Subject: Re: Wood, plastic, floating From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) Date: 1992-09-09, 11:49 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article cicero@hotcity.COM (Andreas Locicero) writes: > >In article <1992Sep6.211420.18741@cs.mun.ca>, georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George > >Noel) writes: >> >>I was re-watching some episodes lately and from what I can see, the Palmer >> >>house isn't a different "set", actually, don't they use a real house? In the >> >>TV series, we see the house from a different perspective.. mainly from the >> >>living room into the dining room whereas in the movie we see it mainly from >> >>the front door to the dining room or in the dining room itself making it > >*seem* >> >>smaller. > >Yes it clearly is a real house, but it is also just as clearly not the same > >house (I went back and looked at the pilot episode too). You are right that > >the angle is different, but I think that was done to try to disguise the fact > >that the house is different. Nope, it's actually the same house. Look carefully in the scenes right before Laura heads up the stairs in FWWM. Not only is the stairwell the same (unmistakably) as in the pilot, but you also get a clear two-second glimpse of the Palmers' kitchen, complete with counter, as it appeared in the pilot. The living room is distinctly different from the one we saw in the series, but that was the studio set. It does look a little bit more like the living room we saw in the pilot, though. > > In fact, I noticed that many of the locations in > >the movie are different than the ones used in the show. I think much of the > >show was shot on location. Perhaps the people who live/work in those spaces > >didn't want to have the movie shot there after 2 years of being disturbed by > >the series' filming? Well, most of the regular filming for the series was shot not in Snoqualmie, but in California. They built a replica of certain locations which were originally in Snoqualmie (e.g. the Johnson home) down near Van Nuys. Other places such as the school were shot on location for the pilot, then transferred to the studio sets, then back to location for FWWM. (Actually I think the school was a different one than either the studio set or the original one, but I'm not sure why.) I really can't see why they'd go to a different location for the Palmer house when the studio set was still standing. I can see them shooting the house interior and exterior at separate locations, though, if the owners didn't want their exterior on film for some reason.
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