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David Lynch has died

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1190 points wut42 | 3 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.704s | source
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Fricken ◴[16 Jan 25 23:23 UTC] No.42732227[source]▶
Regardless of how his films come together as a whole, Lynch is without a doubt the most prolific producer of haunting and unforgettable imagery that inhabits my mind. A few months ago I rewatched, on Youtube a scene from the Elephant Man, a film I saw once 30 years ago. The scene was just like I remember it, I only to watch it that one time and it was etched into my mind forever, crystalline.

Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made.

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1. noisy_boy ◴[17 Jan 25 04:14 UTC] No.42734005[source]▶
> Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made.

I don't get all the disdain for his Dune. For its time, I found it quite entertaining. The scene of the menacing black tank containing the guild navigator emerging out of fumes at the emperor's court will stay with me. Obviously it can't compare in terms of effects or the subtleties of the latest version but it was impressive nevertheless. Without his version, I wouldn't even have known about Dune.

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2. sideshowb ◴[17 Jan 25 22:21 UTC] No.42743896[source]▶
Not without its issues but it also prominently featured the mentats, which the recent version didn't.
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3. noisy_boy ◴[18 Jan 25 03:27 UTC] No.42745548[source]▶
Good point. Same with guild navigators - the whole point of the bickering is spice and the whole point of spice is navigation. I get the DV's less-is-more aesthetic but these were deep and exciting subjects that weren't explored much.