VLVL2 (15): Happy Ending: Dog POV vs. Bird POV vs. Bug POV

[joeallonby]

on 5/29/04 4:34 PM, Keith McMullen at keithsz at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> Vineland has a happy ending the same way the film Blue Velvet has a
> happy ending:
> 
> Jeffrey enters the kitchen and sees Sandy standing with Aunt Barbara by
> the
> kitchen window.  Beyond, in the living room Mrs. Williams and Jeffrey's
> mother turn toward the kitchen when they hear the screen door slam.
> 
> A large Red Robin has just flown down to the window still carrying a big
> bug in its mouth.
> 
> SANDY
> (Referring to the bird)
> Look Jeffrey.
> 
> JEFFREY
> (As he joins Aunt Barbara and
> Sandy to look at the robin)
> Yeah. I just saw him outside. Maybe
> the robins are here.
> 
> AUNT BARBARA
> I don't see how they do it. I could
> never eat a bug.
> 
> JEFFREY AND SANDY
> (smiling)
> It's a strange world, isn't it?
> 
> CUT TO:
> 
> Yellow tulips sway in a warm afternoon breeze.
> 
> DISSOLVE TO:
> 
> A bright red gorgeous fire engine is moving very slowly down the street.
> 
> We MOVE IN to see the happy face of a FIREMAN.
> 
> DISSOLVE TO:
> 
> 
> A very clean uniformed, smiling POLICEMAN with arms outstretched allows
> clean happy SCHOOL CHILDREN to cross the street safely.
> 
> DISSOLVE TO:
> 
> A songbird SINGS in a tree.
> 
> We are in a beautiful park.  Slowly we move down and a little hat with a
> propeller comes into view.  The hat is on the head of a small child who
> is
> dancing slowly toward Dorothy.  She is laughing.  When the boy gets
> within
> arms reach they embrace.  We move close to Dorothy's smiling face.
> Tears
> of happiness come into her eyes, but there is still a distant look as we
> hear Bobby Vinton sing the last lines of his song.
> 
> "and I still can see Blue Velvet through
> my tears."
> 
> Blue Velvet dissolves in and takes over the image.
> 
> THE END
> 
> http://www.un-official.com/bluevelvet.txt
> 
I always thought that the bird looked really fake, Disney animatronic. I
found it disturbing. I always thought that that was what Lynch was going
for.