Saturday, January 18, 2025

Tom Waits and John Lurie in JIm Jarmusch’s “Down By Law” – and in Jarmusch’s “Mystery Train” and David Lynch’s “Wild At Heart"

At the end of Jim Jarmusch's "Down By Law" (1986), at a fork in the road in Louisiana, Zack (Tom Waits) wants to go to Los Angeles, so he takes the fork that might head west, while Jack (John Lurie) wants to go to New York, so he takes the fork that might head east. In Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989), Waits is only heard, as a radio DJ in Memphis. In David Lynch's "Wild At Heart" (1990), Lurie plays Sparky, one of the petty criminals Sailor (Nicolas Cage) meets in Big Tuna, Texas. So Zack and Jack each went in the wrong direction at the end of "Down By Law". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 January 2025)

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