David Lynch is dead 2025 aged 78, The Elephant Man, Robot Chicken, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Dune

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JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, January 17, 2025 12:01 AM

he also made a bunch of music videos

What is Lynchian....some said it was Neo-Noir Surrealism

David Lynch Directing Style Explained — How Does Lynch Make Us Dream?

Some said yes others could do it for example 'Eyes Wide Shut' is also very lynchian or Japanese Postmodernism and Horror such as Audition or the visual composition and editing of 'BLACK SWAN' but Lynch was rarely commercially sucessful

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, January 17, 2025 6:30 AM

I haven't seen probably more than half of his catalogue, but I really like the stuff I did see.

A brilliant mind.

He was able to tell the story of every girl Harvey Weinstien and his buddies raped 20 years before talking about it was cool. Not only did they allow him to put that movie in theaters and on DVD, but he was never murdered for it.

They were too stupid to realize what he had just done, and for the next 20 years after release they never figured it out.

I could just imagine the Suits getting together to watch an early screening of Mullholland Drive before it had the greenlight for release and saying "Yeah. That's fine. I don't know what the fuck any of that was about, but Lynch brings in all the weirdos with money and we know this will make us some on the Lynch Budget."

You, Suit. The movie was about you.

RIP buddy.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, January 17, 2025 7:18 AM

Yeah I noticed a lot of symbolism in his movies and tv, hints of behavior and strange culture...a giant enters the room, The Jötunn its almost supernatural a story of an FBI guy on the floor with Mythic humanoids. I didn't really understand any of it but wondered if Lynch was half-in with the crowd conspiracy people talked of or was he dropping hints or pushing religion strangeness.
Twin Peaks could be the death of any girl in an innocent small town or LA such as Killed the Black Dahlia, then the funny jazz moments, irony. The layers of jokes and surrealism could mean any number of things and a French Canadian drug smuggler at the border, a Saw mill, Owls a nd UFOs, a guy was demon possessed by some entity that was anti-human and killed or raped and murdered his daughter, a woman talking to 'A Log' and how to make sense of it all?
Other times I thought he was just weird and arty but his stuff was so unique it stuck with me.

12 Sycamore trees, Clock, Time. Black Lodge's Red Room, very Masonic, Prostitute, Nazi and Saturn symbols, the chess pieces consist of a black and white zig-zag floor and red drapes. The colors of interest are red, black, and white. He is into Asia meditation but also Theosophical, Native and Pagan mixed with Masonry Jew Arab Rome symbols, Occult / Norse Mythology stuff Laura Palmer and the one eye symbol - revealing the Great Eye of Saturn, again MTV Hollywood Occult, both influence from the Far East and Hindi culture Vedas, as they are the origins for traditions in Transcendental Meditation. Greek or The Kelpie a Scotland White Horse, Bill Cooper and The Bible a pale horse ? Is it a demon or Ghoul or Krampus or 'The Cuegle' this is a black skinned monster in Cantabrian folklore northern Spain in Asia Rakshasa are they coal people a race of usually malevolent beings prominently featured in Hinduism. Judy is implicated in the disappearance of Phillip Jeffries and possibly also in the disappearance of Major Garland Briggs (Don S. Davis). Judy is immensely powerful or is it a demon Lilith or The Lamia Greek, Mesopotamian Mother of Demons. The Experiment/Judy similar to Hindu goddess Kali "Dark Mother". The Wendigo maybe was there, Dwarf or Pukwudgie or the Clone or Changeling or Doppelgänger. The UFO thing so many sites since David Icke about occult and its connection to alien abduction theory

I feel there is Occult symbols and folklore layer inside it both old and new...but he also trolls you with songs, jokes a guy with a Marvel 'Hulk' fist to 'One Punch' the entity Bob?

Got to see Twin Peaks the Return a few years back, very strange but a good watch

Jay Dyer
https://jaysanalysis.com/2015/04/19/inside-david-lynch-an-esoteric-gui
de-to-twin-peaks/
“‘I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper.’ – David Lynch

Lynch while he did joke with his surrealism, I think believes in something spirits or he did believe in the supernatural but he does not bash you over the head and lecture, he let's you take your own meaning from his crazy surreal work.

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, January 17, 2025 7:19 AM

Lynch didn't seem to map everything out like one of these Sucker Punch, 300, Avengers, Justice League, Watchmen story boards, there is a lot of improvisation and spontaneity in his work.

he comes up with this concept even if it becomes fragments of am original concept made into something else then he materializes it and just goes with it

Every Terrifying Monster in 'Twin Peaks', Ranked

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SECOND

Friday, January 17, 2025 8:13 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I haven't seen probably more than half of his catalogue, but I really like the stuff I did see.

A brilliant mind.

He was able to tell the story of every girl Harvey Weinstien and his buddies raped 20 years before talking about it was cool. Not only did they allow him to put that movie in theaters and on DVD, but he was never murdered for it.

They were too stupid to realize what he had just done, and for the next 20 years after release they never figured it out.

I could just imagine the Suits getting together to watch an early screening of Mullholland Drive before it had the greenlight for release and saying "Yeah. That's fine. I don't know what the fuck any of that was about, but Lynch brings in all the weirdos with money and we know this will make us some on the Lynch Budget."

You, Suit. The movie was about you.

Across Lynch’s filmography is the concept of the seedy underbelly beneath glossy surfaces. The perfect town in Blue Velvet hides an insidious nightlife and by the end of the film the two worlds collide violently. It’s the same in Mulholland Dr only substitute Hollywood for suburban town. David Lynch also references the Wizard of Oz in a lot of films and the Wizard of Oz is also an allegory for Hollywood. The small town girl dreams of the big bright city, but when she gets there she is scared and wants to go home. Dorothy gets to wake up and go back home to Kansas. I think Mulholland Dr is a dark version of the Wizard of Oz. The dancing old couple at the beginning can be seen as Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. Naomi Watts is Dorothy. She too dreams of the big city but her dream becomes a nightmare and she’s trapped. She has a rich dream life of what her Hollywood story could have been (the noir fantasy with her and Rita where she gets to be the hero, and the starlet, and all her other wishes fulfilled), but her reality (the Silencio scene is her wake up call) is that she didn’t make it. Like many would be starlets, she didn’t have what it takes and she dies alone and unloved. So basically like the Wizard of Oz most of the movie is Diane’s dream. Like Dorothy, she wakes up, but not to happily return to Kansas but to return to the failure of her life. David Lynch loves to play with genre. He especially loves noir. He loves American mythos and he loves old Hollywood.

Tldr: most of the movie is Diane’s dream. The message is that Hollywood is a brutal place that creates dreamy content for audiences, but in reality chews people up and spits them out.

With David Lynch, the meaning becomes clear if you take a step back and look at the whole picture rather than trying to figure out what every individual detail means. The details fall into place once the whole picture starts to make sense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/12a5wbh/whats_up_with_mulh
olland_drive/?rdt=54673

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

BRENDA

Friday, January 17, 2025 11:21 PM

I like "Dune", "Elephant Man".

Also seen "Blue Velvet" and tried watching "Twin Peaks" mostly because it was filmed in Washington State. I didn't like "Blue Velvet" and couldn't get into "Twin Peaks."

SECOND

Friday, January 17, 2025 11:51 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I like "Dune", "Elephant Man".

Also seen "Blue Velvet" and tried watching "Twin Peaks" mostly because it was filmed in Washington State. I didn't like "Blue Velvet" and couldn't get into "Twin Peaks."

You would probably like "The Straight Story" by David Lynch.

When David Lynch Played It Straight

One of our most disturbing filmmakers also made one of our greatest family movies.

By Dan Kois | Jan 17, 2025, 12:21 PM

Lynch took The Straight Story to 1999’s Cannes Film Festival, where in perhaps the greatest year ever for American independent film, he sold his movie to Disney. (It’s still streaming on Disney+.) He laughed, later, when it received a G rating from the MPAA — surely that would never happen again, he cracked. Yet he was obviously fond of this placid film. “I felt its yearning for pure, intense feeling represented something that was in the air,” he said.

More at https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/david-lynch-dead-movies-the-straight
-story.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

BRENDA

Saturday, January 18, 2025 4:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I like "Dune", "Elephant Man".

Also seen "Blue Velvet" and tried watching "Twin Peaks" mostly because it was filmed in Washington State. I didn't like "Blue Velvet" and couldn't get into "Twin Peaks."
You would probably like "The Straight Story" by David Lynch.

When David Lynch Played It Straight

One of our most disturbing filmmakers also made one of our greatest family movies.

By Dan Kois | Jan 17, 2025, 12:21 PM

Lynch took The Straight Story to 1999’s Cannes Film Festival, where in perhaps the greatest year ever for American independent film, he sold his movie to Disney. (It’s still streaming on Disney+.) He laughed, later, when it received a G rating from the MPAA — surely that would never happen again, he cracked. Yet he was obviously fond of this placid film. “I felt its yearning for pure, intense feeling represented something that was in the air,” he said.

More at https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/david-lynch-dead-movies-the-straight
-story.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Might give it a try second.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 18, 2025 5:19 AM

I hate admitting it, but I've never seen Twin Peaks. That's despite my uncle and my best friend telling me how good it was. Just never got around to it yet is all.

I did see Blue Velvet (with that same friend, probably 25 years ago, but I don't remember anything about it except for being uncomfortable. I'd also watched Mullholland Drive the first time with him and we loved that flick and talked about it for years afterward. I don't remember talking about Blue Velvet with him or anybody. This isn't a review.

Oh... and I hate, hate, hate Dune.

I've tried several times to watch it, but I just can't. It's so unfortunate, because the cast is bonkers and Lynch is the man. I didn't even know until I was in my mid-30's that Lynch directed it, or who Alan Smithee is.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 18, 2025 5:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I haven't seen probably more than half of his catalogue, but I really like the stuff I did see.

A brilliant mind.

He was able to tell the story of every girl Harvey Weinstien and his buddies raped 20 years before talking about it was cool. Not only did they allow him to put that movie in theaters and on DVD, but he was never murdered for it.

They were too stupid to realize what he had just done, and for the next 20 years after release they never figured it out.

I could just imagine the Suits getting together to watch an early screening of Mullholland Drive before it had the greenlight for release and saying "Yeah. That's fine. I don't know what the fuck any of that was about, but Lynch brings in all the weirdos with money and we know this will make us some on the Lynch Budget."

You, Suit. The movie was about you.
Across Lynch’s filmography is the concept of the seedy underbelly beneath glossy surfaces. The perfect town in Blue Velvet hides an insidious nightlife and by the end of the film the two worlds collide violently. It’s the same in Mulholland Dr only substitute Hollywood for suburban town. David Lynch also references the Wizard of Oz in a lot of films and the Wizard of Oz is also an allegory for Hollywood. The small town girl dreams of the big bright city, but when she gets there she is scared and wants to go home. Dorothy gets to wake up and go back home to Kansas. I think Mulholland Dr is a dark version of the Wizard of Oz. The dancing old couple at the beginning can be seen as Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. Naomi Watts is Dorothy. She too dreams of the big city but her dream becomes a nightmare and she’s trapped. She has a rich dream life of what her Hollywood story could have been (the noir fantasy with her and Rita where she gets to be the hero, and the starlet, and all her other wishes fulfilled), but her reality (the Silencio scene is her wake up call) is that she didn’t make it. Like many would be starlets, she didn’t have what it takes and she dies alone and unloved. So basically like the Wizard of Oz most of the movie is Diane’s dream. Like Dorothy, she wakes up, but not to happily return to Kansas but to return to the failure of her life. David Lynch loves to play with genre. He especially loves noir. He loves American mythos and he loves old Hollywood.

Tldr: most of the movie is Diane’s dream. The message is that Hollywood is a brutal place that creates dreamy content for audiences, but in reality chews people up and spits them out.

With David Lynch, the meaning becomes clear if you take a step back and look at the whole picture rather than trying to figure out what every individual detail means. The details fall into place once the whole picture starts to make sense.

C'mon...

No explanation for the monster behind Denny's?

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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