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Good point, I think DL definitely needs people to make his films work -- exceptthat Eraserhead and his early shorts were good, without anyone's help; I just think that, as a director starting out, he had a lot to say (we're talking int he span of 37-42 years ago here), and he ran out of things to say a long time ago, so his films have largely been a product of careful collaboration with other talented indivuals, and that's something that's long annoyed me about critical appraisal of his work, that people often call him a "genius" (without recognizing that his films live and die by the careful, controlled editting of Mary Sweeney), when a director is actually a very, very small part of the overall picture -- unless we're talking TRUE auteurs like Jost, Godard, Fassbinder, Kitano... who really do have control over the entire picture (usually; all those directors have had their vision compromised by someone at some point). While Lynch probably has always had more control than a lot of directors, he spoke quite candidly about "freedom" while making IE; not just digital freedom, but freedom from trying to appease certain investors and such. In other words, he could go completely down the rabbit hole for once, and not have to worry about "stupid" concepts like "structure", "plot", "character development" (regardless of any criticisms leveled at him, his films prior to IE at least had ENOUGH of those elements to make them watchable, since his films flat-out would not work as pure abstraction -- it needs the "normal" plot to make the abstract stuff interesting). So, IE is DL without anybody standing in his way!!!!!!!... from making, uh, whatever the fuck he made! Haha.
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