Born in
the kind of small town that populates his films (Missuola, Montana) in 1946, David Keith Lynch was raised early in small town America. After high school, he went to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after that, he planned a 3 year trip to Europe to work on his art, but didn't take to it and left after 15 days.
In 1977, he released his first film
Eraserhead, which, although not critically acclaimed, was noticed by many people, including Francis Ford Coppola, who was rumored to have screenings of it for his cast and crew on the set of
Apocalypse Now. After what can only be described as an unpolished diamond, a stream of visually stunning films followed:
Blue Velvet (1986),
Lost Highway (1997) and
Mulholland Dr. (2001), to name a few. All these films, and a few more, beginning with
Blue Velvet, and icluding his "Twin Peaks" (1990) TV series, feature what has now been added to signature Lynch features, such as vibrant colours, the use of dreams and amazing montage to connect character thought and multiple emotions into one sequence. In addition to that, since
Blue Velvet, Lynch has gained the reputation of one of the foremost autheurs in the filmmaking industry, and one of the few living autheur's who continually defies both cinematic convention and the Hollywood curse.
His films continually represent his ideal that films; representing life, should be complicated, and, in some cases and sequences, be unexplainable. One can only assume he knows why he puts the scenes, shots, props, cuts, effects, filters, lights, colours, actors, costumes and music in the scenes, but he'll never tell anyone else. For this reason, and due to the beautiful confusion of his films, he will always be recognized as if not one of the greatest filmmakers of his time, one of the most original.
Lynch is a creative master, and even if his films aren't necessarily realistic, they are real in their representation of what life is: a confusing, irrational series of random events that truly have little purpose, and one makes their own interpretation of every event, giving their life purpose personally. Lynch wants his films to resonate emotionally and instinctively, and for every person to relate and make their own understanding. As he has said "Life is very, very confusing, and so films should be allowed to be, too." Lynch has ceased being a surname and become a word, one that stands for many things: original, bizarre, surreal... genius. He has done things in filmmaking that D.W. Griffith and Luis Buñuel did in their days. David Lynch will never stop making beauty on the screen.
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