Second #517, 8:37
Peter Carew, who plays the coroner and who appears onscreen for just under twenty seconds, delivers perhaps the most tilted line in the movie: “We’ll check the morgue records but I don’t recall anything coming in minus an ear.” This either could be the punch line to the whole sordid blood-drenched twentieth century, or else a few words tossed off by a bald man who refuses to look at the characters on screen with him, as if he speaks to (into?) the ear and the ear alone. Blue Velvet was Carew’s first movie in twenty years. Previously, he had starred in the soft-core movie Teenage HitchHikers (1975) as Dick Daggard, a clothier of some sort. The scene from which second #517 is taken was shot in the New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina (now the New Hanover Regional Medical Center).
In his sweeping and magisterial...
Peter Carew, who plays the coroner and who appears onscreen for just under twenty seconds, delivers perhaps the most tilted line in the movie: “We’ll check the morgue records but I don’t recall anything coming in minus an ear.” This either could be the punch line to the whole sordid blood-drenched twentieth century, or else a few words tossed off by a bald man who refuses to look at the characters on screen with him, as if he speaks to (into?) the ear and the ear alone. Blue Velvet was Carew’s first movie in twenty years. Previously, he had starred in the soft-core movie Teenage HitchHikers (1975) as Dick Daggard, a clothier of some sort. The scene from which second #517 is taken was shot in the New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina (now the New Hanover Regional Medical Center).
In his sweeping and magisterial...
- 8/31/2011
- by Nicholas Rombes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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