I recently revisited 1986's BLUE VELVET, an unspeakably bizarre film that gets locked in your head, then furiously pounds its way to get out.
Screenwriting : BLUE VELVET: "The dialogue is incredibly strange." My Sentiments Exactly.... which is why I adore it. by Bill Brock
BLUE VELVET: "The dialogue is incredibly strange." My Sentiments Exactly.... which is why I adore it.
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I am a Lynch fan. No arguments here. I thought 'Twin Peaks' (the 90s series) was a natural progression from 'Blue Velvet'.
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Mark Giacomin Agreed, Mark. Both complimented one another. It was as if Lumberton was the next town over from Twin Peaks. : )
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I need to watch this. Heard great things!
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Nick Waters Dennis Hopper is scarily malevolent.
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Bill Brock I love Mark Kermode and his humility here really speaks to me. It wasn't that the film wasn't good enough, it was that he wasn't good enough for the film. I wonder how many critics could learn from this?
When we read a bad review of a great film, perhaps we should just think that for some reason, it got under their skin and leave it at that...
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I need to see it again but first time round appreciated the bizarre twilight zone & characters drowning outside mainstream as a Noir fan. Off radar grotesqueness did not perturb me per sae & Hopper’s performance as a lunatic puppeteer is superb but abuse of female lead in uncut version I remember bordered on porn. At the time I felt anger as almost in denial she seemed passive in most scenes. I shouted “Fight back.” Friend answered yelling, “she was protecting the baby.” Yeah, I got that but felt the woman in jeopardy role could have had more twists. I suppose evoking these deep feelings make the film a masterpiece albeit some love it & some hate it. And some love some scenes but hate others!
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David Lynch carved out a unique niche. He doesn't write stories, he writes lucid dreams that emerge one scene at a time from stories we don't initially perceive. A loosely-connected series of lucid visions without a dramatic structure of its own slowly reveals the underlying story, which doesn't fully emerge until the last scene. I wonder if he works by collecting the notes he takes between naps...
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Just started rewatching it. It's so grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Huge Lynch fan. Love how he finds the underbelly in every community he invades.