Subject: Re: Suspicions [Spoilers at end for LAURA and VERTIGO]
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1990-05-24, 00:51
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1671@batman.moravian.EDU>, mcintyrS@batman.moravian.EDU (The Shadow Lord) writes...

}   Several Points.

} First, In the 1944 film "Laura," [...]

And then he proceeds to give away the entire plot of LAURA, spoiling it
for anyone who hasn't seen the film.

} [...] Is Madeline Laura?

I'll discuss this at the end...

[For the following, though I've seen the finale, I'm not basing my answers
on any information shown in the finale. It only seems fair to use the same
set of known data.]

} The least likely are as follows:  Leland(he may have committed incest,
} but he's no killer.)

How do you know he's no killer?

} Cooper(He's innocent because he signed a five year contract.)

So?  Note that even though the audience may be privy to the knowledge of
who killed Laura, there'd be no guarantee that the characters would find
out. Cooper could well have killed Laura (though I totally disbelieve that
idea) and remain unfound through the entire run of the series.

} The most likely are as follows:  Bobby Briggs(Remember that in Cooper's
} dream, that "Robert" killed Laura.)

But Cooper also said to Harry, "Different Mike and Bob."  If Cooper believes
that the Mike and Bob of his dream have no connection to Bobby and Mike
Nelson, then there's no reason we should believe they do.

} Norma's ex-con Husband(He makes Leo look like an annoying kindergartener.)

And also in prison when Laura was murdered. Ironically, he's the only one
in the entire cast (discounting such characters as Diane and Albert) with
an iron-clad alibi (note that we have no proof that Jerry Horne was in
Paris).

} Sherrif Truman(Is he as really innocent as he seems?)

I believe so. There's been absolutely *nothing* to suggest otherwise.

} Naidine(She's far from being as kooky as she seems.)

And what evidence can you present to support that statement. I believe that
Nadine also is exactly what she appears to be.

} Josie--My favorite Suspect(She began as an innocent beauty; now, we
} learn that not only is she the lover of Ben Horne and Jennings, [...]

What evidence do you have that Josie was the lover of either Ben Horne or
Hank Jennings?  Partners in shady dealings, perhaps, but lovers?

} In the future, please do not rely on Cooper's intuition to solve the
} crime, please think before you write these ill-thought theories.

You should probably take your own advice.

Now, as for the film LAURA....
















LAURA doesn't map to TWIN PEAKS. Yes, there are parallels used as allusion.
Laura Hunt was murdered prior to the start of the film, Laura Palmer was
murdered prior to the start of the series. There is an omnipresent portrait
of Laura Hunt in the film, there is an omnipresent photo of Laura Palmer
(as Prom Queen) in the series. A character in the film is Waldo Lydecker,
and two characters in the series are Waldo and Bob Lydecker.

However, when Laura Hunt seemingly returns from the dead, she's not in
disguise as anyone else. She appears as herself, and everyone had just
assumed that the unidentifiable body (the face was destroyed beyond
recognition) was Laura Hunt. In the series, the body was whole, was very
much identifiable as Laura Palmer, and when "she" returns from the dead,
it's in the form of a lookalike cousin. The apparent clues are misleading.

Same thing with the references to VERTIGO. People were interpreting those
references as:

  "Madeleine (V) is killed, just as Laura (TP) is. Judy (V) appears
  looking just like Madeleine, and Maddie (TP) appears looking just
  like Laura. Since Judy *was* Madeleine, and didn't really die,
  Maddie must be Laura, who didn't really die."

My interpretation is:

  "Madeleine (V) really did die, and it was Judy, the person we *thought*
  was Madeleine, who didn't die. Thus, Laura (TP) must've really died."

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