On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 08:38 pm, Rob Ruzic wrote:
> There are films that show
> us the characters thoughts as dream states (Mulholland
> Drive and Waking Life being recent examples).
I often wonder what it would be like if David Lynch managed to make a
film of a single creative thought in the way he experiences them when
he is idea fishing. He seems to go into this day dreaming state and
then he experiences ideas coming, just popping in his mind from time to
time, I suppose this might be hypnagogia. He told me in the chat room
that he sees three dimensional images that turn into two dimensional
images, that interested me.
With the image, he also experiences sounds and a knowing about the plot
and characters. Showing that knowing is not easy for me to think about
though because that might be an abstract thing happening there. He
tends to catch fragments of ideas. Having an idea in that state doesn't
necessarily mean you'll get a whole group of thoughts about something.
You might wait years for the next connecting ideas, maybe.
In Mulholland Drive, there are ideas that actually came to his mind in
the way he saw them, like the scene with the Mulholland Drive sign. So
I suppose in his films, there are images that are exactly the way they
popped into his mind as thoughts that he experienced, but they are not
presented as thoughts popping out of nowhere into his mind. I guess you
would need the darkness , or whatever he experiences when his eyes are
closed, as a backdrop for the ideas to suddenly pop out of and fill he
mind's eye for that all important moment.
Dom
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