Subject: How they SHOULD have marketed FWWM.
From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Date: 1992-09-01, 11:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

We all know controversy sells.  Look at the way an overwhelmingly complex,
art-house film like "The Last Temptation of Christ" did big business
because of fundamentalist pickets.  A similar thing happened with "The
Life of Brian".

And more pertinently, a mediocre film like "Basic Instinct" zoomed to the
top of the charts because of publicity from protests about the way it
portrayed gays, lesbians, and bisexuals.

So...

If David Lynch and company had wanted a blockbuster, all they needed to do
was publicize how "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" was the story of a
coke-snorting bisexual whose sexual practices lead to her death.

Instant protests, instant publicity.

Hmm, wonder if one of the protest groups would have named themselves
"Leland Did It"...

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