You have to go with Lynch's movies
on almost an unconscious level
they're really about imagery
and I remember the images of that
movie twenty years later much more
vividly than I remember, say, Superman
which was a huge commercial
hit, and was a lot of fun
but it doesn't stick with you
the way that Dune sticks with you
and is not about storytelling,
because the storytelling isn't
particularly great in the movie
and that's one of the reasons
why it wasn't a commercial hit
but boy, you know, as a visionary thing
even for all its flaws I
think is much more interesting
than most of the Hollywood
science fiction fair.
One of the interesting
things about it is how
the iconography of it goes
into the past, or was actually
wildly eclectic, because
you've got some people
dressed as if they were
in a Shakespearian play,
and you've got other people dressed
in sort of Nazi storm troopers
and you've got Venetian architecture
and you've got Victorian trappings,
you've got 1930's telephones
its the most eclectic ...
from a design point of view,
and that's one of the things
that's fascinating about it
but there's very little that's
actually futuristic about it
and we generally assume that science
fiction is gonna be futuristic
and it is set the future
but you wouldn't know it
