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Actors: Kyle McLachlan, Dennis Hopper
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Blue Velvet |
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When the name David Lynch is mentioned, this film will probably be brought up as well. The famously weird director spins this tale of the dark side of small-town life.
Jeffrey Beaumont's father has a stroke, and Jeffrey is called home from college to be with him. While walking around his hometown of Lumberton, Jeffrey discovers a human ear. He brings it to the police, who close the case quickly. Unsatisfied, Jeffrey decides to investigate himself, and he stumbles into a seedy underworld ruled by one of the most brutal movie villains ever (this role revived Dennis Hopper's career).
--Ben, Resident Scholar
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"Blue Velvet" remains writer-director David Lynch's creepy masterpiece. A young man (McLachlan) returns to his quiet Midwestern home town and discovers a severed ear in a field. Unsatisfied with the official investigation, he and a police detective's daughter (Laura Dern) look into the matter themselves, and encounter a twisted but erotically fascinating woman (Isabella Rosellini), and a terrifying, psychopathic killer (Dennis Hopper) and his crowd of associates who inhabit the underside of white-picket-fence America. Though reviewer Rex Reed found this arresting and highly original film disgusting and repellant, Woody Allen called it the best movie of 1986 (the year his own "Hannah and Her Sisters" won three Academy Awards).
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Blue Velvet |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals killing each other
- police corruption
- life in drug culture
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- rape
- molestation
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
United States
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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