Subject: Re: Japan release of FWWM From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) Date: 1992-10-13, 13:18 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1bf5vbINNp74@uwm.edu>, xepo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott R Violet) writes... > > > >After hearing all of this about Japan getting to see FWWM > >first, and then it being released on tape there in the next couple of > >months of have to wonder why they get it before us? I am not in any > >way being racist or anything, just wondering why a film produced in > >the US, at least I think it was, would be released some where else > >first? Any ideas? Also, wouldn't it take longer as they have to > >subtitle it too? I don't understand it at all... It's simple: the Japanese have better TASTE than we do. They like Twin Peaks - as a country - a whole lot more than we do. FWWM made a killing over there, breaking even just in Japan alone. That's why they get it first. (FWWM wasn't an American production, by the way, it was produced by Francois Boygeous - spelling corrections welcome - who runs the French production company with which Lynch has a five-picture deal). Shortly thereafter, the health of Annie Blackburn still in question, the behavior of Special Agent Dale Cooper was noticed __________________________to have changed. Scott Gorcey.