Subject: Just saw the movie (*Spoilers*)
From: zitt!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt)
Date: 1992-08-29, 16:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Well, I just got back from the movie. A few observations.
- Everybody on this newsgroup should see this movie. Now. Go. Don't bother
logging off :-). It's exactly what many of us have been hoping for.
- Nobody who is not either on this group or a kindred spirit should see it.
It will make absolutely no sense to anyone who hasn't watched the show and
mulled it over in great detail.
- Remember back when we had the sneaky feeling that Lynch/Frost were reading
this newsgroup and scripting based on what we were saying? Well, this even
looks more like that than the series does. I get the feeling that they kept
an eye on what kept us most interested and talking, and made sure to put it
in the movie. The film was targeted very specifically at the fanatic audience,
and they did their research seeing what fans wanted to be in it. Even more than
the show, this had the careful feel where Everything Shown Is Significant. We
now have a better feeling, for example, of what the ceiling fan was for:
Leland/BOB switched it on when going to Laura so that Sarah wouldn't hear what
he was doing.
- The most obvious thing not in the movie? The Black/White Lodge. My guess?
That was not part of the original conception, and, like almost everything
else after episode 2009, was tacked on to extend things. The movie got rid
of the Plotburger Helper and got back in focus. (Actually, I think Annie
mentioned the Lodge. That was a hook to what I think will be another movie,
where they try to reintegrate the show.)
- So what does garmonbozia have to do with it? Is it corn, or is it pain
and sorrow? Or both?
- Sheryl Lee had more range than I expected. She played Laura very differently
than she played Maddy.
- Stuff for the next movie ("Twin Peaks: One Chance Out"?): What's with
Jeffries? Where is Desmond? What about the Dopplegangers? Do we learn more
about the BOB/Mike relationship? And... what about Naomi? :-):-):-)
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