Adam looks strikingly similar to JJ Abrams in 2001. I wonder if his character is supposed to be based on him, and Lynch had the intuition JJ in 2001 would go on to become one of the biggest filmmakers and decided to use this film as commentary on him. Also find it interesting how Melissa George is the girl Adam is forced to cast, and she was casted in JJ Abram’s TV show Alias in real life.
shareThanks! I always knew the character reminded me of someone, but I could never pinpoint whom.
shareThe is a bit tangential, but I know that Abrams was a fan of Lynch/Twin Peaks, as was Lindelof:
" “That television show [Twin Peaks] felt like it was written just for me, and I taped every episode on a VCR,” Lindelof says. “I watched it repeatedly looking for clues, and debated the theories — the idea of forming theories to explain what happened was all born out of Twin Peaks. I remember [former ABC chairman] Lloyd Braun bringing [producer J.J. Abrams] and I into his office after he read the Lost script. He was worried about the monster and the heavily serialized mystery aspects and said, ‘We can’t have another Twin Peaks on our hands.’ And J.J. said, ‘You’re referencing a show that was basically canceled 20 years ago. We should aspire to Twin Peaks.’ It was like the third day that I knew J.J., and I was like, ‘I love this guy!’ Weird is beautiful, David Lynch is a genius, and talk about a genre that can’t be described, [Twin Peaks is] a genre unto itself.”"
I see Twin Peaks as a bardo journey, I see Mulholland Drive as a bardo journey. I see LOST as a bardo journey. And it's interesting that LOST has a couple of actors from the film Mulholland Drive. And that season 3 of Twin Peaks features black smoke/electricity, as did LOST years before.
One hand shaking the other I suppose.
Interesting story for sure.
shareI'm 100% positive that Adam is based on JJ Abrams. I remember floating that theory somewhere else and people were all like, "No, he was some intern/grunt at the time Lynch made this movie," but c'mon, man...looks like him, same hair, glasses has the same facial expression, the whole nine yards. Theroux looks nothing like that in real life but was made to look exactly like a director who just happens to have that hair, glasses and geeky appearance. Someone would have to be Forrest Gump to think it's a coincidence.
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