[HN Gopher] Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)
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Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 157 points
Date : 2025-03-29 20:31 UTC (1 days ago)
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| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoCYbQBTmlY
| danielktdoranie wrote:
| 360p quality. I understand some of these videos were uploaded
| from VHS and the quality has degraded over time with different
| compression algorithms being applied but a lot of the later
| commercials are out there in 1080p on YouTube. It is great to
| have all his commercials in one place but it would be far better
| to have the best quality video ripped and if it isn't up to
| snuff, use AI video upscaling.
| pimlottc wrote:
| AI upscaling is a poor choice for a director who deliberately
| made unexpected visual choices.
| mattl wrote:
| > use AI video upscaling
|
| I want to see what he made, not what something trained on
| stolen work thinks it might look like.
| scyclow wrote:
| That commercial for Dior is wild. It's like an outtake from
| Inland Empire... but still very obviously a commercial for a
| handbag.
| rossant wrote:
| What about the 1999 PlayStation 2 advertisement disguised as a
| futuristic 2078 commercial for the PlayStation 9 [1]? I always
| thought it was directed by David Lynch, but I don't see it in
| this video.
|
| [1]
| https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/u1siyw/plays...
| mpalmer wrote:
| This doesn't look like anything Lynch would have made. Quick
| cuts, tons of effects shots, straightforward narrative...
| fredland wrote:
| i recommend you see Lynch's The Straight Story
| mpalmer wrote:
| I have! A more conventional story, but it too bears
| basically no resemblance to this ad whatsoever.
| KwanEsq wrote:
| Perhaps your memory had incorrectly conflated that with his
| infamous "The Third Place" commercial for the PS2? I remember a
| fuss being made about Lynch making that at the time, but I've
| never heard any claim he directed the PS9 one.
| bookofjoe wrote:
| PS2 commercial:
| https://youtu.be/hzn4WDe13mU?si=dbuofe9HtQ5vW8qq
| KwanEsq wrote:
| That isn't it. The Lynch PS2 commercial is in the video in
| the original article, 16:14 through.
| TechDebtDevin wrote:
| Awesome
| MrMcCall wrote:
| "Why is poor taste ubiquitous?" --Eric Spieakermann in
| "Helvetica"
|
| Because we live in a world who live to be titilated with the
| inane, lewd, and lascivious.
|
| Like a brain-damanged Bower Bird's trashy monument to itself, he
| created monuments to the vapid and wasteful.
|
| "Buh-bye." --David Spade's flight attendent character on SNL
| jjulius wrote:
| >Obsessed with compassion and how to create happiness for
| others...
|
| "One of these things is not like the other..."
|
| It's almost like you haven't even stopped to understand his
| work. There's far more compassion in the films and television
| he left behind than there is in your comment. It's a shame you
| don't seem to want to find it. I hope you have a pleasant
| weekend.
| maxmcd wrote:
| Anyone want to hazard a guess about the likelihood of us ever
| getting high quality versions of these commercials? Are many of
| these likely lost to time, or is it possible that high quality
| copies exist somewhere?
| bookofjoe wrote:
| Upscaled to HD:
| https://youtu.be/U5UVCuV6pzU?si=JxzJpD6wOqr3hUeG
|
| 720p: https://youtu.be/wAgGoNjmohA?si=0Xe0Wvb4Sq06_X2u
| diggan wrote:
| In short, it depends on how it was shot. If using analog film,
| then it's likely a higher quality scan can be made (assuming
| you can find the footage), but if it's digital sensors that
| were used, then the quality is what it is.
|
| So for 35mm film which a lot of movies and high-end commercials
| use, then you can most likely get a good 4K version from that.
| So if you know how it was shot, you could try to figure out how
| likely it is :)
| roskelld wrote:
| As a life long fan of Lynch, I took the trip last year to go
| through his entire back catalog of content, from his student
| films, shorts, commercials, TV shows including On The Air,
| behind-the-scenes clips and of course main movies. Such a great
| journey, everything he crafted carried something more than what
| you saw and heard, there's always a thread or the power to make
| it feel like there was a thread beyond the frame.
|
| Outside of all the typical Lynch stuff, one thing I always
| suggest people watch is The Straight Story. It's such a wonderful
| movie, one I hoped at release would find a much bigger audience
| as it really deserves to be seen and shows that Lynch wasn't a
| guy who just made weird things, he made great things.
| MrMcCall wrote:
| > he made great things.
|
| Read https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/parentalguide
|
| Anyone who calls that great enjoys the perversion of mankind,
| and it is nothing less than that.
|
| It's a sickness, and lots of people have it, and they're so
| sick they think they're just perfectly fine.
|
| But everyone's choices are theirs to make, for good or ill, and
| we are all running up a tab, and we all must pay our bill. Some
| lucky few of us have a positive balance, because we embrace
| compassion with the art of our lives.
|
| There are people whose going is the only time they're going to
| make the world a better place, for their simply no longer being
| a persistent negative influence.
| nothrabannosir wrote:
| > Some lucky few of us have a positive balance, because we
| embrace compassion with the art of our lives.
|
| I assume you mean hypothetical "we" here because given your
| comment you are unlikely to be in that group :)
|
| Welcome to the rest of us! It's more fun here, anyway.
| danbolt wrote:
| I found the aforementioned elements of _Blue Velvet_ to be
| very uncomfortable to watch, but I also don't think it was
| necessarily a work of obscenity on Lynch's part. It always
| struck me that the film's violence was intentionally framed
| in suburban noir. Or, that way the audience might wonder
| about the darker parts of 20th century Americana around them,
| much like Lynch did as a child.
|
| That said, I'm on the fence if whether or not the violence in
| the movie felt earned to me or not.
| MrMcCall wrote:
| It's not obscene, IMO, it's _DEPRAVED_. It is disgusting,
| it is unnecessary, and it was made to make money.
|
| That it was written, directed, and produced by a huge
| industry and then made available to be watched in a movie
| theater is all one needs to know about the machine that is
| Hollywood, the same machine that produced (no pun intended)
| Harvey Weinstein.
|
| That is no coincidence, my friend.
|
| > Or, that way the audience might wonder about the darker
| parts of 20th century Americana around them, much like
| Lynch did as a child.
|
| I can't stand anything about 1950s America, but 2020s
| America makes it pale in comparison, and Lynch's America
| was on that horrible descent from "does good for the world"
| to "embraces totalitarians for profit".
|
| How we make our money is a bellweather of the soul, as is
| the art we produce and/or appreciate. The question is,
| "Does it elevate humanity? Or not?"
|
| Learning about evil is necessary on the path to wisdom, but
| profiting off titillating the impressionable is foolish and
| detrimental to society.
|
| There are many ways to tell the story of Jeffry Dahlmer,
| and the choices a writer and director makes in that regard
| show those folks' character, or lack thereof.
| mopsi wrote:
| Which movies by David Lynch have you seen?
|
| Lynch, by the way, was an outsider in Hollywood and in
| the wider movie industry. He didn't make large budget
| movies nor did his movies bring in a lot of money. When
| he was promoting his last movie, he didn't even have
| money for proper advertising and had to rely on publicity
| stunts like sitting in a director's chair next to a live
| cow in the middle of Los Angeles to draw attention:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9gVoSiXup0
|
| His struggles were largely due to his refusal to
| trivialize violence or turn it into something easily
| digestible. Many of his characters (such as Dale Cooper
| in Twin Peaks) are highly moral and good-natured people
| who encounter incredible evil. This evil is depicted in
| an exceptionally disturbing way to amplify Lynch's
| message about genuine love, compassion and human
| connection. Lynch did not exploit or glorify violence. He
| presented it as something deeply unsettling to highlight
| its emotional and psychological impact instead of using
| it for shock value or cheap entertainment.
|
| It seems like you are very angry about something you
| don't know much about.
| bowsamic wrote:
| Why is portraying perversion in art bad? I suppose you also
| hate Dante's Inferno for similar reasons?
|
| This just seems a little strange to me, even the Bible
| portrays the dark aspects of humanity. What makes you think
| that in Blue Velvet they are portrayed for our enjoyment
| specifically?
|
| You can't have a good philosophy, or as you say, have a "good
| tab", without understanding the bad. David Lynch is more
| ethical than you, I think, because he did not run away from
| the depraved but wanted to understand it
| MrMcCall wrote:
| > I suppose you also hate Dante's Inferno for similar
| reasons?
|
| I don't hate anything or anyone, because hate and rage are
| solely negative, but, I didn't bother reading that middle
| ages tripe any more than I read "Wuthering Heights".
|
| That said, reading it is just one dimension, seeing and
| hearing it on a giant screen being portrayed by attractive
| people is three or four dimensions.
|
| > David Lynch is more ethical than you, I think, because he
| did not run away from the depraved but wanted to understand
| it
|
| I've seen "The World at War". The "Genocide" episode is the
| last time I wept, seeing a dumptruck full of bodies get
| dumped into a trench.
|
| I understand it better than you, my friend, because I also
| know how to get to "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they
| shall see God." I'm certainly not there yet, but I've made
| some bit of progress, after much trial and error.
|
| David Lynch and TM are literally the antithesis of that
| attainment. He wrote and directed BV and profited off it. I
| think Marc Maron once described a "comic" that took a shit
| on stage; that ain't art, that's just disgusting.
|
| "What a fool believes." --Michael McDonald
| bowsamic wrote:
| I'm not sold. I think I'll stick with my Godly ethics and
| I'll leave you to your sin
| rdtsc wrote:
| > The Straight Story
|
| That indeed was a nice movie. It stands out exactly as it's not
| like any other Lynch movies.
|
| I always wondered what that meeting with Walt Disney Pictures
| looked like. "-Ok, David, please, just can you not do your
| Lynch thing? -What do you mean, a Lynch thing? -Oh you know..."
| pryce wrote:
| A particularly memorable short review of "the Straight Story"
| suggests that he did end in fact end up doing a Lynch thing,
| however I suggest people don't read this review unless
| they've seen the film first [1].
|
| > Lynch lives in a very troubled world. His pictures are
| characterized by being presented through the mind of the
| protagonist. Here, the protagonist is a simple old man, who
| thinks slowly and simply. So that's what we get. He has long
| erotic meditations on fecundity on the path of life (14
| kids!), so that is what we see.
|
| > Lynch must be laughing into his gasmask at those who think
| this is a Hallmark card. Consider these Lynchisms...
|
| [1] https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0579859/?ref_=tturv_perm_18
| rdtsc wrote:
| I had no idea! Thanks for sharing. Those are definitely
| more subtle. I had never caught on to those when viewing
| the movie.
| MrMcCall wrote:
| He only directed it. He didn't write it. That's the
| difference.
| nuredini wrote:
| David on directing commercials: https://youtu.be/GiP85kdyRLo.
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