watch episodes of Adventure Time storyboarded by Somvilay Xayaphone
when he's writing and animating the characters, they act like they're Lynch characters
As the other anon pointed out, it is really difficult to copy his style, considering how personal it is. You just know he came up with 90% of his movies while daydreaming.
I would add to that, that it's also because it is VERY hard to get movies of this sort to be greenlit by studio execs. So hard in fact that even Lynch has given up on it. And if not even Lynch can sell these projects to studios, then younger directors have absolutely no chance.
Having said that, The Curse by Fielder and Sadfie can be quite Lynchian at times. It's not a carbon copy of his style, but you can see his influence almost everywhere in it. This is the only "lynchian" project I can think of.
Lynch isn't the first guy to put surrealist concepts to film, but he has done the most processing of postwar America (white suburbanites) through surrealism that anyone making sense of it in the American context can't pare it down more than he has. Which is very disarming, unadorned at first.
I was about to say that he's just a yank doing the same thing that european arthouse directors had been doing for years before him, but I guess the way his films lean to horror makes him sort of unique.
Like for example Fellini has a very similar style to him but lacks the scary stuff.
There have been a couple. Pi, by Aronofsky, takes a lot of inspiration from Eraserhead, for example.
Weirdly enough, at the top of my head, I can think of a lot more video games that have a clear David Lynch influence. There's this scene in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories where the protagonist explores an empty high school during snow storm, gets to the gymnasium which is decorated for a 50's style reunion party and is greeted by a woman in a red dress singing a slow version of an Elvis song and I thought "damn, this feels like a scene from a Lynch movie."
fiction has to make sense.
Lynch is one of very few people able to break that rule to great critical acclaim.
The director of Donnie darko got close to the mark and then ruined it all with the directors cut
its a golden rule of screenwriting and if lynchs work 'made sense' then there would not be 5 hour youtube videos attempting to explain his work and still coming to a personal conclusion that others argue about.
>its a golden rule of screenwriting
For losers trying to get jobs in Network slop production.
Auteurs don't need to follow rules.
Lynch's work absolutely makes sense, people bickering over little things doesn't undermine that, the same can happen with more linear and literal narratives.
There is plenty of actual abstract films that can be pointed to as not making sense. Lynch just isn't one of them.
yeah you have to master a medium before you can subvert it.
lynch is a master, no doubt about that.
back to the real world though, fiction has to make sense.
getting rid of that rule allows all the hack amatures in the world to make dumb shit and say 'well lynch can get away with it'
he comes from painting. that's his core understanding of narrative. film-students struggle with his stuff bc they only know film narrative and think that's "the standard".
just go read some stuff on Edward Hopper's work and you'll start getting some sense of how Lynch makes connections and feels ideas out.
I wonder how much the internet + smartphones made it hard for Lynch to tell new stories. Even his new proposed movie is animation for kids. In Lost Highway a bulky flip phone handed from a stranger was how you find out "an entity has been allowed into your house, by your volition." A landline would just be home invasion horror. But now people live out surreal AU lives online, the memes can be non sequiturs and strange as hell. How does Lynch compete wit that?
The Lighthouse is an essentially straight down the line psychological drama shot in black and white in the academy ratio. There is no real comparison to Lynch to be made other than the mundane "it's weird lmao"
>I can't think of any ''lynchian'' movie off of the top of my head
Because your knowledge of film is limited. Pic related is from 1970 and it's the most lynchan film not made by Lynch I've ever seen.
Not even the most lynchian Robbe-Grillet film, is this the only one of his you've seen? Anyway, that not even what OP was asking, because Robbe-Grillet is an obvious inluence on Lynch, and we're talking about artists influenced by Lynch. Your attempt to flaunt your cinematic knowledge is laughably pathetic.
Kek a lot of people copy his style, look at Richard Ayoade's movie The Double based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky. That's at the top of my head also, there are quite a few directors that have tried to mimic his style for sure, but usually they just copy the grimdark parts and mix in jazz music and so on, instead of getting those quirky 50s style Hollywood types or small town characters who just don't seem believable as real people anymore outside of a film and I think that makes some directors cringe, as of they don't want to use those things as if it takes away from the immersion the audience will have but that's just my theory.
I also fricking read the OP thinking it was referring to his hair, before reading other replies and no idea why I didn't immediately think of directing style kek
I really liked Gosling's style when directing that movie, I think he took a lot of influence from Refn mostly
Kek a lot of people copy his style, look at Richard Ayoade's movie The Double based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky. That's at the top of my head also, there are quite a few directors that have tried to mimic his style for sure, but usually they just copy the grimdark parts and mix in jazz music and so on, instead of getting those quirky 50s style Hollywood types or small town characters who just don't seem believable as real people anymore outside of a film and I think that makes some directors cringe, as of they don't want to use those things as if it takes away from the immersion the audience will have but that's just my theory.
I also fricking read the OP thinking it was referring to his hair, before reading other replies and no idea why I didn't immediately think of directing style kek
Because it's shit, and people only pretend to like it because they are insecure pseuds that are afraid of being attacked by other insecure pseuds. >OH I made a shit film ON PURPOSE it's ART >Clapclapclap *sniff ass* so great David
NO, it's not fricking great. It's incomprehensible fricking rubbish hiding behind the veneer excuse of "it's art, bro."
So fricking over-rated. Masturbatory "cinema" snobs are so cringe
Most of what Lynch does is comedic. People have the strangest perception of it.
He has a cool aesthetic, makes stuff that's entertaining, and is a fun character himself. The appeal isn't hard to figure out.
We DO think you're dumb, but stop advertising how insecure you are about that.
I wouldn't say most, but a lot more than people think. He has a unique sense of humor and he often breaks the rules by putting humor in scenes that are also supposed to be genuinely scary or sad at the exact same moment, it's hard to describe because I can't think of anyone else who does that.
>He has a cool aesthetic, makes stuff that's entertaining
No, he doesn't. Everything he makes is shit and it looks like shit >is a fun character himself
He's an evil piece of shit >The appeal isn't hard to figure out.
The appeal is that he's a homosexual "artist" svumbag
There's Alex van Warmerdam who has been called the Dutch David Lynch, but he's just another surrealist and his actual directing style isn't similar at all. At least not in Nr. 10 which is the only film of his I've seen (it's good btw)
I tried watching Twin Peaks a couple times and couldnt get into it. I've watched his kino almost all of them and finally watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me because I was curious about maybe enjoying Twin Peaks more in film form and I must say it was an awesome movie and I have no desire to really watch the show but still could. Fire Walk with me is top 3 lynch.
Under the Silver Lake felt like a hipster take on Lynch, and I don't mean that in a bad way even, I loved the movie. It's just that it felt like "what if all the Lynchian elements were LA losers being hipsters"
Well, because he's an author with an original perspective and style. But I'll say you find some similitude in Nicolas Winding Refn or Lars Von Triers, maybe a tiny bit in Darren Aronofsky too.
Surrealist media is not enjoyable by a majority of the population and Lynch's stuff is bad production, unusual pacing and a varyingly small degree of surrealism.
Oh no the pacing isn't like marvel! >bad production
Nothing like marvel right! >varying degree of surrealism
almost so it can be enjoyed by plenty of people as long as they stop being gays who like the same kind of white bread movies
Because art isn't easily copied, and he had to be earn his reputation before people gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Genre slop can all be reduced to its base components and replicated.
watch episodes of Adventure Time storyboarded by Somvilay Xayaphone
when he's writing and animating the characters, they act like they're Lynch characters
beau is afraid came close at times
that new nathan fielder show
No
His version of bouffant. Walken had his. These are the boomers of Elvis worship
Lynch is the dreamer. It's as simple as that.
As the other anon pointed out, it is really difficult to copy his style, considering how personal it is. You just know he came up with 90% of his movies while daydreaming.
I would add to that, that it's also because it is VERY hard to get movies of this sort to be greenlit by studio execs. So hard in fact that even Lynch has given up on it. And if not even Lynch can sell these projects to studios, then younger directors have absolutely no chance.
Having said that, The Curse by Fielder and Sadfie can be quite Lynchian at times. It's not a carbon copy of his style, but you can see his influence almost everywhere in it. This is the only "lynchian" project I can think of.
Lynch isn't the first guy to put surrealist concepts to film, but he has done the most processing of postwar America (white suburbanites) through surrealism that anyone making sense of it in the American context can't pare it down more than he has. Which is very disarming, unadorned at first.
I was about to say that he's just a yank doing the same thing that european arthouse directors had been doing for years before him, but I guess the way his films lean to horror makes him sort of unique.
Like for example Fellini has a very similar style to him but lacks the scary stuff.
Because I havent erupted onto the scene yet
probably because it fricking sucks
Stroszek is the most lynchian movie he never made. Oddly enough, Lynch had only made Eraserhead at the time.
It's also his favourite Herzog film
There have been a couple. Pi, by Aronofsky, takes a lot of inspiration from Eraserhead, for example.
Weirdly enough, at the top of my head, I can think of a lot more video games that have a clear David Lynch influence. There's this scene in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories where the protagonist explores an empty high school during snow storm, gets to the gymnasium which is decorated for a 50's style reunion party and is greeted by a woman in a red dress singing a slow version of an Elvis song and I thought "damn, this feels like a scene from a Lynch movie."
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Rita Hayworth in Gilda did this (noir had the surface vs reality division too), but the music style and forlorn look is "Lynchian".
His "style" is trash.
You are moronic
fiction has to make sense.
Lynch is one of very few people able to break that rule to great critical acclaim.
The director of Donnie darko got close to the mark and then ruined it all with the directors cut
It doesn't have to make sense and his films do make sense.
its a golden rule of screenwriting and if lynchs work 'made sense' then there would not be 5 hour youtube videos attempting to explain his work and still coming to a personal conclusion that others argue about.
There absolutely would be
no there wouldnt and you cant
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>its a golden rule of screenwriting
For losers trying to get jobs in Network slop production.
Auteurs don't need to follow rules.
Lynch's work absolutely makes sense, people bickering over little things doesn't undermine that, the same can happen with more linear and literal narratives.
There is plenty of actual abstract films that can be pointed to as not making sense. Lynch just isn't one of them.
yeah you have to master a medium before you can subvert it.
lynch is a master, no doubt about that.
back to the real world though, fiction has to make sense.
getting rid of that rule allows all the hack amatures in the world to make dumb shit and say 'well lynch can get away with it'
he comes from painting. that's his core understanding of narrative. film-students struggle with his stuff bc they only know film narrative and think that's "the standard".
just go read some stuff on Edward Hopper's work and you'll start getting some sense of how Lynch makes connections and feels ideas out.
I wonder how much the internet + smartphones made it hard for Lynch to tell new stories. Even his new proposed movie is animation for kids. In Lost Highway a bulky flip phone handed from a stranger was how you find out "an entity has been allowed into your house, by your volition." A landline would just be home invasion horror. But now people live out surreal AU lives online, the memes can be non sequiturs and strange as hell. How does Lynch compete wit that?
Egghead tried really hard with The Lighthouse and failed miserably.
The Lighthouse is an essentially straight down the line psychological drama shot in black and white in the academy ratio. There is no real comparison to Lynch to be made other than the mundane "it's weird lmao"
The Lighthouse is more of a comedy than a drama...
No I disagree. Eggers has talked about his love for Eraserhead in the past.
Everyone loves it. Really baseless comparison that video is trying to force.
His influence is out there. Greener Grass is like a bizarro SNL interpretation of Lynch.
Too old to die young
>I can't think of any ''lynchian'' movie off of the top of my head
Because your knowledge of film is limited. Pic related is from 1970 and it's the most lynchan film not made by Lynch I've ever seen.
Not even the most lynchian Robbe-Grillet film, is this the only one of his you've seen? Anyway, that not even what OP was asking, because Robbe-Grillet is an obvious inluence on Lynch, and we're talking about artists influenced by Lynch. Your attempt to flaunt your cinematic knowledge is laughably pathetic.
Villeneuve wishes he could make a film like this with many sequences that have no dialogue but he can't be as vibrant or rich to save his life.
I've never found a director capable of showing such terrible evil and such heavenly light like he is
Lynch singlehandedly invented modern advertising. Everyone is still copying his iconic Calvin Klein ads.
I always felt dream sequences in the Sopranos were inspired by Lynch, or, maybe, intentionally lynchian.
His movies are gibberish.
There's definitely a bunch of pseudo-Lynchian movies. Lost River was one.
I had that pop in my head when typing this
I really liked Gosling's style when directing that movie, I think he took a lot of influence from Refn mostly
what style? his movies are like an amateur film school student's first effort.
Watch his movies on mute and without any subtitles so you can't get bamboozled when it starts making 0 fricking sense
Kek a lot of people copy his style, look at Richard Ayoade's movie The Double based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky. That's at the top of my head also, there are quite a few directors that have tried to mimic his style for sure, but usually they just copy the grimdark parts and mix in jazz music and so on, instead of getting those quirky 50s style Hollywood types or small town characters who just don't seem believable as real people anymore outside of a film and I think that makes some directors cringe, as of they don't want to use those things as if it takes away from the immersion the audience will have but that's just my theory.
I also fricking read the OP thinking it was referring to his hair, before reading other replies and no idea why I didn't immediately think of directing style kek
What about Suspiria
Oh yeah Argento kinda occupies the same space. Something between horror slasher flicks and surrealist arthouse.
That's Giallo. Whole other thing. Has it's roots in Italian pulp crime novels.
Kubrick was obsessed with eraserhead during The Shinings production and it shows
The Shining is very Kubrick in how it's shot though.
Deadly premonition?
Because it's shit, and people only pretend to like it because they are insecure pseuds that are afraid of being attacked by other insecure pseuds.
>OH I made a shit film ON PURPOSE it's ART
>Clapclapclap *sniff ass* so great David
NO, it's not fricking great. It's incomprehensible fricking rubbish hiding behind the veneer excuse of "it's art, bro."
So fricking over-rated. Masturbatory "cinema" snobs are so cringe
you probably like trash like oppenheimer
Most of what Lynch does is comedic. People have the strangest perception of it.
He has a cool aesthetic, makes stuff that's entertaining, and is a fun character himself. The appeal isn't hard to figure out.
We DO think you're dumb, but stop advertising how insecure you are about that.
I wouldn't say most, but a lot more than people think. He has a unique sense of humor and he often breaks the rules by putting humor in scenes that are also supposed to be genuinely scary or sad at the exact same moment, it's hard to describe because I can't think of anyone else who does that.
>He has a cool aesthetic, makes stuff that's entertaining
No, he doesn't. Everything he makes is shit and it looks like shit
>is a fun character himself
He's an evil piece of shit
>The appeal isn't hard to figure out.
The appeal is that he's a homosexual "artist" svumbag
There's Alex van Warmerdam who has been called the Dutch David Lynch, but he's just another surrealist and his actual directing style isn't similar at all. At least not in Nr. 10 which is the only film of his I've seen (it's good btw)
I never understood the fascination with this guy's work and I fricking hated Twin Peaks.
I tried watching Twin Peaks a couple times and couldnt get into it. I've watched his kino almost all of them and finally watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me because I was curious about maybe enjoying Twin Peaks more in film form and I must say it was an awesome movie and I have no desire to really watch the show but still could. Fire Walk with me is top 3 lynch.
It's "art", that means it's good even though it is peak trash
>le trash
Filtered, you probably like Nolan or Villeneuve.
Lynch kino scare me and I have to turn it off.
Under the Silver Lake felt like a hipster take on Lynch, and I don't mean that in a bad way even, I loved the movie. It's just that it felt like "what if all the Lynchian elements were LA losers being hipsters"
Wayward Pines.
Not exactly a Lynch but definitely a Twin Peaks rip off
I'd argue Carax is comparable
Well, because he's an author with an original perspective and style. But I'll say you find some similitude in Nicolas Winding Refn or Lars Von Triers, maybe a tiny bit in Darren Aronofsky too.
Surrealist media is not enjoyable by a majority of the population and Lynch's stuff is bad production, unusual pacing and a varyingly small degree of surrealism.
Oh no the pacing isn't like marvel!
>bad production
Nothing like marvel right!
>varying degree of surrealism
almost so it can be enjoyed by plenty of people as long as they stop being gays who like the same kind of white bread movies
>why thing?
>because things
>WAAAHHHHH WAAHHHH
Stfu Black person, go cry somewhere else