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In Reply to: 'Fraid so... posted by Harmonia on November 25, 2002 at 17:39:10:
I've been through it abour 15 times. I'm still no closer.It is amazing that Lynches style was cemented so strongly already in Eraserhead. The shabby industial landscapes, the alternative world-within-a-world views and the blank stares/pauses.
The guy pulling the lever though is still a mystery to me - decrepit God or rubber miner ?
Cheers
John K
Follow Ups:
"It is amazing that Lynches style was cemented so strongly already in Eraserhead. The shabby industial landscapes, the alternative world-within-a-world views and the blank stares/pauses."... "The Straight Story." Still has those wonderful touches - the fat lady sunning herself and eating donuts, the giant ear of corn going by on the truck/float, the burning house that the folks have lawn chairs out to watch the firemen, the hysterical lady who just wants to know where all the deer come from, the cement deer surrounding Alvin at his camp site as he eats venison.
Vary un-Lynchian yet at the same time familiar. Maybe his best movie as it is accessible yet tells a powerful story with wonderful performances.
He's listed in the credits (Steve Grody) with his brother, they were in the rafters dropping them. I think they were something from a butcher shop/house. Or maybe fertile eggs, broken open early. I haven't talked to him in years, otherwise I'd ask him.
What the 'baby' was made out of Lynch won't tell. Doesn't want to ruin it for viewers. I think a skinned turkey fetus head. At some point umbilical cords were used--Henry pulling them out of the bed or something.
A few odd points. It was made off/on as funding came in, still done real cheap, at American Film Institute. AFI realized after it was made that Lynch owned the rights to it, and the major houses--who also help fund, AFI objected to AFI making competition for them (if you could call Eraserhead competition). So AFI now only helps out making shorts, and guess who owns them?At a screening for AFI honchos of footage during the filming, the dinner scene, one of the honchos blew up: "Real people don't act like that!" Makes me wonder who he thinks real people act like. John Wayne? Shelly Winters? (why do people think she can act?) Maybe Michael Jackson. Why should movies have people act like real people anyway? I go to get away from real people!
There was a big article on it in American Cinemeteque Magazine about 1982. In it, Lynch says the whole thing was like a dream.
Anyway, poor 'Henry' got into a fight a few years ago at a doughnut shop a few blocks from my office in South Pasadena, and died of bleeding in the brain in his bath tub across the street on Fair Oaks Avenue. He was annoyed by some young punks and mouthed off, so they started beating him. They were never caught. I thought of taking his apt when it went up for rent, but other reasons prevailed.
Fantastic!
Your friend must have had a blast working on Eraserhead."""Lynch says the whole thing was like a dream."""
With dreams like that, who needs nightmares :~)
Cheers
John K
...what the baby was. Truly. Living on a farm, I can already guess.Thanks for the background info. I was aware of how the film was made, and I think much of Lynch's imagery in all his movies is dreamlike and/or dream inspired. Right up to and including Mulholland Drive. That's why I still love his films.
"Real people don't act like that!" ROFLA! Oh, good one!
Jungians would have a ball with Eraserhead.
I'm disapointed you didn't take that apartment.
xo
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