I was gonna say 'object' (eg: <----------------), but this could include image, character (as a visual manifestation) or anything else of a specially weird and creative nature.
For me... the baby, the guy with his head stuck in the table in Lost Highway, the chickens in Eraserhead and the lady behind the radiator.
The ear in Blue Velvet.
The blue box entrance in Mulholland Drive.
The mystery man in Lost Highway.
I'd have to go with the log in Twin Peaks. Another thing would be the weird man in Lost Highway....damn that guy gave me the goose pimples "I'm at your house right now"...........uhhh! Kind of "pointless" but damn scary!
the woman who hits deer in the Straight Story.
the heart plugs in DUNE.
the pencil machine in Eraserhead.
Paps Blue Ribbon in Blue Velvet.
The opera singer's fall, yet her voice continues to sing "Llorando" in the beautiful scene from Mulholland Drive. Great scene! It was also one of the most powerful scenes from any movie in 2001. I can't get enough of that one scene (that's the only reason I'd like chapter selections for MH; you know, some scenes you just have to watch again).
*The opening of "Elephant Man" that tell the story of his mother attacked by an elephant.
*In "Twin Peaks" TV series (Season 2, Episode 7), when the killer is finally revealed, the record that plays ends causing a repetitive needle skip.
*"Mulholland Drive", The Cowboy.
*"Blue Velvet":
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Quote from: life_boyThe opera singer's fall, yet her voice continues to sing "Llorando" in the beautiful scene from Mulholland Drive. Great scene! It was also one of the most powerful scenes from any movie in 2001. I can't get enough of that one scene (that's the only reason I'd like chapter selections for MH; you know, some scenes you just have to watch again).
Couldn't agree more. The MD soundtrack is great.
Llorando is on there. I also love the jitterbug opening sequence. (The music from that is on the soundtrack too)
Isn't the mystery man in Lost Highway a whole lot scarier now that he's a convicted murderer? CREEEEPY.
Anyway...
There's a moment in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that scares the shit out of me every time, to the extent that I can't remember what happens exactly. I just know Laura and her father are in their car. I watch the movie about once a year, and that scene has a tremendous impact on me, and then it erases itself from my head.
Also, from the same movie, the part where she's looking at the painting of the door hanging on her wall...and where she rolls over and Heather Graham's dead body from the future is laying next to her...and the closeups of the fingernails breaking...and I guess pretty much everything else in the movie!
But on more subtle terms...the aforementioned operetta in Mulholland Drive is heartbreaking in such an unexpected and confounding way. I truly love that scene.
"Isn't the mystery man in Lost Highway a whole lot scarier now that he's a convicted murderer? CREEEEPY."
Was Robert Blacke actually convicted? I mean, that whole innocent until proven guilty thing is important.
Would somebody please brief me on this? Who did he murder? Why? How?
the way adam sort of jumps up the stairs to his house golf club in hand just kills me every time, and i'm the only person who laughs at it. more of an actor thing than a lynch thing, but everything good has already been said.
The scene in the restraunt where he's describing his dream towards the begining of Mulholland Drive is great... I've never seen a film that described so accurately the way I can feel in a dream sometimes.
sort of change-expanding on that, one of the reasons why i love mulholland dr. so much is that it actually makes me feel moods and emotions that relate specifically to the atmosphere of the scene, and i don't know how lynch does it.
Since Mulholland Drive is the only Lynch film I've seen so far (netflix queue is deep!) I'm going to have to say that my favorite David Lynch thing would definitely, without a doubt, be...
Naomi Watts.
Ooo Laa laa!!!
The Red Room (aka Black Lodge) the last 15 minutes of the series is great.
That is without a doubt #1 for me.
Also, that steamy lesbian scene. I like naked girls. :angel:
Quote from: sphinxthe way adam sort of jumps up the stairs to his house golf club in hand just kills me every time, and i'm the only person who laughs at it. more of an actor thing than a lynch thing, but everything good has already been said.
Oh, no way, Adam and his golf club is one of the things that makes me weep for a tv series. I love it when he smashes the car window and then kind of runs off too. He's really my favourite Lynch character (in a fight with Special Agent Dale Cooper), everything he does is hysterical.
lesbian scene!
I couldn't agree with you more :wink:
My favourite lynch thing: wild at heart. the dog eating the guy's hand
The girl dancing on Frank Booth's car when he beats the shit out of Kyle Mc.!#@^@??
The appearance of David Bowie as "the long lost" Philip Jeffries in Fire Walk With Me ("I'm not gonna talk about Judy. In fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it"). And, on a related note, the monkey in the next to last shot of Fire Walk With Me which (I think) says the word "Judy."
opening montage in Blue Velvet.
with out a doubt MD the singer falls but voice keeps going. strangely heart wrenching, creepy and beautiful.
oh yes and the lesbians.
Crispin Glover part in Wild At Heart. I have underwear like dat.
Mulholland Drive was my favourite.. it was so fucking surreal and I loved the ending sequence. Whatta fantastic film.
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: mogwaiCrispin Glover part in Wild At Heart. I have underwear like dat.
You're serious aren't you?
fo the real.
i'm making sandwiches!!!!!
mog, u had to go and do that didn't u.. bahhh picolas
Does anybody here dislike "Blue Velvet"? I personally think it was overrated. I was wondering if anyone else felt the same.
I noticed that too.. only I'm new here so I didn't think it was unusual.. I just accepted it as the norm.
Quote from: CinephileDoes anybody here dislike "Blue Velvet"? I personally think it was overrated. I was wondering if anyone else felt the same.
Its been a long while since I saw it and I would go as far as saying it is overrated, but I wouldnt go as far as saying I disliked it. It was a good movie, but I think Muholland Dr is his best.
I agree completely
Be nice......Enough hostility! It's making me depressed....Talk dirty on PM...
By the way i'm not a hippie 8)
Quote from: Pmog, u had to go and do that didn't u.. bahhh picolas
Shut the hell up, jerk.
Quote from: CinephileI noticed that too.. only I'm new here so I didn't think it was unusual.. I just accepted it as the norm.
I did...except that I didn't at all! :wink:
Jeremy, if anything, YOU'RE the one who sounds like a jerk here!
That's right. I said it. YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A JERK.
A JERK.
Quote from: CinephileDoes anybody here dislike "Blue Velvet"? I personally think it was overrated.
not liking something and thinking something is overrated
aren't the same thing
Quote from: CinephileDoes anybody here dislike "Blue Velvet"? I personally think it was overrated.
Why :?:
i think blue velvet is a masterpiece.
Me too! And please tell me "Mr. Cinephile" what's wrong with it? :?
I too used to think Blue Velvet was overrated. It acquired its status by capturing imaginations and everyone off guard, and I think that's partly how it's come to be called a masterpiece. Maybe it's a groundbreaker rather than that. I recognise it better now but I still prefer Eraserhead and Lost Highway as more consistently involving and strange. I wander off a bit with Blue Velvet when it gets too into the detective plot. I may even prefer Mulholland Dr, but that just teases me with its lack of development, so I dunno.
Not only do I think Blue Velvet is overrated, but I think it is a terrible movie also. I understood the shocking value of what the movie was about, but could not help but feel that the movie addressed it in such a cheap way. Instead of fully going into the world of the issue with the disorder (specific name eludes) it made it into a small morality play that was differing in good wholesome society meeting bad society. The movie only investigated the issues with eyes half opened, because it seemed stuck on a Hitchock plot that was constantly shifting back and forth between one man's good life and his desires for the bad life or whatever. With the focus being this Hitchock morality tale of the influence of bad society upon good, the severity of the disorder seems missued and when the movie ends on a wholesome image of the boy being brought back to the nice girl with everything nice, I just felt too much that the disorder existed only as a plot device to a much simpler movie. The issue is just not murder like any other movie, a thing that is most devastating but impact idea wise is nearly gone because of how much it has been used. The issue is a taboo one instead that feels new and fresh and that is prolly the reason it was chosen. Lynch is just way too stuck within the confides of a simple movie that really allows him to effectively explore the subject.
~rougerum
Well, GT beat me to it.. good too.. since I didn't want to have to debate "Blue Velvet".. its one of those movies where you love it, you hate it, or you're torn to make a decision whether it was a masterpiece or a misfire.
see below
I also think blue velvet is a masterpiece,
Frank has to be the best (or is that worst) bad guy in any film.
Agent Dale Cooper is the most perfect good guy ever imo.
The best thing i feel is the Red Room.
But i do like damn fine coffee and damn good cherry pie.
just for fun i will go in chronological order of his films and discuss 5 'favorite lynch things' in each film.
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eraserhead
-entire dinner scene: chickens, spasms, the way mr. x stares at henry
-grandma and her salad tossing techniques
-every single moment of celluloid bliss from the moment that henry liquifies himself into his bed with ther lady next door, including the whole stage radiator scenes and then to the pencil factory then .....POOF!!
-lady in the radiator singing "In Heaven Everything is Fine" while stepping on sperms.
-when the baby gets guted.
Quote from: Pedro the AlpacaThe girl dancing on Frank Booth's car when he beats the shit out of Kyle Mc.!#@^@??
definetely. also the old ladies with whigs in wild at heart.
and the old guys in the hotel helping lula's mum.
Spoilers, blah blah blah
A favorite Lynch moment:
Bill Pullman's phone call to his house in Lost Highway, and Robert Blake answers the phone even while standing right in front of him. That gave me serious heebie jeebies.
2LB
Quote from: sphinxsort of change-expanding on that, one of the reasons why i love mulholland dr. so much is that it actually makes me feel moods and emotions that relate specifically to the atmosphere of the scene, and i don't know how lynch does it.
He does it with the sound.
In Mulholland Dr.
I love the Red room with the midget in wheelchair fellow
Whatsernames apartment
Cowboy
The place where the 'dream keeper' or whoever stays behind winkies
and how the sound cuts when the dreamer starts screaming.
you really need to stop replying to sphinx's old posts..
i saw Blue Velvet used at blockbuster for 5 bucks so i got it.
*spoilers*
someone tell me what exactly is going on when the boy returns to the apartment and the man in the yellow jacket is just standing there bleeding and a man is bound in a chair.
mystery man: weve met before, havent we?
fred: i don't think so. where is it you think we met?
MM: at your house. don't you remember?
fred: no i dont. are you sure?
MMn: of course. in fact, im there right now.
fred: youre where right now?
MM: at your house
fred: thats fucking crazy man
did anyone else piss themselves laughing at the way Bill Pullman delivered that line?
Quote from: bigideasi saw Blue Velvet used at blockbuster for 5 bucks so i got it.
*spoilers*
someone tell me what exactly is going on when the boy returns to the apartment and the man in the yellow jacket is just standing there bleeding and a man is bound in a chair.
i never claimed to be an expert but>>>>>>>>
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the guy in the chair sans ear is dorothy valens husband
and the guy in yellow was franks 'business' partner ...frank whacked them both.....i guess?
Quote from: NEON MERCURYQuote from: bigideasi saw Blue Velvet used at blockbuster for 5 bucks so i got it.
*spoilers*
someone tell me what exactly is going on when the boy returns to the apartment and the man in the yellow jacket is just standing there bleeding and a man is bound in a chair.
i never claimed to be an expert but>>>>>>>>
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the guy in the chair sans ear is dorothy valens husband
and the guy in yellow was franks 'business' partner ...frank whacked them both.....i guess?
yeah, i figured that out. i just meant what kind of state was the guy in yellow in? still alive but brain dead? i guess it's just a Lynch thing.
The Mulholland Drive Cowboy. Fucking brilliant.
and yeah, the Phone call home part in Lost Highway is excellent too. I hated the middle part of that film.
When you see Dennis Hopper at the bottom of the stairs looking up with that moustache. So freaky and funny at the same time.
I still need to see Twin Peaks. I need to get ahold of the fucking pilot.
admin edit: spoils for INLAND EMPIRE
I'm reviving an old thread because I think it's a great idea.
My favorite Lynch things are:
The Man From Another Place's weird dance in the Red Curtain room in Twin Peaks
Miguel Ferrer as Albert in Twin Peaks
Richard Farnsworth's conversation with his brother, Harry Dean Stanton in The Straight Story
The final party scene in Mulholland Drive with Naomi Watts as Diane Selwyn, talking to Coco about her lack of success, watching Camilla rub her newfound success in her face
Betty's audition scene in Mulholland Drive
Six Figures Getting Sick (only the first 5 times though) (just kidding)
The prostitutes doing the Locomotion in Inland Empire
Laura Dern's monologue spoken to the man with the lopsided glasses at the top of the theater with the screwdriver in her hand in Inland Empire
Panties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKyxGkBRro
Quote from: MacGuffin on June 01, 2008, 10:32:37 AM
Panties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKyxGkBRro
Geeez, that was funny :lol: