Ari Aster and Robert Eggers love 'Blue Velvet' (1986)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Ari Aster and Robert Eggers share the same love for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and talk about how Lost Highway was influenced by The Seventh Seal. From the a24 podcast.
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These 2 are among the very few filmmakers who can make legitimately unnerving dark comedies. A very rare quality these days.
You’d classify Midsommar and Hereditary as a dark comedy? Lol
@@detectivejimmymcnulty1676 You'd be surprised how many people would agree with me. The humor is actually what makes those films so disturbing.
@@detectivejimmymcnulty1676 Dark comedy isn't as present as standard comedy. Think of it more to balance out the weird a little. It can also provide the more memorable scenes in films if done correctly. Eggers and Lynch are masters at that.
@@Rickie_Speed I get what dark comedy is my man, just don’t recall even the slightest bit of humor in Midsommar. Unless me chuckling at the absurdity of the escalating plot or the decisions made by the shockingly stupid characters counts as it being a dark comedy?
I’d say a much better example of a dark comedy would be Manchester By the Sea.
I think branding their films exclusively as dark comedies risks sounding a little pretentious, in this same interview they talk about genre and Robert Eggers insists that The Witch is absolutely a horror film, however I definitely understand this sentiment... Whilst I don't agree in the case of The Witch or Hereditary I can see a lot of dark humour in The Lighthouse and Midsommar... particularly Midsommar, I literally just watched the directors cut and laughed multiple times throughout. The way that the characters tragedies are so poignantly referenced and mocked is pretty fucking hilarious at times.
Clockwork Orange and Blue Velvet are some of my favorite movies of all time
Clockwork Velvet?
I love your channel dude, having a repository of filmmakers discussing their favourite movies is such a great resource. I really hope you stick to uploading vids long term.
these are podcasts on spotify
You can tell the way they talk about movies that they're horror filmmakers / fans.It's adorable :)
0:56 Don't forget the influence of Carnival of Souls!
Yeah Blue Velvet and Clockwork Orange both disturbed me heavily when I was a kid.
The Death Wish Series with Charles Bronson as well.
Super Gritty and like mean spirited almost.
Interesting that Aster was so turned off by movies he felt were mean-spirited. I suppose the nature of his own films are kind of a reaction to that, or even a maximization. Midsommar is possibly the most mean-spirited film I've ever seen, and I mean that in a good way.
I would to see these guys making or directing a movie together...it would be amazing.
Bro keeping doing your work, im loving it .
Please keep making videos dude, this channel is so cool
My two favorite new directors- they’re the modern day Kubrick and Hitchcock!!! I haven’t seen Blue Velvet, but if these two masterminds recommended it, I’m going to watch it tonight!
Dude, see Blue Velvet. It’s one of the best movies of the 1980’s.
Brush up on ur Lynch my friend! A very essential filmmaker
Lynchs first movie, Eraserhead, was allegedly one of Kubricks favorite movies as well.
I'd actually recommend Mulholland Drive before Blue Velvet. It's considered Lynch's best work (though with Lynch there's no bad work).
Blue Velvet is a great film.
Ari, like, really, like, likes the word like.
id laugh but i do the exact same thing
Guilty as well lol
All of gringos talk like that nowadays
@@juanmanuelcota3942 ok holmes
one, who cares
two, robert said it about the same amount
I had the exact same reaction to Blue Velvet. I hated it and it made me uncomfortable yet it would always cross my mind and I’d go back to it every few years until it became one of my favorite films.
Had they been born in another era, these two would be known as legendary auteur directors. But today they are not allowed to make the movies they want without heavy intervention from the major studios.
I fucking love this channel.
Why is Ian Hecox watching Blue velvet
Ari Aster has got to be the closest to David Lynch we're going to get, post-Twin Peaks The Return
where this audio from?
So that's who Robert Blake in Lost Highway reminds me of. Also, I'm not sure which voice belongs to who but I'd imagine these guys love Michael Haneke. Talk about films that feel mean.
that first line really explains why his movies are as mean as these
So I consier myself a film guy but I've only watched Blue Velvet once and I kind of hated it. I think it flew over my head, should I give it another go?
Yes, Lynch is obviously greatly influenced by Bergman and also Fellini, Jean Cocteau, Maya Deren, and even though he denies ever having seen it, the work of Bunuel.
I love Blue Velvet, but man, why is it a lot of people's favorite Lynch movie? He has at least 4 movies I love more.
To each their own but i agree, inland empire and lost highway
@@benconnor3206 I like Mulholland drive, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks fire walk with me, Lost Highway, inland empire, twin peaks the return, twin peaks original TV series, all more than blue velvet.
I think Lynch got a lot better and a lot more genius with the films I have listed here
@@seanpanigel5494 i actually have the giant and the lodge tattooed on me so i love to see another twin peaks fan !
I think because Blue Velvet is more straightforward, less complicated narratively.
@@jeanpaulmichell7243 true, that's why a lot of people prefer it, but I think that how can you be a real Lynch fan if you don't like or prefer his bizarre stuff? That's what Lynch is all about.
Can someone help me. Back in the mid 80s I used to go to my local video store. There was a movie that's been bothering me since then, the description for the film was a karate school that gets mixed up with some neo nazi's they go to the karate school and massacre the students the movie was an 18 certificate and had a warning about extreme violence. At the time I was to young to rent it but it's always been at the back of my mind. Any thoughts on the title?
The Inheritors maybe?
wow..42 years stuck at the back of your mind?..must be something
@@themythicfire I know it's weird, but I can still see the cover it's a guy holding a gun in one hand and what looks like a detonater in the other hes shouting at someone . It looked like it was a scene from the actual movie.
@@coopercrabtree8818 I'll google and see
@@coopercrabtree8818 South Korean love Story?
My main issue with blue Velvet is I'm not sure at which scenes I should be laughing at and which ones I should not. Most of the scenes are pretty clear cut with how horrific they are, but at certain points I find myself laughing at moments that I feel are not going for that reaction. It might be my dark sense of humor, but I don't know. David Lynch always has this strange way of getting me to laugh at shit that should not be funny.
I mean I’m pretty sure that’s intentional on the part of Lynch, the scene where Isabella Rossellini is standing there naked saying “I have your disease in me” and Laura Dern burst into tears is hilariously funny but also absolutely horrible.
If you take Lynch's work completely seriously, you will be rewarded.
@@yayap001 There is nothing funny in this scene
I wonder what they made of Straw Dogs.
PABST BLUUUUE RIBBON
These two are about to be Fucking legends. Though hopefully they just keep churning out Great work instead of people reflexively, compulsorily lauding their stuff based on their names *cough cough* Martin Scorsese 🤷🏿♂️
Silence and The Irishman were both pretty great imo
Lol except Scorsese's movies are still good?? They're not all classics, but his batting average is insanely high, especially among his contemporaries many of which have fallen off.
Scorsese is better now than 10 years ago
People don’t compulsively applaud everything he does.
He just makes great movies!
And he still challenges himself, silence for example is a very ambitious movie to make, especially at his age.