This '60s Neo-Noir Inspired David Lynch, From 'Twin Peaks' to 'Blue Velvet'
The Big Picture David Lynch has one of the most unmistakable stylistic fingerprints in modern cinema, with his influence being prevalent enough to warrant the word “Lynchian” in the Oxford English Dictionary .
There’s also the film’s setting, established at the tail end of the credits as Kelly drives past a plain sign directing her towards suburbs called Twin Peaks. This one is in what’s unmistakably San Francisco, instead of Washington state like Lynch’s. The killer’s name, Garland “Red” Lynch, quite possibly influenced that of Major Garland Briggs from Lynch’s series.
Taking off from shooting comedies like The Pink Panther and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Blake Edwards makes a convincing case for his skill as a noir filmmaker. Alternating between shrouding the film in impenetrable shadows and exposing it to the harsh, inescapable daylight of the Californian sun shepherds the viewer between two extremes. In one, people go about their regular everyday lives untouched by criminality or violence.
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