Subject: Re: It's not backwards!!!
From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
Date: 1991-06-21, 15:02
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun20.120803@aifh.ed.ac.uk> bjr@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Brian J Ross)
writes:
> >In article <1991Jun19.211549.1066@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 01dbjohns@bsu-ucs.uucp
writes:
> ># Does anyone realize that they weren't really talking backwards in the
> ># B/W lodges?  It was just altered.  If you listen, you can make out the
> ># words plainly... sans sub-titles.
> >
> >They recorded the scenes with everyone pronouncing forward-sentences
> >backwards, so that when the scene is played in reverse, the sentences
> >are forward-sounding.  For example, videotape yourself saying the
> >word "Oh Leh", and when you play it in reverse, you're saying "hello"
> >albeit strangely.  Weird effect -- thanks David Lynch!

I was particularly struck by how understandable BOB was. I figure he must have
worked particularly hard on getting it right because he wasn't a 'real actor'.

> >Now, would someone kindly explain the meaning of the last episode to me?
> >

I'm working on it.

> >-- 
> >Brian Ross.                                             Diet Pepsi rules.

-Rich Haller