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• Eraserhead = Every nightmare he's ever had . . . - Billy Wonka 23:40:21 04/24/15 (5)
  In Reply to: RE: A friend is doing her Masters Degree in Film making posted by JDK on April 23, 2015 at 21:25:01

  I firmly believe he has a very potent dream recall which is how he creates such mind numbing cinema.
  

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  • Nightmares - JDK 14:20:35 04/25/15 (4)
    In Reply to: RE: Eraserhead = Every nightmare he's ever had . . . posted by Billy Wonka on April 24, 2015 at 23:40:21

    What you're saying makes sense. Several of Lynch's other works - Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks relied heavily on dream sequences.
    I'll try and find out who/what the man pulling the levers was!
    
    
    Cheers,
    John K
    
    
    
    

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    • RE: Nightmares - geoffkait 11:43:38 04/30/15 (3)
      In Reply to: RE: Nightmares posted by JDK on April 25, 2015 at 14:20:35

      Hint: the actor was Jack Fisk, friend of Lynch from Alexandria days and husband of Sissie Spacek, who,,as fate would,have it was one of the mentors of Lynch on Eraserhead, financially speaking. Was he an alien? When Eraserhead was walking across the rain soaked field in the beginning of the movie, afer the weird opening sequence during which the guy pulling the levers pulls out one of the large spermatozoa thingies apparently from inside what may be a look alike of Eraserhead, maybe an alien, and throws it in a mud puddle, he puts a foot into a mud puddle. Did the little spermatozoa crawl up his leg at that point?
      

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      • RE: Nightmares - JDK 00:59:31 05/05/15 (2)
        In Reply to: RE: Nightmares posted by geoffkait on April 30, 2015 at 11:43:38

        Yeah, One scene or one act at a time you can analyse and get stuff out of it - fear of having children, fear of having healthy children, fear of settling down, fear of the repercussions from having an affair, inlaws dramas, nervousness and discomfort etc etc.
        But, try to link all these things together, it makes no sense. That's why I'm wondering if it is just a series of weird ideas (dreams) that he links up with devices like the spermatozas and the man in the machine.
        
        
        Cheers,
        John K
        
        
        
        

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        • RE: Nightmares - geoffkait 19:07:36 05/17/15 (1)
          In Reply to: RE: Nightmares posted by JDK on May 05, 2015 at 00:59:31

          That's the rap Eraserhead has has for sure. But I now am coming to the realization every single thing in the movie is there fir a reason. It's not a bunch of things strung together as it appears. Thanks to some clever fellows on the Internet who gave published analyses of Eraserhead I'm able to give deeper and more accurate meanings to what is happening and why. It's the perfect movie to analyze, really. I have a ways to go. Mullholland Drive appears to be more straightforward but is actually denser makes less sense.
          

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          • 30+ years and I'm not convinced anybody but Lynch knows - JDK 18:35:16 05/18/15 (0)
            In Reply to: RE: Nightmares posted by geoffkait on May 17, 2015 at 19:07:36

            My friend is seeing him and I've asked again ............
            
            
            
            
            Cheers,
            John K
            
            
            
            

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