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Well this is certainly a common occurance not just with directors, but with artists in general. That's why I don't automatically hate remakes or retreads. It's not always about money, and even when it is to the producers the director might still have something else in mind that drives him to...

I agree on that point too. It's another aspect that fits a dream mold quite well. It's the sort of fake imagined version of reality, not just a twisted version. Her behavior is noticeably different between the first and second section, not just those around her. Also characters come and go in...

I just rewatched this the other day myself and would like to comment on the Bum as conscience thing. Sounds reasonable, but let's keep in mind that there is a duality of theme in the film. Lynch appears to be indicting or at least debating the ideals and the idea of Hollywood. It has been...

Yes, for me the greatest enjoyment comes not from achieving an understanding (though that might seem otherwise here in this thread), but rather I enjoy it because it is simply so WATCHABLE. It pulls you in with these beautiful shots and rhythmic scenes that are not so much catchy as they are...

Dang, you're right. I never realized a film cannot mix POV and omniscient shots. I mean what the hell was Billy Wilder thinking in Sunset Blvd. What a screw up to have a dead guy lying in the pool narrating the film for us AFTER he's dead. Don't even get me started on Fight Club, or Zentropa...

BTW, Mark Pfieffer just mentioned in a Software thread that Robert Forster had the story explained to him as basically exactly what I have been touting as the true narrative all along - All a death dream, the fantasy right before she dies. Forster said that it all occurs from the moment the...

I always thought Lynch was telling the audience that there was no "life" no reality with the Silenco part. Just as we hear a band but there is no band, we see Betty's life but there really is no life. It's a lip synch of her "life", a pretend version. Or better said as not just a pretend...

Obviously I haven't read the film this way before (based on my opinions already posted), but this and something else we just mentioned add some strength to the idea. People talking about the 2 covers and WHY? that would be, even suggesting that they might be a mix of the faces slightly...

I still go with a death dream and think the 2 clues before the credits are the jitterbug dance and the sheets/pillow/breathing, which I think is her dying as the film begins. The rest of the long film takes place in the few moments before she dies...a process of coming to accept that oncoming...

Okay, I'm with Tino a bit here in it being more reality than people are saying. But my primary feeling coming out of the film was this... At the cinema much is made of THERE IS NO BAND. It's a lip synch theater. So what, so this. When we watch a movie there is a point of view, there is a...