David Lynch
David Lynch
1) Mast and Kawin identify Lynch as a unique stylist with a unique vision.
2) His films are typically bizarre and take place in strange worlds.
3) He learned a great deal from the avant-garde.
4)He trained as a painter when he was younger and
5)his narratives typically don’t provide any clear resolutions.
6)His films are about what lies beneath the surface of ordinary life.
7)In Lynch’s films, a mystery can lead one into a dark place where
personal identity and safety is risked.
Blue Velvet (1986)
1)is about a young man who finds a severed ear in a small town.
2)The man, Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan), sets out to solve the mystery of where the ear came from
3) with his love interest Sandy (Laura Dern).
4)This leads him into a world inhabited by a psychopathic killer Frank (Dennis Hopper) and a
mysterious woman named Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini).
Clip Intro:
The following clip sees Jeffrey lead to an apartment where Frank introduces him to a man named Ben (Dean Stockwell). Ben begins to sing Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" while Frank and his friends look on. The clip shows the visual style of Lynch on full display: surreal, blending on genres/time-periods etc.
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986):
A Partial Clip we saw Click Here when they go to visit Ben.
Blog post on this scene but I thought it was a good description
Click Here
Post Class:
Sean Young's video on the making of Dune in Mexico City
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Sean Young
“Dune the motion picture was made in Mexico City, Mexico, during the Spring of 1983. I was there to witness David Lynch as the director and here's what really happened !”
Sean Young, who played Chani in
David Lynch
's
Dune
, in the introduction of the 6' video she filmed on set with a Super 8 camera and added a few years ago to her YouTube Channel :
A Description of Lynch's Elephant Man from a fan site.
First time watch for me! I’m a mess.
A deformed man is scorned and shunned from society. Put in a freak show. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Believed to be damned, stupid, and depraved. Yet, when someone finally takes the time to understand this person, they find out that this deformed man isn’t quite so different. He may appear that way, but inside, he’s just as human as the rest of us, maybe even more so.
Now. Take the word “deformed” and replace it with a different race, or a sexuality, or a different gender. Any minority. That’s why this movie is a masterpiece. Anyone who has ever been the outsider and the outcast in society - this film and the story of John Merrick is for you. It speaks to the abnormalities of this world.
As a gay man, this movie destroyed me. There were so many parallels to be drawn between how gay people have been treated to how John was treated. So many scenes where I had to remove my glasses because they were fogging up so much that I couldn’t see the screen.
Beyond the message, the tone and atmosphere of this film is amazing. David Lynch always crafts a movie that is meant to be felt and experienced, and here is no different. The cinematography, the sound design, the lighting, and of course the costuming and makeup are all excellent.
You can’t talk about this movie and not talk about the sincere, honest, and heartbreaking performance that John Hurt gives as John (Joseph) Merrick. Behind all that makeup, you are still able to empathize and weep at this poor, misunderstood soul, who, above all else, just wanted love. And you loved him for that. You realized that while society called him a monster - the real monster, was society itself.
I was profoundly moved by this film. I will be thinking about this movie, indeed, for a long time.
Lynch about shooting on location
shooting on location is fantastic because you go into someone's real house
and you can't believe it what they've got in these houses and it gives you ideas.
living spaces as an extenstion of the characters selves
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