The opening of the film has such a striking beauty to it with crisp and colourful cinematography by Frederick Elmes while Lynch doesn't mince his words on his message. This leads him to nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and a criminal underworld that he had no idea existed. He takes it to the police before embarking on his own investigation. After a visit at the hospital he takes a short cut through an abandoned field and finds a severed human ear. Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) is an impressionable young man who return's back to his home town to care for his ill father. Not only did it put him back on the map but it's still widely regarded as one the best films from the 1980's. He regrouped, however, and two years later he delivered one of his own original scripts in the form of Blue Velvet. So upset was David Lynch with studio interference and losing final cut of the film that he vowed never to work with a big budget again. ![]() To put it plainly, it didn't do well at the box office and was even tagged with the moniker of being the Heaven's Gate of science fiction films. The debacle of adapting Frank Herbert's Dune in 1984, is now pretty much common knowledge among film enthusiasts.
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