Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet (1986)
1950's kitsch/clichés or nostalgia, like certain music, fashion, architecture, cars, naive behavior of characters, sometimes countered by hidden threats.
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Monty Montgomery
Peculiar language and seemingly out of place utterances.
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Patricia Arquette in Lost Highway (1997)
References to other films (especially film noir) or the film-making world.
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Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
Defacements, deformations and disabilities and their consequences, as in pretty much all of his movies except The Straight Story (1999).
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Intricate plots and amibigious meanings which inspire speculation and can make it necessary to watch the films multiple times before appreciating them.