I read the review for Blue Velvet – 20 years later and I was thinking what kind of movie experience this would have been for an audience 20 years ago. This film certainly has its shock value aspect that I think audiences these days might even label as ‘tame’. 20 years ago, audiences weren’t completely void of violence in cinema but as Egbert put it in his review, he felt violated so I would have to imagine that audiences were shocked by the content of this film. Dennis Hopper was already a fan favorite with films like Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now and he was even in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel. The other major roles were filled by the International Star Isabella Rossellini and Kyle McLaughlin who had only been on one other movie – Lynch’s Dune. At this point in time, Lynch had several accomplished films under his belt so he must have had a pretty good following. I guess my point is I don’t think movie goers of our generation would have been as shocked by this film as movie goers of the 80’s generation, due to our desensitization to violence, and when reading this review I thought about this aspect in relation to other works we have discussed, poems and short stories, and how the generations who were privy to see these works come to light had different reactions to the works then our generation.
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