7 David Lynch movies to remember the visionary filmmaker by, explored

David Lynch was a result of his reluctance towards the education system. When students are usually focused on their homework and studies, the acclaimed director stays on the course of creativity. Yesterday, we came to know that he took his last breath just five days shy of his birthday.

Throughout his career, Lynch gave the audiences several films that had them on the edges of their seats. Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Drive (2001) are among them. He tried making Dune in 1984, but it didn't go popular like the latest version directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Reports say that he was diagnosed with a chronic lung disease called emphysema. Following his passing, his family writes in a statement that,

"There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole."

His work will be remembered in the years to come, and here are a few of what he has left with us.

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Here are 7 movies directed by David Lynch

(7) Eraserhead (1977)

First in the list is interestingly the first feature film by David Lynch, Eraserhead, for which he got the inspiration from Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Nikolai Gogol's story The Nose. The surrealist body horror film Was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2004.

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(6) Mulholland Drive (2001)

Mulholland Drive's tagline says,

"A love story in the city of dreams."

And that is all David Lynch had to say about the film's symbolism, as he never gave his comment on that. An interesting thing about Mullholand Drive was that Laura Harring was involved in a car accident on her way to interview; she never knew her character would be involved in the same during the film's story.

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(5) The Amputee (1974)

A woman is sitting on a chair and one nurse is dressing her amputed legs. Although The Amputee doesn't present itself with a particular meaning, one interpretation can be that a person can lose themselves so much in whatever they love doing that they don't think about anything but the work. One reason to watch this film is that David Lynch is the nurse in this short film.

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(4) Lost Highway (1997)

Something that is great also comes up with a part that many usually ignore; it is built upon the pile of ideas that weren't deemed fitting in the first place. Lynch and Barry Gifford experienced something similar, as they had to reject a lot of ideas when they were writing Lost Highway's script.

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(3) Wild at Heart (1990)

Nicholas Cage stars in this David Lynch flick, whose story he picked from Barry Gifford's novel of the same name. Though he was going to be the producer of Wild at Heart, he later had a change of heart, and he decided to write the screenplay of the film after reading the story.

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(2) The Grandmother (1970)

Another short film by the director which sees a young boy in a dysfunctional family finds solace with his grandmother, who is born after his parents. Sounds twisted, right? The Grandmother is equally intriguing. It stars Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, and Robert Chadwick.

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(1) The Straight Story

People love traveling, especially by road. The Straight Story is partially about traveling and more about willingness, as Alvin Straight rode 240 miles to see his brother following medical urgency. And yes, that happened in reality, which made its way to Lynch through Mary Sweeney, who read it in The New York Times.

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