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David Lynch, him gorn
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
17 Jan 13:58
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Yup. An actual artist.
Hope he found a Bob's Big Boy in heaven
(pray)
EDITED: 17 Jan 13:58 by X3N0PH0N
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
17 Jan 14:18
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Also I watch this about every three months or so.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
17 Jan 14:29
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Without getting too
I did 1.5 years of a fine art degree
about it, what I like about Lynch is that he gets that cinema is a language and you use that language to say something that can only be said in that language.
It's not about the words that are said or how things look or move or the sounds, it's all of it together.
I can't think of anyone else who had that understanding of cinema while making things that were so broadly enjoyed.
From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)
17 Jan 14:32
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It was a shock to hear the news. I am a big fan of Twin Peaks (especially The Return) and the films of his that I've seen (and yet somehow have managed to miss a few biggies, something I need to remedy).
He certainly kept people guessing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCW-J-a5TY8
From: william (WILLIAMA)
18 Jan 14:22
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)
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Well, unless Mark Frost flies solo there won't be a Twin Peaks 4. Since both Lynch and Frost were open to speculation, Lynch in particular suggesting the story around Carrie Page (Laura Palmer) was "calling", that's sad.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Jan 14:40
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After watching a number of earlier hollywood productions (1920s -- 1950s) of detective stories, romances, horror, noir, and scifi, I've come to regard Lynch as a cinephile who stitched together impressionistic enactments of disparate favourite clips from forgotten eras, larded over with mysticism and magic to connect things. As the saying goes, all artists borrow, great artists steal. He certainly breathed life into a stodgy and formulaic industry, thus spawning a new wave of Lynchian templates to chew on. I don't think he was nearly as weird or radical or louche as, say, Ken Russell (and many others).
From: william (WILLIAMA)
18 Jan 17:16
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I think he had a lot of fun with what he did. Fun has a bad rap in art-fag circles; you're supposed to suffer. But TP wouldn't have been the same without that vein of humour in the weirdness: Cooper's love of damn fine cups of coffee, Lynch's own comic turn as Deputy Director Cole.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Jan 17:45
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He had a great sense of comedy, and an unerring appraisal of usian society and its signature motivations, such as venality and lust. Some of his story arcs veered into a weirdly victorian sentimentality, like he was dabbling in morality plays. Maybe some of his efforts suffered for too many ideas.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
18 Jan 21:28
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For me, there's nobody who will quite do instead of him. When I have a need to watch something by him, then I don't want somebody else. Shame that there won't be anything new.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
19 Jan 12:33
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I wish he had quit while he was ahead (of the TP sequel). Cf. Coppola and Megaflopalis.