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A.O. Scott reviews David Lynch's unconventional mystery film from 1986.
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@TheOwlEyes 13 лет назад

"My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out - some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. " -David Lynch

@beaconmike 14 лет назад

While I love the film, if you ever have wonderful memories of the song 'Blue Velvet' avoid watching this film at all costs. Here is the price you will pay if you do not heed my words. In High School in '66, I had the dream date of my life to the Senior Prom. We were all dressed up. It was about our 2nd date. We slow danced for the first time to Blue Velvet. I was sexually aroused being that close to her. I fell in love. After seeing this film, my memory is now replaced with Frank Booth

@antihinduismisbased 6 лет назад

beaconmike ouch. That gotta hurt.

@dexdzll6427 4 года назад

frank booth’s face is so punchable

@ObscuredByTime 4 года назад

LOL!!! That is a great story.

@duewhit310 3 года назад

Now thats dark.

@61dodgelancer 3 года назад

BEACONMIKE, LOL! THANKS FOR THE HUMOR. BUT I'M WONDERING; DEPENDING ON HOW THINGS WORKED OUT WITH YOUR "DREAM DATE", MAYBE IT'S JUST AS WELL YOUR MEMORY HAS NOW BEEN REPLACED BY FRANK BOOTH. LOL! WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO GO BACK TO '66 AND RELIVE YOUR MEMORY THE EXACT SAME WAY?

@Guy4755 10 лет назад

I remember seeing this when it was first released, and feeling so tickled when it was over. Seeing Stockwell's Ben lip-synch to Roy Orbison was sheer joy, I was grinning like a maniac through that whole performance. I didn't want it to end.

@godlyblessedliibaangodisgo4394 7 лет назад

@Guy Budziak 100 % I agree

@JiveDadson 3 года назад

It's been 7 years. Are you institutionalized now?

@infinitejest441 3 года назад

My favorite scene too

@attiylanen 3 года назад

@@JiveDadson Who the fook are U?

@dfangirl72 2 года назад

he had said many times his part was the sanest part of the whole movie.i must've already liked dean Stockwell ( as we all know this was before married to the mob or quantum leap) because Everytime I heard in dreams I had to turn it up and dance like him ( if I was alone ) when I recently fast forward through blue velvet for the Ben part I was " disappointed they didn't show him more 😔.

@Calum_Chrystal 10 лет назад

RIP Dennis Hopper

@aslan9334 4 года назад

what!? this comment is 5yrs ago i didn't know he had passed away! :(

@samfilmkid 13 лет назад

In dreams...you're mine...all....forever in dreams... sends chills down my spine every time

@ARIZJOE 3 года назад

David Lynch wrote a brilliant script. But he had luck also. Lynch had written the song as "Crying." So he got a hold of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits, and heard "In Dreams," a song he was unfamiliar with. Then he got Roy to rerecord all of his songs. And they were made better! In the script, Frank Booth was supposed to inhale helium. Dennis changed it to amyl nitrate or nitrous oxide.

@DonVal86 2 года назад

His deliver is unique and powerful.

@ryanlindborg3634 9 лет назад

HEINEKIN!!!!

@joshmaxin7188 8 лет назад

"PABST BLUE RIBBON!"

@ARIZJOE 3 года назад

@Yes Sir! You have to understand that back in those days, mainstream Americans were just starting to drink imported beer. Heinekin had the largest market share by a lot, and some dopes drank it as an affectation. Pabst Blue Ribbon was a low cost beer favored by blue collar workers

@HughCorbyCruick 3 года назад

Great movie and every time Hopper appeared on the screen a sense of imminent danger appeared with him. A stellar performance.

@zeplova87 7 лет назад

Forgot how similar the vibes are to twin peaks...

@jackdonohue7893 5 лет назад

zeplova87 well it is the same director

@caitydid86 4 года назад

And they both have Kyle MacLachlan.

@sergeikhripun 2 года назад

I remember when I saw the opening scene of the suburban paradise and then the old man is having a heart attack and then the camera zooms and goes through the grass to portray all the nasty bugs running around one on top of another and I started to smile to realize it wasn't a PG-13 movie. That opening scene always cracks me up. As they say, quiet waters run deep.

@eduardo_corrochio 5 лет назад

First time I saw it, when it ended I was near weeping. It was so much to take in, it was such a ride, that I became overcome-- and then, that ending. For me Blue Velvet has always been like Nancy Drew goes to the underworld. It's special. Like a nightmare where evil is nefarious and unpredictable, and good is pure and light. Great film.

@underbightdog23 13 лет назад

This film was very powerful for me, saw it when I was only 14, it launched me into a film obesession

@user-dc5kc4gl5p 4 года назад

nice!

@littlecasino60 6 лет назад

I always thought this film took place sometime in the early '60s. It has that feel with the clothes, furniture and cars, like it could be around the time of the Kennedy assassination.

@MM-zm9je 4 года назад

Lottadale S Sandys clothing and hair say otherwise.

@whoopsie890 4 года назад

The film definitely does look like it took place in the '60s until the end with the shootout at apartment building everything looks like the '80s

@morganmeadows8359 3 года назад

Most of the details look like they're from the early-to-mid '60s, but many of the cars are from the '70s and some of the clothes and hairstyles are typical of the early '80s. Lynch keeps the era deliberately ambiguous: the world he depicts is meant to look familiar while being permeated with an aura of strangeness.

@spinsandneedles 6 месяцев назад

Well, it started with the song Blue Velvet and the old fire engine so I think most viewers began with that thinking it was meant to portray a different time. You get engrossed in the story and sort of forget about the cars. Outside the high school the girls were wearing dresses so again it had that 50s or 60s look. The radio announcement also was a throwback, plus the diner and the nightclub. The film is great in its timelessness.

@DirkDiggler12 3 года назад

The sensations that the end of this film gives you.

@David-sp9vd 8 лет назад

Can't mention Lynch without mentioning the Uncanny.

@TheSaltyLibrarian 13 лет назад

Dennis Hopper is so great in this.

@slw59 4 года назад

Once I heard the song "Mysteries of Love", I was hooked.

@farenheit2456 3 года назад

The costume design in the film is great. I never hear anyone mention that.

@ARIZJOE 3 года назад

I was Jeffrey Beaumont. The people in my town talked like Frank Booth. I loved the movie. "Candy colored clown."

@davidrowe9402 4 года назад

A unique experience, helped by no prior knowledge after Platoon was sold out the same night. I can’t stop laughing at some scenes, but I have to laugh to control how unsettling it is.

@Chris-cf2kp 3 года назад

This film exists for me in the same dream-nightmare realm as clockwork orange

@danielwilliamson6180 9 лет назад

Blue Velvet is a classic thriller.

@nicholasleon5584 6 лет назад

“Chaotic Evil” Does A.O. Scott play D&D?

@blastedquinn56 4 года назад

One of my favorite David Lynch movies.

@bobbysands6923 2 года назад

I came from a town like that, and knew people like Frank Booth. So when I saw this movie for the 1st time I was spooked like I was never spooked before. It took me hours to calm down from it--it was too real.

@nichande 9 лет назад

Yes I loved those 80s (?) outfits. The gang really stands out with all the 50's Americana. Maybe there something intentional with that?

@movie-mandan 3 месяца назад

Dennis Hopper’s finest hour? I know he was great in Red Rock West and Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider, but this may be his best performance

@underbightdog23 13 лет назад

@Johnlindsey289 I like Dune for the visuals really, like I said he creates new worlds. I really really really really like Elephant Man, but it isn't my kind of Lynch. I like that all of his surreal movies are really left up to interpertation, which make them more memorable and fun to talk about. Make 4 people watch Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and Eraserhead and you'll get 4 diffrent perspectives. But, I would say Blue Velvet is my faveroite.

@russellhamner4898 5 лет назад

HEINEKEN?!!

@muddeer5383 3 года назад

Blue Velvet is a good movie, but it is not a classic like Mulholland Drive. Still it is definitely worth watching, and the Dean Stockwell scene by itself worth your 2 hours.

@DirkDiggler12 3 года назад

Both are classics obviously.

@idicula1979 Год назад

The eighties was a legendary decade for movies.

@mjp96 Год назад

Dennis Hopper was truly an original. RIP.

@165Dash 4 года назад

Louis Bunuel meets Alfred Hitchcock.

@djd620 Год назад

Love the Bunuel shout out but it's Luis not Louis

@BigDaddyZakk420 11 лет назад

Very well articulated ! I agree one hundred percent, sir.

@phototristan Год назад

When I get married I want to walk down the aisle to this song. Note, still single.

@dfangirl72 2 года назад

I watched mesmerized by dean Stockwell ( Ben ) loved in dreams ( if I was alone I'd dance like him ) his character is the Best part of blue velvet .the movie itself is odd but that's David Lynch .

@CashelOConnolly 5 лет назад

God I love this film😍

@FromTheAbsurd 13 лет назад

best film of 80's

@halfclapproductions2190 3 года назад

I agree

@legelfm 7 лет назад

I think, the two mysterious black clerks at Beaumont`s Hardware Store are a paraphrase to Stanley Kubrick's mysterious twins in "The Shining". Take a note at the ax in the second scene with the clerks at around 51 minutes. It corresponds to the scene at "The Shining", where Danny has the vision of the slaughtered twins, where the ax is lying next to the twins. Also the staircase scenes have an Alfred Hitchcock touch in my eyes.

@sumedhvaidya3019 3 года назад

wow it could be. Stanley Kubrick showed David Lynch's Eraserhead to The Shining Cast becasue so this might be true

@swtirisalexopoulos1138 6 лет назад

SAW--BLUE VELVET--WHEN I WAS--15years old!!!!IN DREAMS!!!!

@latenightlogic 4 года назад

For the first viewing I simply saw the movie for its basic elements and on that level it’s ok. Hopper is a psycho and detective like set up is decent. But having not felt the so called brilliance of the movie I decided to look up a RU-vid clip to help me understand it better. Mmm, very interesting I thought. Dream-like quality. Symbolism. Atmosphere. Watched it again with this new understanding. Nope. Still didn’t feel it, still felt the same as when I first watched it, which is somewhere around a 6 out of ten. Can anybody help here? When you watch it, what is the feeling you get? I love Barton Fink and that movie is all atmosphere, so I definitely feel I could still get into Blue Velvet.

@gouthambhat1622 4 года назад

Barton fink and Blue velvet are two different things. Blue velvet solely relies on power of imagery and blocking. It doesn't have anything to say through it's images. Lynch just throws these wonderful images and leaves the audience to freely feed off the vibes and feelings these images emit. So that works wonders for many of us but might not work for everybody. So I don't think you could get into Blue velvet anytime soon.

@theurbanegentleman4550 3 года назад

Drink some PBR and rewatch the scene with Stockwell and Hopper

@sumedhvaidya3019 3 года назад

same with me. i really didn't get the meaning of blue velvet even though i have seen david lynch films. this film didn't have an effect on me like eraserhead or lost highway or mulholland dr did

@vladinstein 2 года назад

@@gouthambhat1622 you described it perfectly. I have similar feelings about Kar Wai. One of my friends asked me to explain what was so great about Chunking Express. And I feel that I cannot explain this, because there are some aspects of the movie that create for certain people this depth that other people don't feel. Lynch, Kar Wai are those types of directors.

@jayjay1184 13 лет назад

@tamerswan Why would you hate to admit it? It's a classic!

@sortuno850 4 года назад

Bizarre, is the most bizarre movie I’ve watched.

@mjp96 Год назад

and it never gets old

@RIP_Greedo 3 месяца назад

Blue Velvet = Theory Twin Peaks = Practice

@doyoumind9356 6 лет назад

There'a a scene where Jeffrey punches Frank in the face. Why did Jeffrey survive while the yellow suit got killed ?

@3prettyvacant 8 лет назад

I was 17 when this came out, and forget that Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper were in this....I went to see it for Isabella Rosselini , and Kyle MacLachlan, who were both so sexy together...

@TheLiquidcure 3 года назад

I don't think the movie is a celebration of the "real america" at all. It's an incisive criticism of how naive middle america is.

@jackpavlik563 Год назад

PABST BLUE RIBBON

@Ichiboy900 13 лет назад

Notice at 1:46, where the mic shadow is cast on her back, it almost looks like an upside down pentagram. Maybe it was Intentional?

@greenpanther1990 13 лет назад

@Beale64 that is until you do a 8 page film analysis of it

@jamessullivan4391 Год назад

This is the movie that helped me stop drinking Heineken.

@strandwolf 13 лет назад

@mindstormsabrewin Don't forget John Waters. He messed with Link Wray in Pink Flamingoes! Arggghhh!

@scottfallon1 3 года назад

Dale Cooper, before the academy.

@jayjay1184 13 лет назад

@tamerswan Haha yeah I get what you're saying.

@Mrhasbarafree 3 года назад

Wheres my bourbon?

@Guy4755 13 лет назад

@DuckingNDiving What a hilarious thing to say.

@underbightdog23 13 лет назад

@Johnlindsey289 I can't say that one lynch movie is really better than the other, they all create a unique world and are basically the equivelent to brain candy.

@betitoChat 14 лет назад

is very fun

@bens5974 6 лет назад

can someone explain how naked dorothy showed up at jeffery's house?

@JiveDadson 3 года назад

He's a good film critic, but he's no Joel K. Rosenthal.

@JeffAyars 14 лет назад

you're both wrong. it's neither good nor bad. it's just pizza.

@hbkratedrguy217 4 года назад

sometimes things need to be obscure ya mook

@DonVal86 3 года назад

Mook? What’s mook? You can’t call me mook!

@Mrster 14 лет назад

@beaconmike Hahahah man that sucks.

@chalandemago 4 года назад

nice irony from american culture

@magistrumartium 4 года назад

In my humble opinion, the film is putrid in spite of the beautiful colors and splendid performances. It's a gold-plated bucket of vomit.

@sortuno850 4 года назад

Mark T. I agree!

@ARIZJOE 3 года назад

That's the way life is.

@KingCobrAIJFS 9 месяцев назад

I would say that's what Lynch intended with this film

@robotpanda77 9 лет назад

I think if you took out the sex scenes the film would never have achieved the same level of notoriety and thus respect it got later on. The same is true of a Clockwork Orange. Regardless of how well made they are, the sex made them famous. So if you want to make a legendary film, make sure you include some graphic nudity.

@robotpanda77 9 лет назад

***** I'm not saying the sex made it good, I'm saying the sex made it famous. This is the nature of people. Most don't even notice camera work or editing but they all notice sex and violence.