Highlights – Brett Chalupa's Journal

All the Great Scenes: Tears in Rain, Blade Runner

A total classic scene that doesn’t get old. I love the brevity and clarity. It’s truly moving.

I’m quite looking forward to Blade Runner 2049. 🙂

All the Great Scenes: Lil the Dancer, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

I love this scene in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It’s the strangest way to deliver a coded message.

“A blue rose?”

“Good. But I can’t tell you about that.”

All the Great Scenes: The Thread Will Be Torn, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

David Lynch is the master of intensity, and this scene proves it.

There was a stillness.

The sound design in this scene totally makes it. And Ray Wise’s performance as Leland Palmer is brilliant. I think he’s one of the great underrated actors.

Also, Lynch’s seeming obsession with the elderly walking slowly never gets old.

All the Great Shots: Henry’s Stare, Eraserhead

Henry (Jack Nance) staring in David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977).

This shot is so iconic. I absolutely love the texture in the background and Jack Nance’s hair. It’s the right amount of unsettling.

One of My Favorite Seven Samurai Quotes

Your head is on the block and all you can think of are your whiskers?

– Gisaku, Seven Samurai