The Lynch Meditations -20

Disney Presents
A David Lynch Film
The Straight Story
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A David Lynch movie produced by Disney?

Does this mean that the characters in this film are owned by Disney?

Will these characters and their world appear in the next Kingdom Hearts?

Probably not 3, but surely there will be a Kingdom Hearts 4, right?

Got to be.

Got to be.

There needs to be a final boss fight between Richard Farnsworth on his riding lawn mower and Sephiroth.

Mr. Farnsworth’s Limit Break attack could be throwing his riding lawn mower at his enemy,

getting a bead on it with his shotgun,

blasting it with his shotgun,

causing the riding lawn mower to explode in spectacular fashion,

and inflicting 9999 damage upon the targeted foe.
Once you've leveled up, you upgrade to a tractor and a portable rail gun.

Although,

as I understand it,

Kingdom Hearts 3 de-emphasizes the Final Fantasy characters and world-building.

So Sephiroth probably won’t be there for a battle royale.

But he could be.

Disney could make this happen.

If they wanted to . . . and why wouldn’t they want this?

Twin Peaks is back in a big way . . . made a big cult splash . . .

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. . . you ought to know where I’m going with this.

Disney buys Twin Peaks.

Lock. Stock. And the  goddamn barrel.

Kingdom Hearts 4 gets to have Sephiroth merged with Killer Bob.

Farnsworth gets his shotgun exploded riding lawn mower Limit Break gimmick.

Everything becomes as purest gold.

I don’t remember when I first watched The Straight Story, but it was on DVD, and I don’t think it had any chapter breaks, which was a creative choice by Lynch, who doesn’t want you to skip around while watching his movie. Lynch tried to enforce this regime on the Inland Empire DVD, but that movie is a super-tough sit, so it ended up with chapters you could skip to and from about like a standard DVD release.

The Straight Story is a magnificent movie. Just about perfect. Even though it is Rated G, it has that grittiness and even the grotesquerie one associates with Lynch’s work but in a more subdued fashion . . . but it is there. People smoke in this movie. They drink beer. They’re old, and pretty obviously heading towards their mortality around the seventy-to-seventy-five year mark. Death is a palpable presence in this film, is what I’m trying to say. This is a Disney-produced film in which every character is painfully mortal, finite, and struggling against the limits of their bodies, their finances, their modes of transportation-no superheroes, no cartoon characters, no Jedi, no faster than light travel-just damaged people trying to survive, who can’t pay their bills and medical expenses; who drive broken down vehicles or can’t afford to drive; and yet they struggle to do the right things for themselves and others before death claims them.

That’s how I remember it.

Will it hold up on a second viewing?

I’m thinking that it probably will.

We’ll see.

Going in . . .