The extended edition of that answer, from late 2020 about Eraserhead being his most spiritual film:
"It's all in the eye of the beholder. Its just the way life is. This is my most spiritual film. Nobody yet has seen it from that angle. Even though the clues are there. If you were to think about things it might be possible for someone to come up with it. But it doesn't do any good to say anything about it because then it's ruined for people to come up with their own take on it. So I don't even say anything."
I like Lynch, a lot. But he's also not as insightful as people sometimes want him to be.
And, he's often much more forthcoming about things than pithy images suggest - it's just that it's often a bit naff when he does elaborate.
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Normalize artists not needing to have a profound point. Lynch creates images that resonate with people. Who cares what it means to him?
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Oh yeah, I'm totally in favour of Lynch not being interested in that whole thing. I think both sides of theat meme are silly, though.
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I'm fine with people not connecting with Lynch movies like I do but am baffled when people are like "it's all a ruse!" or "he's a fraud!" or whatever. Just a weird way to look at art. As if Lynch's house had a locked display case with a big book titled Top Secret Eraserhead Plot Explanation, and if only you could smash the glass and grab the book you could show the world all the pages are blank and be like "aha, I got you now, Mr. Lynch!!"
I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he'd panned an inch to the right, we would see the airport—neither of which belonged in a period movie.
I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he'd panned an inch to the right, we would see the airport—neither of which belonged in a period movie.
The only explanation David Lynch owes us is how he keeps his hair so magnificently styled after all these hard, hard years. It is a crown.
That's not hair, its bark.
"A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
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john ford's "with a camera" is the go to answer for banal interview questions
I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he'd panned an inch to the right, we would see the airport—neither of which belonged in a period movie.
When young Katharine asked [Spencer] Tracy for advice, all that old family friend would give was the same advice he’s offered up to any film newcomer: “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”
the immediate way I can think to describe it in a sentence is “the director of The Void thought the Power Rangers would be better if it involved Gwar members” and at least for 100 minutes I didn’t disagree
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There are multiple fight scenes I can't parse because of how little light there is
They did a fun costume changing thing on a moonless night such that you couldn't see any of the costumes!
Like I watched it in a gold class cinema in Australia, if it don't look good there you done fucked up.
Captain Marvel has one of those most-irritating-to-me mistimed music cues in movie history
They tee up a means for a perfectly-hammy diegetic needle drop, and then they just blow it
It's so obvious!!!!
the credits has a silly 90s style sponsored hip hop track.
Hopefully it holds up
They don't hold up as well as Airplane! or Police Squad!, but they're fun.
And I got to use the "no, if I was joking I would have said: what do you do with an elephant with three balls?" in conversation recently...
Hot Shots Part Deux does have some stone cold amazing jokes in it.
"I loved you in Wall Street!" is an all-timer reference joke
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It’s funny I have always always thought this was a transcript/quote from Kane and Lynch
The extended edition of that answer, from late 2020 about Eraserhead being his most spiritual film:
"It's all in the eye of the beholder. Its just the way life is. This is my most spiritual film. Nobody yet has seen it from that angle. Even though the clues are there. If you were to think about things it might be possible for someone to come up with it. But it doesn't do any good to say anything about it because then it's ruined for people to come up with their own take on it. So I don't even say anything."
I like Lynch, a lot. But he's also not as insightful as people sometimes want him to be.
And, he's often much more forthcoming about things than pithy images suggest - it's just that it's often a bit naff when he does elaborate.
There is room for both authorial intent and death of the author.
I find answering “Elaborate on that” with “No” to be profoundly hilarious
Even for the same artist.
Sure; it's just Lynch answering a trite question completely honestly.
So does Christopher Nolan
It's not even a question in the interview which makes his answer resonate a lot with me.
Most of the time the things in shows and movies we think are part of some clever plan on the part of the director come about by accident
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/may/01/features.weekend
I kinda love this example from the director of Shazam:
That's not hair, its bark.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
The stories in this are great but the payoff is absolutely perfect
the immediate way I can think to describe it in a sentence is “the director of The Void thought the Power Rangers would be better if it involved Gwar members” and at least for 100 minutes I didn’t disagree
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