Subject: Give me plot or give me death! (was Re: Lynch - CRITICISM!!!)
From: v22964qs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Mike Cluff)
Date: 1990-12-05, 06:16
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: v22964qs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu

In article <14740024@hpfcso.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes...

> >I think that Lynch is still learning his trade and I hope that
> >he matures so that his work can achieve his potential.  

Achieve his potential?  I don't know, if I were a moviemaker and "Eraserhead" 
(or "Blue Velvet" for that matter) was my only film, I'd be able to die happily.

Granted, Lynch could improve or diversify (couldn't we all?), and I do feel 
that Lynch is guilty of some of the criticisms Mr. Newell has proposed.  
However, I feel that he is much less guilty of these problems than are most
filmmakers.  

I also find these criticisms of the "plotlessness" of David Lynch to be 
interesting.  To me, Twin Peaks has one of the most involved and convoluted
plots of any TV show around.  To most people, THIS has been the ultimate
reason people have left the show.  Thus, I think Lynch/Frost's strange
"indulgences" (if you insist) are quite forgivable.  

If you want plot, TP gives it to you.  If you want tone, TP also gives it to 
you.  If you want image, style OR substance, you got it.  Granted, there's not
an equal balance of all these ingredients, but so what?  If your lasagna had
precisely equal parts sauce, cheese, pasta, and meat, it wouldn't be very
tasty, would it?  (Strange analogy, I know, but think about it)


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