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David Lynch has died

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Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by simmons »

andrewstuart wrote: post #8

Lynch's was still my favorite version of Dune despite flaws.

I thought I was the only one who preferred David Lynch's Dune. I'm glad to find out I'm not alone. I explain to people that it depends on if you're a bigger David Lynch fan or a Frank Herbert fan. I have nothing against Herbert, but I guess there's something about Lynch's work that speaks to me, even a movie like Dune that he himself hated.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

sgt wrote: post #69
jeffwask wrote: post #36

Sad day for film fans and a sad day for Phillip Morris stockholders.

Do you think the LA wildfires and poor air quality accelerated his death? He had emfysemia

Probably didn't help, but the man had been smoking since he was 8 years old and was at the point where he needed supplemental oxygen just to walk.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dang wrote: post #77
philipov wrote: post #9

Here's a non-facebook link for anyone who refuses to use that site: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director...

Ok, we'll use that above, since it has so much more information. (Submitted url was https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-with... .) Another relevant link people may want to look at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-ly... Looks like NYT haven't published their full obituary yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730000

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.h...

https://archive.today/NAhZi

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Post by karim79 »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #48

David Lynch has been my favorite director and one of my favorite people for most of my life. His work and outlook has influenced almost everything I've ever created. He changed the way I saw the world for better. I'm really sincerely going to miss what he brought to the world

Absolutely. He's my favourite artist, and for me no one else comes close. R.I.P Mr. Lynch.

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Post by throw_pm23 »

corysama wrote: post #62
diggan wrote: post #19

Sad to hear. Personally I think I've only seen Mulholland Drive before, but long time ago. I enjoy surreal movies in general, so kind of weird I haven't seen more of Lynch's work. What personal favorites do other HNers have, of what he'd done?

I love Lost Highway . But, you have to watch the whole thing confused. Then have someone explain what's happening in the last scene. Then watch the whole thing again amazed. Also, the soundtrack was one of the first produced by Trent Reznor --long before he made a hobby of collecting Oscars. And, I grew up watching Lynch's Dune over and over until it made sense :P

To me that was his movie that made most sense. It seems a perfect allegorical depiction of what it means to have bad conscience.

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Post by gordon_freeman »

David Lynch was a giant in film directing with his unique vision and surreal style and he gave us so many great movies. But more importantly I feel that he inspired so many modern movie directors such as Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos to make movies like that. I put Lynch in the same category of greatness as Kubrick and Tarkovsky. True genius!
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