Subject: Re: TP:FWWM this and that. (movie SPOILERS)
From: zitt!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt)
Date: 1992-08-30, 21:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

dmittleman@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman) writes:

> > In article <6011@transfer.stratus.com>, kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koell
>> > > 
>> > >I like that the movie showed a lot of what went on with Laura even
>> > >though most of it was implied in the series.  After watch two seasons
>> > >of a series focused on Laura Palmer without ever seeing very much of
>> > >Laura, I thought it was good to balence it out.
> > 
> >     I don't agree.  the Lynch imagery was just fine in this part of the
> >     movie, but there was not enough plot advancement for me.  Too little
> >     new was presented.  And for the audience of those who have never seen
> >     any of the TV series, the movie was seriously flawed in that too many
> >     characters were introduced peripherally with little or no development
> >     and little or no meaning to the plot.  (eg. Shelly, Leo, whats his name
> >     Smith who kept the diary)  Further, the characters introduced at the
> >     beginning of the movie (who might have made for an excellent story)
> >     were cut short so we could see all the drama about Laura.

As I've posted earlier (but the more I thinking about it, the clearer it
seems), this should not be seen (marketing aside) as a standalone feature,
but as another installment in TP, much as the series and the books were.
While it doesn't make sense at all on its own, neither would, say, Act 3
Scene 5 from a random Shakespeare play.

This just occured to me -- the movie is a Passion Play, much like that of
Obergammerau (sp?), or "Jesus Christ Superstar" or "The Last Temptation of
Christ". Each of those pieces assumes that the audience already had a pretty
good idea of the basic story, and concentrated on an unusual angle or set of
details. (I saw TLToC with a group of people who actually >didn't< know the
Jesus story -- I had to give them a running commentary during the movie.)
We, the target audience, already knew the story of the death of Laura Palmer.
What the movie added was the textures and details to fill in our view.
Plot advancement, in the Laura Palmer section, was beside the point.

It's fitting that the movie was released now, >after< the end of the WKLP
thread and after the diaries. I'm going to watch the first few episodes
again in light of what the movie contained, but a lot of the effect of the
movie came from our having moved around the edges of the story, finally
coming to the actual event.

I think that, especially given the popularity of the movie and series
overseas, this is just the first of an ongoing series, like the Star Trek
series. Unlike the Star Trek movies, however, I'd expect this series to 
jump around in time. I think we'll see more of the FBI agents, and see
more of what happened after the end of the series.

--
"Go to an extreme and then retreat to a more useful position"  --  Brian Eno
Joe Zitt        ...cs.utexas.edu!kvue!zitt!joe         (512)450-1916

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