Velluto blu

Titolo originale: Blue Velvet
Regia: David Lynch |
Anno: 1986
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Mistero Thriller Crime Dramma
Tag: drug dealer | small town | sexual obsession | detective | nightclub | ear | surrealism | psychological abuse | murder | drugs | policeman | voyeurism | disturbed | neo-noir |
Cast: Isabella Rossellini | Kyle MacLachlan | Dennis Hopper | Laura Dern | Hope Lange | Dean Stockwell | George Dickerson | Priscilla Pointer | Frances Bay | Jack Harvey | Ken Stovitz | Brad Dourif | Jack Nance | J. Michael Hunter | Dick Green | Fred Pickler | Philip Markert | Leonard Watkins | Moses Gibson | Selden Smith | Peter Carew | Jon Jon Snipes | Angelo Badalamenti | Jean-Pierre Viale | Donald Moore | A. Michelle Depland | Michelle Sasser | Katie Reid |

Sotto l'apparente serenità di una cittadina si nasconde un mondo oscuro dove regna l'imprevedibile e da cui gli innocenti si tengono alla larga. È l'ammaliante regno di Velluto Blu. Generato dalla fantasia di David Linch (Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks), Velluto Blu mescola in maniera scioccante e profondamente inquietante orrore e schiettezza. Jeffrey Beaumont, un onesto giovane interpretato da Kyle MacLachlan, quando trova un orecchio umano in un campo si rende conto che la sua cittadina natale non è poi così tranquilla. Le sue indagini lo catapultano nel mistero seducente ed erotico di un assassinio che coinvolge una problematica cantante di nightclub (Isabella Rossellini) e un tossicodipendente sadico (Dennis Hopper). Ben presto Jeffrey si trova invischiato nelle loro esistenze depravate, sino al punto di non ritorno.

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Isabella Rossellini's role was written by David Lynch for Debbie Harry. Harry, sick of receiving off [...] D
The word "fuck" is used 56 times. All but once by Frank Booth. D
In the original screenplay, the sex scene between Jeffrey and Dorothy was longer; Jeffrey spins the [...] D
Dennis Hopper had appeared with Bruce Dern in Impiccalo più in alto (1968). That film also starre [...] D
After shooting the climatic scene, Fred Pickler went through a McDonald's drive thru with his blood [...] D
In Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch (1990) Lynch claims that the robin in the f [...] D
Although Dorothy's husband Don Vallens is portrayed by Dick Green, the severed ear was not modeled a [...] D
The only film that year to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, but not Best Picture. D
The prosthetic ear found by Kyle MacLachlan's character at the beginning of the film has remained in [...] D
Chris Isaak was up for the role of Jeffrey Beaumont, but he turned it down and the role went to Kyle [...] D
The producers did not want to pay the rights for including the original recording of Bobby Vinton's [...] D
In the film it is not revealed what year the film is set in. The film itself owes a large debt to 19 [...] D
Steven Berkoff was David Lynch's first choice for Frank Booth. When he rejected it the role went to [...] D
The film was the inspiration for I segreti di Twin Peaks (1990). D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...] D
Kyle MacLachlan, and three actors playing Frank's criminal associates, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, [...] D
Karen Allen, Rebecca De Mornay, Jodie Foster, Anjelica Huston, Diane Keaton, Cybill Shepherd, Sissy [...] D
In scene 149, Jeffrey, Dorothy, Frank and his three collaborators arrive at the downtown bar Barbary [...] D
David Lynch was offered the chance to direct Il ritorno dello Jedi (1983). Actor Brad Dourif went on [...] D
David Lynch and Laura Dern have each made a film about a sympathetic character whose face is disfigu [...] D
Helen Hunt was considered for Dororthy Valens, but David Lynch felt she was too young for the role. D
Megan Mullally played Jeffrey's college girlfriend in a scene that was cut from the beginning of the [...] D
Hope Lange previously appeared in I peccatori di Peyton (1957), which became a major inspiration for [...] D
A scene in which Dennis Hopper hits Isabella Rossellini was edited so that his hand connects with he [...] D
Isabella Rossellini's mother, Ingrid Bergman, appeared in Assassinio sull'Orient Express (1974) oppo [...] D
David Lynch: [deep river] Dorothy Vallens lives in Deep River Apartments. D
Karen Allen was considered for the role of Dorothy Valens. Allen is best known for playing Marion Ra [...] D
When Frank and his crew arrive with Jeffrey at the brothel, Frank announces "This is it". The neon s [...] D
Several lines of dialogue have been sampled by the band Mr Bungle. D
After the rape scene, when Dorothy goes into her bathroom and stands next to the sink, Jeffrey looks [...] D
Dean Stockwell held a worklight in the "In Dreams" sequence only after director David Lynch saw him [...] D
Dean Stockwell began his career as a child actor in the 1940s. A friend and frequent cast mate was R [...] D
Willem Dafoe was considered for Frank Booth. D
In this film, Laura Dern works with Montana-born filmmaker David Lynch, delivers a monologue about r [...] D
Italian censorship visa # 81924 delivered on 17 October 1986. D
Roy Orbison initially rejected David Lynch's request to use the song "In Dreams" in the brothel scen [...] D
Laura Dern was offered the film on the day she started college. D
In the scene where Jeffery askes his blind coworker how many fingers, and guess right, if you look c [...] D
Ranked #4 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 Greatest Movies since 1983. D
David Lynch initially envisioned Hanna Schygulla for the role of Dorothy. When she declined, he thou [...] D
Jeffrey says "I'm in the middle of a mystery" exactly halfway through the film. D
Dorothy Vallens's apartment is on the 7th floor. The actual filming location (Carolina Apartments in [...] D
Among the deleted scenes that appeared on a 2011 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray edition were previously un [...] D
Debra Winger turned down the role of Dorothy Valens due to the erotic nature of the film. D
In an interview, Dennis Hopper claimed that writer/director David Lynch would never say the word "fu [...] D
Fred C. Caruso: producer "portrays" the severed ear Beaumont finds. D
Like David Lynch's television series I segreti di Twin Peaks (1990), this films concerns itself with [...] D
It was understood in the script, though not final film that Frank's kidnapping of Don Vallens, Dorot [...] D
Ceann, an American/Irish pub band references the movie in their song 'Pabst Blue Ribbon'. D
Tom Noonan auditioned for the role of Frank Booth. D
Isabella Rossellini actually was naked under her velvet robe when she did the "ritualistic rape scen [...] D
In her autobiography, Isabella Rossellini talked about her nude scene on the lawn of the police dete [...] D
Sandy telling Jeffrey about her dream about robins is a strong foreshadowing of the ending scene whi [...] D
The Dorothy Vallen's character was inspired by the story of Judy Garland. Garland famously played th [...] D
The role of Jeffrey was originally offered to Val Kilmer, who turned it down, describing the script [...] D
David Lynch had never seen any of Laura Dern's previous films. Isabella Rossellini had seen Dietro l [...] D
Originally, Dino De Laurentiis meant only to produce and finance the film, but upon seeing it, decid [...] D
Trailer narrated by Don LaFontaine. D
Harry Dean Stanton was the first choice for the role of Frank but Stanton turned it down because he [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...] D
Isabella Rossellini claims that during the initial filming of the ritualistic rape scene, David Lync [...] D
22 years after the film's release, Isabella Rossellini wrote and directed a series of 8 films for Th [...] D
Woody Allen's favorite film to come out in 1986. D
Dennis Hopper says "fuck" in nearly every sentence. He is also the only one to use the word in this [...] D
Priscilla Pointer is the mother of Steven Spielberg's first wife, Amy Irving. Laura Dern later worke [...] D
The second work in which Dennis Hopper plays a character named Frank. He would go on to play seven c [...] D
Robert Loggia wanted to play the role of Frank Booth. David Lynch later specifically wrote a part of [...] D
Sylvia Kristel was considered for the role of Dorothy. D
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #977. D
Laura Dern would later go on to star in Star Wars - Gli ultimi Jedi (2017). David Lynch had been off [...] D
The scene in which Jeffrey and Frank go driving off at breakneck speeds was filmed by having stageha [...] D
In interviews, David Lynch has told of how Dorothy's nude scene was inspired by a childhood memory o [...] D
The movie's line "Don't you fucking look at me!" was voted as the #74 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lin [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...] D
David Lynch supposedly cut the film from its original four-hour running time to one frame short of t [...] D
Voted one of the greatest films of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 1999. D
David Lynch originally wanted Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil playing when Jeffrey and Sandy a [...] D
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies". D
Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan went through improvisations of all their scenes together whe [...] D
Cast includes one Oscar winner: Laura Dern, and four Oscar nominees: Dennis Hopper, Hope Lange, Dean [...] D
Dorothy lives in apartment 710. D
A big picture of Montgomery Clift hangs in Sandy's bedroom. D
David Lynch: [highway at night] D
David Lynch: [Lincoln] Contains several references to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Jeffrey [...] D
David Lynch's fourth feature film. D
Molly Ringwald was originally offered the role of Sandy, but her mother objected to her starring in [...] D
The character of Frank was to breathe helium at various intervals in David Lynch's original script, [...] D
Chosen by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the "50 Greatest Independent Films" in a special s [...] D
Ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in J [...] D
Isabella Rossellini and Laura Dern play rival love interests to Kyle MacLachlan - not Dean Stockwell [...] D
Dennis Hopper (Frank Booth) and Jack Nance (Paul) worked together in Colors - colori di guerra (1988 [...] D
During a 2018 interview with Alec Baldwin on Baldwin's WNYC radio program "Here's the Thing," Kyle M [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank found the character too repulsive an [...] D
The film's end credits are actually quite short. Clocking in at only one minute and ten seconds. D
Roy Orbison's song "In Dreams" appears in Blue Velvet, while another one of his songs (Crying) appea [...] D
Sigourney Weaver was interested in playing Dorothy Valens, but she had to move on to other projects. D
3 props were made for the severed ear, 1 of which is currently on display at Movie Madness in Portla [...] D
In the narrative in the scene which Jeffrey is crying after he is beaten up by Frank: Jeffrey is cry [...] D