A One-Legged Woman, A Monkey & A Lumberjack

The Penpal gave me the 'heads up' that NPR was featuring a segment about David Lynch and his new project - Inland Empire. (The funniest part about the Wikipedia link to the Inland Empire site, is this: Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Yeah. Right! Good try, folks!)

I can't call it a film, because Mr. Lynch has become enamoured of consumer grade digital video, and has forsaken film at this time.


As for Inland Empire, the buzz is that it is LESS narrative than (the brilliant and taxing)Mulholland Drive, and even more like being inside of Mr. Lynch's brain.

Dave says that he has tried to capture a dream. He says that no matter how good your words are, when you tell someone your dream, they just don't experience it in the same way. So his work is to try and capture the vividness, the realness of a dream and to deny any outside forces of structure or narration.

(note to Penpal - how's that for your Unity Statement? -also notice the copy - worlds within worlds -wheels within wheels -tiny alice- ohgoodgod dr mccoy)

And this, from the report, sums up why we both adore David Lynch:

Laura Dern received a call from a new producer on the project -

Producer: David called me this morning - I can't figure out if it's a joke. He said, 'Bring me a one-legged woman, a monkey and a lumberjack by 3:15.'

Laura: I said, Yeah, you're on a David Lynch movie, dude. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Producer: But what does it MEAN?

Laura: It means that you need to bring him a monkey, a one-legged woman and a lumberjack by 3:15.