Subject: Re: It's not backwards!!!
From: osmigo@ut-emx.uucp (Ron Morgan)
Date: 1991-06-21, 18:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

reckless cut-and-paste:


   >Look. It's very simple. When they 'rehearsed' their lines, they were
> >recorded, and then played backwards. The cast then attempted to speak these
> >'backward' lines (which would sound pretty garbled.) Their attempts would
> >be recorded and _then_ played backwards, which would sound like they were
> >spoken forwards. Geddit? That's why they sound weird. This could also be
> >taken to be the method by which the _movement_ was done ; the characters
> >_walked_ backwards, and this action was _transmitted_ backwards, which
> >is why their movement is so stilted too.

I'm not sure that's how they did it, but there's a lot of evidence in the
final scenes that time *is* going backwards. Notice how Laura deliberately
snapped her fingers backwards, for example. The most outstanding event in this
regard is when Windom Earle "stabs" Coop with that thingie. Coop falls to the
floor, then suddenly we see that *exact* same event in reverse! He "falls"
"up" to the knife (or whatever it is). Does this signify a point when time
made a U-turn of some sort?

I find it very, very difficult to believe that all this is just for "special
visual effect." I'm not sure what is *is* for, though, with regard to the
plot line.

Ron Morgan
osmigo@emx.utexas.edu