Subject: Re: TP:FWWM this and that. (movie SPOILERS)
From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
Date: 1992-08-31, 14:02
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: ingria@BBN.COM

In article <17tjbdINN7e7@agate.berkeley.edu> sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:

   Ciao,

   Joe Zitt made a good point that the movie was like a Passion Play in
   that the viewers were expected to know the story prior to coming to
   the flick. That is similar to the Greek plays wherein the crowd already
   knew the stories of the gods, and the Greek heros prior to coming to
   the tragedies/comedies. If you see a classical Greek play today without
   knowing the backgrounds you would be completely lost. The play definitely
   was for Peak fans, who knew the characters, the stories, the themes,
   and motifs.

It's also similar in that, in a Greek play, the denoument was not a
surprise.  It was how the playwrite made the story get there that was
the surprise and that was the aspect of the play where all the author's
artistic ability was displayed.

   A end note: I just loved the beginning with the staticy (a real word?)
   
Staticky, maybe?

   television. I may be reading too much into it, but one one level I found
   it as a great inside joke: our televisions were dead, no TP on the air.
   Then the axe coming down, again a joke on how the show was killed, hacked
   to death by some yo-yo tv execs. But then.....the film starts and it might
   be off the air, but it ain't dead.

Certainly, the ``killing the TV (show)'' image is part of the effect.
But it actually does serve a plot point, since, after the room goes
dark we hear a woman's scream and then cut to the body of Teresa
Banks, floating down the river; i.e. the TV set destruction is just
before Teresa's murder; the floating body, just after.  (We later get
to see the TV scene again, in flashback, confirming this.)

-30-
Bob

``You wanna hear about our specials?  We don't have any.''

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