blue velvet
one of david lynch's possible inspirations for blue velvet,just may have been this version of stevenson's book.the relationship between frank and dorothy is very similar to hyde and ivy's,isabella rossellini is THE DAUGHTER OF INGRID BERGMAN,and hopper,however unwittingly,resembles the sharklike,tightfaced hyde from this movie.also there's the jeffery-sandy/frank-dorothy and jekyll-beatrice/hyde-ivy relationship dichcotomy,heightend by the distant implication of frank being jeffery's dark side,which would perfectly fit lynch's duality of man obsession.also,there's the watchful father figure in both,sandy's father in blue velvet,and beatrice's father in jekyll and hyde.also lynch tends to make films that are rethinkings of,or refrences to other films,i.e. wild at heart,with it's wizard of oz/elvis movie homages.i know that the frederic march version beat this film to the punch as far as plot structure,but for reasons that i've either explained already,or should be obvious,like the sadistic inslavement of ivy in this version being far more pronounced,i really think it was this version lynch drew on.after all,this version was much more freudian,and what movie is more freudian than blue velvet?
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