I love David Lynch (Mulholland Drive is a masterpiece imo), but I haven't seen those two. I think that for Aurora's Miracle I wanted to go for something like Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", and if I remember correctly I couldn't find a proper clam model for it to work. The closest I could find were the crabs I ended up using, which in the end made the scene better and added a bit of charm. Now it reminds me a bit of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie with all the stone crabs. 