Dialogue-free ??


Is there any talking in this short-film besides the barking and grunting?

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The little boy's name is yelled a few times by the parents. "Matt" it sounds like. Beside that though, nope.

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They were very distorted shouts of "c'mon" "c'mon" the book 'THE PASSION OF DAVID LYNCH' is really informative. Great book.

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They were saying "C'mon, c'mon?" It thought they were saying "Mutt. Mutt." I don't think the film was shot with sound, so who knows what they're saying.
Anyone know where the interiors were shot.

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"Mutt" is exactly what I thought. Not only because it sounded just as that, but acted like dogs/animals. In a couple of David Lynchs' biographies, it was stated as distorted "c'mon" as "MON! "MON" ? But when the parents catch the boy going up to the attic again, the mother definitely shouts it with a T sound after saying it. 16mm with sound over...I really didn't think they were even saying anything specific. Lynchs' ex wife in the documentary PRETTY AS A PICTURE "THE ART OF DAVID LYNCH" (fine cut presentations)1997 - states that he painted the walls black in their "house" As David himself said..."I wanted all the walls black, so you would just look at what was there and not look at the walls." This film inspired Eraserhead.

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I personally think they're saying "Matt" as the second poster said, but it's up to the viewer.

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Though mutt would make sense because of the animal-like nature of the parents.

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It sounded like they were saying "MAD!!!" to me. I just watched the DVD the other day.

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Who cares what they were saying . What happened at the very end?

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What the parents say in "The Grandmother" could be the most important part in deciphering it. Then again, it may not be important at all. Since Lynch rarely drops hints, we may never know. Personally, I thought they were saying "Mike" or "Matt", I was too boggled by the film itself to really listen closely.

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i had always thought he said "Mike" and just assumed that was the boy's name. i never really gave it any thought after that.

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this is stupid
the film and the actors were obviously never told to really say anything, as opposed to convey an emotion

they never say matt or mike or whatever, it's just a representation of what they were really saying, which was OBVIOUSLY (again) just recriminations against what the kid did (wetting the bed) and at the same time releasing anger and harrassment(im drunk and mexican so english is not my mother language, so forgive any syntax crap) over something the kid could not control (and which they themselves, the parents, had the whole fault of: the kid wetting the bed being a reaction to how they treated him).

read more books
then you'll learn to read between the lines.

besides, can you really see a young david lynch telling the actors to scram "mike" or "matt"? it's difficult to picture that. he probably just asked them to convey some sort of behaviour in the most emotional way possible. anger as a dog barking and madness as the lady just combing her hair irritated with nothing to do or clapping arranging furniture

damn, gotta sleep

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Of course they were conveying an emotion. The word itself wasn't important, it was the inflection behind it. They could have been saying "teacup" for all it mattered. That's surrealism in a nutshell: inflection.

"besides, can you really see a young david lynch telling the actors to scram "mike" or "matt"?"

Yes, actually. Lynch is exactly the kind of man who would do that.

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Me too actually, I figured he'd had them say "mad" backwards then ran the audio in reverse to give it that odd quality...

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did he wet the bed? i thought it was a wet dream, which then helped the seed to grow...

Mat in russian is 'bad words' - they could be swearing. if it's the same in polish, with DL's polish stuff, we'd have an explanation.

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No, and only the boy and his grandmother seem able to communicate at all, albeit without words. That's the whole idea. Lynch is trying to evoke a sense of alienation.

But keep in mind that the grandmother may have been just a figment of his imagination.

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