Sunset Boulevard vs Mulholland Drive

You didn't specify more lesbian boobs.

in Finland, it doesn't count unless they're lesbian boobs

Straight from the big book of finnish boob rules.

girls aren't naked unless they're naked together

u americans are soooo uptight

I've touched a lot less boobs than I originally thought by finnish boob rules.

so are our boobs

I've touched a lot less boobs than I originally thought by finnish boob rules.

those were merely "chests"

(or as they say in Finnish: "lihaperäpukamat")

Oh I think my IKEA cabinet is called that.

IKEA chest

(or as they say in Finnish: "lihaperäpukamat")

Wtf, do you know what this actually means?!

I don't want to even ask how Dan found that word.

hahahahahahaha that worked better than I could have possibly imagined

(as an explanation, "meat/flesh" should be obvious but I translated "piles" without really thinking about what I was doing)

LOL

Oh, so it was just a mistranslation? I thought you'd actually found some very weird Finnish euphemism for "boobs".

Actually, in a way you have.

was originally going to go for "globes" but the Finnish translation had no umlauts

Amusingly lihamaapalloa would be translated as "meat earth" by google.

Meat Earth... from the Mind of David Lynch

This thread.

Q: Can the sun fall down to meat earth?
In: Astronomy, Planetary Science [Edit categories]

A: noe

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=jdh&q=lihaper%C3%A4pukamat&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

you guys, lol

congratulations, you googlewhacked ilx in finnish

SB.

MD is indeed a great film. But I have to vote for the Mother.
I like the topicality of SB, a cinematic assault in the waning years of the golden age. Wilder channelling the spirit of F.Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West. A product of the Hollywood studio machine, biting the hand that feeds it. A cathedral of ideas that are still being revised and revisited. It paved the way for for Chinatown, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Player, and Mulholland Drive. Truly one of the great collaborations in the studio system. Where would we be (in cinema) without it?

Which ideas are those?

I meant Barton Fink. Not Hudsucker Proxy. Sorry wrong Coen Brothers film.

The cathedral of ideas - Meta Hollywood, the Comeback, broken dreams, "It all started with a corpse" You know what I'm saying.

damnit, I thought an impassioned defense of the hudsucker proxy was impending

What ideas does Barton Fink engage with? I'm not being snarky. I don't find anti-Hollywood films a particularly fecund genre; they're fun and facile.

Hudsucker Proxy is a great, a comic symphony dedicated to the color brown

I'm not the right person to defend Hudsucker, and I wouldn't want to swerve from the SB vs. MD. I was just confused, and typed the wrong Coen Bros. title.

But Barton Fink engages, among many things, the meta- Hollywood Picture which SB is in spades. SB is THE MOVIE about the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1s7EwOeowU&feature=related

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both are overrated imo (i voted MD)

I Sunset Boulevarded you for that.

Gloria excelled at physical comedy in her 20s!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cgPrGgujb4

o wow I just saw SB for the first time last night and the whole time thought how it reminded me of MD though I couldn't give any tangible reasons why; like there aren't really any plot similarities, they're just, kind of weird batshit movies set in Hollywood? I guess?

but I'm glad it's not just me

For me the thing that pushes sb into the lead is waxman's incredible score-- a stone masterpiece. Obv mulholland uses music very effectively too.

I wonder if there's anyone on ilx who would vote mulholland falls over mulholland drive?

Plot similarity = dead main character

this thread gets hilarious

Big book of finnish boob rules

I have to say it just occurred to me the other day how Adam Kesher in MD almost plays the viewer in the sense that he is like totally weirded out by how bizarre his circumstances are, partic w/ the Cowboy; he seems to echo the audience's sentiment of "what the fuck is going on here" when everyone else in the film is kind of acting like it's all normal

Does any other Lynch character sort of break the 4th wall in this regard?

Sunset Boulevard is fantastic. I've never seen Mulholland Drive.

SB is p terrific, but all the 'good girl' Nancy Olson stuff (cept maybe her first scene where she delivers the bad review of Joe's script) is unbearable. And Manny Farber pointed out the sledgehammer obviousness of the store clerk's "WELL, IF THE LADY IS PAYING" leer as a bad moment.

but you should see Wilder's Fedora when it gets unleashed on multi platforms next month -- a grimmer Hwood fairytale with a smarter Holden character.