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: ..I didn't get the "freak show" feeling out of it, that you mentioned; I thought that was more in keeping with Blue Velvet, though.
: Gene,
: Exactly, that sir (Blue Velvet) was a freakshow, socially disfigured beings, Mullholland Drive' had some doozies: "The Cowboy", The Burnt Man, "Blue haired Woman", not to mention The "Sweet Elderly Couple" all metaphoric icons in the bowels of Hollywood society, which is actually more frightening, than any screen created horrific Beasts, simply because you realize there could people just like them secretly co-exsisting with you. What did you think about Lynch's take on dillusion? denial? I think that's the Message he wanted us to indulge in But, I don't expect to get it all. �Also, look at the first half of the film vs. the second, he made it for television,it comes of as a parody, then he frees himself up with it's demise and pulls off "the goods" in homage to "Twin Peaks" becoming "Fire Walk With Me", The film is some erotically twisted Remix of all Lynchian past. The similiarities are painted all over the film, in grandure.
: Jeff Wells
Yes, Jeff...those characters certainly could warrant the freak moniker, and I actually somewhat must have suppressed them when I wrote earlier. I just didn't think the whole film had quite the freakishness/grotequeness of Blue Velvet. I didn't really understand the whole thing. My take on it though, was that I thought Lynch was giving us an expose of what he felt about Hollywood in general; perhaps the "freakishness" of it included. There was a lot in the story of " Young aspiring starlet comes to Hollywood, all bright-eyed and bushy tailed, only to end up burnt out living in a shabby apartment etc..". I thought in some of the characters he was paying homage a/o making fun of eg washed up directors vs the young arrogant new ones, the older actors, the rejects etc...and I can't help but feeling that "cowboy" probably was an allusion to Tom Mix and the cowboy actors of his generation (a little of John Wayne as well???).
Regards,
Gene
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: ..I didn't get the "freak show" feeling out of it, that you mentioned; I thought that was more in keeping with Blue Velvet, though.
: Gene,
: Exactly, that sir (Blue Velvet) was a freakshow, socially disfigured beings, Mullholland Drive' had some doozies: "The Cowboy", The Burnt Man, "Blue haired Woman", not to mention The "Sweet Elderly Couple" all metaphoric icons in the bowels of Hollywood society, which is actually more frightening, than any screen created horrific Beasts, simply because you realize there could people just like them secretly co-exsisting with you. What did you think about Lynch's take on dillusion? denial? I think that's the Message he wanted us to indulge in But, I don't expect to get it all. �Also, look at the first half of the film vs. the second, he made it for television,it comes of as a parody, then he frees himself up with it's demise and pulls off "the goods" in homage to "Twin Peaks" becoming "Fire Walk With Me", The film is some erotically twisted Remix of all Lynchian past. The similiarities are painted all over the film, in grandure.
: Jeff Wells
Yes, Jeff...those characters certainly could warrant the freak moniker, and I actually somewhat must have suppressed them when I wrote earlier. I just didn't think the whole film had quite the freakishness/grotequeness of Blue Velvet. I didn't really understand the whole thing. My take on it though, was that I thought Lynch was giving us an expose of what he felt about Hollywood in general; perhaps the "freakishness" of it included. There was a lot in the story of " Young aspiring starlet comes to Hollywood, all bright-eyed and bushy tailed, only to end up burnt out living in a shabby apartment etc..". I thought in some of the characters he was paying homage a/o making fun of eg washed up directors vs the young arrogant new ones, the older actors, the rejects etc...and I can't help but feeling that "cowboy" probably was an allusion to Tom Mix and the cowboy actors of his generation (a little of John Wayne as well???).
Regards,
Gene
: ..I didn't get the "freak show" feeling out of it, that you mentioned; I thought that was more in keeping with Blue Velvet, though.
: Gene,
: Exactly, that sir (Blue Velvet) was a freakshow, socially disfigured beings, Mullholland Drive' had some doozies: "The Cowboy", The Burnt Man, "Blue haired Woman", not to mention The "Sweet Elderly Couple" all metaphoric icons in the bowels of Hollywood society, which is actually more frightening, than any screen created horrific Beasts, simply because you realize there could people just like them secretly co-exsisting with you. What did you think about Lynch's take on dillusion? denial? I think that's the Message he wanted us to indulge in But, I don't expect to get it all. �Also, look at the first half of the film vs. the second, he made it for television,it comes of as a parody, then he frees himself up with it's demise and pulls off "the goods" in homage to "Twin Peaks" becoming "Fire Walk With Me", The film is some erotically twisted Remix of all Lynchian past. The similiarities are painted all over the film, in grandure.
: Jeff Wells
Yes, Jeff...those characters certainly could warrant the freak moniker, and I actually somewhat must have suppressed them when I wrote earlier. I just didn't think the whole film had quite the freakishness/grotequeness of Blue Velvet. I didn't really understand the whole thing. My take on it though, was that I thought Lynch was giving us an expose of what he felt about Hollywood in general; perhaps the "freakishness" of it included. There was a lot in the story of " Young aspiring starlet comes to Hollywood, all bright-eyed and bushy tailed, only to end up burnt out living in a shabby apartment etc..". I thought in some of the characters he was paying homage a/o making fun of eg washed up directors vs the young arrogant new ones, the older actors, the rejects etc...and I can't help but feeling that "cowboy" probably was an allusion to Tom Mix and the cowboy actors of his generation (a little of John Wayne as well???).
Regards,
Gene
