Looking for a way to get into Lynch’s work. I know, a little late, but I feel like I’m missing out on something with all the condolences going out today. I’ve heard good things about Twin Peaks? Does it still hold up?
What about his movies? I’ve heard great things about Mulholland Drive, although I was very confused when I got halfway through.
Are there other works that are better to start with or just that people generally recommend as being good?
Definitely not his version of Dune
I will argue it’s better than the Villinieuve Dunes, the best adaptation is the Sci fi channel miniseries from 2000, but Lynch gets the spirit of the book, new Dune really doesn’t
To be fair after studio/exec meddling it wasn’t really /his/ version anymore. Maybe not a place to start but it’s an interesting thing to look at eventually if you’re really interested in him. Either the extended cut or the high seas “spice diver” cut would be best but not a place to start or judge him on given how badly other people interfered with his vision at every step there.
I actually like his version of Dune, it’s deeply flawed and no one could call it a masterpiece or better than the recent adaptations BUT it has certain things going for it. To be honest I could never really get into most of his works and Dune was the first thing of his I saw. Very 80s film, weird in a lot of right ways.
I’ll always have a soft spot for it because I grew up on it, and later reading about the production answered a lot of the questions I had. It is so 80s. But in that “still kinda late 70s” way from the early 80s.
Believe it or not Dune was the first Lynch work I saw.
Mine too.
Remember the part where the Baron gives Thufir a “machine” that has an albino cat and an albino rat harnessed inside it? Very memorable and weird. But probably shouldn’t be anyone’s first foray into Lynch or Dune.
That scene is so wild because they completely drop the “poisoning Thufir so he works for us” plot. The scene should have been cut entirely and I say that as a major Thufir fan.
In my head-Canon every Baron scene was so over the top just to make sure the audience wouldn’t blink too hard when they unveiled the cat/rat contraption. By the time it rolls around you’re kinda like “yeah, sure, this thing checks out…”