There are only 3 words that sums this scene up. "Beauty" "Tragedy" and "Ugliness". Its basically telling us what we are about to through the rest of the film. This scene is pure genius
What convinces me more on Lynchs movies than the plot is the atmosphere. Usually an impression is like a smell- but the smell of Lynchs movies stays forever in the rooms of someones mind. Ok, and Rosellini is cute.
@stefano118118: The same thing happened to his blood vessels that happened to his garden hose... but it's okay. He comes out all right. His stroke only served to get his son back in town to play Hardy Boys -- but our hero learns that playing Hardy Boys is more dangerous than the books made it seem, and that he really doesn't have that Hardy Boys innocence in him, either.
In a David Lynch movie, there is always something unsettling and tense about a scene, even in the most seemingly pleasant and peaceful scenes. There are very few directors who can do that.
i just noticed something i didnt see before. the blood roses in the beginning are artificial flowers. you can tell from looking at the petals. intentional or not, its such a great touch right along with the robin at the end
beautiful irony at 0:51.... a menacing gun is here taken as benign entertainment in a perfect american afternoon, yet later it becomes a realistic weapon of horror.. i love it, mr lynch
Really nice and deep film. Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper showed brilliant acting. The ending was just awesome. I miss the 80's and 90's - best era in cinematography
Mark Kermode, a UK film critic hated Blue velvet and gave it a negative review from just watching the opening. But while he was having a drink in a pub, some dude punched him because of his review. Mark then felt obliged to give the film a second look.
now that l think about it that random dude must of been Frank Booth lol.
the dog "drinking" water? it's biting at it (sucking cock - check the way he is still aiming the hose UP) just watching River's Edge now (made during this time in his life, once he'd cleaned up), it's a Hopper Marathon. R.I.P D.H., we will all miss you, and your beautiful art (please check his photos and paintings too, if you haven't = INCREDIBLE)
Haha the radio station is the Mighty W-O-O-D. LOL!
The film isn't about drugs or dreams, it's about the ugly reality that hides out of sight of our pretty little world. That's why all the "nice people" are caricatures right out of magazine ads from the early 60s. Sleepy Lumberton has deep, dark secrets.
First of all, the water-hose getting cut off is referencing the guy's cerebral artery; which gets cut off and which is why he has a stroke. So following through with that analogy, the garden is the guy's brain. That means it is pretty (the garden) on the surface (like a drug trip) and corrosive (the beetles) underneath (also like drugs). The rest of the film reaffirms this (him breathing nitrous oxide through the gas mask and tripping badly).
This is one of David Lynch's most masterful films, as well as my personal favorite of his. Blue Velvet along with Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Mullholland Drive, and The Straight Story I consider to be his best work
First of all, it scared me. It was perfect to the point of being unnerving, and yes, the shit did hit the fan. I love that the overarching theme of the beautiful lush world with the dark seedy underbelly is told through the insect shot. Amazing.
You both are wrong, it was " I Vitelloni" by Fellini. He used to show Eraserhead on the set to desturb the actors and he once said that Eraserhead was the only movie he would have liked to direct himself.
Your both wrong. He was merely an admirer of them. He said the The Godfather was the best film ever made and no one would ever get close to exceeding its brilliance according to his friend and biographer Michaek Herr.
surrealism is more than a "dream world" in fact it suggests a sort of spontinaity or automotism where the material produced by the artist has more meaning in juxtopositions between seemingly random placement of things, lines, events etc. lynch's style much of the time is nonlinear which is why people would call his work surreal like andre breton the french writer who started the movement.sorry bout the spellin but thanks for the memories
When I watched Blue Velvet for the first time a few years ago, I kept thinking "Where the fuck have I seen this before?!! What the hell does this remind me of?!!" Then I stumbled upon poet RW Watkins' essay "Webs in Lynch's Closet?" from his Comics Decoder site, and I was blown away! Spider-Man! Watkins compares scenes from the film alongside panels from the early Spidey comics. Google for it--it's eye-opening shit. I think he's really onto something. Now I have to watch this flick again.
Is this movie really surrealism? There are drops of surrealism in it, such as the ear. However, later in the movie, you learn where the ear came from.
I think Mullholland Drive, Eraserhead, and Inland Empire were true surrealism.
@sflachuck i thought all those movies u listed were all extremely surreal but i think the reason lynch had given away where the ear came from was because im sure he figured that the viewer had already found that out around the middle of the film i myself didnt but i do think this film is stil very surreal such as the in dreams scene and many other scenes but u do make a good point
I just recently saw this movie for the first time, 23 years after it's release. I really like it. Can someone explain to me why, because I sure as hell can't figure it out. I have to watch it again, that all I know. It has EVERYTHING. I think that's why I like it. Good shit. Total mind fucker.
if you like blue velvet, you'll probably like the movie Delicatessen (same directer as Amélie). Also a little town, surrealistic ,very sinister and alot of dark humor. it's really worth watching.
How is Blue Velvet surrealistic? The entire point of the movie was to show - mainly americans, living in the suburbs - how non-surreal characters like Frank are.
I'm being stobbourn, aye, but comparing that Jeunet and Caro (or any directors for that matter) to mr. Lynch is wrong, lol. No matter how similar the director's style may be to Lynch's.
I think it has surrealistic elements in it. little example, the crawling cock-roaches (or whatever they are) beneath the quit little town. Really unusual contrast between the "normal" world and the bizarre situations where jeffrey is in. these are all thinks dat CAN happen in reallity, but the mood of the film is surrealistic in my opinion. I see that in films of tim burton, david lynch and jean-pierre geunet. the weird characters that those directors use, there is really similarity between them
This isn't surrealism. The cockroaches are heavy handed symbolism of the "night players", the people not fitting into the neat, bright, American dream displayed at the beginning. People like Frank or Ben, hiding beneath the shiny grass.
You're confusing totally different things. Obvious symbolism isn't surrealism, Tim Burton's expressionism isn't surrealism either. Say, Lynch's "Rabbits" is surrealism, because there isn't any kind of obvious meaning to it, like in Bunuel. Not so in Blue Velvet.
ofcouse this is surrealism! this movie is based on the the surrealism movie " Desire 1949 " look it up. How the hell can't you see that this isnt surrealism!
I already explained it : it's heavy handed symbolism and Manichean : good/bad, light/darkness, straight/pervert, shiny grass/cockroaches, the movie being about the two meeting up.
Nowhere in the movie is there anything close to surrealism, everything is pretty much straightforward. The Red Room/Black Lodge or "Rabbits" or "INLAND EMPIRE" are surrealism. Blue Velvet ? Not at all.
But I already explained it. What is YOUR point, except "of course it is", which is beyond weak ?
i think the theme to this movie is the idea that appearances can be decieving. much like twin peaks....a peaceful, beautiful and friendly looking town but in reality its really wierd and twisted.
This opening tells that too...a lush green looking lawn but underneath it is something so vile and disgusting. Its not there for everyone to see but if you look close enough you realize that "We live in a very strange world".
this opening tells us the meaning of the film, but the person who doesn't pay attention doesn't understand it. also lynch doesn't help us because he decides to put a scene like the radio of lumbertown, that breaks completely what he had just said.
The images in that shot, wow, the baby and innocence(Jeffrey the son representation), the hose, the dog (animal nature) Frank? there's a lot of different ways one could interpret the symbolism of the baby, the father and the dog.
This is perhaps Lynchs' best opening sequence in any of his films. Blue Velvet requires multiple viewings to truly appreciate it story and it's message.
yeah, well. more like a layer of filth beneath ever good thing. The fact that you take it as a layer of filth beneath the amaerican way of life just show that you don;t like america. imho
@Montrealien not really, i've been to america on holiday and it was great. Just parts of it I don't like. (the parts being the conservative & traditional way of thinking incl, the patriotism (offcourse, again, not everywhere) This opening really shows the typical suburban lifestyle. And how everything that looks beautiful always has a darness learing over it.
Its my favorite opening. the idyll of a 50's stylized American life is contrasted with the voyage under the grass. The beetles represent decay & evil & darkness, superbly contrasted with the stylized radio ad for Lumberton.......it could be "anywhere". Darkness & evil & rot, barely concealed beneath the veneer of an American Idyll. Totally cool.
I now think the film is about naive people in a naive town. Everything is perfect but when you look closely you find life isn't as perfect as it seems.
Example: Kyle finding the ear leads him to an obscure and unreasonable place and that his world isn't as joyful as it seemed.(Frank Booth and his actions)
And the ear leads us into the subconscious/id where this all could happen "In Dreams," and, well Lumberton. Great film Frank BOOTH and "don't go near LINCOLN." What a tease is Lynch. Frued, Jung, Dali, whatever else you would like to toss in. The man's a genious' genious.
Does anyone see similarities with this intro and the donnie darko intro. I think blue velvet is superior in many ways but just pointing something out.
No, he doesn't die--as he shows up later in hospital scene and recuperating at the end. The entire Oedipal configuration is worked our: Boy replacing father, sex with the mother (surrogate Dorothy Valens: "Is that your mother?" asks Sandy's boyfriend to Jeffrey). Father/son reunited at end (with castrating father overcome/killed--Frank Booth. Even the robin shows up to reestablish bucolic 50's, worm in mouth notwithstanding. "And the mysteries of love come clear." and In Dreams...with you."
When I was in the Navy, every Friday night I'd have a movie night with the guys in my division, and no matter what else we showed, it would always end with this movie. It was kinda like our own "Rocky Horror" thing; we'd all shout out Dennis Hopper's lines.
Good for you. Hopper is a psychopath, and I suspect the Frank Booth character is comparatively benign compared to Dennis Hopper. The scene with Hopper and Stockwell lipsyncing "In Dreams" is one of the top ten scences in moviedom. I knew you sailors were the brains of the military.
Where to start? Love the bucolic, picket-fence America as it morphs into the sinister underpinnings of Freudianism (father displaced to make way for usurping son--Jeffrey, bedding mother--Dorothy Valens, who sings the smokey version of Blue Velvet). Everything comes full circle through the Oedipal configuration--note Dorothy reunited with her real son at end of film with father out of picture for good. Jeffrey's father at the beginning has a stroke, symbolized by the obstructed water hose.
Wait, I've never seen this movie. (My Dad won't let me see it till I'm like 16, and still he said it would disturb me so if I see it when i'm sixteen, I'll have to wait for 3 years.) Anyways, when KyleMacLachlan is walking at the end of this video, is he about to find the ear?
Just saw this movie; it was amazing. Lynch has this way of making things look so perfect that it's wrong. This intro seems so dream like that you can't help but feel something sinister at work.
Although it may seem off the wall their is meaning to every shot in a Lynch film. The film opens with a glimpse of the perfect neighborhood (I loved the Dalmatian riding with the firemen). The camera pans to the insects under the grass to show that underneath the perfection is something sinister.
Twin peaks is also quite good. unfortunately the second season didn't turn as good as the first. BUT yes Blue Velvet is a masterpiece! Not only in David Lynch's historie but in the entire moviehistorie! Dennis Hopper as an brilliant acter!
Twin Peaks is my favourite, just about! I thought the second season was alright but the first half was better. Blue Velvet is one of the best films ever though!
one thing i have learned from david lynch movies he has a weird fascination with dogs...whether it is blue velvet in this opening scene with the dog drinking from the garden hose...or Wild At Heart...where the dog runs off with a human hand..interesting
Later in the film you have this huge guy standing with a tiny lap dog. Dali-esque contrasts. Dog--many's best friend. Cycle of life (baby coming around the corner). We're moving away from Bobby Vinton's "gee whiz" world here into the nightmare underworld. Ear canal moves us into deep subconscious.
I'm studying this scene at the university.
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hmmm...never seen this...looks interesting though...
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Best movie ever.
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marsneedstowels 4 months ago
There are only 3 words that sums this scene up. "Beauty" "Tragedy" and "Ugliness". Its basically telling us what we are about to through the rest of the film. This scene is pure genius
Dear1Stupit1Dog 4 months ago
@Dear1Stupit1Dog forgot to write see
Dear1Stupit1Dog 4 months ago
i love to watch lynch while tripping
ChimaeraPwns 5 months ago
"Blue Velvet" Was An American Hit Single By Bobby Vinton
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gibsosgerbil 7 months ago
After all these years, this movie still holds up as the best. I have seen it countless times, and I never get tired of it.
KyHazard 7 months ago
Heineken? ... you know the rest
Fred2660 8 months ago
the movie that had been to make me to fall in 'sea of movie'
hanlgogi 8 months ago
What convinces me more on Lynchs movies than the plot is the atmosphere. Usually an impression is like a smell- but the smell of Lynchs movies stays forever in the rooms of someones mind. Ok, and Rosellini is cute.
SchnurriKatze 8 months ago
what happened to that man?
stefano118118 9 months ago
@stefano118118: The same thing happened to his blood vessels that happened to his garden hose... but it's okay. He comes out all right. His stroke only served to get his son back in town to play Hardy Boys -- but our hero learns that playing Hardy Boys is more dangerous than the books made it seem, and that he really doesn't have that Hardy Boys innocence in him, either.
JMarchOHare 6 months ago
And the song is also great!
waistnotime 9 months ago
Best movie opening of all time.
sausagemusic 9 months ago
Yeap that's a human ear alright!
ThisguyQuake 9 months ago
I love David Linch's movies. They have something special...
w1th0ut 9 months ago
repressseeed
breakfastoflosers 11 months ago
In a David Lynch movie, there is always something unsettling and tense about a scene, even in the most seemingly pleasant and peaceful scenes. There are very few directors who can do that.
cinemapsycho91 11 months ago
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DoctorHoe002 1 year ago
XD this film is so crazy maaaan. This and ERASER HEAD!! if you wanna get your mind blown away, these films are just too far out
Payitnov 1 year ago
David Lynch's unpicking of Norman Rockwell's americana was a match made in cinematic heaven!?
swyke 1 year ago
this here movie will fuck yo got damn head up lol
imugly678 1 year ago
Now THIS... is cinema!
welshfilmbuff 1 year ago
that part with the dog and the baby is so funny :)
sundeepjivan 1 year ago
the main character stars in desperate housewives and i also think he played in sex and the city, if i'm not mistaken...ahahaha
Olivesandsweets 1 year ago
Someone understand why he's hurt ?...
WTarkin 1 year ago
@WTarkin I surpose it's a heartattack or something.. for us to rumble about..
MrEssmarbu 1 year ago
i just noticed something i didnt see before. the blood roses in the beginning are artificial flowers. you can tell from looking at the petals. intentional or not, its such a great touch right along with the robin at the end
1HalfASSreViewer 1 year ago
beautiful irony at 0:51.... a menacing gun is here taken as benign entertainment in a perfect american afternoon, yet later it becomes a realistic weapon of horror.. i love it, mr lynch
greggarypeccary1 1 year ago
a layer of filth beneath the american way of life? as if the vietnamese and mexican ways of life are totally sweet and pure.
stimpp 1 year ago
@stimpp Who are you talking to? Why vietnamese and mexican?
Kuckooracha 1 year ago
@stimpp Why vietnamese or mexican? What do they have to do with this movie?
Kuckooracha 1 year ago
Really nice and deep film. Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper showed brilliant acting. The ending was just awesome. I miss the 80's and 90's - best era in cinematography
Magnolia296 1 year ago
Mark Kermode, a UK film critic hated Blue velvet and gave it a negative review from just watching the opening. But while he was having a drink in a pub, some dude punched him because of his review. Mark then felt obliged to give the film a second look.
now that l think about it that random dude must of been Frank Booth lol.
1shoryuken 1 year ago
@1shoryuken Dude Mark Kermode is a legend. he was the only critic in the universe who gave fire walk with me a positive review.
51yourtimeisup 1 year ago
Have you read that book Aztec Love Song? The guy who wrote that said he was inspired by this: I'm not surpised - Sex + violence + suburbia!
katmaccobb 1 year ago
Get high and watch this movie. So insane. Opens it up to even more levels.
amnm12 1 year ago
genius
nietzsche71 1 year ago
Holy fuck!
CaptainPommby 1 year ago
This whole take is quite amazing.Nostalgic and scary.
AlgisKemezys 1 year ago
the dog "drinking" water? it's biting at it (sucking cock - check the way he is still aiming the hose UP) just watching River's Edge now (made during this time in his life, once he'd cleaned up), it's a Hopper Marathon. R.I.P D.H., we will all miss you, and your beautiful art (please check his photos and paintings too, if you haven't = INCREDIBLE)
theshockingpinks 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
uroschelm 1 year ago
Rip Mr. Hopper. People say he was mediocre at best. I say he was highly underestimated.
kitsune2222 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dennis. everyone will miss you!!!
BonkTheClown 1 year ago
R.I.P Dennis!
Shimmer311 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dennis!!
ellycat 1 year ago
Can someone explain the symbolism of the dog drinking the water?
thejobloshow 1 year ago 2
@thejobloshow thats a good point
nietzsche71 1 year ago
Haha the radio station is the Mighty W-O-O-D. LOL!
The film isn't about drugs or dreams, it's about the ugly reality that hides out of sight of our pretty little world. That's why all the "nice people" are caricatures right out of magazine ads from the early 60s. Sleepy Lumberton has deep, dark secrets.
Realitytourist 1 year ago
My favourite movie!!
spruzzu 1 year ago
cinesemiotically it says, "things are going on right before you which you do not see, and they are not pretty."
gs12xu 1 year ago
Omg, this opening is epic.
Vesters1 1 year ago
I think that this film is all about a drug trip.
First of all, the water-hose getting cut off is referencing the guy's cerebral artery; which gets cut off and which is why he has a stroke. So following through with that analogy, the garden is the guy's brain. That means it is pretty (the garden) on the surface (like a drug trip) and corrosive (the beetles) underneath (also like drugs). The rest of the film reaffirms this (him breathing nitrous oxide through the gas mask and tripping badly).
Sandcat87 1 year ago
@Sandcat87 Dude, it's about dreams. Not drug trips. Why do you think the song that plays twice is In Dreams by Roy Orbison? It's not a coincidence.
tearsforfears6090 1 year ago
This is one of David Lynch's most masterful films, as well as my personal favorite of his. Blue Velvet along with Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Mullholland Drive, and The Straight Story I consider to be his best work
spitmaster99 1 year ago 5
This movie fits perfect if you've a day when you're just pissed of from ever-smiling, ever-whistlling, ever-happy affected people!
Klever89 1 year ago
This film is a masterpiece!!
spruzzu 1 year ago 4
This is a masterful first scene. Incredible.
First of all, it scared me. It was perfect to the point of being unnerving, and yes, the shit did hit the fan. I love that the overarching theme of the beautiful lush world with the dark seedy underbelly is told through the insect shot. Amazing.
sarahkinzz 1 year ago
Damn I wish this would come out on Blu Ray!
phototristan 2 years ago 2
Stanley Kubrick said Blue Velvet was the greatest movie he had ever seen. True story.
Minnexyz 2 years ago
Seriously, that isn't right. He said it about Eraserhead. Do you have a source?
Vesters1 2 years ago
You're right, it was Eraserhead, not Blue Velvet.
Minnexyz 2 years ago
@Minnexyz
You both are wrong, it was " I Vitelloni" by Fellini. He used to show Eraserhead on the set to desturb the actors and he once said that Eraserhead was the only movie he would have liked to direct himself.
mednos 2 years ago
Your both wrong. He was merely an admirer of them. He said the The Godfather was the best film ever made and no one would ever get close to exceeding its brilliance according to his friend and biographer Michaek Herr.
DAN13LS70NE 1 year ago
surrealism is more than a "dream world" in fact it suggests a sort of spontinaity or automotism where the material produced by the artist has more meaning in juxtopositions between seemingly random placement of things, lines, events etc. lynch's style much of the time is nonlinear which is why people would call his work surreal like andre breton the french writer who started the movement.sorry bout the spellin but thanks for the memories
caliguluva 2 years ago 2
did i spell right ?
nietzsche71 2 years ago
yeah
WillyM79 2 years ago
genius
nietzsche71 2 years ago 2
Beautiful music!
rodrigoraoj 2 years ago
When I watched Blue Velvet for the first time a few years ago, I kept thinking "Where the fuck have I seen this before?!! What the hell does this remind me of?!!" Then I stumbled upon poet RW Watkins' essay "Webs in Lynch's Closet?" from his Comics Decoder site, and I was blown away! Spider-Man! Watkins compares scenes from the film alongside panels from the early Spidey comics. Google for it--it's eye-opening shit. I think he's really onto something. Now I have to watch this flick again.
spiderfandan62 2 years ago
Is this movie really surrealism? There are drops of surrealism in it, such as the ear. However, later in the movie, you learn where the ear came from.
I think Mullholland Drive, Eraserhead, and Inland Empire were true surrealism.
sflachuck 2 years ago 2
@sflachuck i thought all those movies u listed were all extremely surreal but i think the reason lynch had given away where the ear came from was because im sure he figured that the viewer had already found that out around the middle of the film i myself didnt but i do think this film is stil very surreal such as the in dreams scene and many other scenes but u do make a good point
zachariah999 2 years ago
@sflachuck
True, and you forgot Lost Highway!
But Blue Velvel is totally realistic. (Thats why it's watchable)
toxicptl 2 years ago
The clip stops seconds before Kyle finds the ear on the ground.
What the opening scene shows is the violent underbelly in this impossibly perfect community.
The ear and the bugs are your entry way.
sflachuck 2 years ago 2
I love how this opening scene symbolizes and foreshawdows everything that happens in the rest of the film.
xContaminatedx 2 years ago 2
I always think of the Bush family when I see Frank Booth for some reason.
Silvertrine 2 years ago
I just recently saw this movie for the first time, 23 years after it's release. I really like it. Can someone explain to me why, because I sure as hell can't figure it out. I have to watch it again, that all I know. It has EVERYTHING. I think that's why I like it. Good shit. Total mind fucker.
pettvj33 2 years ago
Hi 1. J (:
ParkourInspiration 2 years ago
david lynch is just lovely
viciousk1d 2 years ago
HAHA
nogoodman 2 years ago
Alguien me puede explicar que le paso a ese hombre. ¿y por que las hormigas?
MrJamesCav 2 years ago
I didn't remember the film started like this.This scene is just great!
thebattleroyale 2 years ago 2
Where is Lumberton.
Fatzombie1980 2 years ago
In the suburbs. Irrelevant, really.
blestemp 2 years ago
Everywhere!
odovicor 2 years ago
This was weird movie good but weird.
Fatzombie1980 2 years ago
a graet piece of cinema.A masterpiece,equally harder to understand
hotelmoxa 2 years ago
How was it hard to understand?
blestemp 2 years ago
Stanley Kubrick said this is one of the best movies he'd ever seen.
Minnexyz 2 years ago
if you like blue velvet, you'll probably like the movie Delicatessen (same directer as Amélie). Also a little town, surrealistic ,very sinister and alot of dark humor. it's really worth watching.
bastiaanvanbeek 2 years ago 2
Propably, but Delicatessen and for that sake all Jeunet/Caro-movies are no way near Blue Velvet thematically.
blestemp 2 years ago
thematically not really no, but it has that same surrealistic, abstract and dark feel to it. and little detail humor.
bastiaanvanbeek 2 years ago 2
How is Blue Velvet surrealistic? The entire point of the movie was to show - mainly americans, living in the suburbs - how non-surreal characters like Frank are.
I'm being stobbourn, aye, but comparing that Jeunet and Caro (or any directors for that matter) to mr. Lynch is wrong, lol. No matter how similar the director's style may be to Lynch's.
blestemp 2 years ago
I think it has surrealistic elements in it. little example, the crawling cock-roaches (or whatever they are) beneath the quit little town. Really unusual contrast between the "normal" world and the bizarre situations where jeffrey is in. these are all thinks dat CAN happen in reallity, but the mood of the film is surrealistic in my opinion. I see that in films of tim burton, david lynch and jean-pierre geunet. the weird characters that those directors use, there is really similarity between them
bastiaanvanbeek 2 years ago 3
This isn't surrealism. The cockroaches are heavy handed symbolism of the "night players", the people not fitting into the neat, bright, American dream displayed at the beginning. People like Frank or Ben, hiding beneath the shiny grass.
You're confusing totally different things. Obvious symbolism isn't surrealism, Tim Burton's expressionism isn't surrealism either. Say, Lynch's "Rabbits" is surrealism, because there isn't any kind of obvious meaning to it, like in Bunuel. Not so in Blue Velvet.
Simbabbad 2 years ago 11
ofcouse this is surrealism! this movie is based on the the surrealism movie " Desire 1949 " look it up. How the hell can't you see that this isnt surrealism!
lucke001 2 years ago
"How the hell can't you see that this isnt surrealism" ?
But I see it's not surrealism, that's the point of my comment :-) !
Simbabbad 2 years ago
lol sorry i ment this is surrealism explain to me why it isnt id love to hear it
lucke001 2 years ago
I already explained it : it's heavy handed symbolism and Manichean : good/bad, light/darkness, straight/pervert, shiny grass/cockroaches, the movie being about the two meeting up.
Nowhere in the movie is there anything close to surrealism, everything is pretty much straightforward. The Red Room/Black Lodge or "Rabbits" or "INLAND EMPIRE" are surrealism. Blue Velvet ? Not at all.
But I already explained it. What is YOUR point, except "of course it is", which is beyond weak ?
Simbabbad 2 years ago
I love you, david lynch.
aleger20 2 years ago 4
Beautifully sinister.
cerzule 2 years ago 2
that bit with the insects in the garden is SO disturbing, says that even the prettiest things have some dark stuff lurking underneath
WWAAK 2 years ago 35
i think the theme to this movie is the idea that appearances can be decieving. much like twin peaks....a peaceful, beautiful and friendly looking town but in reality its really wierd and twisted.
This opening tells that too...a lush green looking lawn but underneath it is something so vile and disgusting. Its not there for everyone to see but if you look close enough you realize that "We live in a very strange world".
replica07 2 years ago 16
this opening tells us the meaning of the film, but the person who doesn't pay attention doesn't understand it. also lynch doesn't help us because he decides to put a scene like the radio of lumbertown, that breaks completely what he had just said.
mercutiana 2 years ago
BABY WANTS TO FUCK!!!-frank
ladner3000moviebuff 2 years ago 3
Roy Orbison sang "In Dreams" in this song, it's such a beautiful song.
Great movie!
Everdeane75 2 years ago
Hey they show my wilmington in this clip!!
justinallison116 3 years ago
I had a test on this opening sequence in film school. This is the best scene I've seen in any film thus far.
elmando5 3 years ago
Agreed it is exceptional and perhaps my favorite, but check out the intro to A Touch of Evil' too, it's pretty special.
gregbutler1 2 years ago 2
heart attack i fink n 1:28 looks wrong lol
xxxLaUrEnOxxx 3 years ago
what killed the poor old man? beetle?s
ratzskinakie 3 years ago
he was having a stroke
spaceawesome22 2 years ago
I think a bee...
mercutiana 2 years ago
Heineken? FUCK THAT SHIT! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Beatlemark21287 3 years ago 2
Hah! My favorite quote
asutera45 2 years ago
Here's to your fuck! Frank
clintbronson5 3 years ago
Is it true that the first shot (the flowers) is a reference to the dancing flowers in "toto le héros"?
kantil17 3 years ago
So strong and strange and dark.
arnybangor 3 years ago 3
If theres one thing I can't stand, it's warm beer, it makes me fucking PUKE!!
ElZomboFantasma 3 years ago
great opener
jimjamjames82 3 years ago 4
Excellent film.
Thanks for uploading.
robbiechachere 3 years ago 3
The dalmatian on the firetruck is the perfect Norman Rockwell symbolism.
kylekubrick 3 years ago 4
definitely.
Mexxico57 3 years ago 4
The images in that shot, wow, the baby and innocence(Jeffrey the son representation), the hose, the dog (animal nature) Frank? there's a lot of different ways one could interpret the symbolism of the baby, the father and the dog.
kylekubrick 3 years ago
I noticed that before too, and it sets up the story so well.
Mexxico57 3 years ago
Vicent, açò és una merda!
JosepAntoniBS 3 years ago
good movie, wrote a paper on masochism in venus in furs, fight club, and blue velvet.
anti, listen to blue dress by DM ;)
sircloud7 3 years ago
This is perhaps Lynchs' best opening sequence in any of his films. Blue Velvet requires multiple viewings to truly appreciate it story and it's message.
McGeeToo 3 years ago
And what is the message?
ixchel777 3 years ago
There is some serious lunatic in your hometown...
remade1 3 years ago 4
that there's a layer of filth beneath the american way of life...
FunnyHat88 3 years ago 24
@FunnyHat88
yeah, well. more like a layer of filth beneath ever good thing. The fact that you take it as a layer of filth beneath the amaerican way of life just show that you don;t like america. imho
Montrealien 1 year ago
@Montrealien not really, i've been to america on holiday and it was great. Just parts of it I don't like. (the parts being the conservative & traditional way of thinking incl, the patriotism (offcourse, again, not everywhere) This opening really shows the typical suburban lifestyle. And how everything that looks beautiful always has a darness learing over it.
FunnyHat88 1 year ago
Its my favorite opening. the idyll of a 50's stylized American life is contrasted with the voyage under the grass. The beetles represent decay & evil & darkness, superbly contrasted with the stylized radio ad for Lumberton.......it could be "anywhere". Darkness & evil & rot, barely concealed beneath the veneer of an American Idyll. Totally cool.
declan332 3 years ago 4
I now think the film is about naive people in a naive town. Everything is perfect but when you look closely you find life isn't as perfect as it seems.
Example: Kyle finding the ear leads him to an obscure and unreasonable place and that his world isn't as joyful as it seemed.(Frank Booth and his actions)
sleepyduo37 3 years ago
And the ear leads us into the subconscious/id where this all could happen "In Dreams," and, well Lumberton. Great film Frank BOOTH and "don't go near LINCOLN." What a tease is Lynch. Frued, Jung, Dali, whatever else you would like to toss in. The man's a genious' genious.
odovicor 3 years ago
Does anyone see similarities with this intro and the donnie darko intro. I think blue velvet is superior in many ways but just pointing something out.
bigbobberbigger 3 years ago
of course, Donnie Darko and Richard Kelly owe so much to David Lynch
lvgilmore 3 years ago 4
i don't get how he dies... am i missing something obvious?
sanityassassin66 3 years ago
Heart attack.
vetmode 3 years ago
No, he doesn't die--as he shows up later in hospital scene and recuperating at the end. The entire Oedipal configuration is worked our: Boy replacing father, sex with the mother (surrogate Dorothy Valens: "Is that your mother?" asks Sandy's boyfriend to Jeffrey). Father/son reunited at end (with castrating father overcome/killed--Frank Booth. Even the robin shows up to reestablish bucolic 50's, worm in mouth notwithstanding. "And the mysteries of love come clear." and In Dreams...with you."
odovicor 3 years ago
One off the Best Opening Scenes ever
schambess 3 years ago
The opening shot of roses and a white picket fence with a blue sky behind it seems so unreal and dreamlike.
AntinousIsGod1 3 years ago
I was so afraid of this movie when I was a kid, but now it is one of my favorites
Rindutti 3 years ago
When I was in the Navy, every Friday night I'd have a movie night with the guys in my division, and no matter what else we showed, it would always end with this movie. It was kinda like our own "Rocky Horror" thing; we'd all shout out Dennis Hopper's lines.
cubdukat 3 years ago 2
Good for you. Hopper is a psychopath, and I suspect the Frank Booth character is comparatively benign compared to Dennis Hopper. The scene with Hopper and Stockwell lipsyncing "In Dreams" is one of the top ten scences in moviedom. I knew you sailors were the brains of the military.
odovicor 3 years ago
Where to start? Love the bucolic, picket-fence America as it morphs into the sinister underpinnings of Freudianism (father displaced to make way for usurping son--Jeffrey, bedding mother--Dorothy Valens, who sings the smokey version of Blue Velvet). Everything comes full circle through the Oedipal configuration--note Dorothy reunited with her real son at end of film with father out of picture for good. Jeffrey's father at the beginning has a stroke, symbolized by the obstructed water hose.
odovicor 3 years ago
Wait, I've never seen this movie. (My Dad won't let me see it till I'm like 16, and still he said it would disturb me so if I see it when i'm sixteen, I'll have to wait for 3 years.) Anyways, when KyleMacLachlan is walking at the end of this video, is he about to find the ear?
kigume 3 years ago
yes this movie is disturbing
thykapow 3 years ago
She wore blue....
HowlingMan17 3 years ago
Reminds me of a recurring dream I've had since I was four.
HereForBarbara 3 years ago
Just saw this movie; it was amazing. Lynch has this way of making things look so perfect that it's wrong. This intro seems so dream like that you can't help but feel something sinister at work.
LeoPirate 3 years ago 5
Although it may seem off the wall their is meaning to every shot in a Lynch film. The film opens with a glimpse of the perfect neighborhood (I loved the Dalmatian riding with the firemen). The camera pans to the insects under the grass to show that underneath the perfection is something sinister.
tomsriv 3 years ago 4
nothing sinister about insects
suckmyassitsmells 3 years ago
even ants?
MrEggcake 3 years ago
aren't the attacking each other or something? it sounds sinister.
Anyway, I think it represents a darkness underneath the perfect bright facade.
TINKSTARzMEGASTAR 3 years ago
Great sequence. This is the one they show in all the film schools.
thejobloshow 4 years ago 2
IF!!! it wasnt R18+ rated
thykapow 3 years ago
whats the thing at 2:01 ?
Kilowarning2 4 years ago
insects
BVargas78 4 years ago
lynch´s best work!
stereoDrug 4 years ago
Twin peaks is also quite good. unfortunately the second season didn't turn as good as the first. BUT yes Blue Velvet is a masterpiece! Not only in David Lynch's historie but in the entire moviehistorie! Dennis Hopper as an brilliant acter!
lemmykilmister 4 years ago
Twin Peaks is my favourite, just about! I thought the second season was alright but the first half was better. Blue Velvet is one of the best films ever though!
Camilo83 4 years ago
David Lynch is pretty amazing, aye.
stone1home 4 years ago 4
can someone put the entire movie on YouTube? that wld be awesome
GrigoriPechenka 4 years ago
lol fucking dog
ezer2480 4 years ago
"lol" . that phrase hurts my ears
blueberriessuck 4 years ago
The dog has a meaning
thykapow 3 years ago
And don't you fucking look at me
remade1 4 years ago
I want to have sex with this movie it's so good.
ladypyramidhead 4 years ago 5
Brilliant movie, brilliant opening!
hellocornwith 4 years ago
one thing i have learned from david lynch movies he has a weird fascination with dogs...whether it is blue velvet in this opening scene with the dog drinking from the garden hose...or Wild At Heart...where the dog runs off with a human hand..interesting
ffej980 4 years ago
Later in the film you have this huge guy standing with a tiny lap dog. Dali-esque contrasts. Dog--many's best friend. Cycle of life (baby coming around the corner). We're moving away from Bobby Vinton's "gee whiz" world here into the nightmare underworld. Ear canal moves us into deep subconscious.
odovicor 4 years ago
la canción le va a la escena que ni pintado.
kelillo 4 years ago
One of the greatest opening shots ever.
ottoskidoo 4 years ago
you meant sequence, right?
lvgilmore 4 years ago