Grildon Tundy
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Oh, man. RIP. He seemed so spry and sharp even recently. Comes as a shock.
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David Lynch has died aged 78
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willothedog
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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RIP To A Legend
DKehoe
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I’d heard he had been in pretty poor health recently and was unable to leave his house so I had dreaded this coming. He is one of my favourite directors and was an incredible artist overall. Having to now write his name in the past tense sucks.
He has left such an imprint on culture that his name became an adjective.
He has left such an imprint on culture that his name became an adjective.
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Ulysses 31
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Or how Paul Verhoeven's version would've been like. But Lucas stopped considering him once he saw "Spetters".
TerribleAtThisGame
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I think that's the beauty of his work. He'll do all of it in the most sincere manner within five minutes of a show or film. You'll have Bob in strobe lights with some hideously deformed audio track that sets your teeth on edge and then the scene switches and you're laughing at Bobby roasting Leo's catatonic self with shades on. And all of it is the best at what it tries to do.
PS: One aspect I truly love about Twin Peaks that I feel is often overlooked is the unironic emphasis Lynch put on true friendship and kindness. There's true darkness but there's always the moments where even Andy is treated with respect and not a punchline despite being a goofball. Lynch had a strong touch of real humanity in his work, it didn't come out in everything but it's often touching and shockingly sincere whwn it does.
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TerribleAtThisGame
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That fucking last scene of The Return was something else. I'd be lying if I say I "got it" but in typical fashion, the gut level reaction that invoked was brutal. I felt pure doom for like two days straight lol.
ResurrectedContrarian
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Harrowing to me that this was the ending shot of the final film/tv work he gave us; I've never stopped thinking about the ending of Twin Peaks, it was like his entire universe being drawn into some kind of sorrowful conclusion, with Cooper saddened to hear the truth whispered to him in this way.
So much of the cast died within a short time, too -- it was a final story in a closing world, the last appearance on film for a whole lot of people. The composer of the music, including the haunting theme in video above (Badalamenti); Mike; Agent Albert; the Log Lady; Norma; Carl (Harry Dean Stanton); and others, as I recall. Now Lynch as well.
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Judge Death
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Watching The Elephant Man now. It was already a tough film to get through in one piece but now...
The best British film of the past 50 years was made by a couple of mad yanks.
The best British film of the past 50 years was made by a couple of mad yanks.
Badlucktroll
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Lost Highway with the Manson and Twiggy cameo and a few Trent Reznor tracks was the big one
ResurrectedContrarian
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He was evacuated from his street in LA just a few days ago due to the approaching fires lighting up the whole area and sky... kind of fitting.
the central "fire walk with me" poem of Twin Peaks, at the beginning and the very end:
the central "fire walk with me" poem of Twin Peaks, at the beginning and the very end:
The Fartist
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Fucking God damnit!
I was busy all day running errands, kid's sick, just read the news here on GAF. We lost a real one today, folks. RIP.
I was busy all day running errands, kid's sick, just read the news here on GAF. We lost a real one today, folks. RIP.
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he has a long history of bizarre but harmless antics
or campaigning for Laura Dern near the Academy Awards, with a cow
or campaigning for Laura Dern near the Academy Awards, with a cow
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Dude was an absolute legend and the entire world is a less interesting place without him.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
jesus christ man, watching all these lynch videos is making me tear up IRL.
Chuck Berry
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And it was the Smashing Pumpkins first foray into a more electronic sound
Eye is an awesome fuckin song
Doom85
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One of the best episodes of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, a series that actually slowly developed an ongoing plot but also featured plenty of humor and references adults would appreciate more than kids, was basically a whole homage to Twin Peaks:
Also, Studio BONES, the anime studio, must have been fans of Lynch given several references to his work in their anime adaption of Soul Eater (which I don’t believe were in the manga):
I can’t get the image from the other reference to load, but in episode 17, a quick shot of a street sign saying “Mulholland Dr” is seen. The red room reference might have been in the original manga, but the street sign definitely wasn’t.
Edit: also, I’ve never got around to playing The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, but apparently Lynch’s work was a source of major inspiration for that game.
Also, Studio BONES, the anime studio, must have been fans of Lynch given several references to his work in their anime adaption of Soul Eater (which I don’t believe were in the manga):
I can’t get the image from the other reference to load, but in episode 17, a quick shot of a street sign saying “Mulholland Dr” is seen. The red room reference might have been in the original manga, but the street sign definitely wasn’t.
Edit: also, I’ve never got around to playing The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, but apparently Lynch’s work was a source of major inspiration for that game.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ordered the Twin Peaks Z to A set on Amazon and probably gonna pop in some Deadly Premonition to celebrate Lynch.
TheAtomicPile
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I've asked myself what happened in that last episode of the return every day since I saw it.
Sometimes when I'm working and need a break from staring at a screen I just look up at the ceiling or off to the distance and think, "what happened at the end of the return?"
In any event, make sure you guys leave out a PLATE OF BLACK COFFEE tonight.
Unknown Soldier
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His version of Dune was somehow the most faithful to the spirit of the books
It also had Sting
RIP to a legend
It also had Sting
RIP to a legend
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I'll never forget the night of the finale.
I had just recently finished my final doctoral dissertation & defense and suddenly had time to relax, so the ending of Twin Peaks was falling at just the right moment to enter that other world. The wife (who is frightened of Lynch and won't watch any of it) was thoughtful enough to pick up a box of donuts and coffee for me and set it out when I returned from work, amazing. I didn't watch or touch the donuts until everyone was fully asleep, house dark, all alone... headphones.
I found the final 2 hours to be bizarre but intensely appropriate. If you rewatch, there's a kind of sadness about the impossibility of the world of Twin Peaks throughout the return season. And we kept waiting for the real Cooper across the whole season just as they did for 25+ years, as the town fell from quirky parody into darker decay. When everything lines up and he finally returns, it's too fake, that world falls apart and the dream begins to dispel. Then we see a darker place more like our real world... and there's more to say about the other world of the finale but it would take a long essay.
this moment was the most harrowing (when Cooper sort of wakes up, sees that this world is a kind of fading dream)
the way his face hovered on the screen like he was watching himself, such a strange dread
But some people are too quick to try and draw lines like "this universe is the real one, that one is fake" or "this was dream, that was reality" and there isn't a line like that for Lynch. The dream worlds are sort of the same world, Laura's trauma (even if she can't remember it until that scream from the house at the end) is the same in both.
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FeralEcho
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Bitmap Frogs
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rip to the last artist
ClanOfNone
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Lynch’s version of Dune is like Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Both great movies, both terrible adaptations of the source material.
Wildebeest
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Frank Herbert was involved in Lynch's Dune movie and is one of the few people involved who seemed to like it, with most other people finding it a nightmare project they wanted to forget. It is pretty much the opposite of The Shining in that the author liked it, but it wasn't a success and critics hated it.
Agent_Nobody
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RIP
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Wildebeest
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You know, I never really rated Mulholland Drive that high out of his work, but I understand film people love it because it is a Hollywood inside baseball type thing.
DonkeyPunchJr
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Yeah honestly that might be my least favorite of his work. What makes it extra depressing for me is knowing that it was supposed to be the pilot episode for a TV series. They introduced all these characters that I would’ve loved to spend more time with.
Soltype
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I'm not the biggest fan of his work, but Elephant Man is such an amazing movie. The tone, the setting , the dialogue , it's gut wrenching.
TheAtomicPile
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I'll never forget the night of the finale.
I had just recently finished my final doctoral dissertation & defense and suddenly had time to relax, so the ending of Twin Peaks was falling at just the right moment to enter that other world. The wife (who is frightened of Lynch and won't watch any of it) was thoughtful enough to pick up a box of donuts and coffee for me and set it out when I returned from work, amazing. I didn't watch or touch the donuts until everyone was fully asleep, house dark, all alone... headphones.
I found the final 2 hours to be bizarre but intensely appropriate. If you rewatch, there's a kind of sadness about the impossibility of the world of Twin Peaks throughout the return season. And we kept waiting for the real Cooper across the whole season just as they did for 25+ years, as the town fell from quirky parody into darker decay. When everything lines up and he finally returns, it's too fake, that world falls apart and the dream begins to dispel. Then we see a darker place more like our real world... and there's more to say about the other world of the finale but it would take a long essay.
this moment was the most harrowing (when Cooper sort of wakes up, sees that this world is a kind of fading dream)
the way his face hovered on the screen like he was watching himself, such a strange dread
But some people are too quick to try and draw lines like "this universe is the real one, that one is fake" or "this was dream, that was reality" and there isn't a line like that for Lynch. The dream worlds are sort of the same world, Laura's trauma (even if she can't remember it until that scream from the house at the end) is the same in both.
There's a theory out there that Laura / Carrie Page is a kind of bomb. Cooper takes her back to Laura's house in the final episode in an attempt to destroy Judy and the dimension she occupies. At the end, when the lights go out in the house, the Laura "bomb" detonates and Judy is destroyed. The "real" world is saved from Judy's influence.
It's a nice thought but I think the dread on Coops face that you mentioned, Laura's scream in the lodge earlier in the series, 'The World Spins' playing in Return Part 17, and Laura's final whisper to Coop all point to something going really wrong instead.
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RoadHazard
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Sad news. But Twin Peaks will live on forever.
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I've read that theory before; I think it captures something that is going on, but not completely.