your honour.
Defense: Your honour that is untrue and racists!
Crown: Your honour we have 20 witnesses and a security tape, the weapon and his DNA.
Judge: I rule this case as a violation of human rights and blatantly racist. Crown you are hereby charged for racial hate crimes.
chittyx2bangx2 1 year ago
@chittyx2bangx2
A quasi retard? A fake retard?
Slay318 1 year ago
@Slay318 apologies that was supposed to say quasi intellectual retard. yes that's oxymoronic but that describes well movie critics in general.
chittyx2bangx2 1 year ago
@chittyx2bangx2
Gotcha.
Slay318 1 year ago
@plutonium9 That fat twat Ebert just doesn't like David Lynch. He trashed Blue Velvet also.
SquirrelRangler 1 year ago
@plutonium9 Agreed. Ebert has always been kind of a prude though. in his review of blue velvet (another classic by lynch) Ebert said that Lynch was cruel to his cast for asking Isabella Rosselini to be undressed and "humiliated on stage like few actresses ever have been". Sure Rosselini has to act out some pretty viceral stuff in the movie but its just that acting! its surprising that a guy who wrote beyond the valley of the dolls could be such a prude and dismiss some real classics like this
MrZebbz 1 year ago
@plutonium9 Yeah, I remember he said that Lynch seemed to portray it all as a big joke or something like that, but this is completely brutal, I'm struggling to see the joke here...
wonderfulwomp 1 year ago
@plutonium9 Roger Ebert is an inconsistent fat fuck. He'll trash something good like "Wolf Creek" because it's too disturbing, then he'll praise something as stupid as "The Devil's Rejects." They trash good movies for the stupidest reasons, then praise bad movies... I don't know why.
theMaddShangi 1 year ago 3
@plutonium9 The guy who was killed maby was interpreted as a negative black steriotype what with the 'Jim Crow' dialect and all.
Mullahgrrl 1 year ago
@plutonium9 You misrepresent Mr. Ebert's words. He refers to the entire scene as 'racially charged', rather than saying that Sailor's actions alone are racist. His criticism of Wild at Heart, and Lynch's films more generally, is not simply that there are gratuitous, but that they fail to be honest about their violence. He believes, (quite correctly), that Lynch plays off the brutality here as a joke, so as to avoid confronting the issues of race and violence that the action brings up.
crunk777cutter 1 year ago 2
@plutonium9 Roger Ebert is a fucking idiot. I've never payed much attention to his reviews because he rampbles about moralistic issues that has nothing to do with filmmaking, if he doesn't understand this basic principle I don't see why I should waste a second reading his reviews. maybe if I had the printed version of them I would take a look sitting on the crapper.
MaghoxFr 1 year ago
Lynch is a Fuckin Genius!
metatron62 2 years ago 3
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Excuse me, excessively violent
artman4444 2 years ago
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David Lynch is a crappy director. His stories are weird and this scene is excessively vilent
artman4444 2 years ago
if you're gonna criticize, learn how to spell violent you fucking homo
illchiken10 2 years ago 4
Damn, back then Nicholas Cage still had a PAIR hanging between his legs!
FractalBolt 2 years ago 2
This is my favorite Lynch movie.
HOC666 2 years ago 2
wow i did not see that coming. nicolas cage is one badass motherfucker
TrevinoBrothers 2 years ago
This film came out around the time when David Lynch was on the cover of Time magazine and Twin Peaks was the hot TV series. Lynch rocks!
Satchel334 2 years ago
NICOLAS CAGE HXC???
TomReeseqazwsx 2 years ago
I just love how the movie just opens with the jazzy music, then out of nowhere nicolas cage is bashing a guys skull in while heavy metal kicks in. It's more hilarious than shocking. Classic David Lynch.
progolfer69 2 years ago 4
batshit crazy fasho!
solidkingcobra 2 years ago
WTF happened to Nicholas Cage? He was one of the coolest actors in the world at that time. He's a joke now.
scaryflakybiscuits 2 years ago 34
@scaryflakybiscuits Adaptation? Worth a look.
slmorganwalker 1 year ago
@scaryflakybiscuits His most recent film "Bad Lieutenant" was quite good. He's good at playing a maniac.
zedexy 1 year ago
@scaryflakybiscuits Have you seen 'Kick Ass'?
agnernai 1 year ago
@scaryflakybiscuits
have you not seen kickass and bad leutenant
he is back on form
skanskar 1 year ago 2
@scaryflakybiscuits you gotta grow up and expand otherwise you get pigeon-holed
Taliesini 1 year ago
This is the best way to open a movie. Keeps you on the edge of your seat immediately.
loachendormi 2 years ago
i love David Lynch, but this film doesn't stand out in the list of the top films for hardcore Lynch fans who prefer weaker and more bizarre films such as Lost Highway. I personallty think WAH is a very good film, but far behind Lynch's best: Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.
joaquinsoler 2 years ago
The scene in the movie,where they come across the car accident and Sherilyn Fenn passes away in front of them..so sad and powerful
bloodsling 2 years ago 4
so powerful and sad indeed that I can't watch it without crying, since I was injured in a very similar way...
mkervelegan 2 years ago
Where can I see the whole movie online? One video store near me has a "lost copy"... thats no good... at the other store it is always checked out... and my credit is no good at the library!
smobe12 2 years ago
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this movie ROCKS
burton1rome 2 years ago
Best opening to the best film ever, love it. By far Lynches most coherent film with the widest appeal, those who say "I don't get it" didn;t watch it, how can you not get it?. It's a love fairy tale, fairly tales usually have a fairly violent theme if you don't Disney them. It's pretty straightforward to me, am I wrong? Just people who didn't watch it properly, heard Lynch directed it so said, "It was too hard to follow" just to be safe.
mxR34 3 years ago 3
And don't get me started on the perfect casting......Nick Cage..perfect Elvis styles, Laura Dern, southern belle Southern Dolle (Jamie Presley could've done a good job lately though), Willem Dafoe, who could've done that better, love 'im, and Harry Dean Stanton kick ass always.
mxR34 3 years ago
Blue Velvet is even better. Isabella Rosellini. C'mon.
BayviewFinch 2 years ago 3
This might be the best movie opening of all time. Talk about a jarring transition. Lynch is a genius. Also..."fuck me...fuck me..."
goldsmice 3 years ago
lol nicholas cage pwned in this film, uh oh... haha the gud ol days when cage was good!
GreenSmog17 3 years ago
Wow, I just realized the jazz music in the beginning is the same song that was used in Twin Peaks, during one of Leland's crazy dancing numbers.
lilswissmiss88 3 years ago
Underrated movie, and who gives a shit about the violence in the movie. It's art, not a goddamn cheeseburger.
muxz 3 years ago 4
I too love this movie and I don`t think he over-acted . Ok. there were a lot of viewers.
In my opinion :this was selfdefense!
billybandol 3 years ago
There are simularities with this and 'True Romance' such as an 'Elvis' theme throughout the movie, and both movies are about a couple on the run. I need to watch them both back to back.
eartant 3 years ago