Talk:Lost Highway (film)

message: This article has an absurd amount of original research; anyone care to clean it up a bit?
:Placed some tags here and there, i dont think it'll work though.
::I've cleaned up this article considerably and added citations as well.--J.D. (talk) 17:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! Lugnuts (talk) 18:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And found some sources for the outstanding fact tag about the 2 thumbs down.   Lugnuts (talk) 12:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much speculation 

message: The article is a mess of both original research and a little bit of fancruft, its in no way a "B" article, it needs wikipedians who care enough about the article to make it competent. I also took the liberty of grading the article as "Mid importance", seeing how is from a famous director and how it wasnt really much of cultural significance beyond cult following, then the logical would be "Mid" instead of "high".--Kessingler 05:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Back to "Start"

message: Lost Highway → Lost Highway (film) — New Bon Jovi album also called "Lost Highway" has been announced and page has been made at Lost Highway (album). Can an admin please move the existing Lost Highway article to Lost Highway (film) and redirect Lost Highway to Lost Highway (disambiguation)? I think most people searching for Lost Highway will now want the album and not the ten-year old film. Thanks. SuperCoolAl 10:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Add  # Support  or  # Oppose  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.
====Survey - in support of the move====
# Support. See my comments in "Discussion" below. Ccoll 15:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: But that song doesn't even have it's own article! Lugnuts 08:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Add any additional comments:
This seems a bit premature, considering it's the just the working title of an album. The movie was made by a major director, so I doubt its age is an important factor in the amount of searches it gets. However, if you follow through on it, the disambiguation page should be moved to "Lost Highway". "Lost Highway" should not redirect to "Lost Highway (disambiguation)". Dekimasuよ! 11:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I tend to agree, although I wouldn't go as far as suggesting the song should be the main page as the film is probably more well known amongst the general public, but I do think "Lost Highway" should be a disambig page with the song first on the list in chronological order. LDHan 17:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: :Add  # Support  or  # Oppose  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.
====Survey - in support of the move====
# Support. See my comments in "Discussion" below. Ccoll 15:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But that song doesn't even have it's own article! Lugnuts 08:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: # Support. See my comments in "Discussion" below. Ccoll 15:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But that song doesn't even have it's own article! Lugnuts 08:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey - in support of the move

message: # Disagree I think the film is/will be more well known than an upcoming Bon Jovi album, and the page should remain the same with the disambig link at the top.  Compare with the searching for their previous albums Crush and Bounce. Lugnuts 12:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey - in opposition to the move

message: :Add any additional comments:
This seems a bit premature, considering it's the just the working title of an album. The movie was made by a major director, so I doubt its age is an important factor in the amount of searches it gets. However, if you follow through on it, the disambiguation page should be moved to "Lost Highway". "Lost Highway" should not redirect to "Lost Highway (disambiguation)". Dekimasuよ! 11:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree, although I wouldn't go as far as suggesting the song should be the main page as the film is probably more well known amongst the general public, but I do think "Lost Highway" should be a disambig page with the song first on the list in chronological order. LDHan 17:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I removed this section and placed it here because it seems to fall under the category of speculation. I think the key is the opening sentence that states, "The storyline is likely based on..." The presence of "likely" does not suggest fact at all. Not to mention, I have not come across any article or interview with Lynch or Gifford where they state that this was in fact the inspiration behind the film. Also, the sources listed in this paragraph cite a discussion forum and a film review -- hardly authoritative sources. Lynch has made it pretty clear, and this is stated in the article as it exists with citations, what inspired the film. --J.D. (talk) 19:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said, one source is from a discussion forum, which, if I'm not mistaken, is frowned upon by Wiki guidelines as a reputable source. The other is a review and therefore it belongs in a different section, like Reception, or maybe a new one, like, say Theories, but not under Production because there is no source (that I can find) where Lynch or Gifford, the two primary authors of this film, have stated it as an influence or inspiration for what they made. Therefore, it can only be seen as speculation. --J.D. (talk) 21:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine. I'll look up some more solid references and re-add the section.Tomixdf (talk) 22:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Kewl. Works for me. --J.D. (talk) 14:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great. Final version indeed looks much better - glad we reached consensus. Tomixdf (talk) 21:49, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: The debut of the DVD in the US was not in March of '08 since I had rented it from Netflix in '07.  IMDB also lists two previous releases on DVD dating back to '01 and '06.  Not sure if that's a reliable enough source for this, so I'll leave that up to someone better suited for the job.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.104.244.6 (talk) 21:20, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says, "The film made its official U.S. DVD debut..."  That R1 (region 1) disc you rented was Canadian and unofficial; furthermore, the other DVD releases were not R1, much less American. Funkeboy (talk) 12:55, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why even have a DVD section?  Why not have an entire section for the VHS release too?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.85.58 (talk) 05:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US DVD Release 

message: I have removed the "horror," "surrealist," and "avant-garde" film categories.  Some sort of notable and reliable referenced has to be provided that indicates these categories are justified, otherwise, it is only the opinion of editors. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 14:17, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: 
otac0n (talk)
The plot section appears to be a lift off of here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/synopsis
However, I can't exactly tell, because I don't have access to the dates/times on the IMDB page.
I don't think so, that plot is much, much more thorough than the plot published here. This plot needs revising Deliusfan (talk) 19:35, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Infringement 

message: "As it gets dark, Fred speeds down the lost highway pursued by the police as he enters a dark vortex and apparently begins to metamorphose again."
I think that this interpretation is wrong. The ending scene where Fred is kind of seizuring is the moment the Real Fred is dying in an alectric chair. He's not metamorphosing again. 109.196.145.5 (talk) 16:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the last bit "" as conjecture/subjective interpretation. However, the "electric chair" reading is just as much of subjective interpretation. Neither has a place in the plot section, since that section is supposed to merely describe the immediate, "syntactic" surface of a work of fiction. --213.168.108.201 (talk) 07:54, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Changed this to a straight description of the way the film plays. Look forward to having it reverted.207.221.248.253 (talk) 16:16, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost_Highway_%28film%29&oldid=549223261
There was no reason for this section to have been completely reverted, especially when it was both better sourced and far less controversial than the version that stated as fact that it was comparable to the Owl Creek Bridge story even though that's never been confirmed as fact. At the very least someone could have edited it a bit to make it more concise, but instead the whole thing was removed for...well, no stated reason at all. The user just said "none of this was helpful" and didn't elaborate at all, which is in itself not in any way constructive. 
If you want to have an interpretation section that's fine, but you cannot make a statement of fact about Lynch's intentions just because it's probably correct, if he himself hasn't confirmed it. You can only use sources to show how it's been interpreted and who's interpreted it that way, which is what the aforementioned revision did fine before it was reverted apparently just for the sake of it. Either that or perhaps the entire section should be removed since Inland Empire doesn't have one and that's far more subjective and surreal than Lost Highway is.2.28.174.172 (talk) 09:59, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretations and Allusions 

message: This may be a small point , but , what the heck … whereas it's true , Jack Nance and Richard Pryor ARE dead , and won't be making any more films … is it right to include Robert Blake with them? As of this writing , he's still alive. And just as his appearance in "Lost Highway" was probably a big surprise for folks whom probably thought he was dead … who's to say he might not crop up again in another film? ( Lots of crazy old man roles available. ). Just a thought. 75.104.174.122 (talk) 09:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death and Final Films … 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I wanted to know. It's a striking piece of music drama which reemerges on the radio, sharply dividing opinion. Turns out, per the soundtrack album credits, it was Bob Sheppard, a notable player. I've sort of added the info in as a 'See also' item , less than ideal I know. I'd have preferred to include a sentence under 'Soundtrack', but I don't have any focused secondary sourcing to call upon.  The closest I could find is: "...faster than you can say “Red Bats With Teeth” (cf. David Lynch’s Lost Highway), for Bob Sheppard’s solo in that classic fever dream is precisely what comes to mind."  86.161.190.40 (talk) 14:01, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  So who played Fred's sax