Subject: Re: FWWM (SPOILERS), Laura's life, Leland
From: steve@sep.Stanford.EDU (Steve Cole)
Date: 1992-08-30, 14:01
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
In article <1992Aug29.223238.2393@cs.brown.edu>, ST201643@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
|>SPOILERS AHEAD.....
|> My significant other disliked the movie because she had an image in her
|> mind of what Laura's life was like, and the Laura portrayed in the movie
|> didn't match. I didn't feel this way, but I was wondering if anyone else
|> did. ?
Sort of. I was expecting to see more of a struggle between good
and evil in Laura's character. In the series, we were told about
all the good things she did - meals on wheels, helping Johnny
Horne, tutoring Josie. These things made it more shocking to the
town, and to us, when Laura's dark side was revealed. In the movie,
she had few redeeming qualities. Even when she was with James, it
didn't seem as though she was trying to be good. I think it would
have helped if we had seen this battle going on inside Laura.
The same is true for me about Leland. In the series, Leland was
a good guy, a very good guy. It was *really* startling the first
time we saw him look in the mirror and see Bob. In the movie,
Leland was portrayed from the start as seriously messed up, which
makes it less shocking when we see that he is Bob (which we knew
already of course, so maybe it doesn't matter).
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Steve Cole (steve@sep.stanford.edu, apple!sep!steve)
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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