CAMILLE!!!!!!!! I've never seen any of the movies of the below-mentioned directors, but I still want to marry you! We've got a date for May 7! Cheers, Paul >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 >@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 >@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest > >>> 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 > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >