I was drawn to Wild at Heart initially because I was a Nicholas Cage fan, and on that front it didn’t disappoint still one of my favourite of his performances after all these years. ![]() I enjoyed its grim absurdity and wanted more, but at that time the answer to where I could find more was to seek out other science fiction films. ![]() As a science fiction fan I had seen Dune many times, but did not think of it as an auteur film – or even know what that was. Throughout my teenage years I had made movie choices based on things like genre, celebrity, or franchise. Wild at Heart was the film with which I became conscious of David Lynch as a director, and which had a major role in awakening me to the very idea of the director itself.
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