The “Blue Velvet” Project, #17
Second #799, 13:19
“Jeffrey can connect different worlds,” David Lynch has said. “He can look into Sandy’s world, he can look into Dorothy’s world, he can get into Frank’s world.” The secret subtext to this scene is Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941), starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, number 11 in the movie series, where Andy learns that adult life is dark and impure and trip-wired with temptation and so struggles mightily to gear-shift his life into reverse. Andy, in New York, away from his future wife Betsy Booth (Judy Garland), is tempted by the “wolfess” Jennifer Hicks (Patricia Dane) who gives him a dose of truth:
Don’t tell me. I’ve known dozens of them. You’ve gotta learn darling. A lot of people put on a big show about right thinking and right living and right this and right that. And you’re young—you believe them.
“Jeffrey can connect different worlds,” David Lynch has said. “He can look into Sandy’s world, he can look into Dorothy’s world, he can get into Frank’s world.” The secret subtext to this scene is Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941), starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, number 11 in the movie series, where Andy learns that adult life is dark and impure and trip-wired with temptation and so struggles mightily to gear-shift his life into reverse. Andy, in New York, away from his future wife Betsy Booth (Judy Garland), is tempted by the “wolfess” Jennifer Hicks (Patricia Dane) who gives him a dose of truth:
Don’t tell me. I’ve known dozens of them. You’ve gotta learn darling. A lot of people put on a big show about right thinking and right living and right this and right that. And you’re young—you believe them.
- 9/14/2011
- by Nicholas Rombes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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