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.
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