Sick is in the eyes of the beholder. I thought it was a tremendous performance by Dennis Hopper in a tale of an innocent young goofball (reminiscent of Lynch himself) and a young woman getting caught up in something nasty beyond their control. It seems all too realistic to me.

I think it's a masterpiece myself, but not everybody enjoys Lynch. Actually "enjoying" is probably the wrong word.

LakeArenal

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8. Okay.

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Fri Jan 10, 2020, 06:39 PM

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Ron Obvious

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9. I'd left out the word 'not' in my reply

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 07:16 PM

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Which made the whole thing sound nonsensical.

LakeArenal

(28,863 posts)

10. No worries. That's okay, too

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Fri Jan 10, 2020, 08:05 PM

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,924 posts)

2. It's probably a reference to the movie "Blue Velvet."

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:05 PM

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The villain, Frank Booth, is a crazy evil psychopath. I'm guessing "going blue velvet" might mean going crazy in a really violent way.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

3. Maybe something like this...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:06 PM

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I think I know what they mean, but it's hard to express in words.

EDIT: THere is some profanity in this scene (I forgot about)

C_U_L8R

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5. Similar to doing a Trump

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Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:27 PM

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KY_EnviroGuy

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11. A couple of thoughts and a reference to Urban Dictionary.....

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 08:50 PM

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According to Urban Dictionary it could mean the use of some concoctions of opium.

See: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blue+velvet

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Alternatively, this might offer a clue from a BBC article on the movie Blue Velvet:

Link: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160920-blue-velvet-is-terrifying-seductive-and-ahead-of-its-time

(snip)

Instead of being set on a desert planet in a distant galaxy, Blue Velvet would be set in Lumberton, North Carolina, an all-American logging town of white picket fences and street-corner diners. But there is trouble in paradise. One of Lumberton’s residents collapses while watering his lawn, so his clean cut son, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan, who had starred in Dune), returns from college to manage the family’s hardware store. Jeffrey is happy enough to be home, but he clearly has a thirst for adventure. After he finds a severed ear on a patch of wasteground, he teams up with Sandy (Laura Dern), the blonde teenage daughter of a police detective, and tries to figure out whose ear it is. The youngsters’ investigations lead to an apartment where an exotic cabaret chanteuse, Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), is having sadomasochistic sex with an unstable thug, Frank (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey, who spies on them from inside Dorothy’s cupboard, is appalled... sort of. But he isn’t wholly against the idea of some sadomasochistic sex with Dorothy himself.

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Blue velvet for me will always bring memories of the Bobby Vinton song of the 60s when I was first dating. Parked a few times on country gravel roads with it playing on the radio.

So, "going blue velvet" could refer to some emotional connection to that song or the movie.

KY.............

CTyankee

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12. Thx. Weird but interesting...

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Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:02 PM

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