Subject: Re: Second Guessing... From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) Date: 1992-09-15, 14:19 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <19377oINNrhc@network.ucsd.edu> mmaxwell@ucsd.edu writes: > >In article <15441@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog > >here...) writes: > >(big 'ol snip) >> >>The end result -- a slimmer, more focused film that could almost stand on >> >>its own. Anyone else want to come forward with their "improvements" to >> >>FWWM? > >Kermit's suggestion about concentrating on the death of Laura Palmer makes > >a lot of sense to me. Take out everything with Stanley and Desmond, > >because it just isn't essential. Take out Jeffries, and even take out > >garmonbozia. Yes, this means no Cooper as well. This would make it a > >completely different movie. (Maybe not a better one). Well, it would be "better" in terms of telling a more unified story, but by no means "better" in terms of the sheer number-of-ideas-per-minute that FWWM made you think about. Definitely better for those who wanted to have some sense what the story actually meant. > >The thing is, that with all of the bits with Jeffries and Cooper and > >the room above the convenience store are great. They add a new dimension > >to the movie and the story (and get all of us to go back and watch the > >tapes over again to try and fit them in place.) Agreed. Like I said, I think they deserved a completely separate movie on their own. There was a full-blown story in there about the Blue Rose cases and their intersection with the drug-running -- maybe even the way the One-Armed Man fit in with it all. But these ideas didn't deserve to be squeezed into the 2 hours or so devoted to Laura Palmer. > >FWWM is an awesome, emotional > >film experience. I saw it twice. I can't remember the last time that > >i paid to see a movie twice in the theatre (well...i can, it was T2). > >Lynch is a by god director, one who knows how to manipulate images > >better than anyone i've seen in a long while. Agreed wholeheartedly. The thing is, the parts that moved me the most about the film weren't Desmond and Cable butting heads, but Laura glimpsing BOB behind her dresser and Laura breaking down and telling James she loved him. That, in my mind, is what FWWM was really "about".