Re: David Lynch
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:59:52 +1000
Paul - highly recommend you head directly to your nearest video shop and
rent `Blue Velvet'. You won't be disappointed. In fact, you'll probably
proceed straight on to `Twin Peaks' or at least `Lost Highway' (:
Camille
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> 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
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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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