David Lynch Thread

[luka]

i dont think its a particularly calculated or cynical thing to do.

 

[luka]

you just make the films and dont interfere with peoples assumptions about them. you dont shatter their illusions and say
no, you dont understand, i pulled it out my arse, there's nothing behind it. but that is not cynical in my opinion.

 

[yyaldrin]

why should there be something behind it though? for me his movies works best by just enjoying each consecutive scene, i feel there's always something that stands out. honestly don't really care about some complicated plot or puzzle you have to solve.

 

[luka]

i dont think there needs to be either.

 

[IdleRich]

Lots of people talking about him on twitter.... I liked this anecdote if it really amounts to one.

I met David Lynch in Fairfield, Iowa. It was a TM thing. But he was also kind of promoting Inland Empire. After his talk I asked him to sign my Mulholland Drive DVD and asked him if he had any advice for a budding artist (me.) "Um, no. Not really." Then he stared at me, smiling.

 

[version]

i dont think its a particularly calculated or cynical thing to do.

Calling someone a charlatan implies a certain amount of calculation and cynicism behind what they're doing.

 

[IdleRich]

I remember that interview with him about outtakes and he was talking about a scene featuring a girl with her nipples on fire - and when asked why it hadn't made the cut he didn't say "oh it didn't fit in the context" or "it disrupted the story" or whatever, he said "that scene was just too good, I couldn't let anybody see it" or words to that effect. I wonder if that was true, I've certainly never heard any other director claim that they took a scene out for that reason.

 

[Corpsey]

I saw the clip of his version of the los alamos bomb and it shat on Nolan's

Although it achieved that effect by being in black and white and slow motion with sinister music over it so

 

[Mr. Tea]

Imagine luka believing that we'd believe craner would ever say "lol", lol.

 

[line b]

What's up with the transcendental meditation thing?

 

[line b]

Do we think it's a Hollywood nonce thing?

 

[Murphy]

lynch at his worst and where i really sympathise with wicked, bad, mean craner is episode 8. that is Guinness advert surrealism at its tritest and most gawky.

It was tv, pap, no one said it was high art but it was entertaining

 

[luka]

He did. And he misspelt lmao 'lamo '. I think he was drunk.

 

[luka]

Do we think it's a Hollywood nonce thing?

Could well be. For the record though I don't think Lynch is full nonce he just likes them young and juicy.

 

[IdleRich]

"I like 'em fat, I like 'em proud" - David Lynch.

 

[Mr. Tea]

He did. And he misspelt lmao 'lamo '. I think he was drunk.

Could be a variant on "lame-o", I suppose, if we were being generous.

 

[yyaldrin]

why can't we tag craner anymore?

 

[0bleak]

@... is craner

 

[Corpsey]

Do we think it's a Hollywood nonce thing?

Jerry Seinfeld is into it

 

[Corpsey]

It's weird he's into it cos I don't see him as the type to have to battle with internal demons

I think he does it just to feel better when he's driving around in an old sports car picking up 15 year olds