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The suburban ennui of Betty Draper (January Jones) also led to an unsettling psychosexual relationship with young Glen Bishop (Matthew Holden Weiner) which treads similar Oedpial territory to Blue Velvet's strange love triangle between Jeffrey, Frank, and Dorothy.Īlfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, in which James Stewart's acrophobic detective becomes obsessed with a woman who represents someone he lost, shares a similarity with the bond that Dick Whitman forms with the real Donald Draper's widow. While less dark and disturbing than the work of David Lynch, Mad Men often contained some blackly comic surreal flourishes, such as the infamous lawnmower scene from season 3, episode 6, 'Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency'. First broadcast in 2007, Mad Men did the same with real-life events of the 1960s. Weiner noted that the historical distance between Lynch's 1980s movie and the 1950s setting allowed the director to interrogate the past.

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Lynch's examination of the darkness and depravity hidden behind suburban white picket fences was a forerunner to his iconic 1990s series Twin Peaks and also influenced Weiner's own interrogation of American suburbs in the 1960s. Lynch's movie had a huge impact on Matthew Weiner and, in his program notes, he linked the movie to his decision to join film school. Baxter, Joan also transforms her career by sacrificing her morals, but the situation she's put in says more about how the men in her life objectify women as currency to be traded in business deals, in a manner similar to Fred MacMurray's caddish boss in The Apartment.ĭavid Lynch isn't the most obvious director to have had an influence on Mad Men, but Matthew Weiner spoke highly of Blue Velvet. It's a shameful proposition made to Joan by her male colleagues, but she agrees to do it, in exchange for a 5% stake in the SCDP partnership. Mad Men explores very similar themes, most notably in season 5, episode 11, 'The Other Woman' in which Joan (Christina Hendricks) is asked to sleep with a member of the selection committee to secure Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price the advertising contract for Jaguar. RELATED: Mad Men: All 19 of Don Draper's Mistresses Explained It also explores how poorly these seemingly respectable men treat the women in their lives. The movie explores office politics and the questionable moral choices people have to make to get ahead in their careers. Baxter (Lemmon), an ambitious insurance clerk who hires his apartment out to senior colleagues for extra-marital trysts. Starring Jack Lemmon and Only Murders in the Building's Shirley MacLaine, it tells the story of C.C. Another clear influence on Mad Men is Billy Wilder's classic romantic comedy, The Apartment, released in 1960.