Subject: Re: great final
From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1991-06-11, 16:16
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun11.222400.4615@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
> >In article <XH83HPG@cs.swarthmore.edu> pouncy@campus.swarthmore.edu writes:

>> >>1.  Why does Lynch let Senor Droolcup and the bank teller walk so
>> >>s-l-o--w-l-y?  I think Lynch noticed the same thing that Kubrick 
>> >>discovered in 2001.  You can control an audience with 
>> >>speed.  Fast speed a la Star Wars gets you there, but so does
>> >>slow speed. Remember Kubrick's slow, stately space ship to 
>> >>Jupitar.
> >The 2001 business, I thought, partly to show how boring life in space
> >would be.

I attribute this "discovery" to Hitchcock.  Whenever you're going to
put in a shock, or a action scene, first you lull the audience with a
slow, intimate sequence, let their heartbeats get back to normal, toy
with them a bit.  Hitch did this with love scenes, or with sly little
comic turns with Cary Grant and whoever, or with silly
family-on-holiday scenes, or whatever, and then banged in the door
when you were all relaxed.  I think Lynch's method is a variant of
this--stretch out a scene beyond belief, beyond discomfort, beyond
incredulity, and then blow up the damn bank.

>> >>3.  Why are they calling the Black Lodge/White Lodge Glastonbury?
>> >>It's not an Indian name and it's certainly not a Tibetan name.
> >The name of the place where the gateway happens to be located is called
> >Glastonberry Grove.  This is also the location of the "power play" of
> >which I posted quite a lot of info on last week.  No one was calling the
> >lodges Glastonbury.

Oh, yes, that's an enormous difference: Glastonberry vs. Glastonbury.
For many people those two sound exactly alike, and it's clearly not
coincidental.  Perhaps the Access people got it wrong, like they did
with so much else, or perhaps the Glastonberry is a deliberate
diddling of the spelling, a Twinpeakization, but it's no accident.
Cooper acknowledged the connection--why do you find it unlikely?

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