Eraserhead Story part 1 David Lynch interview

[FilmFanClaire]

Usually when filmakers tak about the genesis of their work, it's this typical story of the exact time and place of where their movie came from. But when Mr. Lynch speaks of how he doesn't remember where Eraserhead came from, it makes the whole film even more mysterious. Eraserhead is almost like a strange dream you remember but you can't explain to others. Only you can understand.

[Fannondelekhan]

even this interview is fucking creepy, david lynch is one sick of a guy

[ffets]

i adore david lynch! he intrigues me, makes me frightened, makes me laugh and makes me ask so many questions. my ex girlfriend and i watched this together many times and so many of the things he says at the end of eraserhead left us laughing so hard. the parts about the driving and the cat in the jar. etc.

[samfilmkid]

this echoy-ness makes it sound like part of the movie itself!

[weirdcitykid]

This was before his hand became possessed.

[octofish]

Crazy Clown Time

[TheodenN]

lol the recording guy light up a cigarette when he saw the smoking guy on screen.

[sircambam]

watch the full documentary: alluc org/documentaries/watch-Eraser­head-Stories-online/198932.htm­l

[ThatHockeyMaskGuy]

He trails off quickly. O_O

[Sealyfaya]

I love listening to him talk.

[rhombusskullvsteal]

I wish he would talk about the movie and the plot itself not what was going on when he made it

[ThatHockeyMaskGuy]

@rhombusskullvsteal He doesn't want you to know the plot... What was going on should help you come up with a plot.

[rhombusskullvsteal]

@ThatHockeyMaskGuy a few friends and I came up with this together, it's a guy who knocked up a girl and has to commit to her because of the child, the child looking like an alien because he feels detached from it and this girl across the hall is who he wants, and the one in the heater. the man in the window is something else. idk, all of the other things like the pencil and eraser plant could be symbols for something, mostly his own detatchment from reality in the perma trip state.

[ThatHockeyMaskGuy]

@rhombusskullvsteal I've always thought it was just about this man with a crazy hair dew trying to make his way through such a horrible world where nothing seems to go right at all. He feels as if he can't think right so he dreams about his brains being turned into erasers and let out into the wind in which I thought symbolized how forgotten he felt and rejected by the world he was, and he killed the alien baby out of unshown anger.

[rhombusskullvsteal]

@ThatHockeyMaskGuy that's the simple gestalt of the film, however in terms of emotional and real life relating I think both stories work, it's cool because the movie itself can have so many universal symbols and motifs because it's literally out of this world. is it a dream? is it real? is it in this world in a simply unknown twilight zone? also the events and the way they happen takes on a world of it's own. The movie is just too bizarre for words and in time I'll surely appreciate it even more

[Fridayth31st]

Is this on the dvd?

[joakoPRIMUS]

0:22 But now we know how it came out...Pot

[bush2sucks]

@wanderlain Salo needn't be banned. There is nothing salacious or titillating about it. The acts portrayed in that film are metaphors for the greed and social destruction wrought by fascism. Salo was the name of the town where infamous WW2 fascist Mussolini spent a lot of his time. You got to see the film, let others see it and make up their own minds.

[wandererlain]

Lynch is a living Genius.

[monkeyboy4746]

"I could feel the BONES rattle in his arm", I need to use that line sometime, like someone saying to me,  "well you don't have a very firm handshake do you", and I say "oh, I'm sorry, you surprised me, I could feel the bones rattling in your arm."

[bush2sucks]

I watched this film in colllege with a BUNCH of freinds. Many years later it is still the most discussed film we ever watched. What an intrigueing head scratcher. Maybe the point is there is no point. Loved it anyway.

[Labyrinthman]

@bush2sucks

If you want something really discussing to watch then find Salo Italian film.

[wandererlain]

@Labyrinthman How can you compare Lynch to Pasolini? Salo makes me want to puke.

[Labyrinthman]

@wandererlain

I was not comparing Lynch and Pasolini.

I was just saying to the bush2sucks that if he wants to see something really disgusting he should watch Salo.

[wandererlain]

@wandererlain Oh, sorry. Well, that is one film that should be banned in my opinion. It's the most horrible thing that I've laid my eyes on.

[bush2sucks]

@Labyrinthman Ya know, I have seen Salo and disgusting is a mild word for that "art" film. It was supposedly a statement against fascism, at least in part. The cruelty and dehumanizing sexual nihlism of that film is truly disturbing but if you compare it to the situation in corporatized America today I suppose the fascists have won. So far.

[Labyrinthman]

@bush2sucks

I could not agree more.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@peninsularat Gotcha. Thanks.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@peninsularat Wrong. He does not take drugs. He's made that quite clear.

[dullath]

@peninsularat false.  100% false.

[theairborne145]

i got an independent film makers grant... thats an independent filmakers grant.

[nycman131313]

7:28 the guy lights a smoke

[StuffedMannequin]

Normally I hate it when people just record their TV and post it on youtube, but for some reason when dealing with Lynch the TV screen and echoing audio just adds to the interview.

[spikeboy25]

@StuffedMannequin So true!

[goodolarchie]

I can't help but feel that his stories are exactly like his movies: bizarre and stream-of-consciousness

[Rane909]

@goodolarchie seriously, very true

[directorlog]

haha funny - what is he talking about?

[TheIncredibleBAGMAN]

I wanna hear part 2.

[kdito]

Where's part 2?

[lindseyfluff]

eerie. very genius

[redpaul79]

bobbled up to the cervix

[wandererlain]

"a beanpole in a black suit" LOL Lynch is so funny and deadpan.

[TheLOVE86]

more man i wanna hear more of lynch