“Blue Velvet’ — “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison
Orbison’s dreamy ballad, featuring “the candy-colored clown” for psycho Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), is at the nightmarish scene of David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece.
Lynch uses repetitive drops, from Dean Stockwell’s terrifying lip-synch to Dorothy Vallens’ (Isabella Rossellini) night club performance, to blur the line between beauty and horror, linking the characters in their shared obsession with controlling the object of their desires.
“In dreams, you’re mine, all the time.”
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