Blue Velvet

Released in 1986, this movie scored the director a second Academy Award. Screenplay and direction by David Lynch, this film jumps right into a creepy start with back ground music by none other than Bobby Vinton. Lynch's version of the movie was 4 hours long, to meet Laurentiis' length equirement, half of the length was deleted.
The actors....

• Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont, son Tom Beaumont who breaks his neck watering his lawn. In the movie his mother is played by the same lady who plays Adam Sandler's grandmother in the movie Happy Gilmore. To me is feels like you have to call MacLachlan by his full name, not Jeff, or Jack, he just has this auro of having a stick in ass all the time.
• Isabella Rossellini plays Dorothy Vallens the singer femme fatale. Isabella is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini. She has a twin sister, Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and was married for a few years to Martin Scorsese.
• Dennis Hopper plays Frank Booth in a role that recharged his acting career. Booth has strange sexual proclivities, which including erotic asphyxiation, fisting, dry humping and sadomasochism. His best line in the movie is.......

"Heineken? Fuck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon".

• Hope Lange as Mrs. Williams, the detective wife and Sandy's mother.
• Laura Dern plays Detective John Williams' daughter Sandy. Still very young, Dern had already played opposite Eric Stolz in the movie Mask. Sandy becomes Jeffrey's girlfriend.
• Dean Stockwell plays Ben, one of Frank Booth's partners. At one point Ben lip-syncs the Roy Orbison song In Dreams. I had no idea that Stockwell is 72 years old, older than my father. He has always had one of those hard to judge profiles. Stockwell started acting professionally in 1945, still active today over 60 years in the business.
• Brad Dourif as Raymond, one of Frank's henchmen. Dourif as played sick bastards in all sorts of movies for years and years. He was born 10 years to the day before me. Has had big parts in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Lord of the Rings: Tale of Two Towers and the crown jewel in the recurring role as teh voice of Chucky the killer doll.

Located in Lumberton North Carolina, a quiet papermill town. After visiting is father in the hospital Jeffery finds an unattached ear in a grassy field. Jeffery and Sandy, out of curiosity, decide investigate a woman that Sandy has heard her father discuss as a subject in the case of the ear. The duo decide to search Dorothy's apartment, Jeffrey is caught in her apartment and witnesses Booth's depraved treatment of Dorothy. When he is done with his business he tells her to stay alive, to do it for van Gogh. We soon find out that Booth has kidnapped Dorothy's husband and son in order to force her perform sexual acts, demented sexual acts. In their search for the ear clipper Jeffrey and Sandy become close, but honest because she has a jealous boyfriend. Pragmatically, Jeffrey is drawn to the tortured yet exotic Dorothy, she damaged by Booth welcomes his tenderness. In time Jeffrey and Frank become acquainted, the youngster coming away bruised and beaten. After the beating Jeffrey informs to the detective and plans a date with Sandy. The date turns sour when interrupts their date, naked and beaten. The interruption does change their feelings, Jeffrey and Sandy declare their love for one another. Jeffery, trying to be an honorable by protecting Dorothy, enters her apartment and finds the a crooked cop called the Yellow Man with Dorothy's one eared husband, both dead. Jeffrey starts to leave them there as he found them. Frank's place is raided by the police, following the tips that Jeffrey gave he detective, but Frank escapes and comes to the apartment. Jeffery, anticipating hides in the closet from the murderous man and shooots him through the head when face to face. To finish, Sandy and Jeffrey are together and Dorothy with her lttle boy.

Score 44 of 50, as good as film noir can be.

• Character development 9 out of 10. For depth of characters there is little to compare to Frank and Dorothy, both contrasted by Jeffrey and Sandy.
• Acting 8 out of 10. All fit in this stylistic movie, each absurd and each
• Photography, cinematography 8 of 10. Dark, mean, intense.
• Writing, script 9 out of 10. Frank Booth by himself gets you top marks.
• Concept 10 out of 10. Like the edge of a knife.