{"id":2590,"date":"2025-03-22T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2025-03-22T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T04:14:56","slug":"retro-movie-pass-adventures-lost-highway-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/retro-movie-pass-adventures-lost-highway-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Pass Adventures: Lost Highway (1997)"},"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\/lost-highway.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Arquette and Balthazar Getty in Lost Highway \" class=\"wp-image-2589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:32,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/scratch.mit.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102051208\\\/https:\\\/\\\/scratch.mit.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 08:37:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 03:43:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 13:43:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-25 09:31:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-14 09:30:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 16:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 08:59:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 00:33:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 22:09:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 08:56:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 09:23:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 21:56:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 14:08:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-12 11:50:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-20 11:47:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-25 04:45:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-29 12:38:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-09 13:54:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-24 02:23:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-04 22:28:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-13 01:19:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-26 13:05:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-26 13:05:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&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\/lost-highway.png\" alt=\"Robert Blake as Mystery Man in Lost Highway\" class=\"wp-image-2588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway.png 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-768x483.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, David Lynch&#8217;s Lost Highway is both more and less realistic than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/retro-movie-adventures-vertigo-1958\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hitchcock&#8217;s Vertigo<\/a>. Body doubles, body switches, a Mystery Man who appears in multiple places at once, and a linear story told in non-linear time, but it&#8217;s still not as weird as a guy dressing up a woman to look like the woman who thought she was possessed by her ancestor and killed herself but then two or three other layers of unlikely weirdness happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: it was fun to see Robert Loggia beat up a guy on the closed road I use to ride my bike to Griffith Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s poster was such an clear choice that I almost avoided it for being too obvious. Fun fact: The original poster featured an early example of computer graphics. Vertigo was actually the first movie to use computer graphics; Saul Bass used them in the title sequence and on the original version of this poster. They probably took days to render. I made my low resolution substitute in about five minutes with an online programming language for kids called <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scratch<\/a>. The part that took the longest was all the hand drawn lettering. There are Saul Bass homage fonts out there, but I wanted all the letters to be unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Lost Highway in the style of the poster for Vertigo.\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lost-highway-copy.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if Vertigo but David Lynch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2588,"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":[247,264,266,78,265,10,262,38],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-david-lynch","tag-hitchcock","tag-homage","tag-movies","tag-parody","tag-photoshop","tag-saul-bass","tag-totally-completely-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}