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Lynch's most direct film?

posted 11 years ago by willimakeit
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Is the Elephant Man to David Lynch what Ed Wood is to Tim Burton? They are their most direct films.

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

It`s the one where he uses the least amount of abstractions and symbolic visual language for sure.

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[–] IceboxMovies 11 years ago

This and The Straight Story.

[–] Edward_de_Vere 11 years ago

The Elephant Man and The Straight Story are also Lynch's least pretentious films, and therefore his best. The only time The Elephant Man sinks into typical Lynchian pretense is the "nothing ever dies" star scene at the end.

[–] Stigler 8 years ago

Actually, believe it or not, Blue Velvet is the most straightforward David Lynch film.