David Lynch was” Jimmy Stewart from Mars”, to hear Mel Brooks describe the often controversial, often misleading, and always interesting writer-director, lifeless today at 78.
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Brooks launched the young Lynch’s profession into the mainstream by hiring him to head 1980’s” The Elephant Man”, starring the late John Hurt as headline figure Joseph Merrick, Anthony Hopkins, and Anne Bancroft. Out of a disturbing curiosity about Merrick and alopecia, an 11-year-old me watched it, and the drama was blown away. I wasn’t the only one. While” The Elephant Man” failed to win any Oscars, it was nominated for eight, including four of the biggies — Picture, Director, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay.  ,
If Brooks seemed like an unlikely alternative to produce a time crisis, don’t assume he didn’t hear it. Lynch’s performance was made more memorable by Brooks by removing his name from the certificates. Brooks is 20 years older than Lynch, closing in on 100, and also working. Wild.  ,
Brooks was not the only unlucky star to lend a hand to Lynch. His second full-length have,” Eraserhead”, was financed in part by Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk. The drama took five years to complete, largely due to financial difficulties, and Lynch was temporarily residing in a rental storage system that had been locked in by a friend at nights and then released in the morning.
” Erasehead” is the best video I’ve only always watched one day. Set in a world that’s element” 1984″, component 19th-century business hellscape, the video deals with crazy and fear of parenthood in ways — sometimes almost graphic — that only Lynch was. It isn’t for everyone and even for someone like me who dives deep into gloomy and/or experimental shows,” Eraserhead” was almost too much.  ,
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If Lynch was to leave his arthouse twist darkness and enter the Oscars with” The Elephant Man,” his second project was almost doomed.
” Dune” was a$ 40 million mess. One of the most expensive films made in the ‘ 80s, Lynch’s 1984 version of Frank Herbert’s 1965 scientific literature genius was a business and essential failure. The movie featured some inspiring casting choices, including Sting as Feyd Rautha, and was artistically distinctive and frequently beautiful. Another casting options, such as Kyle McLachlan’s portrayal of Paul Atriedes, were comical. McLachlan’s funny, Lynch-like elegance was a bad fit for the child of a prince and desert messiah.  ,
But finally Lynch came back just two years later with” Blue Velvet”, starring McLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper. Disturbing, amusing, and dangerously interesting,” Blue Velvet” is this aspiring author’s find as the best movie of the ‘ 80s.  ,
By the time Lynch wrapped up the’ 80s and entered the ‘ 90s with” Wild at Heart” and” Twin Peaks”, he was among the strangest variants in pleasure history: a religion director of popular entertainment. Although his output from that point on had its ups and downs ( let’s not discuss” Inland Empire” ), he remained as odd and approachable as ever. Lynch was the man who gave us Sailor and Lula’s surreal road trip to hell and the man who was an ardent Eagle Scout from Missoula.  ,
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” Jimmy Stewart from Mars”, really.
Lynch took to X on strange Sundays to observe that it was” Friday after more” for reasons that were unknown to him. in such films as this one.
Let’s take a look at last week’s last Friday picture picture now while David Lynch enjoys his holiday crack. twitter.com/PCEg1HDRRB— David Lynch Saying It’s A Friday Once Again ( @DLEvery Friday ) December 30, 2022
After his health suffered a sharp drop next summer, the video stopped, but tomorrow may become Friday once more, my first since a very long time without David Lynch.
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