David Lynch
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SummaryStorytelling, since the dawn of time, has served as an invaluable means in which human beings are able to create, sustain, and relay emotion, identity, and ideology. The stories people tell allow them to simultaneously connect to, and differentiate themselves from one another. Arguably more important than the stories themselves are the manners in which they are told. In this century, films have become one of the dominant forms of storytelling. Movies are seen on every continent on Earth, and reach hundreds of millions of people each year. Storytellers who work within the medium of film have a chance to exhibit their work on an unparalleled stage. During the first half of the twentieth-century, a movement known as “classical Hollywood cinema” thrived. The films created in the time of classical Hollywood cinema operated largely within metanarratives; all-embracing laws which governed human behavior. These films utilized well-known plot structures and familiar characters to tell their stories. There was almost always a hero and a villain, and, in the end, the hero would always get the girl. Specifically, each film genre would operate amidst its own metanarrative structure. Detective movies, thrillers, romance movies, horror films, and comedies all followed their own metanarratives. This was, in the world of film, modernism.
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- During the latter half of the twentieth-century, classical Hollywood cinema died out, and with it, metanarrative structures began to lose their power
- Postmodernism has brought forth a way of viewing the world in which contradiction reigns supreme.
- David Lynch's first successful film to showcase his uncompromising, unrivaled talent for storytelling was 1986's Blue Velvet.
- The innovative storytelling behind Blue Velvet works largely do to its acceptance of modernist genre themes.
- Surrounding the identifiable genre details of Blue Velvet, however, is a universe unlike anything audiences have seen before.
- More so than any other of his films, David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) was equally loved and despised by critics and audiences alike.
- Wild at Heart can best be described as a shock-laden, intangible road movie with an under-the-surface love story, but nothing substantial on the surface.
- In the film, Lynch incorporates a postmodern narrative element known as heterotopias.
- Whether or not one finds the work of David Lynch embraceable is a mute point; he has become one of the most widely respected filmmakers of the latter half of the century.
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