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when was the last time an original film character became a genuine pop cultural icon? There has to have been someone post-Jack Sparrow but I simply can’t think who
One of the very few films that suggests that the past is so fundamentally strange to us that if we travelled back there it would appear to us as a dream
I’m never not amazed that David Lynch accidentally spotted his set designer during filming and said “you’re going to be the embodiment of absolute evil” and the set designer said “Ok” and immediately became the most terrifying character in the history of television
