Subject: FWWM thoughts (SPOILERS) From: bvickers@net3.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) Date: 1992-08-30, 20:25 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks SPOILERS ahead Well, I just got back from seeing the film a second time. It was even better than the first time around; I caught more of the de- tails and the story seemed to flow better. If you haven't seen it twice yet, go see it again. Here are some of my thoughts: - The first half hour of the movie with agents Chet Desmond and Sam Stanley was downright hilarious. The opening scene with the school bus full of screaming children would have had me on the floor if movie theatre floors weren't so sticky. The sheer silliness of watching FBI agents bust a school bus driver and a couple of slutty looking school girls had me (and a lot of other people) laughing. - Irene, the waitress at Hap's Place, was great. Her wry sense of humor reminded me a lot of Albert. Her "Who's the toehead" line had the theatre in stitches both times I saw it. - Harry Dean Stanton was great as the Fat Trout trailer admin- istrator. I thought it was funny that both Desmond and Coop managed to wake him up before 9am. - The scene with Coop trying to catch himself on the TV monitors was also pretty comical. Note the use of the "long-hallway" theme again. The TV series used this theme quite a bit, and it was nice to see it again. - Bowie's accent was great. The whole Jeffries sequence was a bit too short, but it was sure crammed with great imagery. We got to see the convenience store that Mike talked about in the TV show. And a lot of the Lodge weirdos were living up there: LMFAP, Bob, Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont), her grandson, and a few new ones. I never quite figured out what the deal was with the formica table. - The room above the convenience store appeared to be another entrance into the Lodge. The picture that Mrs. Tremond later gave Laura looked like that room, and we remember Laura entering the red room that way during one of her later dreams/visions. - Albert had a chance to use some of his dry wit on Coop once again when Coop was explaining his vision of the next victim. "You've just described half of the teenage girls in America!" Unfortunately, Albert was never matched up with a small-town dimwit like Andy (or Sheriff Truman), so we didn't get to see him in full form. - The whole Laura Palmer story was an entire shift from the upbeat to the depressing. I agree with other people who stated that her segment was entirely serious. This shift in mood and tone was used by Lynch in _Wild at Heart_ when Sailor and Lula entered Big Tuna. The only exception in FWWM was when Bobby had shot the cocaine carrier. "Bobby, do you realize what you've done? You killed Mike." - I thought it was great to see the way Laura could manipulate men. The scene in which she turns Bobby's interrogatory behavior into dancing was great. She's very hard on him at first, and when Bobby threatens her, implying that she won't get any more cocaine, Laura turns on the smile and the charm. Bobby buys it hook, line and sinker. Laura sure knows how to get her way. - I was impressed with Moira Kelly. I came into the movie the first time being prepared to be disappointed by the switch in actresses. But she made me believe in her more than Lara Flynn Boyle probably ever could. When she said "I wonder if Mike could write a poem," I felt sympathy for her. She was in many ways like Laura -- she had a jerk boyfriend, and she was willing to take more risks than we would have guessed on first impression. But ulti- mately, she was Laura's friend through it all, and she made me believe it. - We saw several old themes recapped: the fan, the hallway, the flashing lights, the smell of burnt oil, the red room, creamed corn. But we were also introduced to a few new ones: the owl-ring, the chirping telephone wires, the TV static, the blue rose, paper- mache masks, angels. That's about all the comments I have time to make right now. Overall I thought the movie was great. I'll probably see it again just to catch a few more details. Couple questions, first: - What was the significance of the monkey(s) in the red room/ convenience store? - Whose blood do you suppose was representing the pain and sorrow (garmonbozia) that Mike and the LMFAP asked Bob for? Leland's or Laura's? Does anyone know what garmonbozia really means? - What was the funny-looking stick that Mrs. Tremond's "grandson" was always holding? There was also an elder man-behind-the- pointy-nosed-mask in the convenience store holding the same stick. Something to do with the wood theme, perhaps? - If Laura put on the ring at the end, do you suppose that Leland actually ended up killing the evil Laura doppleganger? And is the good Laura trapped in the Lodge the same way that Cooper is? Enough for now. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ ( _) ___ ___ _( )__( )_ ( )( ) o __( ) _ ___ ___ ___ (___)(_) (__=) (_)_ (_)_ (__) (_)(_((_)(_'(__=)(_) _(_) Brett J. Vickers (bvickers@ics.uci.edu)
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