'Wild at heart and weird on top'

After hearing a rumor that Laura Dern is playing the role of Katherine Harris in an HBO movie about the botched 2000 presidential election, I may never be able to watch another of her 80s flicks again.

And that'd be a shame, because she's in some classics:

Teachers in 1984 stands out ("Mr. Jurel, I just had an abortion. I think I'm old enough to smoke."). So does Blue Velvet in '86 ("I can't figure out if you're a detective or a pervert."). Same with Mask in '85 (though Stoltz still gives me nightmares).

However, what I remember her best for is Wild at Heart with Nic Cage, made in the unspeakable year of 1990. But I'm grandfathering it into the 80s -- just for today.

Top 3 Laura Dern lines in Wild at Heart:

3. "One of these days the sun's gonna come up and burn a hole clean through the planet like a giant electrical x-ray."

2. "Uh oh. Baby, you'd better get me back to that hotel. You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt."

1. "This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top."

[Wild at Heart publicity photo]

Comments

[GlennS.]

Haven't seen Wild at Heart in ages so this quote may be a little off, but I loved it when they're in the car and she yells "If you don't find some good music on this radio I'm going to scream!"

[Marissa]

ARGH! Wicked Game is what I remember from Wild at Heart. Chris Isaak-meowwwww.
Sadly, this blog also reminds me of Dennis Hopper being all creepy and inhaling oxygen and getting even more freaky-creepy, "don't you look at me!!!!" I'm scared. VERY scared. I had nightmares after watching Blue Velvet. Thanks a lot Steve! ::curling up in fetal position::

[Bassnote]

I never saw this one. I lost my taste for David Lynch movies after Blue Velvet.

[Anne]

Having been shown at Cannes in May of 1990, is it not possible that it was FILMED in 1989?

[Spears]

Oh, I'm sure it was filmed in 1989, but under that same rationale, just about any movie that debuted in 1980 would have to be considered a 1979 movie.

"Wild At Heart" really doesn't have an 80s feel anyway. It's clearly a 90s movie. (For that matter, Blue Velvet seems more 90s too.)

I did catch "Teachers" on cable a few weeks ago really early in the morning. That's a movie they just don't show much anymore. It was pretty entertaining. Any movie with Nick Nolte in it has a chance to be entertaining.

[Marissa]

I'm still stuck on Wicked Game. Funny that's all I remember from the movie. Well, that and thinking Nicholas Cage creeps me out no matter what role he's playing...except Guarding Tess. HE didn't creep me out in that, but that's a 90s flick.
I leave you with this:
What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you.
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and,

I want to fall in love. (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I want to fall in love. (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you.

Okay, now that's really creepin' me out after reading it. :)