Subject: Re: David Lynch ?
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-07-23, 21:12
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <9107230830.AA20472@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu> as215@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
> >  [...]
> >Has anyone read or heard anything from Lynch, himself,
> >or is he really as quiet and secretive as I seem to believe.
> >  [...]

Well, it doesn't really help you directly interpret his films, but,
perfectly in keeping with the image I have of Lynch from those films,
and the few snippets of interviews I've seen, he went to the trouble
to prepare a special short film for the NuArt cinema in Los Angeles
(actually I think it falls within the Santa Monica city limits) thanking
the theater patrons who first made Eraserhead a (relative) box office
success.  I wish I could recall it in detail in its entirety, but
what I remember is...

David Lynch sitting on a comfy couch (kinda 50's looking like the way
he furnishes all his films), with two or three Woody the Woodpecker
stuffed dolls on either side of him.  He looks into the camera, and
thanks the theater and its patrons for their support, and while he's
talking picks up one of the dolls (I think).  He comments on how his
films may be perceived as a bit dark, but how this is actually a very
real and very normal part of our everyday lives, 'take for instance,
these little stuffed dolls, that I found and rescued from a shop
on Sunset Blvd just the other day... perfectly innocent little guys, yet
there they were hanging on the wall, with hooks in their backs...'
He thanks everyone again, and the film ends.

Now don't take the pseudo-quotes seriously; I made the words up entirely
from remembering the gist of the film, though I do remember that "hooks
in their backs" bit quite clearly.  It seems that Lynch's own personal
(dualistic and quirky) view of reality is just exactly what he has been
showing us in his films - where the dark lurks just beneath a thin, white
veneer.  Who else could have looked at stuffed animals in a store and
seen them as being tortured by having hooks in their backs?  Tis an
interesting man, and he makes interesting films!
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder