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David Lynch died on January 15, 2025, leaving behind the inheritance of work in a movie and a television that helped to redefine what could be fun, and moved the envelope to the very edge of receiving in the Hollywood mainstream. For years, fans have discussed which of his films is the best, but two tend to be in the first place in the ranking of all: Mulholland Drive and one of his earlier films, which eventually reported the tone for the rest of his breakthrough career. Published in 1986, Blue velvet is considered by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest mysteriesy films of all time; It’s confusing and strange, involving a sudden jump to the music interlude and laid the foundations Twin Peaks.
Suburban nightmare
Blue velvet He starts at a strange note from the opening minutes when Maclachlan’s Jeffrey Beaumont, a university student who returned home to help take care of his sick father, discovered a cut off human ear. Jeffrey finds that the ear is freely attached to Dorothy Vallens, a local jazz singer, and eventually speaks to her place after the performance, leading to an exchange of views between Maclachlan and Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy, one of the most pleasant interviews. when the camera caught.
This is before Blue velvet It takes a wild direction when a local criminal boss Frank (in a show that changes the career of Dennis Hopper) appears on a wild night with Dorothy, which includes a gas mask and calls her “Mom”, which Jeffrey follows from the closet. .
All this during the first thirty minutes Blue velvet, And the film is even stranger from there when it reveals a criminal conspiracy lurking just below the surface of the small town of Lumberton. It is true that to get there, Jeffrey must spend time with Frank, which includes visits to the drug lair and saw, which includes not one, but two Oldies, “in Dreams” and “Mr. Sandman, ”with the characters dancing as the only one David Lynch He would let them do. It is quite a conventional story, but with Lynch’s touches on top, he is able to take the story of a difficult situation in the suburbs and turns him into a dreamy narrative that he constantly leads the audience out of his equilibrium by subverting all the expectations they entered.
Blue velvet changed the cinema
After a disastrous failure Dunesci-fi epic, David Lynch He returned to the Eraserhead, a bizarre low -budget film that again relieved the strange moments of the head without the body floating through the universe or radiator singing gold Oldies and is about relationships. Blue velvet It includes what would later be considered to be Lynch’s trademarks (characters in one scene that steal shows, dreamy stories, persistent shots that do not strangle, among many others) and by going through an independent study conducted by the legendary B -film producer Din de Laurentiis , he didn’t have to compromise in his vision. The critics then responded by being divided, with those who would die on the hill that it was a subversive, breakthrough film and those who thought he was spectacular, boring and not meaningful.
Today, Blue velvet He is rightly recognized as a landmark of American cinematography. Not only has 81% fresh rating Rotten tomatoes From today’s critics, but he was even studied in writing hours and film as an example of narration power. It is a film that barely watches and will remain with you for years, but it is also one of the greatest success in film production and helped to start the career of David Lynch, a man whose name became synonymous with the challenging media that forces. And one of the largest Hollywood creative brains of all time.
Blue Velvet sends Max.
