Top 10 David Lynch scenes

[mikemuncer]

For any other Lynch fans like myself, can you rate your top 10 David Lynch directed scenes ever? I'm talking TV and Film - so Twin Peaks counts! Here is mine.

10. Blue Velvet - Candy Coloured Clown
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It's quite comical and yet there's something very disturbing about it! I love the music, as usual it's dream related. One of the darkest scenes in Blue Velvet in my opinion.

9. Lost Highway - The Phone Call
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This guy gave me the serious creeps. His voice, his face, everything. That scene when he tells Fred that he's in his house and he's on the other end of the phone...it haunted me for days! One of the creepiest scenes in the creepiest Lynch film!

8. Eraserhead - Lady Behind The Radiator
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"In heaven, everything is fine!!"
During this slow, nightmarish, horrible film which is, to be honest, quite painful to watch, this crazy scene is somewhat a breath of fresh air. The constant mechanical ambient background noises is interrupted for a couple of minutes by a beautiful tranquil song as a woman with large cheeks side steps around a stage, squashing giant sperms! Hilarious and beautifully done!

7. Blue Velvet - Geoffrey in the Closet
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There's not much to say about this iconic scene, other than it's one of the darkest and most disturbing scenes in any film, ever. Brilliantly acted by Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rosselini. Like Geoffrey, I didn't want to watch yet I couldn't tear my eyes away.

6. Twin Peaks - The kiler is revealed
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This historic in Twin Peaks where we FINALLY found out who killed Laura Palmer is one of the most bizarre, gripping scenes in all of Television. From the moment where the Giant appears stating "it's happening again" to the next shot of Leland Palmer looking in the mirror and Bob staring right back at him, grinning psychotically, and through to the disturbing brutal death of Maddy Palmer, it left me with my mouth dropped open!

5. Blue Velvet - Opening Sequence
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Thie is my favourite part of Blue Velvet, it's very simple, but sums up completely what this whole movie is about. Cheerful music and pretty images of happy suburbia, but then seeing that underneath the surface of this freshly cut grass is conflict, death and darkness...

4. Twin Peaks - Tibetten Rock Throwing method
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Agent Cooper - BEST TV CHARACTER EVER, and this is one of his greatest scenes. After giving his colleagues a short historical background on his favourite country, Tibet, he introduces one of the tibetten methods in order to catch Laura Palmer's killer. He simply says the name of each suspect and throws a rock at a glass. If the rock smashes the glass...then he's onto something!! Brilliantly funny!

3. Mulholland Drive - Wendys
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Mulholland Drive had SO many memorable scenes it was hard to narrow them down. But this was definitely one of the most memorable for me. A complete random scene, a set of characters we've never seen before. A man discussing a horrible dream he had with a friend, and then that dream coming to life. It's one of the scariest moments in the film, and it's brilliantly done.

2. Twin Peaks - Cooper's Dream
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This is the scene where you find out that Twin Peaks is more than just a simple murder mystery story. Two episodes into the series, things take a bizarre turn for the worst when Agent Cooper finds himself an old man sitting in a red room, talking to the deceased Laura Palmer and a strange dancing dwarf, both of whom are talking backwards! (Well, backwards backwards) It's bizarre, funny, scary, it's everything Lynch does brilliantly, rolled into one.

1. Mulholland Drive - Club Silencio
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The scene touched me like no other. It's sad, powerful, bizarre, the scene sums up everything Lynch's work is about - the power of illusion. The chemistry between Naomi Watts and Laura Hanning is heart filling, as is the music, and the performance by Rebekah Del Rio as the singer (or mimer) is fantastic. I could watch this scene over and over again! Best Lynch scene EVER!

[Le_Big_Mac]

Originally posted by mikemuncer
8. Eraserhead - Lady Behind The Radiator
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"In heaven, everything is fine!!"
During this slow, nightmarish, horrible film which is, to be honest, quite painful to watch, this crazy scene is somewhat a breath of fresh air. The constant mechanical ambient background noises is interrupted for a couple of minutes by a beautiful tranquil song as a woman with large cheeks side steps around a stage, squashing giant sperms! Hilarious and beautifully done!

I thought that scene was scarier than it was relieving. Lynch doesn't give me a break with that movie! What about the scene where the baby grows out of Henry's head and the blood-gushing tree stump comes onto the stage. Take about the creeps.

Unfortunately, that's the only Lynch film I've seen so far but all the others are fairly high up in my Netflix queue. If this thread is still around then, I'll be back.

[Cronos]

i don't know what my top 10 would be but heres a couple that would probably be in it

Mulholland Drive Pilot - slow move towards the homeless person at the end

Straight Story - can't remember exactly where it is in the film but i remember one of the scenes of him driving down the road on his tractor particularly standing out

Dune - need to see this again but the scene with the box and the hand to hand fight would probably be in there

[X-Nightcrawler]

Can't disagree with the scenes I've seen out of that list. Especially number one. That "Silencio" scene was a gorgeous, incredibly well shot, intense scene in which Naomi gives the best performance of the entire movie.

I would've put the closet scene in Blue Velvet much higher. One of the best things Lynch has filmed.

And where's Mulholland Drive's opening??

[Hannibal21]

You listed all the best ones already (my top 2 favorite Lynch scenes are your #10 and #1 respectively), but I'd also have to mention the sensual love making scene in the desert in Lost Highway as a personal fav.

[notchreturns]

I like the scene where it gets real weird.

[ThirdOuting]

It's too hard. All his films are memorable, not just particular scenes, but I'll jot down a few that spring to mind...

“Silencio” in ‘Mulholland Drive’
“Just cut them up like regular chickens” An unusual dinner in ‘Eraserhead’
“In Dreams” at Ben’s in ‘Blue Velvet’
“The club scene” in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
“You’ll never have me…” a sandy shag in ‘Lost Highway’
“Give me back my phone” mysterious calls in ‘Lost Highway’

I haven't seen INLAND EMPIRE yet. I'm sure that'll bear a few.

[Tayzlor]

---when Jeffrey is walking up the stairs to Isabella's apartment
---when Isabella is singing "Blue Velvet" in the club and Frank is holding back tears
---when Jeffrey looks down the staircase and sees incognito Frank
---"COUNTER FRANK"
---when the baby laughs at Eraserhead's misery in taking care of it
---when the lady from across the hall emerges in Eraserhead
---the club scene in FWWM
---the famous dream sequence in Twin Peaks
---Bowie's appearance in FWWM
---the cutaway to the guy with the white mask and black hair in FWWM
---the various overheads of the colored fields in Straight Story
---the multilayered opening to "Mulholland Drive"
---"I've Told Every Little Star"
---conceited movie director's encounter with the cowboy
---the slaying ending montage to Mulholland

I have yet to see Inland, Dune, and Lost Highway.

[Castro]

The audition scene in Mulholland Drive.

[Kings-Rook1]

Some great seens have already been mentioned so I will add a few personal favs:

DUNE! (-Spoiler Warning-)

Paul: Don't try your powers on me, witch! Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Silence him, Jessica!
Lady Jessica: [like a robot] Silence him yourself, if you can.
Paul: For ninety generations, you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing weapon... a weapon that would enable you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am; and these goals, I have achieved. But I'll *never* be *yours*.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: [using the Voice] You mustn't speak of...
Paul: [also using the Voice, which overpowers her] *Silence*! I remember your Gom Jabbar, now you remember mine. I can kill with a word.


And from Blue Velvet:
Frank Booth: Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

- Papst Blue has held a special place in my fridge ever since.

[blk_flower]

"I want you to find something on this radio right this instance!"
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