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David Lynch

David Lynch. The Birth of the Golden Age of Television. Early Films. Attended Fine Arts school in Philadelphia The Grandmother (1970) AFI Supported family with odd jobs Worked on the script for Eraserhead (1977) Mel Brooks called him “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”. Surrealism.

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David Lynch

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  1. David Lynch The Birth of the Golden Age of Television

  2. Early Films • Attended Fine Arts school in Philadelphia • The Grandmother (1970) • AFI • Supported family with odd jobs • Worked on the script for Eraserhead (1977) • Mel Brooks called him “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”

  3. Surrealism • Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early '20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious. • All sorts of techniques and phenomena were employed to achieve this subconscious creativity, including dreams, hallucinations, automatic or random image generation - basically anything that circumvented the usual "rational" thought processes involved in creating works of art.

  4. Lynch • Was known to include elements from dreams in his work

  5. Production of Eraserhead • Took 3 years • Delivered newspapers • Lived on the set

  6. Eraserhead • Desolate industrial city • Characters Henry and Mary X give birth to a monstrous baby • Henry dreams of escaping with a woman who serenades him from behind the radiator • “illogic and rhythm of a bad dream” • Theme of “sexual repression”

  7. Cast and Crew • Alan Spelt (sound editor) won an Academy Award for his audio work on The Black Stallion (1979) • Cinematographer Fred Elmes went on to shoot more idiosyncratic films • Jack Nance never broke into Hollywood, but had parts in other Lynch films as well as a favorite character on Twin Peaks

  8. The Elephant Man 1980 • Lynch was given the Writing and Directing Assignment • Mel Brooks (a producer of the film) suggested him • Nominated for 8 Academy Awards • Lynch was nominated for director and screenplay • His films have always remained odd and divisive

  9. The Golden Age of TV, Twin Peaks (1990)

  10. Mythology of the show • Flash Forwards • Dream Sequences • Extra-dimensional spirits • Other-worldly villains • Sense of place • Special code Television mythologies allow viewers to feel like they are part of a special code. Shows with idiosyncratic mythologies tend to develop cult followings. Ex. Twin Peaks, Star Trek, X-Files, Lost

  11. Likely influenced the following shows • The X Files • Lost • Mad Men • Breaking Bad • The Killing • True Detective Also generated a rabid cult following

  12. Cinematic Style • Expanded the vocabulary of the small screen • Cinematography • Editing • Set design

  13. Nightmarish images Melodrama Absurdism Kitcsh

  14. Laura Palmer Development of character (of a dead girl) like Otto Primenger’s Laura One of the most intriguing characters ever on television Anti-hero Evil is represented as a an entity (rather than specific characters)

  15. Showrunners and creative control • Mark Frost • David Lynch • The Lynch style brought something to TV never seen before

  16. Mistakes that were kept • Flubbed lines • Faulty Fluorescent • Frank Silva accidentally caught in a mirror (and becoming the main villain)

  17. “Twin Peaks,” despite all its innovations, died an ignoble death, hemorrhaging viewers. Not even Lynch’s sort-of prequel film, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” could salvage the show.

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