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[DavidB6937]

5 minutes ago, Chili said:

Something in my brain about Lynch's work is this. Sometimes (a fair bit) in Twin Peaks: The Return, there would be little moments I did not have a single clue how to interpret (insert that Homer Simpson gif) and my mate who absolutely adores him said that it doesn't matter, it's completely how you interpret it, he doesn't NEED to have to explain it etc.

I do ask this though, did Lynch sort of get away with that via his reputation? Because I reckon someone else doing all your questions and allegory would get shit for just making stuff up for the sake of it, but it's funny with Lynch (and I guess his rep) that his stuff that baffles me, I actually think he has a meaning for, be he's allowed to get away with it.

This almost feels it's gone Lynchian in itself ?

He was always very much about the questions rather than the answers. That always came across pretty clear with him if you watched interviews etc. It wasn't stuff that needed to make any sense to anyone but him but he loved taking others along for the journeys.

I don't know exactly but for me I suppose knowing what his works were like helped because I never had a heightened expectation of everything being neatly wrapped up in a bow. I enjoyed the stories. Sometimes you'd get answers. Sometimes things would be open to interpretation. Sometimes it was all just a big "wtf?" but I enjoyed that. I liked the fact I was going to be taken somewhere uncomfortable and unusual and not necessarily completely black and white in its existence. It was the never knowing that enticed me. I wanted him to fuck with my mind and make me look at things differently and show that life and the world wasn't always simple and straight forward.

It was also the way he managed to build his projects. They weren't based on reveals solely. I think that was one of the key things in their successes rather than people getting pissed off all the time. You didn't HAVE to have an answer, while the way many others do their work it's all building to the answer and so if you don't get it or it's disappointing then you're absolutely frustrated by that.

I would imagine it's that potential disappointment that made him shy away from sharing too much as well. Knowing that the actual answer can often be completely and utterly meaningless or just a let down so why bother? If people are made to enjoy the story and the journey then it doesn't always have to end in a tidy fashion.

 

[Chili]

Thanks for those replies, you all explained it what my head processes better than me. I think it's my occasional distrust of out of the box auteurs where I just sometimes think 'is all this bollocks, because if it is I'm almost equally as impressed you've convinced so many.' I also had a drama lecturer at university who told me that questions are more important than answers, so I decided to do a performance piece full of loose meanings and threads that I didn't actually believe in, but during my viva, I came up with enough bullshit about that meaning behind it that I got a top mark. Or maybe I ended up giving it meaning?

*Plays the theme from Audrey's Dance*

Edited January 17, 2025 by Chili

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

53 minutes ago, Thunderplex said:

Dame Joan Plowright is another one in this very busy list.  Hit 95, so did well.

She will be gutted she didn't get to raise her bat for the century. DJP as I'm sure no one called her was proper golden age of British acting royalty. I would have loved to have seen her and Angela Landsbury in A Taste Of Honey on Broadway and she was great in Tea With Mussolini. She didn't really like doing films, I'm sure the quote from her was something like "Films are only OK if you need a new roof" 

Brigg's finest ever export. 

[Devon Malcolm]

35 minutes ago, Chris B said:

That would suggest he didn't know or care what it meant, when he clearly did - he just cared what it meant to him, but didn't care to always explain that. 

 

[Chris B]

One of the things I absolutely loved about Twin Peaks: The Return is how little interest Lynch had in what anyone else wanted from it. It was very clear at times that he knew what they wanted. But he was very much doing what he wanted to do. Absolutely infuriating at times but also wonderful.

[davertfnewman]

I'm definitely on board with the better to have questions than answers idea. My favourite film is The Exorcist and the reason I'll watch it so many times is that the answers are not all delivered, same with Lynch. I'd rather have to keep thinking and thinking a different way and still not get it than have the answer with ease.

[Daddymagic]

Denis Law has passed at 84

[TheBurningRed]

Very sad. The last of the United Trinity gone now. The only Scotsman (and probably will be the one) to win the Ballon d’Or. 

[Frankie Crisp]

Diane Langton, David Lynch and Denis Law in the space of a few days.

Dua Lipa must be shitting herself.

[Carbomb]

Spurs fans might be looking on with eagerness too.

[HarmonicGenerator]

One for the theatre types, Claire van Kampen has died. She composed lots of music for theatre, most notably for the Globe, as well as writing and directing plays. She was married to Mark Rylance, and did Farinelli and the King (which was very good) with him, as well as directing the Othello at the Globe where he played an incredible Iago.

Edited January 18, 2025 by HarmonicGenerator
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[DavidB6937]

7 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

One for the theatre types, Claire van Kampen has died. She composed lots music for theatre, most notable for the Globe, as well as writing and directing plays. She was married to Mark Rylance, and did Farinelli and the King (which was very good) with him, as well as directing the Othello at the Globe where he played an incredible Iago.

And on his birthday too. Awful.

[Carbomb]

2 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

One for the theatre types, Claire van Kampen has died. She composed lots of music for theatre, most notably for the Globe, as well as writing and directing plays. She was married to Mark Rylance, and did Farinelli and the King (which was very good) with him, as well as directing the Othello at the Globe where he played an incredible Iago.

Ruined all other portrayals of Iago for me, that did. Didn't know she directed that, but on that basis alone, she was clearly superbly talented, even taking into account Rylance's own ability.

[Surf Digby]

Guitarist John Sykes, who was at one time a member of Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pan Tang, and with Whitesnake for their 1987 album, has died at 65 from cancer.

Great player, with great hair, and could really pull off a pair of leather trousers.

[Chili]

43 minutes ago, Surf Digby said:

Guitarist John Sykes, who was at one time a member of Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pan Tang, and with Whitesnake for their 1987 album, has died at 65 from cancer.

Great player, with great hair, and could really pull off a pair of leather trousers.

Dragged Thin Lizzy to a FANTASTIC last album with Thunder & Lightning in 1983. A real shot in the arm he was to their last run before they split. As stated, terrific hair.