SNEAKO - January 17, 2025


FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS： DAVID LYNCH

Topics
capturing and translating emotions
Hosted by
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy
Mentioned
Twin Peaks Mulholland Drive Eraserhead Vincent Van Gogh Norman Rockwell Stanley Kubrick Blue Velvet
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Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

179.32

Word count

1,358

Sentence count

106

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Summary

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David Lynch was a film director, writer, producer, and visionary. He was one of the most influential directors of the 20th century, and he was a master at capturing and translating ideas. His work is widely known and appreciated, and there are many people who will always remember him for his work on Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead.

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00:00:00.000 Listen to this video, because art sucks now, and it's going to suck a lot more now that David Lynch died. 0.98
00:00:08.800 It's daydreams that I love, and sinking down, sitting comfortably in a chair, 0.98
00:00:14.400 where you might be controlling some of the thoughts and directing yourself here or there,
00:00:20.040 but at a certain point, the dream takes over, and you enter in a place where things are unraveling before you without your intervention.
00:00:28.300 And many things can present themselves that way, and sometimes ideas that you fall in love with.
00:00:35.620 He was the physical embodiment to follow your dreams.
00:00:38.820 And not following your dreams in the literal sense of quitting everything to become a graphic designer,
00:00:43.340 but to listen to your subconscious mind.
00:00:45.720 This video is for the TikTok generation that never saw Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, or Eraserhead.
00:00:51.720 For the ones that didn't go to a brooding film school to smoke cigarettes and learn how to make a title screen exactly like this.
00:00:57.400 For the ones that understand that we're all connected in some metaphysical sense.
00:01:01.700 Whenever somebody shows interest in film, I show them David Lynch,
00:01:04.680 because he is the embodiment of finding your pure, authentic self.
00:01:08.540 That art in its purest form is not about a political message,
00:01:11.760 but about capturing an idea to its truest sense.
00:01:14.940 Although he looked like an artist with the wacky hair and the cigarettes, he didn't try.
00:01:20.000 There was no other artist able to explain how to capture an idea like you're fishing in the non-physical realm and make it physical.
00:01:28.100 And he never made it sound more extravagant than it is.
00:01:30.980 He would describe it as not looking at the donut hole, but the donut.
00:01:35.380 We don't do anything without an idea.
00:01:37.860 So they're beautiful gifts.
00:01:40.000 Desiring an idea is like a bait on a hook.
00:01:43.360 You can pull them in.
00:01:44.500 If you catch an idea that you love, that's a beautiful, beautiful day.
00:01:49.440 And you write that idea down so you won't forget it.
00:01:52.460 And more and more come in, and pretty soon you might have a script.
00:01:56.300 Many artists will describe creation as capturing an emotion like pain and translating it for the world to see.
00:02:02.600 So oftentimes, people find themselves in this ridiculous trap where they attempt to use their depression to make something great.
00:02:09.340 They believe that in order to depict emotion, they must be an emotional person.
00:02:14.180 This is how we find ridiculous tragedies like Basquiat overdosing at 27 or Vincent Van Gogh slicing his ear off.
00:02:21.220 But David Lynch was the one who said you don't need to be in a state of pain to create.
00:02:25.140 A truly depressed person is not capable of even getting out of bed.
00:02:28.860 Ideas are not found in a place of misery, but in some state of introspection that we all have.
00:02:34.080 Somewhere between unconscious and conscious.
00:02:36.300 Capturing and translating these ideas are not reserved for the talented, but instead for those who are able to understand their minds better.
00:02:43.940 This is a place that we all go to.
00:02:45.720 Some people access it through prayer.
00:02:47.480 David Lynch access it through meditation.
00:02:49.600 But the purest form is through following your dreams because that's the one place where we lose control completely.
00:02:55.420 What separates a David Lynch from those pushing a preachy political message is the honesty.
00:03:00.480 The purest form of expression is something every human can relate to because we can't control it.
00:03:05.680 Like fish.
00:03:07.520 No chef ever takes credit for making the fish.
00:03:12.180 It's just preparing the fish.
00:03:14.080 So you get an idea and it is like a seed.
00:03:17.860 In your mind, the idea is seen and felt.
00:03:21.540 And it explodes like it's got electricity and light connected to it.
00:03:26.200 It has all the images and the feeling.
00:03:28.480 And it's like in an instant, you know the idea.
00:03:32.380 David Lynch is probably most well known for Twin Peaks.
00:03:34.880 It's a television show that brought cinematography into people's homes at every night.
00:03:39.420 But I would start with this most accessible film, Blue Velvet.
00:03:42.380 A depiction of Americana.
00:03:44.260 The white picket fence in beautiful suburbia with fire trucks and ice cream cones.
00:03:48.940 But underneath the surface, there's a bubbling sense of evil capitalism that we all know and can't describe perfectly.
00:03:56.020 Blue Velvet captures how with light there's always dark.
00:03:58.780 The beautiful Norman Rockwell painting.
00:04:01.000 American family sharing Thanksgiving dinner by the fireplace.
00:04:04.560 And all the disgusting, bubbling evil beneath the surface that goes with it.
00:04:08.400 It's not a commentary on the evils of American capitalism. 0.88
00:04:11.440 But instead how we cannot show anything beautiful without an equally amount of disgusting.
00:04:16.440 Then I would watch Mulholland Drive, what was supposed to be a television show that he scrapped and turned into a feature film that will never be accurately described by anybody including David Lynch.
00:04:27.700 This is a film I'm sure that he would never even be able to make sense of.
00:04:30.940 But if you ever analyzed your dreams, something would click.
00:04:35.120 If Mulholland Drive is a dream sequence visualized, then maybe that's exactly what cinema should be.
00:04:40.140 All of it is artificial and it's trying to recreate what we have already seen through introspection.
00:04:45.940 And although no piece of art will ever be able to recreate what we see when we're not awake, this is the closest I've ever seen to it.
00:04:52.780 Then I would watch his first film, Eraserhead, which he describes as his most spiritual film.
00:04:57.900 If you go into this movie first, you might never watch another David Lynch because it is by far the weirdest and ugliest thing he's ever produced.
00:05:05.800 It's disgusting, it's off-putting, it's visually appalling, but for some reason you can't take your eyes away if you truly respect what he's doing.
00:05:14.980 Once you watch Eraserhead, you could watch any film student or any director's first short film and understand why it's so terrible and what they were trying to do.
00:05:24.660 Once you earn those stripes, I think you deserve the ability to watch Twin Peaks in its entirety.
00:05:28.980 Something that I can undeniably feel the influence of Stanley Kubrick in, but is one of the best examples of somebody's inner workings of their mind captured on camera.
00:05:39.320 Not only does Twin Peaks have one of the best soundtracks of all time, but if you ever wanted to see an artist vomit their entire brain on camera, that's that television show.
00:05:49.500 If you're not American and you ever flew on a plane from New York City to L.A., looking out the window at all the cornfields wondering, who lives here?
00:05:57.660 That's Twin Peaks.
00:05:58.800 A common theme I found throughout David Lynch's work is none of the ideas make sense until they're actually visualized.
00:06:05.660 And when someone else attempts to match that ambition, it comes off actually nonsensical.
00:06:10.680 It works for David Lynch because it's honest with himself.
00:06:13.680 On paper, this guy does not describe an interesting artist.
00:06:16.900 He did not have a tragic upbringing and came up in nowhere America.
00:06:21.040 On a global scale, many people can look at his life and describe him as a boring, average guy.
00:06:26.240 But the reason he's so captivating is because of his honesty.
00:06:29.740 And people often mistake honesty for oversharing the most benign aspects of their life that are boring to anybody except a paid therapist.
00:06:37.500 Without David Lynch, we wouldn't understand that honesty only comes through introspection.
00:06:41.740 Creativity is not exclusive to those who are naturally gifted, but to those who are able to capture ideas in a place of our brains that we all have access to.
00:06:51.020 It's starting to snow a lot. It looks kind of nice, doesn't it?
00:07:00.060 I'm going to miss David Lynch.
00:07:01.520 I never met him, but through his work, we feel like we knew him.
00:07:04.400 I'm going to miss him.
00:07:10.640 Okay, thanks.
00:07:11.720 I might be doing that right.
00:07:12.820 I should say, for soon.
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