Subject: Re: Question about Lynch and politics
From: v101pyrw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Michelle L Zafron)
Date: 1990-11-20, 13:53
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: v101pyrw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu

In article <1990Nov19.192057.20700@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes...
> >In article <6100@mace.cc.purdue.edu> salmons@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Salmons) writes:
>> >>I haven't been reading a.t.t-p very long, so sorry if this has come up before
>> >>(hell, what hasn't come up here).  Somebody told me that Lynch has at least
>> >>acted in interviews like a serious Reagan-styled rightwinger, a real old
>> >>fashioned macho-type guy.  I laughed pretty hard about it then, but that was
>> >>before the questions about sexism in TP.  What's the deal?  

Lynch believe it or not is a Conservative type of guy.  I have read interviews 
where he has said that he admires Reagan.  I don't know anything about his 
personal views on sexism, women's rights, etc.  I wonder where he stands on the
rights of the accused.  The reason I wonder is that Cooper & co.'s methods of
obtaining information is definitely on the shady side.  In fact when it was 
said that they had a strong case against Ben Horne I nearly choked.

> >The same can be said of the violence...rather than the shoot-em-up
> >cartoon violence of most TV shows and movies which trivializes
> >the effects of violence...the violence in Twin Peaks is fleshed out.
> >We are shown the violence, and more importantly, the effects of the
> >violence...the body count in Total Recall was pretty high, but I
> >didn't feel much of anything...the same cannot be said of the
> >body count in Twin Peaks.

Well yes and no.  I was affected by the Leland/BOB scene with Maddy.  But 
killing has been portrayed as casual and incidental.  Hawk threw a knife in a 
guard's back and no one said anything at all.  Why not?  Granted this man was 
working on the side of the bad guys but so was Blackie and that shook me up.

As for the sexism issue well I don't know.  I don't see the universally negative
images of women that exist in other tv shows.  But the violence towards women 
bothers me.  Granted in TP, this is not solely oriented towards women 
(Bobby/Leo, Hank/Josie's "cousin", Big Ed/Nadine come to mind).  But it would be
nice to see someone besides Nadine have the physical strength as well as the 
mental strength to stand up to their victimizers.  Wouldn't it be a twist to see
a woman fight her own battle instead of having the white knight do it for her?
The characterizations of the female characters are definitely three dimensional
in TP, however, so I don't have any complaints there.


--Michelle