1. Character Creation
Like with great literature, what truly motivates a viewer into loving a film is a great character. No-one can deny the interest filmgoers have had in Jack Nance's character of Henry Spencer, or in the characters played by Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive. Even in surrealist pictures we are digging into our characters, we want to know them and what they do and why they do whatever they do. Lynch invents characters that are incredibly flawed, wonderfully strange and immensely disturbed. He writes human characters.
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