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David Lynch Similarities?

posted 20 years ago by WhiteRevolver
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Does anybody else think that there are some striking similarities between this film and certain filmworks by David Lynch? I'm particularly thinking of Eraserhead. Some of the camerawork is very similar in style, I'll have to watch both films again to come up with some specific examples. Also, the presentation of the nightmare world that the central character has no control over is very similar in both films.

I know that Lynch is a fan of Kafka, and he even began work on a film adaptation of The Metamorphosis at one time, but it never happened.

I could go into a little more depth and detail about the similarities between Welles's version of The Trial and David Lynch's work, but I really just wanted to find out if anybody else felt the same way about it.

[–] gerasp3 17 years ago

Yea Eraserhead immediately sprung to mind within the first 15 min of my first viewing. Lynch was obviously influenced by The Trial during the making of eraserhead.

[–] mistyred8 14 years ago

I believe Lynch has expressed a desire to film another Kafka book: "The Metamorphosis", as it's his favorite book, but that attaining the rights are difficult. Can't recall where I heard/read it though.
The idea of combining Lynch and Kafka's talent sounds wonderful, a match made in heaven!

[–] WhiteRevolver 14 years ago

I remember reading about that, too. From what I recall, he actually started building a giant bug for it, but the production fell through for some reason.

[–] MiloMindbender 14 years ago

No. None whatsoever. The most similar movie to Welles' The Trial is Gilliam's Brazil, which is a thinly veiled remake with a scifi twist.

[–] Trevor_Distance 14 years ago

As a fan of Lynch, I say totally!
Knowing he was a fan (as seen in his book) was what got me to rent this movie
and he seems to have been very inspired for Inland Empire by the blending of corridors into alleyways from texture to texture that creates that maze like effect I felt in this film, which gets more claustrophic as it reaches its crescendo. In Inland Empire theres a Mr K, so a direct nod there too.

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[–] mcerion 14 years ago

I know this is an ancient thread, but after I saw Touch of Evil, I thought that David Lynch used that as a blueprint for almost all of his films. Especially the feel of the gang characters.

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[–] dsgoorevitch 8 years ago

Welles had a great eye but nothing about him is original. His "ideas" are cliches. One of the great frauds of cinema.