in praise of kyle maclachlan

Still, he was great in "Blue Velvet" and "The Hidden". He was crappy in "The Doors," but then again, so was everyone associated with said film.

i really wish "blue velvet" was really the greatest film ever, which you'd think it was based on the things it has going for it, including kyle maclachlan. but it doesn't quite add up for me.

the ending: the mechanical robin is amazing, as is the fact that the "emotional" two-shot of maclachlan and dern is actually a three-shot also including maclachlan's elderly aunt (?). but the recycling of images from the beginning and the reprise of the end of the song "blue velvet" over the images of dorothy reuinted with her child fall kind of flat. for me.

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i think he is a good actor, but i think gypsy mothra is right in that lynch really knew how to exploit his particular presence.

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The story of their first meeting, at least as told in Ed Naha's The Making of Dune book -- while obviously slanted towards the positive and promotional, it's still actually a pretty enjoyable piece of work for an official tie-in as opposed to a retrospective study -- indicates as much, I think:

"The first time I met David it was as his office in Universal Studios. I liked him immediately...Basically, instead of talking about myself, I talked about the movie. I was saying things like 'What do you think about this movie, David? How are you approaching it? How do you envision Paul?'...David and I clicked right away in a director/actor relationship."

I've been a fan of Jordan since I wasn't. Er, wait.

but dude, "I CAN HEAR YOUR FUCKIN RADIO YOU STUPID SHIT!"

-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), November 12th, 2003.

I've been rewatching twin peaks. Half way through season 2 currently (all downhill from here) and I think I've started trying to use agent Cooper mannerisms in real life. Kyle is great, I wonder how much of the agent Cooper part was written for his wide eyed exuberant thing or if he fit his acting style to that.

One time when a bunch of us where watching Showgirls when it got to the scene where Kyle MacLachlan's laying in bed with his ass sticking out, my friend Jefferson froze the screen and said "What I need to do is get a big blow-up of that dark space between his legs and cover an entire wall with it. When people ask me what the mural is of I'll say 'KYLE MACLACHLAN'S SCROTUM!'"

I still haven't seen Roadhouse all the way through.

-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), November 12th, 2003.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:49 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

i love how out of context that roadhouse comment is a beautiful non-sequitir.

I've been rewatching twin peaks. Half way through season 2 currently (all downhill from here) and I think I've started trying to use agent Cooper mannerisms in real life. Kyle is great, I wonder how much of the agent Cooper part was written for his wide eyed exuberant thing or if he fit his acting style to that.

― owenf, Friday, 22 July 2011 23:33 (Yesterday)

They indeed wrote a lot of McLachlan's personality into the character, as well as a lot of Lynch's.