Blue Velvet (film)

Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neonoir mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. The title is taken from Bobby Vintons 1963 song of the same name. Although initially receiving a divided critical response, the film is now widely acclaimed as one of the greatest films of the 1980s, and earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director. As an example of a director casting against the norm, Blue Velvet is also noted for relaunching Hoppers career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond the work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman, for which she had until then been known.

Jeffrey Beaumont Kyle MacLachlan returns to his logging home town of Lumberton, North Carolina from Oak Lake College after his father suffers a nearfatal stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed ear. Jeffrey takes the ear to police detective John Williams George Dickerson, through whom he reacquaints with the detectives daughter, Sandy Laura Dern. She tells him details about the ear case and a suspicious woman, Dorothy Vallens Isabella Rossellini, who may be connected to the case. Increasingly curious, Jeffrey enters Dorothys apartment by posing as an exterminator, and while Dorothy is distracted by a man dressed in a yellow suit at her door whom Jeffrey later refers to as the Yellow Man, Jeffrey steals her spare key.Jeffrey and Sandy attend Dorothys nightclub act, in which she sings Blue Velvet, and leave early so Jeffrey can sneak into her apartment to snoop. He hurriedly hides in a closet when she returns home. However, Dorothy, wielding a knife, discovers him and threatens to kill him. Believing his curiosity is merely sexual and aroused by his voyeurism, Dorothy makes Jeffrey undress at knifepoint and begins to fellate him before their encounter is interrupted by a knock at the door. Dorothy hides Jeffrey in the closet. From there he witnesses the visitor, Frank Booth Dennis Hopper, inflict his bizarre sexual proclivitieswhich include inhaling an unidentified gas possibly nitrous oxide, dry humping, and sadomasochismupon Dorothy. Frank is an extremely foulmouthed, violent sociopath whose orgasmic climax is a fit of both pleasure and rage. He continually refers to her as Mommy and to himself as both the Daddy and the Baby, who want to fuck. Frank has kidnapped Dorothys husband and son to force her to perform sexual favors to Do it for van Gogh. When Frank leaves, a sad and desperate Dorothy tries to seduce Jeffrey again and demands that he hit her, but when he refuses, she tells him to leave. When Jeffre

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