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I’ve always found the extras in David Lynch’s films to be his most memorable characters of all. You know, the ones who appear for only few seconds — or repeatedly over the course of a film — without any clear-cut narrative reason for being there: the cowboy slipping out of the party at the end of Mulholland Drive, the fireman waving hello to the camera in the opening sequence of Blue Velvet. Most of all, I am thinking of the middle-aged woman in the latter movie dancing Go-Go-style to Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” on top of a Cadillac, completely oblivious to the “main action” of the scene in which the Kyle McLaughlin is pounded to a pulp.
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