On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Paul Duncan wrote:
> <<I haven't seen any comment on intertextual
connections between "Lost
> Highway" and "Kiss Me Deadly", which are pretty
obvious to me. Are they
> obvious to anyone else?>>
> You're right Juri. They are obviously connected.
Sometimes stating the
> obvious is needed.
Well, this seems like a battle call. In "Kiss Me Deadly" the
house on the beach blows up, in "Lost Highway" the house on
the sand
(beach?) gets reconstructed through a blow. In "Kiss Me
Deadly" Mike Hammer knows this Greek guy, is it Nick, who is
a car mechanic. In "Lost Highway" this Balthazar Getty guy is
also a car mechanic and he gets mingled up with gangsters who
drive around in fast cars. Bill Pullman plays jazz, Mike
Hammer is a jazz fan. And as my friend pointed out, Bill
Pullman looks just a little bit like Ralph Meeker
(Hammer).
There were also other connections, but since it's been over
two years when I last saw "Lost Highway", they don't come to
mind. But I remember that there were also connections with
Maya Deren's avantgarde classic
"Meshes of the Afternoon". These might seem little vague or
shallow connections, but they are there.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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