Subject: Re: Blue Velvet
From: brackney@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry J Brackney)
Date: 1991-08-15, 07:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Aug14.194255.14150@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
> >In article <1991Aug14.175309.21611@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> brackney@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry J Brackney) writes:
> >
>> >>  2) What happens to Mr. Beaumont at the beginning of the film?
>> >>     Did he get chewed on by the bugs or what?
> >
> >Mr. Beaumont was brought to the hospital.  Jeffrey was shown visiting
> >him near the beginning of the show.  The bugs were chewing on
> >an ear not belonging to Mr. Beaumont.  I think that was the only
> >chewing bugs scene in the movie.
> >
> >Rocky Giovinazzo

   Actually not, after Mr. Beaumont falls to the ground, and the dog starts
drinking from the hose - we are treated to a long slow zoom into the grass.
As the blades of grass part,  a squirming mass of beetle-like insects is
revealed.

   And we still don't know what happened to Beaumont?  Stroke?  Plot
device?  What?!?

   - Larry

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