Subject: Re: WiseGuy vs TP
From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
Date: 1992-10-09, 10:09
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: ingria@BBN.COM

In article <1992Oct4.120605.20818@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> eitan@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il (Shternbaum Eitan) writes:

   I remember several episodes in WiseGuy that occured in a small town in the
   north of the U.S. in those episodes agent taranova arrives to a wierd
   town to investigate murder cases.

   do you think david lynch got his inspiration from those episodes ?

Maybe.  I think Lynch has an interstingly twisted notion of reality
and an essentially visual take on life.  And that when something comes
along that intrigues him, he will use it some way.  I suspect that
there are lots of influences on _Twin Peaks_ that we still haven't
noticed, becasue they are so idionsyncratic.

As a possible example, I present the following.  A few days ago, I saw
a video for the J. Geilss Band song ``Centerfold'', about a guy who
discovers that his high-school love (``angel'') is now a centerfold.
It has the requisite chorus of nubile young women, parading around
Peter Wolff during each stanza.  They're all wearing black and white
shoes and the camera does a close up on their feet at the start of
each circuit.  Is the close up on Audrey's black and white pumps
influenced by this?  Is the whole idea of a high-school innocent who
winds up in a skin magazine, echoed by Laura in _Fleshworld_?  After
TP, it's hard not to see possible connections, but I can't be sure.

-30-
Bob


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Bob Ingria

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