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David Lynch has passed

I always thought it was sad that Lynch never liked to talk about making his version of Dune. I think he considered it a failure. :(

It's my favorite movie of his. Glorious, glorious 80's cheese. :techman:
 
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I remember seeing a post once which showed him talking about dealing with bad directors. It's stuck with me. The man was a good one. May he rest in peace. :(
 
I didn't always connect with everything he did (I'm looking at you Inland Empire) but when I did...

Mulholland Drive is one of my top five films of all time. Blue Velvet is superb and Lost Highway is wonderful.

Plus he gave us Twin Peaks. Might be time for a rewatch.

I will always have a soft spot for Dune as well.

RIP, sir, you will long be remembered and lauded.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I always thought it was sad that Lynch never liked to talk about making his version of Dune. I think he considered it a failure. :(

It's my favorite movie of his. Glorious, glorious 80's cheese. :techman:
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There's some cool insights from Patrick Stewart in his biography on this experience too.
 
Mulholland Drive is one of my favourite movies... but in some ways I appreciate David's work indirectly. He had quite the influence on Punchdrunk whose work I'm obessed with (immersive theatre) so there was a real Lynchian vibe to a lot of their work that I love.

One can argue about influences and who influenced whom and who influenced him etc... I know that ideas are not unique. But I do believe his work was key, and they even use music from Twin Peaks in one of their productions.
 
So I guess this means no Twin Peaks season 4? :wah:

Mr. Laser Beam said:
I always thought it was sad that Lynch never liked to talk about making his version of Dune.
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There's a chapter on it in the book Lynch on Lynch. There's also an interview with him and Frank Herbert where he says "we're a little bit Duned out" ( Herbert chimes in with "'Dune In', we say" ) but it doesn't come off as negative.
 
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I know that Patrick Stewart talks about his experience working with David Lynch on Dune in his autobiography.
The local news had a story about Lynch's passing and how Twin Peaks to this day, still brings tourists to Snoqualmie Falls, North Bend and Twedes Cafe, where they have an Agent Cooper booth, and David Lynch and Kyle Maclachlan have their handprints in cement in front of the North Bend movie theater.
 
Starkers said:
Plus he gave us Twin Peaks. Might be time for a rewatch.
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The first season and a halfish of Twin Peaks is one of my favorite TV shows of all time but it fell apart badly and never recovered (or was satisfactorily concluded) after they "caught" Laura's killer. As I mentioned in another thread, I guess I will continue with my "head canon" that it ended on December 1, 1990, with Coop, Truman and Albert walking through the woods discussing "the evil that men do."
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I always thought it was sad that Lynch never liked to talk about making his version of Dune. I think he considered it a failure. :(

It's my favorite movie of his. Glorious, glorious 80's cheese. :techman:
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THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!

Seriously, I love Lynch's Dune as well. The problem with his film, imo, is that it was chopped to pieces. You can just see the choppy editing when Paul and Jessica first meet the Fremen. Where is the death of Jamis? That is a very important scene in Dune. Or the origin of the water of life? And what's with the whole montage in the middle of the film?

The thing is, if you watch the cut scenes, a lot of what's missing is there. The Delaurentis' had a set run time and they pushed Lynch to cut the film down, probably too much, hence all the exposition, the bad cuts and the like. That's what Lynch meant when he said he made too many compromises in that or something to that effect. He never got the opportunity, or maybe at that point he was so hurt by the experience, to make his own director's cut. He was left with making the shortest version of Dune of the 3 productions made so far.

I really love a lot of what he did. It's a magnificently strange movie and I love the cast. I'll take Kyle Maclachlin, Kenneth McMillan, and Sting over Villaneuv's Timothee Chalamet, Stellan Skarsgard, and Austin Butler in Villaneuve's film. I loved Villaneuve's films, they were great, but I liked Lynch's versions of those 3 characters a lot more.
 
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