Whats So Good About David Lynch?

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i really wanna see 3:10 to yuma ive heard mixed opinions .. but it has BALE .. hes so intense :love:

and ive never thought of taxi driver as a western but thats an interesting comment because it does follow the genre.
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Kurosawa > Ford > Scorsese > Hardon.

In fact Searchers offers the bones for Taxi Driver. Some label Taxi Driver as a remake...but it's nowhere near truth, but both Star Wars Episode 4 and taxi Driver owe a heck of a lot from The Searchers with Lucas, Ford and Scorsese owing a hell of a lot to Kurosawa.

Still I wouldn't label Star Wars Episode IV a Western, but it does apply many of the conventions, albeit impure and straying wildly from the basic formula. Taxi Driver, both thematically and structurally is only different because of aesthetics (superficial).
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See there I was, Up at 5 am. Thinking I could expand, edit and elaborate on my post with impunity and the Pimp from Detroit messes everything up. :lol:


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Eviltoastman";p="947553 wrote:Still I wouldn't label Star Wars Episode IV a Western
Star Wars Episode IV steals quite liberally from Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
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I hadn't realized that you're the only one reading this thread.
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okay so we've definetly established kurosawa's movies have a lot of influence in westerns and star wars.

on the other hand i don't know if i posted that i saw lost highway which i liked a lot more than eraserhead its a classic example of his work where a poor writer will describe the movie "Lynchian"
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You should start using commas.
...this time like triple sarcasm
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...and capitalisation.
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Thunder Bear";p="947675 wrote:You should start using commas.
yeah i know... but ive decided against it its pretty much how i roll.
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Whats So Good About David Lynch?

how about eraserhead , for starters .
the finished product is just the garbage left over from doing the work.
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