Re: David Lynch
Camille Scaysbrook (the_globe@hotmail.com)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry these posts are coming in so long after the original arguments
- email troubles yet again (:
No.8 on what list??? Sorry, that one flew me right by. Anyway, I
wouldn't say that Lynch only interprets his own vision - after all,
both `The Elephant Man' and `Dune' were based on pre-existing and
very famous material, as was `Wild at Heart' to a lesser extent. It's
up to you to speculate on their success - I think no one could have
done a more unique and touching `Elephant Man' than Lynch and if you
want to be pedantic it did get nominated for an Oscar (but, as a list
member who I'm not sure is still here was fond of saying: `Eat shit.
500 million flies can't be wrong' (: )
What Lynch can do is have the courage to interpret material via his
own vision - something that to me Adrian Lyne just didn't have the
guts to do, resulting in a pretty flat film (and fellating a banana?
please. That's too obvious even to be postmodern (: ) If you look at
`Blue Velvet' it *is* a totally analogous environment to the one
Lolita takes place in - peachy-keen suburbia on the upside, sexual
perversion, bugs and darkness on the downside. Those things are
Lynchs' forte. I think his Lolita would have been something very
different again from Kubrick's or Lyne's version - but it would have
been an interpretation I would have
liked to see very much indeed.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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>> Hopefully this won't be too boring a thread to pursue, but you've
mentioned him several times, Camille. Give me something, anything, to
go on
with Lost Highway other than the theft of the repeated highway detail
from
Hitchcock's Frenzy. Blue Velvet, and even Wild at Heart, were
definitely
powerful but I'd hesitate to allow David Lynch to interpret anything
but
his own obscure vision. He'd be the last person I'd entrust with my
"second-favorite book." What's No. 8 on the list?
>
> R
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