82.2: And it All Started with an Ear

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Show. A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman. Tiptoes to my room every night. Just as pretty as stardust and a whisper. Go to sleep.

Everything is all right. I close my eyes. Then I drift away. Into the magic night. I softly.

This is J.T. Petty, and you're listening to Logan Meltdown. It's time for Sofa Theater. Detective Williams? Yes?

My name is Jeffrey Beaumont. I live near you. I believe you know my father, Tom Beaumont, Beaumont's hardware store? Sure, I do. I understand he's in the hospital.

How's he doing? He's okay, I guess. I hope. They're doing tests. That's why I'm home from school.

Anyway, I was at the hospital this morning and coming home through the field behind our neighborhood, there. Behind Vista, I found an ear. You did? A human ear? Yeah.

I thought I should bring it to you. Yep, that's right. Let's take a look at it. Yes, that's a human ear, all right. Let's take it down to the coroner's office and see what they make of it.

Then I want you to show me exactly where you found it. All right. She wore blue. Velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars. Welcome to Movie Meltdown Sofa Theater.

Once again, I am Brian. I am still Misty. I'm still Jay. I'm still Marlena. All right.

This week's Silver Theater feature is Blue Velvet. 1986, director David Lynch. The plot's, again, not too terribly bad this time from IMDb. After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban hometown. So, with that, spoiler alert, because, once again, hopefully you've seen this because it's pretty damned impressive, but if not, You may not want to hear us go on and on about it, because I'm sure we'll ruin everything.

So, go watch it first. With that having been said, where should we begin? I forgot the whole beginning of this movie even existed. I saw this movie a long time ago, and apparently the first quarter of it and the last quarter of it, I'd completely forgotten and only remembered the middle part. And mostly it was all the Dennis Hopper stuff.

And if any listeners out there can tell us what exactly happened to Kyle McLaughlin's dad. Did he get stung by a bee? Did he have a mysterious neck pain that caused him to go to the hospital? What exactly happened? Did the water spigot shoot off and hit him?

What happened? I have no idea. I don't really elaborate on that. I don't think it mattered for you. To me, it mattered.

Well, because you get obsessed with weird little things. But I think it was one of those, even, you know, especially David Lynch, he's like, there's a medical issue. It brings him home. That's really all they needed. But couldn't they have made it a little bit more explained?

No, no. It would have been more of a heart attack, at least. We can understand that. See, originally, yeah, I was thinking back, thinking maybe it was a heart attack. But, yeah, watching it this time, I was like...

And then he had the huge, like, thing on his head, like that whole metal piece on there. So, yeah, it doesn't really. Would you have that if he got stung by a bee? I don't know. I thought he had a.

Did he get hit by an invisible car? No, I thought he had a... What is that called? Tracheotomy. Tracheotomy.

It kind of looked like a tracheotomy, but I. Couldn't... Yeah, I think so. I couldn't tell. Because he couldn't talk either the entire time.

But then later he could, so. I'm so confused. Welcome to the world of David Lynch. Yes, if that's what you're confused about in David Lynch's world, that's the least of your problem. Everything else made sense.

That's just confusing. Me. It's weird that everything kind of made sense. Yeah, that's what I noticed going back and re-watching this. I'm so used to everything Lynch touches just being a mess.

Like genius, but at the same time, so confusing and so, like, just overlaid with all these weird symbols and images and, you know, stuff that means something to him but doesn't necessarily, you know, it's really hard to piece through what he's going through. This is about the most straightforward Lynch is possibly ever. I mean, maybe Elephant Man. It's been a long time since I've seen Elephant Man. It was sort of normal for a movie about something as weird as that was, but... stylistically and a lot of his other stuff, it wasn't near as convoluted as some of his other projects get.

So, yeah, I was amazed at just how almost normal, yeah, it's almost a normal plot line and a lot of the other stuff, you know, it's still relatively normal for David Lynch, again, to put it in perspective. There's not weird Lynchian things all over this movie. Other than him giving the weather report. What? Oh, the weather report, the David Lynch weather report.

Yeah, I remember that. I do, man. I missed that, actually. You know, I think I must have become more warped. Actually, I know I've become more warped as time has gone by, because I remember when I first saw this movie, I thought this was just the weirdest fucking thing I've ever seen.

It blew my mind. I completely didn't know what to think of it. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen. Creeped me out. and going back and watching it is like, man, yeah, I enjoyed it. And I think everybody had that reaction.

Like going back, looking at people's response to it in 86 was just like, they were appalled by what was going on and just the, the weird style and all the weird things that touches on. It's like, people weren't really ready for that. And, and how whacked out Dennis Hopper was mommy, mommy, don't look at me type thing. Crazy. Yeah, pretty much.

To me, he made the movie. Everything else would have failed if it hadn't been for the amount of bucket loads of crazy that Dennis Hopper was able to portray in this movie. Good God, he was fucking nuts. I like the rest of it. I like what else is going on there.

It would be captivating without that. If it was anybody else, I don't think it would have had the amount of pull that it did. Dennis Hopper has that ability to seem like he's that fucking nuts, that he was that fucking nuts in real life. When I read, wasn't he actually inhaling whatever that was in there? Just more of a realistic feel?

Because it was supposed to be. Nitrous oxide or what? I checked. I'm trying to think. Because he actually says...

Because it was his idea to make it this... Because he knew so much about the drugs. He was like, no, it shouldn't be that. It should be this. And when I read, he actually was inhaling it during the movie.

Wouldn't surprise me. Except he had just gotten out of rehab at this point. So it wouldn't be good for him. But yeah, it is nitrous oxide is what it's supposed to be. to be in the storyline i don't know what it really was probably was probably was nitrous but even weirder is lynch wanted it to be helium which helium does nothing to you other than affect your voice and so we should shrink your lungs in the original screenplay like that's what it was he was supposed to just his voice was supposed to get weird and that was again part of just his craziness and yeah they were they showed that clip of dennis hopper talking about it and he's like He told him he thought he was wrong. He thought he needed to have nitrous oxide so he would be getting sort of this little euphoria off of it.

And he said it was like 20 years later he stopped and thought about it and went, how weird is David Lynch that all he wanted it to do was just make his voice higher? Well, he was doing the mommy-mommy thing. It was like a child to have a child's voice. It's so weird. I think that would have made equally as much sense as the nitrous oxide, personally.

It would have made it even creepier. It would have made it creepier. Mommy, mommy! Because it wouldn't even make sense in a normal... At least the drug aspect of it makes sense to someone who's that much of an addict.

He's constantly getting his fix, and he also equates... Everything he does, once he gets into these sexual situations, it comes out. Once he gets into the violence situations, it comes out. So his two main things, they're both equated with this euphoria that he kind of inhales. Another nut job is Dean Stockwell.

God, I love Dean Stockwell. He can play the creepiest, wackiest. He's just fucking nuts. He's so awesome in this movie. He's very creepy.

So awesome. And I think I know a guy like this. Yeah. I can't remember what his name is. But, yeah, he's just so, the whole singing into the drop light.

That's so, I mean, again, that makes that whole scene, I mean, it's already an amazing scene to look at. But, yeah, the song. And to me it's watching Dennis Hopper's face while. He's singing because he's kind of lip syncing at the. Same time just the look of just like I can't even describe.

What it's just pain it's heartbreaking just to watch his face during that because it's like he's so messed up and it's like I don't know. Like maybe the song affects him on some kind of Inner turmoil. Yeah, I don't know. Who knows? Maybe he was hearing that song when he was getting beaten as a child.

I don't know. It definitely does. I mean, it's the only... few things that ever sort of break with him it's like the only things that that make him like human the only time that it appeals to the side of him that's not crazy and not violent is the the music and in the the velvet the little scrap of velvet that he that he carries around with him it's like those those are like his his only ties to humanity really other than that he's like an animal like he just whatever he wants to do whatever like like just that that in that same little scene there like That second that he looks at Kyle MacLachlan and he doesn't do what he wants him to, he punches him in the face, like out of nowhere. That scene is so awesome.

And he's just like, and it is, it's like instinct. He just like, he didn't do what I wanted and just cracked. Just like, oh, that scene is so amazing. Just watching him. And then the weird little power play that comes into it.

How much of this whole plot line is about power, really. And as he says, he can get him to do whatever he wants. And then the even creepier thing is the look on Dean Stockwell's face, that he also sort of gets off on knowing that they both have this power over him. So it's kind of, ah, there's so many levels twisted in this movie. That doesn't scare me.

I'm Paul, what's your name? Jeffrey. Where's the glasses? That beer's gonna get warm. One thing I can't fucking stand is warm beer makes me fucking puke.

All right, darling, where's the glasses? Here, Frank, here come the glasses. See, here are the glasses. Raymond, where's the fucking. Beer, man?

It's right here, Frank. You want me to pour it? No, I want you to fuck it. Shit your ass, pour the fucking beer. Thank you.

Let's drink up. Here's to your health. Let's drink to something else. Let's drink to fucking. Yeah, say, here's to your fuck, Frank.

If you like, Frank. Here's to your fuck. Cheers. Cheers. Wow, suave, man.

You are so fucking suave. Hey, we love Ben. We love Ben. Here's to Ben. Here's to Ben.

Here's to Ben. Here's to Ben. Be polite. Here's to Ben. I kept waiting for Paul to tell me there was a fish in the percolator.

Isn't his name Paul in this one and Pete in Twin Peaks? I kept waiting. I think so. There's a fish in the percolator. You've got to love Jack Nance.

That guy is so awesome. He's so awesome. It's just so different from his character in Twin Peaks in this one. It just threw me off a little bit. He's lovable in the first one.

He's just kind of, hey, dude. In this one, he's like, hey. In his face, yelling at him. Yeah, he had all of Dennis Hopper's little gang. None of them really seemed very threatening.

They all seemed like a bunch of, I don't know, they seemed like a bunch of my dad's friends. Yeah, and they're weird that they're hanging out with him, number one. But I guess really if you hang out with Frank Booth, you don't have to be very threatening. He's threatening for the whole state. They're pretty much all in fear of him.

Yeah. But yet everybody gets along. He never really crosses the line with any of them. He's just such... Aside from yelling at the guy to pour the fucking beer.

Well, that's just because he likes to yell at everybody. But it never becomes that power play with them, really. He just yells about everything, basically. So it's weird how okay he is with just his little group. Other than that, he's just horrible to everybody else.

Him and Ben, you know, but they love some death. Just don't say Heineken. You're all set. I'm with Hopper on that one. Fuck Heineken.

I just like all the women hanging out with Ben. Oh, yeah. They were a classy group. I'm so not sure what's up with that whole bunch. There's so many things going on there.

It's like a bunch of Seventh and Hill hookers is what they look like. Well, and just the older, like, hefty women. They were just there. Yeah, they looked like people's moms. They did.

And half of them sitting on the couch. They all looked like they were, like, even older than Dean Stockwell. Like, everybody. Yeah, like you got them out of a bingo. I was going to say, like, a bingo party.

Yeah. I thought there was going to be bingo here. So the fact that they're hanging out with, you know, Frank Booth in general, and then, like, this guy who's obviously working drugs, trafficking, or just selling, or what all he's doing, we're not even 100% sure. But, yeah, they're definitely... Probably more or less just selling.

Because he's got that whole party house going on. Yeah, he's involved in kidnapping and drugs. So, yeah, it's really weird these people are in the room with him. Makes no sense to me. And yet that's kind of why it's genius.

Just that shot as he walks in the door, I'm just like, what the hell is this place? I think the more nightmare-inducing part of the movie was the chick dancing on the car. Yeah. That was just absolutely frightening. There was lace in places I didn't need.

To see lace. I think it was between that and the cop's daughter's cry face. Oh, yeah, the cry face was not good. It is a frightening face. I can't make that face.

I can make that face. Nor should you. No, ever. I don't know as a baby if I could distort my face in that fashion. Oh, my God, I haven't seen a face like that in, jeez.

Her face in general was no good. Her nose was far too large for her face. Sorry, Lauren Dern. No, I like Lauren Dern. She's actually a really good actress, but it's funny, it's always sort of struck me as this, and it's one of those weird things that if you get this, I guess you'll get it.

If not, I just sound like I'm crazy, too. You know how when somebody wears glasses, and you get used to seeing them wear glasses, and then when they take them off, They kind of look weird. Yeah. Laura Dern has always looked like that. I've never seen her in glasses, I don't think, but she always looks like she doesn't look right.

Like, she just took her glasses off and you're like, not even that so much, just that look of like, something's not right. You know? Something's different with you. Yeah. You change your face.

Like, what's up with that? I wish she would change her face. She has to get a nose job. That's uncalled for. If you're listening, look into that shit.

They just do it wrong. It couldn't make it any worse than it already is. Yeah. Joan Rivers. Joan Collins.

That too, probably. Rhinoplasty. Jesus. I'm full of Heidi Montag's whatever. I think it's normally fine if you stop after one nose job.

That's when you have multiple nose jobs. They're like potato chips. You can't have just one. Look at Michael. I think the level of stupidity on Kyle McLaughlin's character is just mind-blowing.

He gets involved in this shit, but then he just keeps going back because he's so, I guess, I don't know, maybe he's a glutton for punishment or he's that damn curious about it, but I would never have gotten myself in the situation he was in. He's just like, I want more. You're breaking into a chick's apartment and she tries to give you a blowjob. At night point, he's back. I mean, yeah.

See you tomorrow night. Exactly. Sounds kind of dangerous, but also kind of sexy, so. I think it's both. I think initially it's just that innocence.

Like, he really... doesn't seem to have a clue on so many levels and i guess you know bring everyone up in that little town because both of the kids there seem pretty wide-eyed and don't really have any idea what's going on and then as they get into it i think he gets kind of seduced by it and he does get into that. Even gets the taste of part of what frank is yeah where she's like hit me and he doesn't want to. Hit her and then finally he just hauls off and slaps. Her he does and it's it's one of those i think it's it's sort of, that's, that's why by the end of it, he's like falling apart because he sees himself becoming that. He sees himself, you know, kind of going down that path.

Doesn't even Frank, Frank even say that? He's like, you're like me. And he kind of is, but I think it's, it's that weird relationship that they immediately have between, between Cal McLaughlin's character. And then the Dorothy is that it's that he immediately wants to like savor. He's got this, like, I want to, you know, take care of you.

And, But at the same time, I think he, as they get into that, within that next time that they're together, he also sees that power of once he's taken care of her, he can, he has control over her almost. And especially because she's just like that. I mean, he's probably never experienced anything like this. So, I mean, he, it's probably the first time he's been thrown into something like that, but she's so weird. And she's at this point has been so abused through her whole life.

We're assuming that like, she doesn't know how to have any relationship that isn't like, there is no, pleasure without pain everything is tied to pain at that point and just being abused so it's kind of weird that yeah then he gets sucked into that and and sort of seduced by that same thing and i think if i. Was a colin mclaughlin's character too i'd be a little leery of uh Of Dennis Hopper putting on lipstick and then Frenching him and then punching him until he passes out. Because you know what? Once you pass out, you don't know what's happening to you. Especially with a guy wearing lipstick.

Especially with Frank. Frank? I don't know what was going on with Frank. Well, I've heard many theories, actually. But Frank?

Frank? I'm going to argue that Kyle Glockland's character could not have possibly turned into Frank. Or Dennis Hopper's character. Because... You don't get to be that way unless something happened horribly wrong in your childhood or something horribly wrong happened to you.

You don't just, like, wake up and decide to be that crazy. But yet he still didn't seem to mind hitting her all of a sudden. Yeah, he still had it inside of him. And I think that's why he is, like, falling apart and crying at the end is that he realizes he does have part of that in him. He'll never be as crazy as that.

Yeah, never that crazy, but there's still just that little part. You know, there's that evil that's kind of inside of him. I think Frank cut the ear I found off her husband as a warning for her. To stay alive. Frank is a.

Very dangerous man. My God. Should you tell my father? No, I can't do that. I can't prove any of this.

I found out my information illegally. You could get into a lot of trouble. It's all on one night. It is a strange. World.

Why are there people like Frank? Why is there so much trouble in this world? I don't know. So what does that mean for Laura Dern's character? Is she going to be getting her ass kicked around a lot?

Probably. Or has he managed to, by not getting rid of, by not going that way, can he go the normal way? Probably. Will he always have that dark side? He'll just find hookers to take it out on.

That's many people. As the story plays out, I think we should assume that she's okay, and he's okay by the end of it, because, I mean, they work in, and again, this is where the symbolism comes in, and to me, it's not really veiled at all. I mean, everything within it is pretty straightforward, almost. It's like, the whole question, I mean, they just blatantly ask, why is there evil in the world? Why are there people like Frank, you know?

Because of the robot robins. Yeah. Terminator Robins. They're Terminators. They're Robins from the future.

They're robotic. They're liquid metal. Oh, Lord. But that's what it is. It becomes that whole, you know, good versus evil thing.

And so in the end, as we, you know, get further into it, we do see the, you know... the whole white light comes out and you know, that's sort of the, everything's all happy goodness in the world. And then, you know, the, the Robin wins over the bug. I think that's, that's kind of cool. Cause he uses, he uses bugs like almost right off the bat in the beginning. You get that little thing and it dives down into the grass and it's kind of cool because it's, It sets it up with the very thing that the whole story is built on, is we have this nice, you know, perfect little lawn, and then you dive down below it, and there's just these bugs, and it's dark and dirty and violent just below the surface of what's seemingly perfect.

Yeah, this seemingly nice little town. Mm-hmm. Is just, you know, there's corruption and violence and evil just lurking like everywhere else in the world. It's something that Lynch is obsessed with anyway and has continually, you know, worked into all of his stories almost. Yeah, watch Twin Peaks.

Jeez. It is funny. At least the first season. And a half. Yeah, well, it's not all there was.

The first season, just until they find the killer, really, but... But, yeah, it's funny how close to Twin Peaks this seems, really. Because in other directions, he gets further away. Like, his earlier stuff is just way crazy and weird. And then further on, he gets into different areas that he wants to tackle.

But yeah, this came right, you know, one right after the other. So there's a lot of similarities and a lot of familiar stuff. Well, there was one shot. I'm like, did they take this shot directly out of Twin Peaks? When they were going to the diner and the log truck drove by.

That goes by a couple of times. Well, that reminds me of it. So is the part in the nightclub where she's singing and there's that red curtain in the background with the light coming up at the bottom. You know all of his dream. Sequences they always had that kind of background what was.

That song that was always in uh twin peaks and the voices carry was that in twin peaks. What am i thinking this just really occurs it's yeah all of her songs sound like all i can remember. Is the crazy crazy midget guy dancing that just was freaky. He hadn't run into him yet i guess because he wasn't in this but ouch Wow. That was awesome.

That was. And then he talked backwards, too. He's got so many of his other, you know, normal... I mean, there's so many specific tie-ins in all of Lynch's stuff, and piecing together some of them is really kind of weird. But, I mean, you've got the log truck going by many times.

You've got the fire. He's always, like, even as far back as, like, Elephant Man, he does these big close-ups of fire. He's got this weird fire obsession that in this almost does... like represent the evil like it cuts to it when things are like at their worst the fire you know the light still sort of shining is sort of the hope end of it and as it gets worse and worse is when it cuts to those shots of it going out and it's Dennis Hopper going now it's dark yeah so it's yeah that one's there the red curtain is worked in there and then it's also worked in in like the apartment they keep showing that curtain blowing back and forth so the red curtains there uh the road going by when frank's driving is that comes back to the lost highway he totally comes back to that same little thought there and then the the glowing white light kind of thing that he definitely worked in a lot on twin peaks yeah And just in general, I think he likes that kind of shot.

I was disappointed that he didn't order pie at the diner. There was no. Pie and no coffee. No coffee. It's like a sandwich or something.

There's no pie, I'll tell you that right now. No coffee. And no David Lynch sitting there yelling out the order. That was awesome. He's so awesome on Twin Peaks.

God, I want to go home and watch Twin Peaks now. I think the funny thing is the boyfriend shows up ready to kick his ass until he sees. naked isabella rosalini and he's like i'm so sorry man i'm sorry. I didn't know is that your mom it's funny when it's the mom line but after that it's funny because he almost has that same reaction and that's what i was noticing this time it. Was like nudity especially because i had that same reaction as soon as she comes wandering around i was like holy shit it was like nudity can be frightening i mean as much as they use it in movies to just be like nothing but sex and hot and you know if you don't set it up that way, you know, they set up your very traditional love scenes and, you know, your, your stupid sex comedies.

But like when you shove it into a movie where it doesn't fit normally or in a way that it's unnatural, it's unnerving and it looks, yeah. And it looks scary. It's like, I was thinking the other thing, the other one that always, like I saw probably way too early, uh, the opening of Carrie, I'm still kind of trying to recover from the, Scary naked sissy's face covered in blood running at people. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Jesus, that is frightening.

Yeah. And then I was thinking The Shining, too. Oh, the old lady? The creepy old lady naked. Oh, God, yeah, nobody needs to see a creepy old lady.

But just the fact that she's naked, it's just like, what the fuck? Like, your brain can't process it. Kathy Bates naked. Oh, God. There you go.

That, too. Donald Pleasance. Other things we don't need to see. Donald Sutherland falling naked. Yeah.

So once again, it's like it catches you off guard and it's like it's just unnerving and it has that shock appeal that they're kind of going for in this sort of story. But I think that was another one I think was based in reality and you start to see why Lynch is so messed up. I think that was one of the ones that he... Like, and his brother were walking home from school one day, and there was just a naked woman out on the street. And they weren't, oh boy, a naked woman.

They were just, they started crying. They were frightened. Because they knew, like, something horrible had happened, you know? You don't end up in that situation without something horrible going on, more than likely. So it's, yeah, it's funny that that ties in so much.

You know, how many years later is he making this, and he's still carrying these weird little images and thoughts around. So it's, yeah, you start to see why Lynch is messed up. Hello, baby. Shut up. It's daddy, you shithead.

Where's my bourbon? Can't you fucking remember anything? Now it's dark. Spread your legs. Wider.

Now show it. It touches on so many different versions of perversion that it's like, where do you even begin? You can't. The voyeurism aspect and then the violence aspect. The infantilism aspect.

Yeah. And he was almost, like, schizophrenic at the same time because he's baby and daddy. Yeah. She's always mommy, but he switches off midway through because, yeah, you thought he just had a weird mommy thing, but then initially he wants her to call him daddy, so then it's ancestral. Yeah, daddy's here now.

Yeah, it becomes so many levels of messed up. Yikes. You have no idea. It's frightening. But in that same scene, it's funny that this was one that I think on that Pervert's Guide to Cinema they brought up, and it almost makes sense.

I think he poses the theory that Frank is more than likely impotent, which would explain why he's so fucking angry all the time, and most of his sexual interaction turns into violence. It's all out of complete frustration, and this has kind of led him to that point, because you never really see him do anything with her other than sort of attack her and hump her which yeah it doesn't even seem like anything would be going on at that point which it probably wasn't so yeah it does lead to many other levels i don't know of when the more you watch the other things going on and how weird he is about everyone it's like maybe that's why he's so messed up and so twisted and so angry and violent is because he he's lost this other part of his life and all he has left is just violence and insanity now.

But yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting. I was just, even his, um, just the way that he looks at the, the whole relationship as he's sitting there, like watching her sing and crying half the time. It's like, or when he's watching Dean Stockwell do that, it's, it's the whole relationship as he looks at it. He's not even like, he's not crazy. He's not in the wrong.

Like in his mind, This is like a great love affair. And he's just doing, you know, what he feels he needs to do to keep the woman he loves with him, even if it's fucking crazy. And, you know, kidnapping her husband and cutting off his ear and kidnapping her child and beating the hell out of her. You know, he uses whatever tactics he thinks he needs to keep her there. But at the same time.

He's thinking this is some sort of normal relationship on some level. He's still totally in love with her in this weird way. I hope that never happens to me. Let's hope not. This is one of those weird movies where I'm not sure if you could go on and on for hours and hours and talk about.

I mean, you probably could, but. It's one of those where you just kind of like turn off the TV and you sit there and go, God, I need to go for a walk. Yeah. Or I need to. Go watch something else.

Pretty much. I mean, it's got a lot of really heavy stuff thrown at you and a lot of it, you know, some of it doesn't make sense and the ones that do, you kind of wish you didn't know anymore. Yeah. Oh, man. Makes me wish we would have chose space truckers.

That's at least fun. It is fun. I'll give you that. Black lock! God, I love that movie.

Granny panties. Come on now. Those are awesome. Debbie Mazur has a weird face. She does, but it's still kind of hot.

She's still hot. Yeah, yeah. Stephen Dorff, before he was weird looking. And a jacket. She's always been a jacket.

Come on, he's always been a jacket. But he wore bike shorts in himself. He's a panda. Towards the end, I couldn't understand it. It seemed like they could get Hopper to do anything.

As far as what? As far as movies? Yeah. I didn't know. Was he hurting for money that bad, or was he just kind of like, hey, I'll do that?

That's the thing. I mean, he had a lot, especially by the end, because once he cleaned himself up and started getting real roles, I mean, he kind of did okay and quit blowing all his money on drugs and spent it all on art and started, like, accumulating all this stuff that I mean he was creating art but at the same time I think just his collection is what had so much so I mean by the end he shouldn't have been hurting for money. What was the explanation for the crow movie because I think. He just likes to work I mean you look at that list of movies he made well before he was on drugs he made 50 60 movies I mean so even before he got on the hard times when he was probably just using a good amount recreationally because I'm assuming you have to go back pretty far before he was on some sort of drugs but Even then, I mean, go back and look at how many movies he was in, like, way back when, I mean, he was just on set.

He was just some random side character, but, I mean, I think he just liked working. Even by the end, it's like, I guess even if it wasn't the best project, I think he just liked making movies. It was. What he loved doing. And nobody could play crazy like him.

That's true. I mean, River's Edge, I mean, that's like somebody mentioned, you know, somebody suggested we do it, which we already did it, but I mean, we touched on that again. Love River's Edge. Just the level of craziness that he had in there was just, you can't beat that. I mean, nobody can be that crazy.

Maybe Christopher Walken. But that's... No, yeah. But he's almost, well, I mean, they both have this nature of being over the top, but I think I don't know, it works on both levels, because that's what I was thinking with this one, because Hopper said he didn't improvise any of that dialogue. All of that is how Lynch wrote it, which is even scarier, actually.

So, to me, I think the fact that, because to read that, and even just listen to what is supposed to be said, you would think it would just be funny. I mean, the stuff that he rattles off, and the stream of obscenities thrown together... Should be, like, completely ridiculous to the point that you would start laughing, but he's so intense and so frightening that, like, he makes it still, on top of that, he makes it fucking scary. And it's, yeah, I think that's just such a testament to him as an actor, because Lynch was almost working against him, writing this silly dialogue for him, but he's so fucking good in this that he sells it. I mean, he makes it still scary.

On top of the constant fuck. You know? Every other word. And they make that joke all the time in many movies. But no, literally here.

Every other word out of his mouth is fuck. Sometimes two in a row. And he... I mean, it just. Who else is going to pull off?

I want to fuck it in in the mood! I mean, seriously. Who else is going to pull it off? A lot of people wish they could deliver that line and pull it off. But no, only Dennis Hopper.

I mean, back to his character in River's Edge. I mean, I was going to talk about his character in that one. Because it was just. Another one of those that if with any other actor would it have been as, you know, awesome as it was within a, you know, anybody else have pulled that off as well. Cause I mean, yes.

Yeah. Did you do research for that? Because I know some old crazy bikers that are like that, that you're just completely fucking nuts. Well, it's funny that these were like one after the other almost, I think. And his other big role, he did like blue velvet Hoosiers and then river's edge.

So it's like, he came back with like these three massive roles right out of the gate of rehab and. They weren't even that big of a part. They weren't about him. He wasn't the main character. In many of those.

But yet his character takes the movie, and he becomes the most memorable part of the movie. He owns the movie, even though he's not the main character. Definitely in this one, Hoosiers, he got an Oscar nomination, and he's not the lead. He's just. kind of one of the dads and becomes an assistant coach or something. He's the main thing i remember about that.

Movie and it's a different it's funny because he's so crazy in blue velvet and river's edge but it's a totally different kind of crazy it's like it's kind of crazy it's more sad in river's edge where this is just frightening it's it's so i mean to be able to play that level of crazy and play it nuanced you know to play it very differently. Has the sad look the sad aspect in blue velvet like when the guy's singing you look at him you can tell how damaged he is yeah it's it's You know, it's almost heartbreaking at that point, even though you know how fucking insane he is and all the things he's done. It's like, for a moment, you almost feel sorry for him because you know bad things have happened to him to get him where he is at that point.

I don't know. I mean, you can't ever truly hate him because you know how damaged he is, and that's... But. That's when you actually see it. Yeah.

Yeah. But, I mean, they're all kind of... Well, I mean, the Dorothy character is such a mess, too, because, like I said, with the whole sexual thing, but then you see her... As soon as she gets the upper hand, once she's got Kamala Glock on there with a knife, she becomes Frank. Yeah, don't look at me.

Don't fucking look at me. Don't touch me. And don't touch me. And then she's also just completely in charge. Where do you ever see her yelling at or giving orders to Frank?

No. Hell no, because she knows what would happen. He's got her kid, I mean. Just in general. I can't imagine anybody yelling orders at Frank.

That goes with the old rule of the shit rolls downhill. But it is fair. funny how much she plays into that little scenario too if she's so damaged and she i mean that that's kind of what they wanted to play her as why she's got that scary hair which is really scary i don't understand but she's. Wearing a wig obviously she takes it off at one point but yet she puts it back. On they wanted to make sure that she took it off because they wanted people to know that it wasn't real number one i think because it looks so bad but at the same time i think because it becomes part of her whole identity like everything about her is fake really like her whole you know that she she puts on the the whole act that everything's okay you know just to get through all that she has to get through she puts up with all this but i mean everything her about her is is fake and this you know camouflage that she uses to cover up the fact that all of this is falling apart and she's just completely damaged and.

Well that's like what you hear a lot of times about abuse victims and stuff a lot of times they will in their mind their mind will somehow turn themselves into someone else or something else to kind of. Cope with what. They're going through you know a lot of times they end up forgetting a lot of things and stuff but I guess that's kind of where she's coming from. She's morphed into this person to kind of protect her real identity. Just, yeah, hiding who she really is to not have to deal with it almost.

And how messed up is her kid going to be when he grows up? I don't know. Who puts a kid in a beanie with a propeller? That is the scary part. It wasn't even a beanie.

It was like a party hat. Yeah, it was a pointy hat. It was like a cross between a dunce cap and a beanie. It was a. I mean, it's fine if you have a sleepover at Uncle Ben's.

That's fine. But don't put that damn hat on the kid. Oh, man. It's funny just looking at the overall layout of the movie, though, because it's built as this big mystery. It's a mystery.

I'm like, this mystery isn't much of a mystery, really. You kind of know what's going on. It's very straightforward. It's just him discovering it, but it's not like he's really figuring things out. It's like him getting thrust in this world of just dark, nasty, violent, just craziness.

And all you're waiting for is the resolution. Like, all right, how's he going to get out of this? How is this going to end? There's several chances where he has the opportunity to get out of it. Just walk away.

He turns around and walks right back into it. Because for some reason, he's drawn to it. It's that seduction end of it. Especially once he gets involved with the Dorothy character. I think in the beginning, it's just that voyeuristic aspect of, I want to see what's going on.

I want to, you know, I want to. Yeah. Figure things out it was that curiosity end of it in the very beginning but once he's involved with Dorothy he really does have this weird relationship with her that, you know, I don't think he loves her because he still really does seem to be in love with the Laura Dern character. He just wants to save her. He's drawn to her to be, yeah, part of her sick.

You know. He wants some of that crazy booty. He kind of does. I mean, part of it is the sexual thing because, you know, again, he's kind of a dork in his real life. So you're assuming.

I don't picture Laura Dern's character putting out. No, probably not. Especially with a corporate ad. She probably... He better not be getting any of that.

He's gonna get some somewhere. No. So yeah, I think it does draw him into that weird world. And I think my favorite part that they work into this is the ear thing that sort of ties it together, much like the bugs. When he finds it at the beginning, actually everything up until that point... is all perfect.

And you know, with the exception of his dad, it's like everything else is still pretty perfect in their little, you get all those shots of perfection and the flowers and the firemen going by and, and it's this perfect little town. And then he finds the ear and. It, who do I? It's a perfect little Norman Rockwell thing. It really is.

And, and then he finds the ear and it does that super zoom close up into the ear. And then from there, it's just like a fucking roller coaster. It's like, it takes him into this dark, twisted little version of hell. Basically. And then in the end, we get that where the shot comes back out of his ear, and it's like it's through.

It's like everything's good again. It's like he's made it through this, you know, this ride of, you know, hell, basically. It's the whole thing, like the whole movie, once it enters into that part, it's just like him just being sucked into this evil world. I think the movie. Poster should have said, and it all started with an ear.

I'd go see that. That sounds really sick and twisted. I just find it hard believing that after all that, that everything's just going to be bright and sunny and sunshiny and everything. Especially with those two. There's not going to be any.

Long, lingering trauma. Everything's going to be sunshine and robins. He's trying to put it behind him. Mechanical robins. But still, there's going to be that trauma that's deep inside.

When's he going to snap? When's he going to, you know, when Laura Dern probably does put out, is she going to beat the hell out of her afterwards? It's a repressed thing. Is it just going to snap? And maybe that's part of it.

Well, maybe that's part of it. God, I love this movie. It's just always underlying there. I mean, it really, I mean, even when things seem nice, obviously they aren't. So, I mean, even once they get out of that situation, I mean, hell, as long as you're alive at any given moment, things can just go to hell.

And I don't know, it is one of those that... You have to fight it, I suppose. I mean, it is one of those, he's fighting the demon within him. So, I mean, I guess he's in charge of, from there on out, trying to not become like Frank and not give in to the dark side that everybody sort of has. I don't know.

I think it's just amazing... Again, this is definitely one of Lynch's best because it's so tight, and so it doesn't get sidetracked on his craziness. It doesn't make your head want to explode. Yeah, well, it doesn't become so confusing that it ceases to be a good story anymore, which he gets into that area in several other movies. Yeah.

This one is such... Eraserhead? Well, that doesn't even really have a story. Lost Highway? Good God.

Lost Highway? I'd almost want to go back and watch, because that has one, but it's so... Again, it gets almost to the point of confusion to where you can't even... I mean, this one is still such a straightforward story. That, yes, it's messed up all the way through, but the story itself is really well pieced together and simple.

Where, yeah, so much of his other stuff is just, you know, gets out of control. This is probably him almost at his best. And just visually, it's all amazing. Just all those shots, all the creepy industrial shots over at Frank's. I mean, he works that into everything.

Even there where you don't necessarily have to have it, but he wanted... that part of town to be dark and creepy. It's the dirty part of town. Yeah, he wanted that. It's always the dirty, seedy, industrial part of town. That's where I work.

It's dirty. It's bad neighborhoods. It's where you don't want to be at night. And that's where Frank exists. So yeah, that's just like a weird.

Kyle McLaughlin wakes up. So yeah, it's a strange world. I guess what you take from it. What you do from there is up to you. I did notice how...

I don't think I've remembered, because I hadn't watched this in forever, how much, I guess, Tarantino was influenced by this. Because I'd always thought the Pulp Fiction character was sort of a version of her, an almost more attractive version of her. I don't get the Isabella Rossellini thing. She's just strange looking. I don't...

Yeah. Made me want to hit her, too. I mean... I mean... The what, huh?

Isabella Rossellini. I just never got into her as a... I don't think she's hot. I'm sorry. Okay.

I think she's weird. Not even in a B-cost? No, no, no. Not even in a B-cost. I was trying to figure out what the tie-in was with Tarantino.

But the Pulp Fiction, the... Butch's girlfriend. To me, she's kind of got, she's got the dark hair. She's got the accent. She's got, you know, she, she's sort of like a, just sort of a minor nod to that, which I always thought that.

See, she's so cute about it. That's the thing that, you know, she's so good at it, but in this one, you don't, I don't know. You don't feel too much for her. You know, she's, she's still such a weird, twisted, cold character that you, you don't get sucked in by her. Whereas at least in Pulp Fiction, she's very likable.

But then the, I forgot, I mean, the ear. Jesus, it's like cutting off an ear and then at the end you've got a guy tied to a chair with his ear cut off. I'm like, okay, that's not subtle at all. So it wasn't but like, what, a couple of years went by. It wasn't that long.

And you had reservoir dogs. A decade or so and you get reservoir dogs. So yeah, it's... He's definitely felt in the Tarantino world. But other than that, I don't know.

I think we've covered many of the twisted, messed up areas here. I'm out of stuff. I'm good. Me too. So if nothing else, we'll go to the music world, which there is a good amount of songs that have been affected by this movie and have tied it into theirs.

The first one we're going to go with actually is As a tie, I actually did an interview with the people who made a documentary about this band, but it's the Gits, and the lead singer was actually from our town here and had a bad story herself. Ended in a very bad way, too. So if you don't know anything about the Gits, yeah, find out more about them because they're pretty awesome anyway. But they did a song called Here's to Your Fuck. I think that's the way to round out this part.

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Hey, hey, Movie Meltdown. This is Metal Mikey getting in touch with you again. This is not so much for a movie in advance. This is just sort of thoughts that I wanted to catch up on with a recent episode I listened to, which would be the fantabulous duo of the Wookie Palooza episodes. And a small aside, I do have the honor and privilege of having met Peter Mayhew, I think it was like around last year or the year before or so, when I was assisting at a local toy fair that was being run by the 501st Star Wars Costuming Group.

Great gentleman, hell of a nice guy. But I understand... For some strange reason, it seems like every time I pick up on an episode of Movie Mountain, it's like, possibly half of the people are there. I mean, what the hell's up? God, are you sure, like, having a rotating roster?

That's just crazy, man. Crazy. But another side of craziness is a lot of my stuff in this episode seems to be addressed specifically to Marlena. So, you know, hey, you might want to listen up. First off, I think she hit up on an excellent movie concept.

I would love to see a development for Snake-demic coming up, but also, I'm with her. I love Little Monsters. I don't get all the hate here, but then again, there's something else I don't get in this episode in particular, which is the sort of love acceptance for the Resident Evil movies. I mean, no disrespect to all of you, but to me, they're honestly mediocre at best. They're not really that good movies.

Uh. the hot rumor of the episode was of course megan fox not being part of transformers 3 i guarantee you people all you listeners and movie meltdown i guarantee you that with megan fox not being in the third transformers movie give her about a year we won't even hear about her ever again in terms of filmmaking i mean what great film role is she going to have And right now I'm waiting for a dumbass biker to cross the street. But anyways, yeah, what great world is she going to be known for? I mean, her big paycheck is now pretty much out the window. So give her about a year, I guarantee you nobody's going to even think about Megan Fox anymore. And I did also want to bring up the random-ass local Louisville phenomenon, apparently, of having, oh, geez, Kurt Loder graffiti up around town.

I guarantee you it would be more awesome if Adam Curry received random-ass, you know, graffiti. Oh, shit, I almost forgot the one other thing about the Marlena Palooza, which is, Tiny Toons has indeed been started to be collected on DVD, so rest assured, that is available. Now, as for the movie of the episode, Terror, you tickled my fancy. I mean, I watch a lot of incredible bullshit for my own little podcast. Extra Traction, but.

I love just the random ass stuff that's just sort of like, wait, what? This is happening, huh? So you intrigued me greatly with the concept of this movie, Terror. or terror, or however you pronounce it. But I will say, if you need anybody to take up the banner for making Bad Time with Brenda, if you want somebody to make Bad Time with Brenda a living, breathing reality film, Give me a few months, okay? Maybe I'll come up with a script treatment.

You never know. But anyways, excellent job. Half of the movie meltdown roster on this episode. Kept me laughing, kept me entertained. And I, of course, will talk to you again sometime soonish, all right?

You take care. Talk to you later. Bye. Snake-demic? What is the snake-demic?

You know, for the phone. Snake. Oh. Oh, I don't know. I have no idea.

As for the Resident Evil movies, I never actually, I don't know about Roger, but I never really thought they were great movies as far as like, you know, cinematic genius. But you know what? They got things in it that I like. They got zombies, it's got Mila Jovovich, and it's got a lot of guns. And a lot of shit blowing up and people getting shot.

And that appeals to me. They're fun. They're, you know, cinematic genius work. She's never going to win an Oscar for this, but they're fun. They are fun.

I was not all that impressed with the first one. I don't remember the second one. I might have seen it, but I did just, the third one is the only one I'd watched recently, and I did kind of like that one. I thought visually it looked a little better than the other two. I liked the first one the best, though.

I think well i just i like the outdoors like we really hadn't got everything was so contained in that first movie to that one little inside the building that we finally got outside we got all these cool desert shots the bird scenes were really cool it's like i actually liked a lot of what they did with the third one again it's not great it's not amazing it's certainly not the best movie of that type or zombies if you want to consider it a regular zombie movie but they're fun. Each his own and it just happens to be one that i like. They're entertaining that's really all you ask for and nobody's you. Know i can like it just me so yeah. Um what was.

The other comment uh the the change up in the roster. Yeah. Which as for the crew, dude, dude, we're like. We're like a basketball team. Okay.

Sometimes you got to have some of them sit out and then bring new players in. So, uh, it's hard to get six people to dedicate five hours every Sunday without fail. It's, it's hard to do. I mean, that, that's sort of the one must do have lives. Well, I'm not.

Included in that, but I got a. Lot of work to do, a lot of work to do. So between that and, uh, club stuff and a kid I'm. Just lazy yeah I got a kid. Oh man it's one of those things it's a lot easier especially for you most of the time I think he's flying solo which on the one hand is a lot easier to schedule but it doesn't give you a lot of interaction you have to feed on your listeners so on that one I don't envy you because I kind of like the conversations that we get into But as far as the scheduling people together, yeah, you got to cut some slack.

Because, yeah, you try to get, you know, several of your friends together each week, every week, religiously. It's pretty damned impossible. And some of us work weird schedules. Yeah. It's hard to find one day period, let alone, you know, once things mix up.

Like, next week is a good example. We're going to be veering off for that very reason. Like, nobody could be here. Oh, yeah, good, because I want to go to IKEA next week. Oh, God.

I was going to say. I probably won't make it next Sunday. It's Father's Day, so... And then we'll be in Florida for two weeks. And then we'll be in Florida for two weeks.

Then we've got vacation coming up for at least two of the crew. So, yeah, it's constant... But even in the beginning, like, from the conception of the whole, you know, show, the whole idea initially was I still, I wanted a group of regulars, but at the same time, I wanted to have the option of bringing other people along the way and just kind of, I think it keeps things interesting if we can. So there's only been a few times when we can, because usually I can't find the victims. Yeah, I mean, we had.

Jesse, and then we had Eddie. Eddie has pretty eyes. So. We're trying to. You just need a sound clip of that so you can loop it whenever someone says, Eddie.

Eddie has pretty eyes. Sound clip that. As long as you have her around, I don't think you need a sound clip. So, yeah, I mean, and I've actually thrown it out there to several other people, and we're trying to work stuff in. And plus, I just like having different people's opinions, which is why I think we.

And sometimes we get tired of Roger's stuff. Well, that too, which is... Which is why we made up that excuse that he's, you know, having illness problems today. We were just like... We're like, dude, you just stay home.

We've had about enough of you this week. I took Roger's place. I kind of slept through most of Blue Ball, but that's why I didn't talk very much. I think Lauren slept through part of it, too. Yeah.

But I'd already seen it. I watched it, like, two to three years ago, so. Yeah, but you stayed awake during the podcast, which is more than Roger can do. Yeah, that's true. And I got up at 4 o'clock this morning to start doing the prepping and everything.

This show is a hell of a lot of work, let me tell you. That was after being gone the whole weekend, so I'm lucky to be awake now. So, yeah, it's a lot to piece together. I have to bed. I got back up in four, sadly.

So, yeah, it's a lot to piece together, but I think it's worth it. I think we've put together a lot of really interesting stuff along the way, and I like being able to. The Misty is not that interesting. But the shows have been pretty interesting, I think. So, yeah, I don't know.

Many people might disagree, but I think we've put together some cool stuff along the way. So that's why I keep fighting to keep it going. It's an uphill battle every episode, but I think it's worth it. So that's just me. So here's the new excuse I'm telling my mom so she doesn't try to find and listen to this.

That it's... You can only get it on iTunes, and it costs like $ 60 for a yearly subscription. That'll keep her away. Yeah. She ain't paying money for this crap.

I know. Oh, Lord. I just want to sometimes be like, bitch, stay out of my personal life. What's wrong with that? I don't want to be your friend on Facebook.

And I'm a radio star, so what do you need to know about? So you've got Tiny Toons now. Sweet. I'm going to have to find Tiny Toons. I knew that one was out.

I didn't. I found bootleg copies of the Muppet Babies. There you go. I'm not interested in it, but. I know where to point you in the direction of them.

Not that I can know in such behavior, but that's probably the only way you're going to find it because I'm assuming music and video rights are going to be impossible to ever get out. I just got my Daria box set, the complete set, and I read the insert and they changed all the music in Daria. Yep. I guess it's not really that disturbing. I love the show.

Other than Mystic Spiral. You don't fuck with Mystic Spiral. I still have my Mystic Spiral fan club card in my wallet. I have that diary book thingy. Oh, me too.

I have that. It's awesome. Do we have any more feedback? That is actually it. Thank you to Mikey.

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And while you're there, click on the forums link and go to our message boards at Pop Syndicate. Or go to popsyndicate.com and go to the forum sections and look for Movie Meltdown. Wait, did he say Marlena Palooza? I believe he did, actually. Awesome.

Did you want your own Palooza? Because you've got it. Can it be Marlena Rama instead of Palooza? We'll have to clear it with Mike, yeah. I find myself adding any time...

Okay, for example, yesterday... My friend and I were going to Kohl's, and I had this bad habit of saying Arama 2010 or Athon 2010 to everything that I do. I'm like, all right, Shappathon 2010 or, like, Zaxby's Arama 2010. It's really annoying. She's like, for the love of God, please stop doing that.

I'm going to punch you in your face. None of this surprises me at all. It's an embarrassing problem I have, but I'm glad I'm over that mama-likey thing that I said a lot. The first step is admitting you have a problem. Yeah, that's kind of disturbing, actually.

Especially after today's movie. Mama-likey. Where's my bourbon at, bitch? Okay, kids, get out your decoder pins. Dun-dun-dun-dun.

Nice. It's hot in here. It's making me old man laugh. God, it's hot in here. Jesus Christ.

It is time for the movie meltdown secret circle reveal of the next two features. Holy shit. Kind of, sort of. Possibly. Actually, one and a whole lot of talking.

I could tell that tonight's message was really important. Next week, as previously stated, we will be taking a little departure from our regular routine. Thank God. And I will actually, this week, I will be piecing together all the interviews and whatnot from the Flyover Film Festival, so... Next week, we will be getting the coverage from the Flyover Film Festival, including interviews with several of the directors.

So that should be fun. Bitchin'. Awesome. Radical. Tubular.

Gnarly. I'm out of 80s. I don't know. Rad. Did I already say rad?

Yeah, I think so. Oh, wow. I said radical. I thought you said short, mid-cooler. Okay.

And the following week, by popular demand from the rest of the crew, basically, and even a few of the listeners now, we'll be watching Pontypool. Good, because I bought it. I watched it last night, but I'll watch it again. You don't know anything yet. You're still in the dark until two weeks from now.

It's awesome. You forgot it all. It's not awesome. I don't think so. She don't know what she's talking about.

I don't think so. You'll... I don't know. I'll just. I'll save it.

You should save it. I'll save it. Save it. All right. I'm assuming that is it for us.

So we will go out with Jay's suggestion for the closing song here. We will go out with Now It's Dark from Anthrax. Is it wrong that I kind of, I don't think that's going too far? Because many of the time in any intimate situation, I just kind of want to scream out, don't you fucking look at me! Maybe that's just me, I don't know.

Yeah, maybe that is you. Oops. Sorry. I guess. Sharing a little too much information.

All right, that about does it. We will be back next week. Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening. Later, y'all.

Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Oh, baby. I'm your man, I'm wild Exactly what I want to see Now it's dark, mommy Don't you fucking look at me I'm sedation I'm elation Intoxication Now it's dark.

Hey, I need. Cold and exudants I'm dirty, they're stinking. Thank you. No, it's dark. Bye.

Bye. Thank you. Now it's dark, mommy. Don't you fucking look at me. It's the.

Station of elation and intoxication. Now it's dark. Now it's dark. Now it's dark. All right.

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