Tuesday 6 March 2012

David Lynch - Successful director

Daivd Lynch is an american film director who is known for his surrealist films. He has developed his own unique cinematic style which has been dubbed "lynchian", chategorized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they disturb their audience as well as mistfy or offend them. After attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired Eraserhead (1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s. It was judged to be unreleasable weird until distributor Ben Barenholtz enabled Lynch to make his first movie.

David has won 39 awards during his career in the film industry and is known for many films, such as, mulholland drive, twin peaks: fire walk with me, the elphant man and blue velvet. Blue velvet  is about a man who returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man. In the box office, the film budgeted at and estimated $6,000,000 (estimated) and in the opening weekend, the film made $789,409 in 21 September 1986 on 98 Screens. The gross of the film was $8,551,228.

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