So, "Blue Velvet" is something that just happened on my TV.

[Serum]

While digging through a bargain bin of Blu-Rays at Best Buy I happened across the 1986 David Lynch movie Blue Velvet, featuring Super Mario Bros.'s own Dennis Hopper as the villainous lech Frank Booth.

In the past I've been known to be critical of David Lynch's films, probably because at the time the extent of his filmography that I'd seen were the movies Eraserhead and Dune, but after seeing Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, sometimes known collectively as "the L.A. trilogy," or "the Hollywood trilogy," I decided to give this peculiar little man's movies another chance.

Blue Velvet is a departure (at least in my opinion) from the "usual" David Lynch fare-- it's told in a very linear manner, it goes from point A to point B seamlessly (which, if you've seen any of the L.A. trilogy, you know just isn't his typical style) and it tells a coherent story that's easily approachable by someone who isn't familiar with his typical, transgressive avant garde style. Being a member of a website dedicated solely to a movie he starred as the villain in, I went into Blue Velvet primarily for Hopper's performance, and I was not disappointed. His character is... out there. I'd post some clips featuring him here on the board but I can't find any that don't include full frontal nudity, extreme violence or Dennis dropping F-bombs like he's attacking Normandy so if you want to see what I'm talking about, just go out and rent this movie.

Many years after Blue Velvet, it was discovered that Robert Loggia (who later went on to play a Frank Booth-like character, Mister Eddy in Lost Highway) was scheduled to play Frank, but Dennis Hopper beat him to the punch and took over, much to Robert Loggia's dismay-- when asked why he fought so aggressively to play the part, Hopper simply stated: "I got to play Frank Booth because I am Frank Booth."