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- Title: Something is Rotten in Blue Velvet ... an Exploration of David Lynch's Blue Velvet Via Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Author : Traffic (Parkville)
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 358 KB
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This article explores David Lynch's controversial 1986 film Blue Velvet, through its unexpected parallels with Shakespeare's Hamlet. The article lays out the narrative and symbolic parallels between the two texts, including their plot similarities, the Oedipal dramas inherent to each, their remarkably similar use of imagery and their respective use of the madonna/whore dichotomy in their treatment of women. The striking parallels between the film and Shakespeare's tragedy are used to elaborate on the existing reception of the film, to support the argument that the film's conclusion is a parodic, rather than happy, ending. **********