So I am waaaaaaaaaay behind the times and just saw this movie. *edit: my sober concious self just saw and remembered this movie. I liked it and couldn't place why, especially because much of it was confusing. It was like reading Brave New World in 6th grade knowing there was so much I was missing. Can someone help me interpret the song at the opera house and the box? I tried searching for this topic so my sincere apologies if I missed it and it is somewhere else. :&
That scene you speak of, at the club Silencio, is one of my favorite scenes of all time. This movie is beautiful, dark, surreal, I cant get enough of it! Personally I dont really care much for the theories as to what the movies truley about, or any hidden meanings, I think it, like Eraserhead, is more of a nightmare of images with a weak narrative. About.com had a VERY good article about the movie, you could look that up.
No, Silencio is by Angelo Badalamenti and is played before the girl sings, while the guy is talking. Speaking of Roy Orbison and Lynch, that scene in Blue Velvet is another top 10 movie scenes for me.
I say never try to figure out a David Lynch movie---just enjoy and marvel at the man's imagination.Blue Velvet is one of my all time favorites.Dennis Hopper played Dennis Hopper to the hilt.
Most of the movie was shot to be a pilot for a TV show. The network thought is was too wierd so never broadcast it. I saw the screener copy of it before the movie came out, all Lynch did was film about the last 20 minutes and added it to the end, for theatrical release. The original pilot and script made a lot more sense. In a perfect world, we would have seen a new hour of Mulholland Drive every week.
Yea, it was shelved by NBC and then studio canal (the once small french company) picked it up... I have no complaints with the movie so I wont give a 'what if' but yea, id love to check out the original pilot, edited the way it was originally intended.
I remember searching on the web for people's interpretations of the film after I first saw it... damn film had me wondering about it and little else for days. The consensus seemed to be at the time that the blue box represented a passing from fantasy to reality, wherein prior to the blue box sequence the movie represented something akin to a dream, or how the main character (Naomi Watts) would have liked things to be (successful actress, with her "partner" somewhat dependent on her and in her shadow etc.), and after the box, how things really were: i.e. the other way around, with the object of her affections instead the star, etc.
