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Is it? K. But the movie doesn't capture that. It's more like a whacked out Mulholland.
And why do his films never have Mexicans if, as you say, that's the America of his youth?
Too weird for Netflix.
Many of the Lynch stories are about some American place and the darkness beneath the surface.
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive...
It seemed like _Inland Empire_ was going to get a treatment like Beverly Hills and Hollywood did in those last two. But whereas I think Lynch had a good beat on small northwestern towns (TP) and on L.A./Hollywood, I don't think he was familiar enough with the vibe of the I.E. to do something that resonated.
The I.E. is considered to be the conservative part of California, the desert part, the part that is stuck in the 50s hot rod culture ... grease and hamburgers. It's Route 66 and hobos. It's where McDonald's and other fast food were founded. It's where Mexicans are the predominant Americans, and where all the music is old. It's Latinos who support Trump. It's where Middle Eastern people recreate the date palms of the Levant. Where diners don't have to pretend to be 50s diners-- they're all like that naturally. Drive in movie theaters, with Tapatio sauce for the popcorn. It's hubcaps along the side of the freeway, and heat. Most of all, it's where the people in L.A. -- close to the coast, in the hip city -- fear they might end up.
I live in the Inland Empire. It means exactly what I said. The Inland Empire is a geographic place and I live within the borders of that place. Used in a sentence: "San Bernardino is a crappy city in the Inland Empire." Sheesh gameesh.
It's nothing like Lynch portrays. If Lynch was trying to represent the Inland Empire's culture, I don't know what he was thinking. He should have just called it _Glendale_ or something. In any case, Lynch's film _Inland Empire_ is basically the link between old Twin Peaks style and new Twin Peaks style, IMO.
I live in the Inland Empire. It's nothing like Lynch portrays.
A very truthful post.
Hopefully modica plays melodica.
It's not a very lady-like instrument. Not judging, just stating.
hehe
Yup. I was, too. I think it was Dave Brubeck "Take Five" or something. Trying to remember.
(I used to play jazz professionally. Not boasting, just stating. I actually don't even like jazz much anymore and I'm not up on what's going on at all.)
Punk rock music mostly sucks. I was into it because I was a spastic kid and didn't yet know how to move my body besides smashing into people, and because I was under the illusion that the music as "saying something" just because political stuff and whatnot were being brought up.
Most of the music I listen to is Jamaican music and American oldies (r&b, soul) and different kinds of "traditional" music.
Any music you can hear on the street or in a club in New Orleans is pretty badass and might actually work for TP.
Also because Little Jimmy Scott is dead.
I dunno, I just can't take white boy guitar rock music.
Basically anything with a funky beat or some soul. Something where the singer doesn't play an instrument at the same time.
The boobs CONFIRMED it. Plus, we already had some sense of the boobs when we saw her earlier, anyway.
And Lynch doesn't put Asian people in his shows for no reason or just for diversity, etc. He has a reason.
The moment you see a Black person in a Lynch production your head will explode from the symbolism.
He doesn't even have to think; it just comes naturally for artists like Lynch to do and for FBI-brained sifu's like me to notice.
Agreed. Neither was the conversation between Evil Sarah and the truck driver. But that's not what makes them so painful to bear.
You did not look closely enough.
The answer to how we know she is Japanese is:
The boobs. Those were Japanese boobs.
And the moral of the story is that Lynch had a rhyme and a reason for showing those hooters to us, and it wasn't to titillate. It was so in the absence of eyes we'd know she is Japanese, and make the connection to the atom bomb.
Perhaps they won a contest. I am sure they were hipsters that have been waiting for Twin Peaks to come back every since they watched it on Netflix in 2014, and they entered a drawing to be extras.
And yet you and everyone else knows that she was. How?
Aiming to please.
As long as we're speaking off topic then, I want to know: How was it still possible to tell the woman was Japanese when her slanty eyes were covered up?