David Lynch is recalling a day in 1981 when,
he says, he "rescued" five Woody Woodpecker toys that he saw hanging up
as he drove past a petrol station.
"I screech on the brakes, I do a
U-turn, go back and I buy them and I save their lives," he says seriously.
"I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete,
Bob and Dan and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while but certain
traits started coming out and they
became not so nice."
Looking straight ahead he says with a grim finality: "They are not
in my life anymore."
It is a story like much of his idiosyncratic work---intriguing but
mysterious and with an inconclusive ending---along the lines of the thematic
aesthetic dubbed "Lynchian."
We are talking in a Beverly Hills hotel shortly before the 71-year-old filmmaker is
due to leave for Cannes with the first two hours of his 18-episode return to
the lumber town of Twin Peaks.
He spent five years creating the new Twin
Peaks with his co-writer and collaborator Mark Frost. "I love the world of Twin Peaks and I would
think about it fondly and sometimes would wonder what people were doing and
wonder about how things were left," he says. But I didn’t really think of going back into the world until
Mark Frost invited me to lunch and we started
talking."
The early episodes have received decidedly mixed reviews and he says:
"You don’t know what will
happen until you release something into the world. It’s out of your
control. So it was a big surprise that Twin Peaks traveled around the world
and people really liked it. And now, going back in, the rule was to
follow the ideas, be true to the ideas, do it as good as you can, and when it’s
finished, you release it. And there’s
nothing you can do. You just do the
best job that you can."
His body of work, containing as it does
babbling dwarfs, ominous red curtains and episodes of hideous violence, has variously
been described as "weird," "trippy," "bizarre" and "twisted, "
So it is no surprise that David Lynch himself comes across as a strange and
occasionally baffling man.
Plain spoken yet inscrutable, he is something of a dichotomy: cheerful
and friendly yet enigmatic and brusque at times. Much like his work, he defies
a tidy description.
More of a surreal artist than a traditional movie director and writer,
he also composes songs and music, has produced several albums, makes wood
sculptures, has exhibited his paintings, drawings and photographs around the
world, designed a nightclub in Paris and founded a coffee company.
He says he loves cinema but goes on to say:
"I have not seen anything for years and I am not really a movie buff. I
love to make them, but I don’t really see a lot of films. And I
don’t watch much TV except I have been watching this Velocity Channel, where
they have car shows and customise and
restore cars. I have learned so much---
the metal work and the upholstery and the engine work that these guys and gals
do is thrilling to me. A lot of these people are
real artists."
Please relieve me of my consternation and explain how one can be both "plain spoken"(outspoken; blunt. synonyms: candid, frank, outspoken, forthright, direct, honest, truthful, open, blunt, straightforward, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, not afraid to call a spade a spade, tell-it-like-it-is; informal, upfront) AND AT THE SAME TIME "inscrutable" (Impossible to understand or interpret."Guy looked blankly inscrutable" synonyms: enigmatic, mysterious, unreadable, inexplicable, unexplainable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, unfathomable, unknowable.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
AND "enigmatic" en·ig·mat·ic
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adjective
difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
"he took the money with an enigmatic smile"
synonyms: mysterious, inscrutable, puzzling, mystifying, baffling, perplexing, impenetrable, unfathomable
Because he's a dichotomy.
ReplyDeletedi·chot·o·my
dīˈkädəmē/
noun: dichotomy; plural noun: dichotomies
a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
Well maybe you should include that word then ;-)
Delete"Plain spoken yet inscrutable, he is something of a dichotomy: cheerful and friendly yet enigmatic and brusque at times."
DeleteI don't know if a "person" can actually be a dichotomy....can you research it please.
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