All of this is to say that Lynch films were always struggling to get financing and those problems haven’t vanished despite his now legendary reputation in the film industry. It's impossible to imagine that happening today. Back in 1999, Disney acquired distribution rights for Lynch's The Straight Story after a rapturous Cannes Film Festival premiere. This is a problem that's only gotten worse with time as the film industry has consolidated into fewer and fewer studios and those companies turn to a strategy of relying exclusively on tentpoles.
This makes it extremely difficult for Lynch to secure necessary financing and distribution for his works. Though his works are now regarded as trailblazing masterpieces, they're often initially seen as needlessly strange and subversive by studio executives yearning for easily marketable fare to put into theaters. Titles like Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart had to be financed and distributed outside of the traditional studio system, while Inland Empire was distributed by an obscure outfit known as 518 Media (which only released one other movie in its blink-and-miss-it existence). Being a pastel-parading goody two shoes has never looked badder.David Lynch movies have never been easy to finance. I can be dramatic or emotional or scared, but he needed Sandy, at her root, to be such a believer, so hopeful, such an optimist, and that really is my nature.” When Kyle MacLachlan’s similarly pristeen college student Jeffrey Beaumont returns home for the summer and discovers a severed ear lying in the grass, the pair join forces to discover its origins, unveiling a deranged criminal conspiracy along the way. “Not in a physical way, like, ‘She looks like a girl next door,’ but pure of heart, maybe.
At first glance, Dern’s Sandy is a model of squeaky clean suburban sweetness, with her predilection for pale pink and pretty floral dresses, but she’s also got a penchant for mystery solving, inherited from her detective father. “I know was looking for someone he believed was really pure,” Dern reveals in AnOther Magazine S/S20. AKA the film that launched Dern to fame, sparking her ongoing creative collaboration with David Lynch.
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