When Sailor is first released from prison, they leave their town and go to see the speed metal band Powermad in concert. Lula has always a dramatic attitude (see the same gesture of covering her face with her hands at the beginning and later in the film), emphasized by her perfectly painted nails. As a matter of fact, in the rest of the film she always wears red lipstick and red nails, as you can see in the second screencap. After leaving with Sailor for their crazy road trip, she’ll go through hard moments and her life will totally change. This choice could refer to her being relatively innocent in that part of the narration. The gory opening scene is the only one in which Lula sports coral pink nails and lips in a similar shade, which match her peach pink dress. Lula is more consistent in her make-up choices, because she opts for the classic red lips/red nails combo most of the time, while Marietta likes wearing something different from time to time (see the hot pink nail polish on her talons in the screencap above). Both of them are natural blondes, with the help of some hydrogen peroxide, and love wearing red lipstick. This physical similarity is surely one of the reason why David Lynch casted both Ladd and Dern. From a visual point of view you can tell there’s a connection between them: Lula is Marietta’s younger and wilder version. Mother and daughter are very different – at a certain point of the narration they’re actually enemies – but there’s a very strong bond between them. All the bizarre, eccentric, wicked, violent and ruthless Lynch aesthetic is shown at its best, reaching its peak of perfection in the star-crossed lovers ( Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace, respectively Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) and in Marietta Fortune, Lula’s vengeful mother (the actress who played the role is Diane Ladd, Laura Dern’s mother in real life). I love everything about it, which is the reason why it’s still among my favourite movies ever. After many years, I recently had the chance to watch it again: the shock is obviously gone, but the feeling you’re watching a unique film is still there. It shocked me, as if I had seen an alien, because it was different from anything I had watched so far. I strangely have no memories of Disney movies, but I perfectly remember the impact the twisted love story by Lynch had on my 17-year-old prudish self.
I started to regularly attend a cinema when I was 14, so these are not the only movies I remember vividly, but are surely those who impressed me most.
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This is surely my case: the first memories I have of watching a movie at the cinema are linked to A Hard Day’s Night by Richard Lester (I was 5), to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (I was 12) and to David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (I was 17). The War of the Roses with its merciless cruelness remains one of my favourite comedies of all time.I believe the movies you watch as a child and as a teenager often leave an indelible mark on your memory and on your cinema tastes as an adult. He of course reserved the best role in the film for himself he is the wise man who tells the parable and who emerges victorious in the end. I'm mentioning this only because it is a new aspect I found during second viewing, and I am sure it was also DeVito's intention to develop characters like this, so for him, the turbulent divorce story is not just a parable on how stupid people are in general. That makes him an ideal `victim' to Barbara's striking egoism. He then becomes completely helpless and unable to react properly. He is therefore very sensitive and easily confronted if one doesn't acknowledge his correct behavior. Oliver Rose, on the other hand, is one of those people who are proud of doing everything in a perfectly correct manner. Kathleen Turner portrays her most believably in this insufferable phase. She invariably follows her instinct without paying any respect to other people. Maybe people who do not like Michael Douglas can sympathize with her but her reasons are not fair. She announces her wish to divorce upon grounds that are not quite convincing. For instance: who is the bad guy in the film? Who is `to blame'? And although it's clear that the Roses both have extremely unmoveable and stubborn characters, which partly leads to the catastrophe, I came to the conclusion that Barbara is the driving force of the whole divorce story. But this time, there are a few more things I think about, a few more questions I ask myself. After seeing The War of the Roses the second time after having grown a little older, I still feel that particular satisfaction.
Although this is often combined with slight exaggeration, it is exactly what I love about them. Merciless to their characters and merciless to the viewer. A classic feature of Danny DeVito's (far too few) works as a director is that they are utterly evil.
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