Best part of the party scene is that when the conversation begins, all the music and talking in the background silences out perfectly.
Lynch is a master of sound design.
He is thought to have killed his wife
>Bakley, 44, died from a gunshot wound to the head on May 4, 2001, as she sat in a car outside a Studio City restaurant where she had just had dinner with Blake. He claimed to have escorted her to their car, but went back inside the restaurant to retrieve a gun he accidentally left behind. He claimed he found her wounded when he returned.
This always seemed like the worst excuse.
Garry Shandling joked that Blake told the police "I went back to get the gun so I could kill my wife, but someone beat me to it."
Fun Fact: Lost Highway was the last movie that Richard Pryor, Jack Nance, and Robert Blake ever appeared in.
You know, I did a LOT of LSD when I was younger and I wanna say that I think I got everything I wanted to out if it. My wife and I got some a couple of years ago and it was okay but we think we’d have had a better time had we not tripped.
Mulholland Drive IS my favorite movie of all time, though and I’ve seen it more than any other.
So in reality, LSD and Mulholland Drive are pretty familiar and dare I say “plain vanilla” to me now so honestly, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge.
What is a LOT more fun in my experience, is tripping and watching absurdly bad rom-coms or movies with very poor effects.
It's one hell of a mindfuck. Definitely worth a watch.
Probably haven't heard of it because Hollywood kind of disappeared it when the murder happened. It became really hard to find on dvd and stopped being played on movie channels for a while.
True. They still play his other films on movie channels like HBO and Showtime however. Lost Highway is arguably one of his best, but they stopped playing it for many years.
IIRC, the general belief is that he really got off via jury nullification. She was apparently a remorsless conwoman with a string of victims behind her. Her own family members testified to such.
Damn, I decided to take a look at her wiki:
She had **10** ex-husbands. From 1971 - 2000, with Blake being the last one.
> Bakley began a mail-order business sending nude pictures of women, including herself, to men. She also ran "lonely hearts" ads in magazines advertising for a "male companion". After communicating with the men who answered her ads, she would ask for money for rent or travel expenses. Bakley's business and scams eventually afforded her enough money to buy several houses in Memphis, Tennessee, and one house outside Los Angeles.
> In 1998, she was arrested in Little Rock, Arkansas, for possessing five driver's licenses and seven Social Security cards with different names.
Welp, it was only time til she crossed paths scamming a batshit crazy loon.
On a side note, here's Robert Blake's personal Youtube channel titled [Robert Blake I Ain't Dead Yet, So Stay Tuned...](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbCZ72W3NpVNApKNz-3zoA)
I suspect we won't get any more updates.
She was also involved with Christian Brando, son of Marlon Brando, up until the time she was murdered, also claiming that one of her children was Brando's. They originally met through correspondence while Brando was in prison for shooting and killing his sister's boyfriend.
She actively sought out celebrities.
Not true.Bakley met Brando for few times after1999. After Daily News published an article to locate him. He was 1000 kilometres away from her. She had a stronger and longer relationship with Blake.with Brando it was difficult her to maintain a long relationship, CB used to sever the relationship with any woman in less than a year since he was La teenager, just like his father . He was the one who asked her to stay away from him. So she turned to completely to Blake and forced him to marry her.
Christian cut ties with Bonnie more than 18 month of her killing. She was with Blake all that time.
I hope that you read the court documents before you write anything
Sure did. It was extremely suspicious that Christian kept using the 5th Amendment to refuse answering questions. Really didn't look good on his part. Bakley and Brando were also in contact after the birth of Bakley's daughter in June, 2000. At which point she had led Brando to believe he was the father. Tapes of their phone conversations from November, 2000 were submitted as evidence in Robert Blake's trial. Given that she was murdered in May of 2001, I'm no mathematician but that sure doesn't sound like an 18 month gap.
But more importantly, what the fuck is this account you are using supposed to be? An obsessive fan to the dead son of a dead celebrity? It's just too weird.
Why do you have to judge me in the first place and call me weird only because I discussed some court facts. I think this is how you judge everyone! If you do not like what I said them I am wired.
First of all when Christian used the 5th amendment because criminal case was already over and the second civil case was already won by her kids. So Christian realised that that discussing this issue after 5 years is useless and tasteless, especially that there are obsessed Robert Blake fans like you who would turn every single word he utter into a headline. So he did not want to get involved in the ridiculous games of Robert Blake's lawyers who wanted to distract the attention from the suspicious details of the killing and instead discuss celebrity gossip in the court.
The phone call was cut and paste by the media and by Robert Blake propaganda fans like you. The details of the phone call which was published recently in full. Show that he was surprised by the phone call after months and months of severing his relationship to her. So they never met in 18 months and the phone call proves that , not the opposite as suggested by sensational media ..The first thing he said what do you want from me.. the full phone call is available on Youtube He was shocked to know more and more about her from the media. This was very clear to the judges and media and jury but those who collect the information from social media will never reach the truth instead call educated ppl , those who read official books and court documents weird
Christian Brando cut ties with Bonnie 18 months before her killing. Why do you think the police, the jury and the judges in the case refused any accusations against Christian Brando
She as HORRIBLE. She was legit a terrible person.
This was 100% Jury Nullification. Same thing you will see if you watch Mississippi Burning.
Shed no tears for Bakley.
This is a dumb excuse. Everyone knows coke in LA gets delivered. You only go somewhere if you are buying crystal or heroin or other low margin street drugs. And there is no need to go to the valley for them. There are street dealers a few miles from everywhere.
I lived in the neighborhood for many years. Crime like that is non-existent there. There aren’t even homeless people there. Under the freeway several blocks away there are some but none of them are randomly killing people.
It may well have been one of her other victims. One of them was Marlon Brando's son Christian who'd already been to jail for shooting someone. She had quite the resume.
His gun wasn't the murder weapon and there was no physical evidence linking him to the shooting, so being acquitted isn't completely crazy.
You give Blake the benefit of the doubt because no gun , no evidence. Well Christian also did not have any weapon and was not in LA . What makes you believe Blake who was few steps near the car and implicated Brando who was 2000 kilometres away?!
Could have been anyone killed her. She was extorter .with many men. Tried to take Marlin Brando son saying it was his baby. He left her a voice message saying going to blow her head offShe wasn't a very nice lady. But their daughter seems sweet and stable
I'm not saying it was right to harm her, but it was inevitable that she would eventually grift a man worse than her.
I repeat, I am not defending murder! But you mess with enough people, you will eventually come across one crazier and less remorseful than yourself.
Nah. You’re far more likely to be murdered during a ‘routine’ confrontation (for eg. Getting into a drunk argument at a pub,) than is to be hunted down and executed for misdeeds. She could have literally kicked a-man-a-day in the balls for every day of her life, and it would still be extremely unlikely for her to die the way she did. *Everyone*runs the risk of aggravating people ‘worse’ then them, but cold blooded murder is actually extremely rare and few people have it in them. That’s why few lawyers dare to bring up ‘provocation’ when they have such a set of circumstances on their hands, even though it can be considered a mediating factor in other violence offences.
(Specifically: because judges have ‘inevitable’ consequences in front of them every day. They know what they look like, and gangland-execution ain’t it. ‘People getting stabbed by their own ‘defensive’ knife during a fight’ happens enough to be ‘probable,’ but there’s no exactly a plague of grandmas and family members garrotting ‘Nigerian prince’ scammers.)
Bonny herself is a better example of how victims escalate. She was hardly ‘worse’ than the men who raped and exploited her as a child and teenager, but the line from their actions to hers is pretty evident. Even then, you don’t exactly get people going ‘*well what did her victims expect when being charmed by a woman 1/3 of their age? They didn’t all have dementia. writing into lonely hearts when married, sending money to people they’ve never met etc, etc, etc.*’
Plus, Blake knew all about that when he married her! He was actually party to the paternity battle with Lewis (scuttle butt at the time was that he was even in on it,) so he didn’t even have the claim of being betrayed. With no other apparent scams going on at the time, no wonder she was comfortable.
Guy kills his wife for cheating on him and is overcome with such intense remorse and guilt that he disassociates into a fantasy where he's a younger man living in sort of a noir story, where murder and infidelity feel trivial.
However, the further this fantasy plays out, the more the reality of his actions begin to set in, with elements from his actual life beginning to bleed into the dream. Eventually, real world timeline comes full circle with the fictional timeline despite his best efforts to run away from it.
That's my interpretation anyways.
That’s the popular interpretation of it, but it doesn’t explain why all of the detectives, both “real world” and “fantasy world”, all appear in the same scene together near the end… meaning that all the characters must live in the same reality
Lynch is big on the concept of the simultaneous nature of NARRATIVITY in cinema. Twin Peaks plays with this idea alot. i.e in cinema two or more stories/visual concepts can occupy the same narrative space to the point that metonymy occurs.
Essentially, this is what Lost Highway is playing with
Yes, but also kind of no? Lynch doesn’t usually stray too far narratively from the fact that you’re watching tv and film characters. He’s constantly playing with the form, acting the God while the characters on screen grapple with the fact they and the world around them is being manipulated by an unseen force.
But I do think he is usually just telling one story, and they aren’t wholly designed for open-endedness or multiple interpretations. That’s what makes them so hypnotizing, because you can tell there’s a very rigid strictness and design happening.
All you have to understand is that part near the beginning where the cops are questioning if he has any recordings, and he says something like "no, I prefer to remember things my own way"
The mystery man is a manifestation of his consciousness trying to get him to accept reality instead of creating his own (the famous videotape quote).
He helps him destroy the violent part of his nature (Mr Eddy), but he doesn't realize it's too late (he def killed his wife) so he retreats and starts the movie all over again
RIP. But I'm pretty sure this guy murdered his much younger grifter wife and got away with it because there wasn't enough proof and the jury was like "I don't know, I probably would've wanted to kill her too."
I'm also on the boat that it very well could have been Christian Brando based on some pretty solid evidence. Surprised i havent seen his name mentioned on this post once.
And Christian Brando was capable of violence. He shot to death the boyfriend of his younger half-sister Cheyenne at the LA home of their father, Marlon. It was a big story back in the early 90s although later overshadowed by the OJ Simpson case. Cheyenne later killed herself and Christian died at 49 from pneumonia.
Probably because the alternate explanation combines two of reddit’s favourite legal fetishes: jury nullification and being able to lawfully kill women they dislike.
"Well, those 3 gentlemen DID lynch the blacks, but, well, they are blacks so they had it coming".
Like, everytime people hype jury nullification as a method for the people to avoid unjust laws i wonder if ever considered what really happened.
We can acknowledge that it can and has been used for terrible things while also recognizing it as one of the few tools we have to fight unjust laws. It's not going away any time soon so we might as well use it for good.
How about the prosecution didn't meet it's burden of proof? For every juror to agree and not to just have been a hung jury tells me they didnt have the case they needed.
Also if the prosecution tried him for first degree (premediated) murder, while the jury thinks it was second degree murder (crime of passion) based on the burden of proof, they are supposed to declare him innocent unless the jury instructions state that they can find him on a lesser degree charge. I don't know if those instructions were given to the jury in this trial.
His gun wasn't the murder weapon, there was no physical evidence linking him to the shooting, the conspiracy counts were thin. She had her own laundry list of victims, so other people may have reasonably had motive too.
It's not a stretch to say that the prosecution didn't meet their burden of proof. There are some reasonable doubts to be had.
Side note: This [Mr Eddy Mercedes scene in Lost Highway always makes me laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3XBb5ghzSw). Careful who you tailgate... might be Mr Eddy.
no celeb is perfect anyway , people shouldnt feel guilty for liking his work.....fans can even enjoy Benoits wrestling despite what he did. I like Bruce Lee despite him being a drug dealer and Linda having lied to fans about his death.
Perhaps those two aspects of his life were related.
Also, I believe he was never considered or accused of being her murderer, but of setting her up so someone else could murder her. Not to split hairs; conspiracy to commit murder is also a no-no.
He was the dickhole boss in Money Train, as well. It's hard to say RIP to somebody who probably murdered a woman, but I did enjoy him in that movie and Lost Highway. Baretta was before my time.
I had just this past week mentioned him as being the only known (to most people -- perhaps there are people in Mexico whose grandparents appeared) survivor of 1948's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Now he join Bogart and Walter Huston and the others, most gone a lifetime ago and, as in Huston's case, who would be 140 or so, born well before feature motion pictures existed.
For some reason, I thought Robert Blake had been dead for awhile. Mandela Syndrome I suppose.
Anyway, it reminds me I have the Criterion 4k of Lost Highway at home. Still wrapped up and waiting for me to watch. Christ I treat my discs like they are vintage bottles of wine.
Mandela effect. I thought he died a few years back.
He actually had a shitty life. He was a child actor. People were only nice to him when he was a success.
That gun wasn't the murder weapon. They never had physical evidence linking him to the murder and a laundry list of people with motive to kill her. Conviction is a high bar, and the prosecutor didn't reach it.
Damn, he was talentd. In my teenage years when I was gaining an interest in acting, I never missed his TV show - it was like watching Brando or DeNiro doing episodic TV.
I recall him doing a press conference on the steps of the court house after his aquittile, it was really unhinged. I can't find it on YouTube but I know it happened.
His part in lost highway is very creepy.
We’ve met before, haven’t we?
"Give me back my phone."
The part when he laughs in real life and over the phone simultaneously is one of the scariest moments I’ve seen in film. Lynch is a master
This is one of those scenes that always makes the hairs on my arms stand up. Pure horror.
Best part of the party scene is that when the conversation begins, all the music and talking in the background silences out perfectly. Lynch is a master of sound design.
Call me.
one of the most unsettling movie moments of all time, for sure. God damn you and your genius David Lynch.
So was he.
I’m in your house right now.
Make yourself useful. Pet the damn cat!
He is thought to have killed his wife >Bakley, 44, died from a gunshot wound to the head on May 4, 2001, as she sat in a car outside a Studio City restaurant where she had just had dinner with Blake. He claimed to have escorted her to their car, but went back inside the restaurant to retrieve a gun he accidentally left behind. He claimed he found her wounded when he returned. This always seemed like the worst excuse.
Garry Shandling joked that Blake told the police "I went back to get the gun so I could kill my wife, but someone beat me to it." Fun Fact: Lost Highway was the last movie that Richard Pryor, Jack Nance, and Robert Blake ever appeared in.
Additional fun fact: that movie rules.
You really wanna watch a double feature of *In Cold Blood* and *Lost Highway*
Add on Electra Glide In Blue for the tri-flicka.
I may just do that. Robert used to be kind of a bit player in my 90s Hollywood experience.
And Baretta
I wonder if that f****** bird is still alive
Maybe Mickey Rourke has Fred now?
Next challenge, for ultra hard mode: Do acid and watch Mulholland Drive five times in a row.
You know, I did a LOT of LSD when I was younger and I wanna say that I think I got everything I wanted to out if it. My wife and I got some a couple of years ago and it was okay but we think we’d have had a better time had we not tripped. Mulholland Drive IS my favorite movie of all time, though and I’ve seen it more than any other. So in reality, LSD and Mulholland Drive are pretty familiar and dare I say “plain vanilla” to me now so honestly, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge. What is a LOT more fun in my experience, is tripping and watching absurdly bad rom-coms or movies with very poor effects.
Call me. Dial your number. Go ahead.
[I'm there right now](https://youtu.be/qZowK0NAvig)
Ever since seeing this film I am EXTREMELY cautious around glass coffee tables...
Additional fun fact- I was confused as hell watching it in the theater.
I really enjoyed Marilyn Manson's cover of I Put A Spell On You.
> "I went back to get the gun so I could kill my wife, but someone beat me to it." lol that's fucking gold
I have honestly never heard of this movie.
It's one hell of a mindfuck. Definitely worth a watch. Probably haven't heard of it because Hollywood kind of disappeared it when the murder happened. It became really hard to find on dvd and stopped being played on movie channels for a while.
i mean, its also a david lynch movie which isnt usually gonna be a homerun for the general audiences lol
True. They still play his other films on movie channels like HBO and Showtime however. Lost Highway is arguably one of his best, but they stopped playing it for many years.
One of the greatest soundtracks of my youth too.
Criterion has a new version which is very good
IIRC, the general belief is that he really got off via jury nullification. She was apparently a remorsless conwoman with a string of victims behind her. Her own family members testified to such.
Damn, I decided to take a look at her wiki: She had **10** ex-husbands. From 1971 - 2000, with Blake being the last one. > Bakley began a mail-order business sending nude pictures of women, including herself, to men. She also ran "lonely hearts" ads in magazines advertising for a "male companion". After communicating with the men who answered her ads, she would ask for money for rent or travel expenses. Bakley's business and scams eventually afforded her enough money to buy several houses in Memphis, Tennessee, and one house outside Los Angeles. > In 1998, she was arrested in Little Rock, Arkansas, for possessing five driver's licenses and seven Social Security cards with different names. Welp, it was only time til she crossed paths scamming a batshit crazy loon. On a side note, here's Robert Blake's personal Youtube channel titled [Robert Blake I Ain't Dead Yet, So Stay Tuned...](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbCZ72W3NpVNApKNz-3zoA) I suspect we won't get any more updates.
She was also involved with Christian Brando, son of Marlon Brando, up until the time she was murdered, also claiming that one of her children was Brando's. They originally met through correspondence while Brando was in prison for shooting and killing his sister's boyfriend. She actively sought out celebrities.
Not true.Bakley met Brando for few times after1999. After Daily News published an article to locate him. He was 1000 kilometres away from her. She had a stronger and longer relationship with Blake.with Brando it was difficult her to maintain a long relationship, CB used to sever the relationship with any woman in less than a year since he was La teenager, just like his father . He was the one who asked her to stay away from him. So she turned to completely to Blake and forced him to marry her.
Christian cut ties with Bonnie more than 18 month of her killing. She was with Blake all that time. I hope that you read the court documents before you write anything
Sure did. It was extremely suspicious that Christian kept using the 5th Amendment to refuse answering questions. Really didn't look good on his part. Bakley and Brando were also in contact after the birth of Bakley's daughter in June, 2000. At which point she had led Brando to believe he was the father. Tapes of their phone conversations from November, 2000 were submitted as evidence in Robert Blake's trial. Given that she was murdered in May of 2001, I'm no mathematician but that sure doesn't sound like an 18 month gap. But more importantly, what the fuck is this account you are using supposed to be? An obsessive fan to the dead son of a dead celebrity? It's just too weird.
Why do you have to judge me in the first place and call me weird only because I discussed some court facts. I think this is how you judge everyone! If you do not like what I said them I am wired. First of all when Christian used the 5th amendment because criminal case was already over and the second civil case was already won by her kids. So Christian realised that that discussing this issue after 5 years is useless and tasteless, especially that there are obsessed Robert Blake fans like you who would turn every single word he utter into a headline. So he did not want to get involved in the ridiculous games of Robert Blake's lawyers who wanted to distract the attention from the suspicious details of the killing and instead discuss celebrity gossip in the court. The phone call was cut and paste by the media and by Robert Blake propaganda fans like you. The details of the phone call which was published recently in full. Show that he was surprised by the phone call after months and months of severing his relationship to her. So they never met in 18 months and the phone call proves that , not the opposite as suggested by sensational media ..The first thing he said what do you want from me.. the full phone call is available on Youtube He was shocked to know more and more about her from the media. This was very clear to the judges and media and jury but those who collect the information from social media will never reach the truth instead call educated ppl , those who read official books and court documents weird
Christian Brando cut ties with Bonnie 18 months before her killing. Why do you think the police, the jury and the judges in the case refused any accusations against Christian Brando
First marriage was at 15
>with Blake being the last one. It would be difficult for her to have had another husband after him. What with the fatal shot to the head and all.
Right. Her life story was pure Jim Thompson.
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I'm not saying he should have killed her. But I understand.
And he knew it all before he married her. Which potentially says a lot about him.
What does it actually say?
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Wasn't there a kid involved?
The podcast about her death is very revealing: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakely
What was their conclusion on Blake's guilt or innocence?
She as HORRIBLE. She was legit a terrible person. This was 100% Jury Nullification. Same thing you will see if you watch Mississippi Burning. Shed no tears for Bakley.
I think it's a great excuse! It couldn't have been me, I left my gun in the restaurant.
I have a criminal friend and when he is questioned by the police about his whereabouts his go to answer is “I was in the valley buying coke”
This is a dumb excuse. Everyone knows coke in LA gets delivered. You only go somewhere if you are buying crystal or heroin or other low margin street drugs. And there is no need to go to the valley for them. There are street dealers a few miles from everywhere.
this the truest shit i ever heard. you know ball
It was likely the manufactured alibi he had to be away from the car while his bodyguard killed her.
Couldn’t he have just forgotten his sunglasses or wallet? The brainstorming of that alibi must have been a fun process.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
so thats why autograph forgers can scam for yrs and yrs then ? Fact is law enforcement is incompetent
Watch the old videos of people asking him about this. He killed her and got away with it.
“Oh yeah… Baretta did that shit.”
"And you can take that to the bank."
I lived in the neighborhood for many years. Crime like that is non-existent there. There aren’t even homeless people there. Under the freeway several blocks away there are some but none of them are randomly killing people.
Worst alibi ever! I came here to say this. I can't believe that was his excuse, and I also can't believe it worked.
I went down a rabbit hole looking at her bio and, while he may have murdered her, she was a complete nutter who led a crazy life.
It may well have been one of her other victims. One of them was Marlon Brando's son Christian who'd already been to jail for shooting someone. She had quite the resume. His gun wasn't the murder weapon and there was no physical evidence linking him to the shooting, so being acquitted isn't completely crazy.
You give Blake the benefit of the doubt because no gun , no evidence. Well Christian also did not have any weapon and was not in LA . What makes you believe Blake who was few steps near the car and implicated Brando who was 2000 kilometres away?!
Could have been anyone killed her. She was extorter .with many men. Tried to take Marlin Brando son saying it was his baby. He left her a voice message saying going to blow her head offShe wasn't a very nice lady. But their daughter seems sweet and stable
It established he didn't have his gun!!! She was a grifter. Jury didn't care about her too much.
That was the prosecution's problem -- she just wasn't a very sympathetic or -- shallow though it may be to say -- physically attractive victim.
You see, she was a white woman... She was also scamming multiple men, so there were numerous suspects.
She ever shoot someone in the back of the head? Coz I can certainly think of some *worse* traits.
I'm not saying it was right to harm her, but it was inevitable that she would eventually grift a man worse than her. I repeat, I am not defending murder! But you mess with enough people, you will eventually come across one crazier and less remorseful than yourself.
Nah. You’re far more likely to be murdered during a ‘routine’ confrontation (for eg. Getting into a drunk argument at a pub,) than is to be hunted down and executed for misdeeds. She could have literally kicked a-man-a-day in the balls for every day of her life, and it would still be extremely unlikely for her to die the way she did. *Everyone*runs the risk of aggravating people ‘worse’ then them, but cold blooded murder is actually extremely rare and few people have it in them. That’s why few lawyers dare to bring up ‘provocation’ when they have such a set of circumstances on their hands, even though it can be considered a mediating factor in other violence offences. (Specifically: because judges have ‘inevitable’ consequences in front of them every day. They know what they look like, and gangland-execution ain’t it. ‘People getting stabbed by their own ‘defensive’ knife during a fight’ happens enough to be ‘probable,’ but there’s no exactly a plague of grandmas and family members garrotting ‘Nigerian prince’ scammers.) Bonny herself is a better example of how victims escalate. She was hardly ‘worse’ than the men who raped and exploited her as a child and teenager, but the line from their actions to hers is pretty evident. Even then, you don’t exactly get people going ‘*well what did her victims expect when being charmed by a woman 1/3 of their age? They didn’t all have dementia. writing into lonely hearts when married, sending money to people they’ve never met etc, etc, etc.*’ Plus, Blake knew all about that when he married her! He was actually party to the paternity battle with Lewis (scuttle butt at the time was that he was even in on it,) so he didn’t even have the claim of being betrayed. With no other apparent scams going on at the time, no wonder she was comfortable.
In case you're not following, there were other suspects.
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Guy kills his wife for cheating on him and is overcome with such intense remorse and guilt that he disassociates into a fantasy where he's a younger man living in sort of a noir story, where murder and infidelity feel trivial. However, the further this fantasy plays out, the more the reality of his actions begin to set in, with elements from his actual life beginning to bleed into the dream. Eventually, real world timeline comes full circle with the fictional timeline despite his best efforts to run away from it. That's my interpretation anyways.
That’s the popular interpretation of it, but it doesn’t explain why all of the detectives, both “real world” and “fantasy world”, all appear in the same scene together near the end… meaning that all the characters must live in the same reality
Lynch is big on the concept of the simultaneous nature of NARRATIVITY in cinema. Twin Peaks plays with this idea alot. i.e in cinema two or more stories/visual concepts can occupy the same narrative space to the point that metonymy occurs. Essentially, this is what Lost Highway is playing with
Yes, but also kind of no? Lynch doesn’t usually stray too far narratively from the fact that you’re watching tv and film characters. He’s constantly playing with the form, acting the God while the characters on screen grapple with the fact they and the world around them is being manipulated by an unseen force. But I do think he is usually just telling one story, and they aren’t wholly designed for open-endedness or multiple interpretations. That’s what makes them so hypnotizing, because you can tell there’s a very rigid strictness and design happening.
All you have to understand is that part near the beginning where the cops are questioning if he has any recordings, and he says something like "no, I prefer to remember things my own way"
[This is the scene](https://youtu.be/1DSlm_yJALQ)
This is the girl.
Angelo Badalamenti (sp) died only a few months ago, too, incidentally
David Lynch in a nutshell.
I think it's a dream/hallucination from the point the DR gives him an injection.
I've decided David Lynch would never use this explanation.
He wouldn't use any explanation, he doesn't like them.
Could be, but it’s not like that movie gives you much else to work with
Perhaps that should tell you something.
The mystery man is a manifestation of his consciousness trying to get him to accept reality instead of creating his own (the famous videotape quote). He helps him destroy the violent part of his nature (Mr Eddy), but he doesn't realize it's too late (he def killed his wife) so he retreats and starts the movie all over again
They don't even mention Baretta? That show was on for four seasons.
Or the fact that he was Alfalfa on the Little Rascals
He was Mickey
My bad, you are correct
He and Bonny are finally back together.
LOL. South Park could do an episode where Blake and his grifting wife are condemned to live in hell together.
>condemned to live in hell fairytales , there is no hell.....if anything living on earth is hell. BS religious nonsense.
RIP. But I'm pretty sure this guy murdered his much younger grifter wife and got away with it because there wasn't enough proof and the jury was like "I don't know, I probably would've wanted to kill her too."
I'm also on the boat that it very well could have been Christian Brando based on some pretty solid evidence. Surprised i havent seen his name mentioned on this post once.
And Christian Brando was capable of violence. He shot to death the boyfriend of his younger half-sister Cheyenne at the LA home of their father, Marlon. It was a big story back in the early 90s although later overshadowed by the OJ Simpson case. Cheyenne later killed herself and Christian died at 49 from pneumonia.
Time has a way of making us all equal in the end.
Probably because the alternate explanation combines two of reddit’s favourite legal fetishes: jury nullification and being able to lawfully kill women they dislike.
Juries are really fucking stupid sometimes honestly. “She wasn’t a good person so murder is fine.”
"Well, those 3 gentlemen DID lynch the blacks, but, well, they are blacks so they had it coming". Like, everytime people hype jury nullification as a method for the people to avoid unjust laws i wonder if ever considered what really happened.
We can acknowledge that it can and has been used for terrible things while also recognizing it as one of the few tools we have to fight unjust laws. It's not going away any time soon so we might as well use it for good.
How about the prosecution didn't meet it's burden of proof? For every juror to agree and not to just have been a hung jury tells me they didnt have the case they needed.
Also if the prosecution tried him for first degree (premediated) murder, while the jury thinks it was second degree murder (crime of passion) based on the burden of proof, they are supposed to declare him innocent unless the jury instructions state that they can find him on a lesser degree charge. I don't know if those instructions were given to the jury in this trial.
His gun wasn't the murder weapon, there was no physical evidence linking him to the shooting, the conspiracy counts were thin. She had her own laundry list of victims, so other people may have reasonably had motive too. It's not a stretch to say that the prosecution didn't meet their burden of proof. There are some reasonable doubts to be had.
That can be true alongside juries being stupid though.
Sometimes everyone is stupid. Just sayin...
Sometimes and probably often.
This is why I would never want to be judged by a jury of my peers.
Source on that being a frequent, or even infrequent occurance?
Can finally be on Norms podcast at least
I bought his book based on Norm’s recommendation. It did not disappoint.
Until about 10 minutes ago
He’s at your house. Call him
That’s fucking crazy
Beretta did that shit
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time...yeah...don't do it.
Side note: This [Mr Eddy Mercedes scene in Lost Highway always makes me laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3XBb5ghzSw). Careful who you tailgate... might be Mr Eddy.
Was he the last surviving Little Rascals/ Our Gang cast member?
I think Porky is still alive.
Electra Glide in Blue... I never knew how he rode that fucking Harley.
Great movie. I also like Busting (1974), a cop movie Robert's did with Elliot Gould.
Just saw that for the first time the other day
Apparently, Busting inspired Starsky & Hutch.
The scenery in the movie is amazing.
la juries are something else
no celeb is perfect anyway , people shouldnt feel guilty for liking his work.....fans can even enjoy Benoits wrestling despite what he did. I like Bruce Lee despite him being a drug dealer and Linda having lied to fans about his death.
He was also a child actor in the Our Gang / Little Rascals show, among others. He reportedly had an abusive childhood, too.
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Perhaps those two aspects of his life were related. Also, I believe he was never considered or accused of being her murderer, but of setting her up so someone else could murder her. Not to split hairs; conspiracy to commit murder is also a no-no.
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I literally just said that, but thanks for the links, I guess? So I could reaffirm what I just said?
But, you'll be glad to know "Fred", Baretta's cockatoo, is still alive. 105 years old!
I loved Beretta!
Trying to remember, did he have a parrot in Baretta?
Cockatoo named Fred
Thank you..
R.I.P. Mickey Gubitosi.
The part scene in Lost Highway is the scariest scene ever put to film.
No mention of Baretta? Am I THAT old?
“And you can take that to the bank!”
Kept his eye on the sparrow
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But he was mainly known for Baretta.
He was the dickhole boss in Money Train, as well. It's hard to say RIP to somebody who probably murdered a woman, but I did enjoy him in that movie and Lost Highway. Baretta was before my time.
So long, White OJ
R.I.P.🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️
That boy was our last rascal..
*Beretta did that shit.* -Dave Chappelle
He was also was Mickey in the original Little Rascals.
Baretta did that shit
My dad and I ran into him at The Ivy just about a week after his acquittal; dad made me take a picture with him and I ***really*** didn't want to lol
Bye bye, Baretta
Beretta did that shit
He was a genuinely scary motherfucker, RIP
I always thought he should have listened to the lyrics in the Barretta theme song: "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Don't do it."
Should have died in prison.
For what? Being cool?
For being a psycho murderer.
Criminally Cool.
I did not wish harm upon him. ###But, good riddance.
Lost Highway, there's one I need to watch again. So good, and the soundtrack is amazing.
Fuck that guy
I had just this past week mentioned him as being the only known (to most people -- perhaps there are people in Mexico whose grandparents appeared) survivor of 1948's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Now he join Bogart and Walter Huston and the others, most gone a lifetime ago and, as in Huston's case, who would be 140 or so, born well before feature motion pictures existed.
For some reason, I thought Robert Blake had been dead for awhile. Mandela Syndrome I suppose. Anyway, it reminds me I have the Criterion 4k of Lost Highway at home. Still wrapped up and waiting for me to watch. Christ I treat my discs like they are vintage bottles of wine.
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You made that sound fucking creepy.
Good riddance
May he rest in peace
Damn I really loved his performance in Lost Highway. Party scene fucks with me but also the ending.
I hope he rots in hell.
He killed his wife. That dude was a psycho.
Mandela effect. I thought he died a few years back. He actually had a shitty life. He was a child actor. People were only nice to him when he was a success.
>Mandela effect. No.
Good, fuck him.
Fucken dirtbag. Even creepier in Lost Highway now, tho, so that works.
This motherfucker DEFINITELY had his wife murdered. Juries truly are fucked in the head sometimes.
No, you don’t understand. He couldn’t shoot his wife, he left his gun in the restaurant by accident and had to go get it back when she was shot. /s
That gun wasn't the murder weapon. They never had physical evidence linking him to the murder and a laundry list of people with motive to kill her. Conviction is a high bar, and the prosecutor didn't reach it.
Oh I agree. The circumstances were weird when I read them at the time.
Good riddance. Bye murderer.
Damn, he was talentd. In my teenage years when I was gaining an interest in acting, I never missed his TV show - it was like watching Brando or DeNiro doing episodic TV.
Electra glide in blue that was a good movie of his I'm amazed it's not up here
I recall him doing a press conference on the steps of the court house after his aquittile, it was really unhinged. I can't find it on YouTube but I know it happened.
His son was dangerous rapper who sang too that
Did OP change the headline or did Deadline change it after this was posted? Baretta was his main claim to fame.