I made that screen capture just as the monkey is saying "Who's going to believe an orangutan?" The monkey, Jack, is being interrogated for whatever it is the title "What Did Jack Do?" refers to. The interrogator is played by David Lynch, and the taunt "Who's going to believe an orangutan?" is aimed at the Lynch character.
The movie came out in November 2017, so I don't know if the orangutan accusation has anything to do with Trump — who was famously taunted about looking like an orangutan— but maybe some resonance was intended. Lynch has something of a resemblance to Trump....
That ran in the NY Post. Lynch was clarifying his earlier remark, "Trump could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history." Oh! It's sad that Lynch should have had to clarify anything. Clarification isn't his lane. Let's get back to interrogating Jack the monkey.
I'm going to need to rewatch "What Did Jack Do?," and I'm going to do it more offbeatly, more cerebrally. My hypothesis is that the interrogator (Lynch) is Trump, and We the People are the monkey. What did we do?
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Warning, slight tangent! But your category would also include Run, Lola, Run? Seen it? Liked it?
rehajm to David Lynch: You are creepy and frightening people....
Suffering and division! Oh noes! And that suffering and division was caused by, I guess, high rates of employment and large gains in salaries and low oil prices and peace accords in the Mideast and less horrible behavior worldwide from China to Iran? DAMN HIM!
"We" let the media gaslight us and focus on stupid shit like Trump's tweets and his derision of the elites.
"We" got all frumpy and upset and emotional and lost sight of the systemic stability that Trump built.
"We" being the technocrat/upper class suburban set.
I give zero fucks about the opinion of any celebrity, or anyone else for that matter if I don't believe they're smarter than me...they're not.
If they want to give tips on singing or dancing or acting? Sure...that's what they're good at.
What is it about being a 'celebrity' that leads these people to think that they need to spew their opinions out to the general public?
Stick to a blog like everyone else...
Trump is asking the monkey what the monkey did when the election was obviously and casually stolen in 2020.
Trump is asking the monkey if the difference between 2019 and 2021 is obvious enough for the monkey to understand.
Apparently enough monkey's in Virginia got over their tribal affiliations and their class consciousness enough to figure out the democrats are trying to take over their children's adolescence and indoctrinate them to attack their parents.
The monkey is starting to understand that it cannot rely on the framework of the constitution set up to make this system work.
The monkey is seeing the system that made it's coddled life possible being torn up by other monkeys.
Some will choose to kneel and accept our country being turn into Mexico.
Others are going to fight. The monkeys shitting in everyone's bed are going to get kicked out.
Trump won the election 75mil to 62 mil. The Biden Regime has lost a good 10-20 mil of it's real base. The other 19 million "votes" for Biden will be there no matter what because they are not real voters.
The pendulum is about to swing. It needs to stop in the middle. Not of the right or left spectrum. That spectrum of political garbage is unimportant.
The pendulum needs to stop in the middle after we put a bunch of the elites tearing everything apart in the way.
I watched the whole documentary on David Lynch before I realized that he wasn't the Talking Heads singer.
Knowing that they were two different people cut my respect for each of them in half.
It looks like they have the same barber but he had to practice on Trump first ...
If it was a killing, it sounds like a knockoff of Poe’s ‘Murder in the Rue Morgue’.
"Trump is asking the monkey what the monkey did when the election was obviously and casually stolen in 2020."
Get the chronology right. The movie came out in Nov. 2017
My hypothesis is that the interrogator (Lynch) is Trump, and We the People are the monkey. What did we do?
In 2020 we did what the Germans did in 1933. In 2016 we came perilously close, but the better angels of our nature won the day. On Tuesday some of us made amends, but there's a mountain range of contrition and penance yet to do. Let us pray it won't involve 1945-scale destruction to accomplish.
"What Did Jack Do?"
Something between "Jack Squat" and "Jack Shit"?
Get the chronology right. The movie came out in Nov. 2017
And 1984 came out in 1948. Althouse seems to be unaware of prophetic literature, which is often written in the past tense.
I'll withhold judgement until Cher chimes in.
Ann Althouse said...
"Trump is asking the monkey what the monkey did when the election was obviously and casually stolen in 2020."
Get the chronology right. The movie came out in Nov. 2017
If you are going to set rules on an abstract thinking exercise you need to be more explicit. Their nature is abstract so you are going to get all kinds of things.
What is Trump asking the people in 2017?
I don't think he or really any large segment of the population had much of an idea what his election would turn into. 2017 is a year and a lot happened from the start to the finish of that year. It is hard for me to really see it from his frame of mind. Are the questions a socratic exercise?
If I was Trump I would ask the monkey:
What do you think of Paul Ryan?
Why do these Republicans in DC seem to want the same thing as Democrats?
Do you know the swamp is spying on all of us?
What is Russian Collusion?
David Lynch is an insufferable elitist. Who is “suffering”? Not the working people at the bottom of the economic ladder, who saw real wage gains for the first time since the Bush administration. Not the people who had given up on finding jobs during the Obama years (and hence did not count against Obama’s unemployment statistics) but found good-paying jobs under Trump’s economy. Like you, Althouse, he has his and doesn’t care about poor black men getting good jobs. All he sees is that the boat is rocking, not who’s being helped on board.
I like talking-monkey movies. We can learn so much from them!
David Lynch's 'Dune' causes suffering and division among Dune fans.
David Lynch to Trump: You're causing suffering and delusion
Trump at Rally in My Mind: Ever see his weird movie, what's it called? Eraserhead? Yeah. Eraser Head. Really. Real movie. I'm not the one causing suffering. He makes a bunch of these weird movies. Causes more people to suffer than me. This guy. Eraser Head.
I’m a big fan of the weather reports Lynch does on youtube.
The weird Lynch seems to need to shock those that choose to watch his movies. In this, he’s akin to a monkey in a zoo flinging excrement at passers by.
When did it become OK to compare presidents to monkeys again? I was told it was racist.....
After the cat milking scene in Dune I tend to ignore anything animal related Lynch comes up with.
In the last analysis, doesn't each of us have to accept accountability for interrogating our own monkey?
You have to ask animal abuser Fauci...
Lynch: I didn't mean to further divide the country. It's just this war, and that lying son of a bitch Trump!
'I like talking-monkey movies. We can learn so much from them!'
The best movie reviewer blurb I've ever seen was for 'Babe.'
'The "Citizen Kane" of talking pig pictures.'
: )
Trump at Rally in My Mind: Ever see his weird movie, what's it called? Eraserhead? Yeah. Eraser Head. Really. Real movie. I'm not the one causing suffering. He makes a bunch of these weird movies. Causes more people to suffer than me. This guy. Eraser Head.
OMFG that's funny.
What suffering did Bad Orange Man cause? What ever it was went right by me, and it's not as if I'm buffered by tons of money the way Soros is, or even the Bidens or the Pelosis are.
David Lynch's 'Dune' causes suffering and division among Dune fans.
I tried to watch that movie THREE TIMES, and each attempt produced the same effect -- bored somnambulism! What an astonishingly bad piece of cinema. Ed Wood was a better filmmaker than David Lynch, at least his screen works can keep me awake. The Lynch corpus is consistently pretentious and uniformly dreadful, including Twin Peaks. the series television equivalent of a Grammy Award show runway photoshoot -- all style and no substance, and even the style is inferior, right up there with interrogating a dumb animal.
The De Laurentiis studio executives tried to resuscitate that parboiled turkey with a severe re-edit that included much more exposition and much less of Lynch's self-indulgent showoffery. However, Lynch, convinced as many egotists are, of his own unassailable genius, disowned it, insisting on the pseudonymous "Alan Smithee" directorial credit.
Lynch works the camera like someone who has never seen a moving picture made since Georges Méliès was cranking. Twin Peaks would have been more interesting if someone connected with McHale's Navy had been employed as a story consultant. At least that risible comedy adhered to dramatic logic. Twin Peaks wasn't even insane, just inane.
I don't use Netflix myself, but I went there to see what films they list in those two categories. I'd watch the Miles Davis documentary, and the Bill Pullman movie about a Cold War chess game. If they're not Netflix "exclusives."
For the many of you who do use the service, this thing I found serendipitally might come in handy if you don't have it already: a Hidden Categories extension finder
I'd like to see Lynch portray Alec Baldwin when they make the movie about him killing his cinematographer.
Or maybe they could make an SNL skit.
I do like Twin Peaks, because at least it is something original to Lynch. With Dune, they took an auteur filmmaker, gave him weird and dense source material, and then the studio interfered as he tried to do the job they hired him to do.
I love Dune. It is my favorite series of novels. (The Frank Herbert novels, not the trash churned out by his son.) I highly recommend the new Denis Villeneuve movie. It is a fantastic adaptation.
Lynch doesn’t just disown the extended cut, he disowns his cut of the movie too- because of all the studio interference, as I recall.
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