Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

No slight to the performers, but my favorite thing on the Roadhouse stage was the volume knob.

The best in-show music bit was the pitched down American Woman.

yes she is an au revoir simone

Nice. They played Lynch's wedding too, I believe.

i think i'm assuming correctly that david bowie in fwwm acted exactly how lynch wanted him to.

He probably wouldn’t have asked for his voice to be replaced in S3 if he felt he’d given Lynch exactly the performance Lynch wanted.

Well, that may be because there were a bunch more Philip Jefferies lines in the show and he didn’t feel up to recording them / had other fish to fry

nah, he specifically asked to have his voice replaced in the FWWM footage - he didn't know at the time he declined to appear on-camera that Lynch would instead sculpt a giant talking steam boiler to replace him.

Lynch still thought his performance was great, but didn't get to tell Bowie that:

I think someone must have made him feel bad about his Louisiana accent in Fire Walk With Me, but I think it’s so beautiful. He wanted to have it done by a legitimate actor from Louisiana, so that’s what we had to do.

Timely snippet from the same interview:

How did you decide to use Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” in the nuclear explosion scene in “Part 8”? Did you always have that music in mind for that scene?

I was going to experiment with Angelo but that thing was, in my mind, made to order. I did chop it up a lot so that I could get different sections for the visuals, but it was just meant to be.

How did you feel watching that scene set to that music?

It felt real good. The problem is that, in the studio, we played it in the mix really loud, so it would be more like you’d hear it in a theater. Then the heartache comes when you have to dial it back for television, because they have these restrictions as to how loud these things can be and how long they can be loud for; many different rules, it’s really not so great. It’s like when you know what it can be and then you have to suffer that [dilution], and people see it on their computer or even, my god, on their phone—it’s like a nightmare. There’s so much fucking power in that scene, and in this world people would love to hear what’s there, but the machines [which we watch things through] aren’t there any more. It’s got to be full range and full loud.

I like that Wild West song a lot: NIN was not my bag. Whether I liked the songs or not, the scenes were a great tension release and wind down.

Bowie is in FWIW so briefly he doesn’t really have time to register as bad. He’s fine. Good, even! It’s very brief. Terrific scene, in no way made worse by Bowie.

Twin Peaks: For What It's Worth

In the ep 14 scene w/ Andy and the Giant/Fireman, my first thought was "Barney Fife and Lurch, together again."

i was not aware of this short!

From the moment David Lynch started making films, he used Krzysztof Penderecki's compositions to score them.

The first time was in 1967 for the 2-minute short “Absurd Encounter with Fear” starring Jack Fisk and Peggy Reavey. Watch it here: https://t.co/agj7clBBtt

— Twin Peaks 🏔️ ◀- 6 feet -▶🏔️ (@ThatsOurWaldo) March 31, 2020

Absurd Encounter with Fear, kinda sums him up right?

yeah, in some important ways it was all there at the beginning!

that short has definitely not lost its power.

I watched s3e8 and a bunch of his shorts the other night. I had not seen these since about 14-15 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYJ6gjZOCc&list=PLAqDCLWD9bNNz6gluJN583d_gbCXIjB4A&index=11&t=0s

aah well i was trying to post the playlist but here's the short i was hoping to embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYJ6gjZOCc

back to alleged thread topic

wtf Cockney green-gloved YouTube star

I have a theory about him that I will save until you get through the rest of the series, but yeah, he is a whole lot of wtf.

Green glove was originally going to be worn by Jack Nance, but he up and died.

oh man :( that would have been perfect.

I dunno, it’s so goofily discordant for me that I think I prefer it on this complete sore-thumb character. Though obv we’ve no idea what 2017’s Pete would be like.

had no idea Gordon Cole's name was a Sunset Blvd ref

omg you're so close

surprised that one went past Morbz tbh

I don't think he's even a character that appears onscreen in SB, fer chrissake.

brb gonna stick a fork in the socket

Viewing complete.

Final two eps had two of the worst moments of the series, ie (17) fucking Freddy punching BOB's volleyball and (18) the ludicrous Diane-Cooper sex scene.

I did like the resolution, which I interpret as... get ready...

You can't save anybody.

The scene where they are sitting in the car not saying anything for like 10 minutes is the one that broke me

My theory about Freddie and his glove is that it is Lynch's take on Marvel-style superhero films

freddie the glove is heroism as bathos

That immensely long YouTube piece arguing for the true nature of Twin Peaks as an exegesis of television itself is quite illuminating on those plot elements. I found it pretty convincing overall.

gotta light link?

lol

Maybe that's DoppelDiane instead of Real Diane.
― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Monday, July 17, 2017 9:27 AM

Kudos!

Also to Simon's podcast partner who called Diane as Naido.

I enjoyed the series very much.

And is the case with almost all of Lynch works, 10-20% of it was shit.

btw when Cooper showed up at Carrie Page's door, she was speaking and acting very much like Kim Novak's Judy (her second incarnation) in her early scenes in Vertigo. I suspect that was conscious.

What did you make of Audrey by the end of her appearances, Morbs?

xxxp it’s at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM

Be warned it’s 4.5 hours but I suppose many folks have time on their hands. I watched it at 1.5 speed over a few days. It’s a little self-satisfied but I was persuaded by a lot of it.

jesus fuck

why is it so long

what I made of it, sic, is Lynch being cruel to the fans. Audrey is probably institutionalized.

I guess I was right! though I don't give a shit about anything that wasn't on the teevee.

https://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/twin-peaks-audrey-horne-truth-revealed-spoilers-1201892814/

yeah I don’t care about anything in Frost’s books (Jennifer Lynch’s Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer is proper Twin Peaks though)

(and Frost should always be part of TV Peaks)

I agree, but the "explanatory" video has no truck with anything off-screen. I have no idea why it needs to be *quite* that long, but the presenter is anxious to demonstrate that every single thing in S1, S2 up to the reveal and final 2 eps, FWWM, Missing Pieces and S3 can be understood in that framework. I guess it's 40ish hours of material to cover. I was impressed, anyway.

i am intrigued, but i'll have to get over my natural distrust of a person who posted a 4.5 hour video on youtube

shoulda done about 20,000 posts instead

I have similar distrust of "what's up YouTube" narcissists but the ideas are worth sticking around for

Also to Simon's podcast partner who called Diane as Naido.

Thanks for listening :)

before the return came out i watched a 4+ hour video essay about peaks. lost in the movies' journey through twin peaks iirc? it was remarkable, and i think i was linked to it from here

guy who opens the TWIN PEAKS EXPLAINED video shouting "SPOILER ALERT" is a major dealbreaker