That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Maybe you have a point. It's been years since I saw Natural Born Killers but there were a few things that seemed like they were lifted directly from Wild at Heart - one was a witch flying at them in the desert - and I've never forgotten them. I agree his influences aren't the same as DL's but the way he uses dialogue, music and pop-culture has always struck me as suspiciously Lynchian.   

 I don't think you have to "buy" the love story.  I grew up pretty low-class and couples like Sailor and Lula were all around me... what's the difference between being in love and being too stupid to know better than to hump constantly?  Do you really think there's a deeper love out there for them?  I mean, Romeo and Juliet are dumb kids who kill themselves for nothing.... isn't that the point, or am I more of a cynic than I realize?

This shouldn't suggest I don't find Sailor and Lula interminably boring.  I, too, like every part they're not in.

Don't overlook the fact, though, that Tarantino didn't direct NBK; Oliver Stone did. And many of the visuals used by Stone -- all that hallucinatory stuff -- is Stone's own, not Tarantino's. I think QT's chief influence on his original screenplay were films such as Badlands.

I'd also disagree with the point about dialogue. QT's attempts to be naturalistic, whereas Lynch opts for a far more unnatural style.

As a big fan of both these directors, I'd say I've never considered there to be any similarities between their works, oddly enough! 

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 Well, there is this phenomenally useful tool which I have found fairly indispensible in my modern existence. It's called www.google.com. Could come in handy the next time you're not sure about something...... (sorry, I couldn't resist!)

There are many articles on this subject knocking around on the internet, but there's quite a good summary here. You can scroll back and forth thru that article for other info about the Dune shoot. This is quite a famous Dune-related quote from Lynch that I got from the same article:

“I started selling out on Dune.  Looking back, it’s no one’s fault but my own.  I probably shouldn’t have done that picture, but I saw tons of possibilities for things I loved, and this was the structure to do them in.  There was so much room to create a world.  But I got strong indications from Dino de Laurentiis of what kind of film they expected, and I knew I didn’t have final cut.  A little by little, and this is the danger, because it doesn’t happen in chunks, it happens in the tiniest little shavings, little sandings- little by little, every decision was always made with them in mind and their sort of film.  Things I felt I could get away within their framework.  So it was destined to be a failure to me.”

So DL's experience on Dune may well have provided the inspiration for that scene in Mulholland Drive, when Adam Kesher is told "it's no longer your film"

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That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Which is what I said in post #30 anyway!  

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 I don't see to any similarity between Lynch and Fellini's work either, but that doesn't mean that Fellini isn't an influence on Lynch! Likewise Kevin Smith - and yet he freely admits that TP is one of the things that inspired him. Just because you can't SEE the influence, doesn't mean it's not there.

Besides, there are several moments in WAH that are Tarantino-esque.....

I'm just saying that Tarantino was not influenced by TP... I don't know about WAH... but Tarantino is usually pretty loud and open about his influences, and as far as I'm aware he's never dropped Lynch's name in his rather frequent interviews.

BTW off topic, does anyone know if it's true that Eli Roth was an assistant to Lynch for five years? I didn't want to start a new topic for the question, and this conversation is semi related...

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

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You mean it the other way round, I suppose? Tarantino is WildAtHeartesque?... ;-)
 

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WAH is up there wit the best for me. I only barely made it through Eraserhead and disliked Dune also. The others are all equally great in my opinion.