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David Lynch Named 2 Classic Movies That Stuck With Him as a Kid
David Lynch said movies were not popular where he grew up but he was still able to see two major classics as a child.
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Movies weren't a big part of David Lynchâs childhood â but he saw two of the most popular films ever. One was an epic and the other was a cinematic dream.
by Matthew Trzcinski
Published on January 19, 2025
David Lynch revealed that movies werenât a big part of his childhood â but he recalled seeing two of the most popular films ever made. One was a war epic and the other was a cinematic dream. Both appear to have inspired Lynchâs work.
In his 2018 book Room to Dream, Lynch discussed the movies he saw as a child. âMovies werenât a big part of Boise [Idaho] in the â50s,â he recalled. âI remember seeing Gone with the Wind at an outdoor theater in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on a beautiful mowed lawn. Seeing Gone with the Wind on a giant screen, outside, on a summer evening â that was nice.Â
âI donât remember telling my brother about movies, and I donât remember when I first saw The Wizard of Oz, but it stuck with me, whenever it was,â he added. âBut Iâm not alone. It stuck with a lot of people. For context, The Wizard of Oz was a big flop when it came out in 1939 but it became a cult classic through its repeated showings on television during the 1950s.
Lynchâs childhood was not all fun. âThat â50s small-town thing, itâs different, and to catch that mood is important,â he wrote. âItâs dreamy, thatâs what it is.Â
âThe â50s mood isnât completely positive, though, and I always knew there was stuff going on,â he added. âWhen I was out after dark and going around on my bike, some houses had lights on inside that were kind of warm, or I knew some houses they were almost out and I didnât know the people who lived there.â Lynch went on to say that his childhood was a significant influence on his work. Considering how dark, twisted, and disturbing his films get, that says a lot about his formative years.
Did Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz influence Lynchâs movies in a meaningful way? It appears they did. Gone with the Wind is, among many other things, a soap opera. Some of Lynchâs films get soap operatic at points, and he even created the surrealist soap opera Twin Peaks. On top of that, the relationship between Scarlett OâHara and Rhett Butler displays some of the toxicity that shows up in relationships between Lynchâs characters.
The Wizard of Oz may have been a bigger source of inspiration for Lynch. Not to spoil anything, but Wild at Heart has some major allusions to The Wizard of Oz. On top of that, Mulholland Drive is structured similarly to the classic film, where part of the story is set in a grim reality and another part of it is set in a vibrant fantasy. Perhaps the blurring of the line between the real and the fake thatâs so vital in some of Lynchâs films can be traced back to his childhood love of The Wizard of Oz.
If you want to get a taste of the classic movies that meant a lot to Lynch, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are a good place to start.
