RIP David Lynch ​ ☕🥧 ​

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Dammit. Well, this one hurts.

 

Farewell to one of the most insanely inventive minds in movies (and acting, literature, art and design, and weather reporting)... the great, sadly now late, David Lynch. I've been a longtime fan ever since Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart... and Blue Velvet was a St Valentine's date movie to remember. (Still together over 20 years later.)

 

And he was also a great collaborator, happy to advise, assist and guest on other projects, working on everything from Duran Duran gigs to Family Guy. Here's a quick bit of him as John Ford - but pretty much himself too - giving a lesson to a young Steven Spielberg...

 

In whatever wondrous new world he finds himself, may there be damn fine coffee - and cherry pie.

☕🥧

 

Edited Thursday at 08:29 PM by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[TTRPGWhiz]

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

[InvaderStych]

1 hour ago, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

Dammit. Well, this one hurts.

 

Yup.

 

Singular Genius.

[Techwright]

I know Lynch's work best through the 1984 version of Dune.  Admittedly the movie has taken a lot of heat over the last 40 years, but I really think he did something extraordinary with it: cramming a massive story into something functional at 2 hours, 17 minutes, and with 1984 movie tech.   Sure there were things I didn't like: such as the interpretation of the Baron Harkonnen  (Of the three attempts, I feel Robbie Coltrane's TV version came closest, though Skarsgard was pretty awesome).   But Lynch did give us a very cool and stylized look at the Guild navigators, an important book plot point and something the latest interpretation sadly avoided entirely.  He also gave us an interpretation of the Fremen learning the weirding way, something I seem to recall being in the book (it's been 40 years since I read it) and which neither of the other two interpretations gave.  Lynch also had Thufir, the mentat for House Atreides, enslaved to House Harkkonen, as well as a toddler Alia with freakish ability: again, something in the book that the new version ignored altogether, or in Alia's case, changed to an unborn status only.  There were other elements Lynch got right as well, and I feel this earns his interpretation a look for first-time viewers.  

 

I've not seen Twin Peaks.  It's on my to-do list, though admittedly sadly stagnant.  As I loved Kyle McLachlan in both Dune and his season-long guest role on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  I really should kick that viewing opportunity into gear again.

[TheOtherTed]

David Lynch - a true genius who could see genius in others.  It wasn't until the internet happened that I found out that:

Spoiler

Michael Anderson, the guy who played the dancing "little person," used to speak backwards with his school chums.  I don't know the whole story, but I can see Lynch being fascinated by it and incorporating it into the show.   What you hear when Anderson "speaks" is a reversal of him speaking in reverse, which, IMO, brought a level or two of extra weirdness to the character and to the show.

And I'm not afraid to admit that it still haunts me to this day.

[TTRPGWhiz]

On 1/16/2025 at 8:45 PM, Techwright said:

I know Lynch's work best through the 1984 version of Dune.  Admittedly the movie has taken a lot of heat over the last 40 years, but I really think he did something extraordinary with it: cramming a massive story into something functional at 2 hours, 17 minutes, and with 1984 movie tech.   Sure there were things I didn't like: such as the interpretation of the Baron Harkonnen  (Of the three attempts, I feel Robbie Coltrane's TV version came closest, though Skarsgard was pretty awesome).   But Lynch did give us a very cool and stylized look at the Guild navigators, an important book plot point and something the latest interpretation sadly avoided entirely.  He also gave us an interpretation of the Fremen learning the weirding way, something I seem to recall being in the book (it's been 40 years since I read it) and which neither of the other two interpretations gave.  Lynch also had Thufir, the mentat for House Atreides, enslaved to House Harkkonen, as well as a toddler Alia with freakish ability: again, something in the book that the new version ignored altogether, or in Alia's case, changed to an unborn status only.  There were other elements Lynch got right as well, and I feel this earns his interpretation a look for first-time viewers.  

 

I've not seen Twin Peaks.  It's on my to-do list, though admittedly sadly stagnant.  As I loved Kyle McLachlan in both Dune and his season-long guest role on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  I really should kick that viewing opportunity into gear again.

 

FYI, Lynch hated the final cut of this movie so much he took his name off the credits. 

[arcane]

This is a tough one 😞 easily my favorite director. Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive all had profound impacts on me, to say nothing of the rest.

 

I wasn’t really watching TV of film at all at the time, so I actually found Lynch through a rather obscure backdoor: the operatic adaptation of Lost Highway by Olga Neuwirth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Highway_(opera)

 

I guess Twin Peaks season 3 left things pretty open-ended with the finale, but now we’ll never know.

Edited Saturday at 03:58 PM by arcane