ITT: movies reddit will never understand

ITT: movies reddit will never understand

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Decent movie. Too many shots of stupid characters walking around in total darkness though.

>Strong suspicion there's an intruder in my house
>Better walk down the hall with no lights on at all

pic related was a GOAT scene though

Have you watched any Lynch? One of his trademarks is the dream-state/dream-logic. This movie is completely fueled by it.

>ITT: movies reddit will never understand

Dude come on. If you want to have a Lost Highway thread, do that, the Reddit stuff is lame.

Just watched this the other day and Blue Velvet last night. Lost Highway is great, but Blue Velvet was disappointing. Not bad, but not that good.

Also, Lynch uses the same red curtains from Twin Peak's red room in this

lynch is entry tier Kino desu.

Fuck off, memeguzzler

I love this film's Poetry.

Rewatching it, I noticed that in the very first scene when he hears on his speaker the voice "Dick Laurent is dead" police sirens can be heard and a car driving off - this being the exact same audio that appears in the final scene of the movie.

Fred is dreaming at the beginning. The end scene is the real reality; after he is caught by the cops chasing him and sentenced to death.

Him entering another body is all his own hallucination as he re-thinks how he met his wife, how he met Dick Laurent.

Remember too: this movie doesn't play out in order. All the scenes are scattered all over the place. Fred tells the cops in the first act that he hates camera because he only likes to remember things his way and not how they actually happened.

But we all know the basic story: guy murders his wife who was angry at her for being involved in a porno ring, then goes out to murder those porno ring leaders.

So does mulholland drive, lost highway and twin peaks exist in the same universe?

And that's bad? Even though he's "entry level" he's still one of the best directors of all time

I was disappointed with Blue Velvet the first time I saw it too. It gets better on multiple watches though, it really is a flawless mystery movie/great satire of 50's suburban America

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God dammit I gotta rewatch it now.

is this a site for discussing Reddit and the things Reddit does and says?

Because if I wanted to use a site like that I would just go to Reddit.

Possibly. One theory I recently have had is that the Mystery Man is like Bob in the Red Room who possesses Fred to murder his wife just like (wink wink) gets possessed to murder the girl in Twin Peaks.

Or maybe Lynch just likes taking his ideas from previous films he has made who knows for sure.

no but don't pretend to be patrician watching lynch movies.

I don't think the Mystery Man possessed Fred. I think the Mystery Man is just a personification Fred's inner evils/horribleness/guilt. He never really does anything.

Pay close attention every time there is a fade to black. This means that the scenes do not follow directly after another in majority of cases.

Nobody does. This is just a meme thread intended to spur discussion of Lost Highway.

So is the middle portion of the movie supposed to be Fred's ideal reality?

wait now I am confused... I did think that Pete Dayton was just made up by Fred's imagination but then in the second to final scene one of the cops say they have Pete Dayton's prints over the house where that other guy died... so how do you explain that?

No, actually Highway is the only one of his I've seen. I'm not a big movie buff. I just happened to have watched this very recently and thought it was pretty good.

That's funny. I found Blue Velvet to be probably the easiest Lynch movie to enjoy because it's so on-the-nose about everything. There's no need to watch it five times to understand the basic plot or notice some background detail that cracks the whole story open. And on top of that it looks great and has some incredibly entertaining sequences. Frank Booth is so much fun to watch whenever he's on screen.

Watch more Lynch and his directing choices will make more sense.

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I still don't fully get it because in the 3rd act: the cops still acknowledge Peter Dayton (the guy Fred merged into) as being real and being involved in the crime scene.

So Fred morphs into Pete, who they establish is a real person with his prints being in the house, then he morphs back into Fred at the end. Did his spirit/soul switch bodies? If this is the case, where was Fred's body the whole time? The cops mention Pete's fingerprints in the house after he morphs back into Fred. What's up with that?

>The cops mention Pete's fingerprints in the house after he morphs back into Fred. What's up with that?
This is what I am still trying to work out.

Maybe Lost Highway really does take place in the Twin Peaks universe which explains that Fred really did morph into Pete and it wasn't a dream hmm

I wonder if bowie and lynch filmed something for the new twin peaks before his death

Huh. I never considered that. It's an interesting look at Lynch's filmography, because there are a lot of transformations happening throughout. Maybe they all follow the same sort of "rules".

They confirmed he didn't

I hope so. If not, I hope that they have Bowie's face in one of the scenes.

I mean for Fast and Furious 7 they easily had Paul Walker so why can't they photoshop a face of Bowie trapped in a red room (without being disrespectful).

Or you could even have Dale re-enter the red room and he sees an image of Bowie and then Bowie disappears (symbolic that Bowie is at peace and no longer stuck there).

Something like this instead of never mentioning Bowie again.

But how do you explain the fingerprints of Pete if Pete and Fred supposedly were the same person?

I mean Alice didn't exist, Mr Eddy (who is Dick Laurent) didn't exist in the real world. As Act 3 is all real and not a dream so why then isn't Pete a dream too?

He morphs into Pete, who the movie establishes as a real person, so what happened to Pete? Did he just disappear from wherever he was before Fred morphed into him? How can he morph into someone who currently exists elsewhere in the city? Did Pete's consciousness and body transfer into Fred? If so then where did that extra mass go? It really makes you think.

Speaking of twin peaks, is the missing pieces worth watching?

Didn't he build some of the furniture for lost highway himself

You could consider Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire being connected.

I haven't seen Blue Velvet yet.

Or maybe the whole morphing thing never happened and Pete was simply just another person who cheated on Fred's wife and Fred killed him in the desert like he did to Laurent.

Maybe it's not supposed to be taken literally at face value. I mean, you certainly can't understand Inland Empire that way. Lynch's main thing is he wants you to feel something while you watch, don't bother making too much sense, just get caught up in how the characters are feeling.

Yes, definitely. They're not just extraneous scenes with no point, they build a lot on the Palmer family, the Black Lodge/that ring, and show a lot of the townspeople that were from the show but not in the actual movie

yeah, pretty sure it was in one of the making-of clips

Lynch is always heavily involved with creating his sets. He's a great carpenter.

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Is there some edit that puts fire walk with me and the missing pieces into one thing?

How did they get richard Pryor to be in this, its interesting because he was rarely in anything around that time and just appeared in a david lynch movie

I wrote a whole fucking essay on this film back in the day. The synopsis essentially is: Fred murdered his wife, the "Lost Highway" is symbolic for a dream-like purgatory as Fred is sentenced to the death (this ties in heavily to the Mystery Man's mention of "Eastern execution methods i.e. being left unaware of the exact moment of your fate). While on this "Lost Highway", he idealizes Pete as the perfect self, reenvisioning how his life unfolded and the circumstances regarding his sentence. Basically Fred is the id, Pete is the ego, and Mystery Man is the superego.

Fred does mention at one point that he likes to remember things his own way, and not necessarily exactly how they happened, so that could tie into it. Maybe the shit that happens isn't the way it actually happened, but Fred's recollection of the events. This would explain the wife killing. He sees footage of him having killed her but swears he didn't do it. Maybe he really killed her but doesn't remember it that way.

David has his ways

>Maybe the shit that happens isn't the way it actually happened, but Fred's recollection of the events.
That's exactly how this movie plays out. Maybe there is a clue I missed somewhere in the first Act with Fred or someone mentioning Pete because Pete's fingerprints are mentioned in the 3rd Act so Pete must be a real character and not an alter ego of Fred then

Yeah can't remember what it's called though, sorry

yes, try searching for Q2's "Fire Walk With Me - Teresa Banks and the Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer". The Missing Pieces was released on blu-ray quality and has it's own score so it's pretty seamlessly edited together, I honestly couldn't tell which was a deleted scene and which wasn't when I watched it the first time (That being the first time I saw either film)

Why would he film himself killing her? Unless it actually was someone else filming, but why would they film a murder

Read this link
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It all makes sense although it contradicts itself with leaving out the cops stating about Pete's fingerprints.

If Lynch had not put that line in the movie, then this would be a piece of cake to understand. Maybe Lynch just likes to mindfuck with us?

Anyone else here see the cowboy and the mystery man as their own "beings" (supernatural) I think they are outside forces (maybe from the lodge?) that can both interact in the real world and the subconcious/dreams. They seem to either guide or haunt/play with people experiencing major psychological distress

I remember reading a theory that the mystery man represented the writer of the story, inserting himself for some reason

mystery man is supposed to be bill pullmans feelings of jealousy and anger and all that jazz

Who says the video tapes ever were real? Fred said he hates video tapes which therefore imply that videotapes and cameras are Fred's phobia. Hence why the Mystery Man chases him around while holding a camera. Fred constantly trying to escape reality (killing his wife) but the videotapes represent truth that keep haunting him.

But then no doubt Fred did invite the cops over because they did know about him and his wife in act 3 so then it kind of gets tricky again...

The videotapes could also be a phobia of Fred remembering the porn that his wife was in

The tapes are the objective truth
While Fred likes to remember things his own way and tries to hide the reality of the situation deep down he knows what actually happened and what he did

I haven't really heard many people talk about this but what creeped me out the most in movie was how in the tapes the angle of the camera was from much higher than any human could film, it was like hovering above

As you can see: the Mystery Man has the exact same conversation with Fred and Pete, before talking about what happens to someone who has been sentenced to death.

they work for the mercenary, the mystery man

ah yeah good point. Felt very nonhuman and demonic

Remember this was the name of the hotel that Fred tracked Renee and Dick Laurent at

for me it was exactly the opposite
Really liked Blue Velvet but Lost Highway was meh.

Eraserhead is GOAT

Blue velvet is lynch playing it a bit safe, lost highway and eraserhead are his most uncompromising works

I actually quite like blue velvet because it's so straightforward but still has the lynch weirdness oozing through it. I am not a pleb by the way my favourite lynch film is Inland empire

No

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underrated kek

Nice typeface.

He shoots mr eddy

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imagine the plane scene directed by david lynch

nah I believe that Fred shot Dick Laurent (Mr Eddy is another name in the Act 2 dimension) and the Mystery Man was just in Fred's head.

Unless we go by the theory that the Mystery Man is actually from the red room and Dick Laurent made a deal with him and then he decided to kill him idk

sorry idk why I deleted it. was thinking of photoshopping it with some background from the movie but take too long to do right now.

lol that would be a real treat to see

I don't mean to turn this into a pleb thread but check this numbers

a 10/10 ending and song
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Not only this but in the Pete world, Renee is known as Alice Wakefield.

Alice just like Alice in Wonderland, tumbling down the rabbit hole and the name and her last name "Wakefield".

Brilliant!

This movies kino
And a good fap
Prime Patricia, truly the perfect drug

inland empire is his most uncompromising work desu

Kind of a butterface honestly, but 8/10 body for sure. Some bigger tits would elevate it to 9.

Well to me; Inland Empire is simply several short stories crammed into a 3 hour epic, some of these stories interlink with another while others don't.

Pete is repeatedly shown to be a real person, his family and girlfriend saw something happen to him before he ended up in the cell

The cinematography made her a 10
I love watching her ass and tits frolic on top of Bill Getty

Maybe but only the bottom picture is real. The first picture is fake with Alice Wakefield never existing.

So how does Pete then fit into Fred's world? I am still confused.

I thought when his family mentioned the tragic past: they are referring to Fred killing his wife as Fred upon morphing is trying to escape it.

Nah, I can't go that far. Her face wasn't the best.

He tries to keep recreating the story in his head in a way that makes him heroic or justified, or he tries to change things around to cope with the horrors of his reality. Its why the video camera scares him so much, because it shows exactly what actually happens.

memes are a curse

yeah, i always figured this was the key to the film. only the sentence is a mobius strip he must relive over and over.

btw, anyone here remember how Lost Highway received two thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert way back when and Lynch used that in the ads for the film? still gives me a chuckle.

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I dont think there is much weird in it except for the joyride section

Yeah but on the screen he literally shoots him, the other murders we see are done by pete

It was shit

That's fucking crazy man

I don't know why, but i found this line and bill pullmans's delivery really funny

I wish this was in the movie
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Yet they praise it so much, I wonder why

Pete is a real person in Freds world, Fred turns into him and some of Freds personality comes out in him, as well as parts of Freds life seeping into his. Fred essentially uses Pete as a protagonist for his reimagined story, and everything is reimagined in such a way that pete is a good guy with little agency whereas in reality Fred was a bad person

wait what? confusing

All the pete stuff is fred remagining his life as someone else, but the film has a supernatural element so rather than being a metaphorical change into someone else, fred literally changes in to another person