{"id":2524,"date":"2025-03-09T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2025-03-09T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:46:58","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-eraserhead-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/retro-movie-adventures-eraserhead-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Eraserhead (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead.png\" alt=\"Mrs. X, Mary X, and Henry Spencer in Eraserhead.\" class=\"wp-image-2525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:33,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102084927\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 08:02:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-05 02:09:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 03:13:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-25 16:35:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 11:54:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 08:59:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 09:23:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 23:16:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-17 11:03:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-17 11:03:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead.jpg\" alt=\"The tiny cooked chicken from Eraserhead, colored bright blue on a red and yellow background.\" class=\"wp-image-2526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This feels like a different movie every time I see it. I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;Golly, I just figured out a new interpretation&#8221;; I mean like they keep shooting other scenes and sneaking them into the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: Alamo Drafthouse played a clip of Lynch before the film where he said that no one else interpreted the film the way he did, which means all non-Lynch interpretations are equally valid. Personally, I think it&#8217;s the origin of Pencilhead from Mystery Men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pencilhead-1.webp\" alt=\"Doug Jones as Pencilhead in Mystery Men. His costume is yellow with white trunks and cardboard cylindrical hat.\" class=\"wp-image-2528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pencilhead-1.webp 550w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pencilhead-1-183x300.webp 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Doug Jones&#8217; finest role. Way better than when he was Fishboy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a hard time finding a tangentially related poster to parody for this. The end result doesn&#8217;t look much like the original, and the original is hardly iconic. I&#8217;d be surprised if you can figure it out without looking at the alternate text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Eraserhead based VERY loosely on the poster for Eraser. You know, that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. The one with Vanessa Williams? SO iconic.\" class=\"wp-image-2529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eraserhead-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part about it is that it all makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[247,78,10],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-david-lynch","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}