Lost Highway
Short description
Lost Highway centres on Fred Madison, a jazz saxophonist living with his wife Renée in a quiet house on the hills above Los Angeles. Mysteriously filmed videotapes of the house and the couple begin arriving at their door, showing more each time, and Fred's unease grows when a stranger at a party claims to be inside his home at that very moment. The discovery of Renée's death makes Fred the suspect, and he is sent to death row. There he vanishes from his cell, and in his place guards find Pete Dayton, a young mechanic with no memory of how he got there. Released, Pete tries to resume ordinary life, but events pull him into a deepening nightmare of surveillance, criminals and shifting identities.
David Lynch directed and wrote the screenplay with Barry Gifford. The film is the ninth of the seventeen features Lynch has directed, following Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and preceding Mulholland Dr. Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette lead the cast, with Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Robert Loggia and Michael Massee among the supporting players. Forty-six cast members and 105 crew members are credited, and the production involved American and French companies.
Made for about 15 million dollars, Lost Highway took roughly 4 million worldwide, a poor return. Audiences have rated it 7.6 out of 10 on IMDb from around 169,000 votes and 7.6 out of 10 on TMDB from some 3,000 votes, while a critics' rating stands lower at 6.4 out of 10 from 62 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the club scene, when the characters try ecstasy, Shannon Leto, Jared Leto's older brother and drummer for the band 30 Seconds to Mars, which he co-founded with his brother in 1998, is among the young people.
- Fred's phone number ends in three sixes – in the scene where the Mysterious Man offers to call home, you can hear the dial tones of the phone buttons.
- David Lynch liked the music of the rock band Rammstein so much that he included it in his film. And the band Rammstein, in turn, used footage from this film in their music video for 'Rammstein.'
- The house where Fred Madison (Bill Pullman's character) lives in real life belongs to David Lynch. Fred's dislike of "home video" is also a characteristic trait of Lynch.
- Several years after the film's release, Lynch stated that among the things that inspired him to write the screenplay was the trial of athlete and actor O.J. Simpson, who was accused of murdering his own wife. Coincidentally, Robert Blake, who played the Mysterious Man in the film, was also arrested in 2001 on suspicion of murdering his wife.
- The role of Mr. Eddy was given to Robert Loggia by Lynch as an "apology" for the role of Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet" (1986), which he had auditioned for but ultimately went to Dennis Hopper.
- Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent's chrome pistol – a .357 Magnum “Desert Eagle”.
- After two prominent American critics, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, gave 'Lost Highway' negative reviews, Lynch released a new film poster that mentioned these reviews in context: “Two more reasons to see ‘Lost Highway.’”
- Robert Blake later said that he completely failed to understand Lynch's script, so he played the Mysterious Man simply associating him with the devil.
- The scene where Pete watches a pornographic film featuring Alice is an allusion to John Fowles' novel "The Magus".
- Lynch said that the beginning of the film was based on real events that occurred in his own life – the director recounted that one morning the intercom in his apartment turned on and an unfamiliar voice uttered the phrase “Dick Laurent is dead.” Intrigued, Lynch decided to include this moment in the script.
- In one interview, Lynch stated that the events of 'Lost Highway' take place in the same world as his series 'Twin Peaks' (Twin Peaks, 1990-1991).
- This film was the last in the cinematic careers of Jack Nance (Phil), who appeared in almost all of Lynch's films and died before 'Lost Highway' was released on the big screen, as well as Richard Pryor (Arnie).
- Commenting on the film's title, Lynch says it was somehow borrowed from Barry Gifford's book 'Wild at Heart,' which Lynch had previously adapted for the screen. While flipping through the book, Lynch briefly saw the words 'Lost' and 'Highway' on one page, he liked the combination and decided to use it.
- The car incident with Mr. Eddy occurs on Mulholland Drive – a direct reference to Lynch's subsequent feature film (Mulholland Drive, 2001).
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