Agreed.
I never think about the etymology, but I use a line from this movie on my young daughter all the time:
“It’s dark now”.
A very significant movie for me. I’ve based all my relationships with women on the character “Frank” from Blue Velvet.
OMG the review is longer than the movie.
Dennis Hopper gave one of the scariest performances of all time in that flick - no make up, no special effects, just crazy incredible acting.
“Frank Booth is a very dangerous man”
Just try to watch "Eraser Head" and you'll see why.
He ruined "Dune"' and in fact, ripped it off from Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Greatest quote ever by Jodorowsky;
"After my Dune was left unfinished, DeLaurentis bought it and gave it to David Lynch to direct. I was inconsolable. But I felt Lynch could make it work. When it premiered, my son finally talked me into seeing it. We sat, I watched. Over a period of time I started to smile and when I had a huge grin on my face, my son said, 'What is it?'
I said, 'I am so happy! This is TERRIBLE! Even the great David Lynch got it wrong!'
One of my wife’s favorite movies
She loves Lynch and the Coens
Was the author paid by the word? “Stiff and stilted” describe this mess, not just the film. What a serious case of logorhea.
I saw it as a teenager. It gave me nightmares for two nights running.
Haven’t watched it again since. I need to do so to understand what exactly I found so disturbing.
One can say many things about David Lynch, but you have to admit he has a unique.... view. It's a matter of taste.
This article is longer than the movie.
For some reason I always want to point out that David Lynch actually directed a G-rated DISNEY film...THE STRAIGHT STORY.
I'ts about an old man's journey, by tractor, to see his estranged brother. Simple and touching.
I’m watching currently Twin Peaks for the first time, missed it the first time around. I always liked Lynch, I even appreciated Dune as it’s own thing. Peaks is great stuff, so weird. I love that good people believe each other when they find something completely fantastic and horrible, no trying to convince anyone like we always get, they just know that this is a sane good dude and go along with it. I love how much weird humour he puts into it, sandwiched between soul crushing horror.
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Movie was weird, though. I may have to watch it again after 30 years to get what I missed.
That sure is a lot of words for “David Lynch is a weird dude.”
This essay went off the rails about half way through. It came back near the end.
It’s Salon, they must be obliged to put in nonsense social commentary. (Well, not just Salon).
“seeing something that was always hidden”
Lynch is upfront about his oeuvre.
I do remember the movie. It was one, like Pulp Fiction, that had me leaving the theater wondering what the hell it was that I just watched but enjoying the ambiguity. That's actually a pretty hard reaction to pull off without being overly pretentious, but Lynch really does have an artistic touch to weirdness that ordinary weirdness doesn't have. I find it easier to enjoy if I don't have an emotional attachment to any of the characters, which is a little off the literary mainstream but there you are. I've often wondered if Lynch has that detachment - there is, I think, a bugs-under-a-microscope aspect to a lot of his stuff. Love to ask him someday.