Re: David Lynch
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:56:16 -0400 (EDT)
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
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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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