From: drewds@peptide.ecn.purdue.edu (David A Southwood)
Subject: What I remember from FWWM
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:05:40 GMT

   I saw FWWM las night, and it is obvious that this movie exists in various
edited forms because some of the scenes that people are describing were not
in the version I saw.  

This is about all I can remember on the first (and last) try (I have 
jumbled some of the scenes in my mind though...

The movie begins by showing static of a television.  It backs up and the
TV explodes.  Chet & Sam are shown next arresting 2 women oustide of a schoolbusof crying children.  Gordon calls Chet back to Pittsburgh.  Chet talks to
Gordon for a while in the car.  At an airport, Gordon introduces Chet and
Gordon to the "Lady in Red".  The Lady in Red does a retarded dance.  We
see flashes of static and flashes of a body floating down a river.  Later in the car Chet explains to Sam that this is one of Gordons codes.  He explains the symbolic meaning of everything the woman does except for one "The Blue Rose"
on her dress.  Chet says that this is one of Gordons "Blue Rose" cases and
the meaning of this symbol must be kept a secret.
Chet & Sam investigate the Theresa Banks murder.  They go to see the sheriff
who is impossible to get in to see.  The 2 people in the outer office sit
and laugh at a book.  Sam calculates the value of the furniture in the office.
Chet forces his way in and gets just a little information out of the sheriff.
Chet & Sam go eat at the local diner where an old man in the back room speaks
to them over flashing lights.  A woodsman sits in the corner.  I could not
understand everything the man says, it was something like:
        'talk to Edith, but don't mention the night'
They go to talk to the waitress at the counter who seems to think that
Theresa Banks murder was an accident.  A man in the back harrasses them
about the murder.  Chet tricks sam into pouring coffee on himself. Next,
they leave the diner to take a look at Theresa Banks body.  They peel
back her fingernail to find a T and they notice that her ring is missing.
Next they visit the trailer park of Carl Rodd. They go into Theresa Banks
trailer to talk.  An odd, dark looking woman with an ice pack comes out
from a back room in the trailer.  Chet says: do you know who killed Theresa
Banks?  The woman backs up behind the corner and nothing more is said.
Chet goes to a different trailer and finds a ring with a green stone on
it that has the symbol from the top of Owl Cave on a mound of dirt.  Chet
& the trailer disappear from the trailer park when he picks up the ring.
There is also a phone pole in the trailer park that is shown twice.  The
numbers are something like:
                            26710
                            BIG 6
It Pittsburgh; Gordon, Cooper & Albert are at work.  Cooper tells Albert
about how he has had a premonition that a young blond high school girl will be murdered, but he does not know how he knows.  Cooper goes out into the hallway
& looks into a security camera & then into the nearby security room several times.  The last time he sees himself on the camera, and Agent Phillip Jefferies
walking down the hallway (there is no Buenos Aires' in our version.)  Jefferies
stumbles into the rooms and says: 'I want to tell you everything, but I don't have a lot to go on.  But I'll tell you one thing, Judy is positive about this'
Now, at the start of the next sentence the screen starts flashing with static
and the convenience store scene is melded with Jefferies explanation.  The
2 combinations are almost impossible to understand when they are running
at the same time.  The version I saw ended with Cole saying "For God sakes,
Jefferies, you've been gone nearly 2 years & Bob saying 'Fire Walk with Me"
- in the simultaneous collage of the 2 scenes.  The only thing said in the
red room is - "This is a formica table" "Green is its color" "With Chrome
& everything will proceed cyclically." "I have the fury of my own momentum"
& "Fire Walk with me". The rest has been (poorly) edited.  During the
collage, Mrs. Tremonts grandson removes a white pointed nose mask and
replaces it.  When he removes it again he is a monkey.  He replaces the  
mask again.  Bob and Mike walk into the Red room at the end of the scene.
When we come back to 'Pittsburgh' Albert verifies with the secretary downstairs that Jeffries was never there.  Cooper goes to investigate the trailer park
of Carl Rodd & doesn't really find anything.  
(Remember Harry saying in episode 1 'Same thing as happened last year in
Blodgetts Barn?', when they found Laura?)
Next the scene flashes to 'ONE YEAR LATER'
Here are the 'Laura scenes' summarized outo of order:
Laura walking down the street.  She meets Donna (now played by Moira Kelly).
We see Mike also. Laura/Donna go to school - not much happens there (except
for the strange dance Bobby & the others do).           
At home, he father tells her to wash her hands - he says she may have some
dirt under 1 of her fingernails & grabs her by the face.  Ms. Palmer screams
'Stop it', 'She doesn't like that'.
Laura finds 2 pages torn out of her diary.
Laura does a lot of cocaine & smokes & drinks at various times in the movie.
Donna talks to Laura about nothing important.
Mrs. Tremond & her son catch Laura as she is going to deliver the 'Meals on Wheels' program.  Mrs. Tremond & her grandson (wearing the white pointed mask) give
Laura a picture.  The grandson mentions something about 'The man behind the
fan.'  Laura walks into her room & sees Bob (& the inside of his mouth.)
Laura is raped by Bob when the electrical sparks in her room & the fan just 
outside are going.  Laura dreams of a room the next night with torn pink rose
wallpaper that leads to the red drape room.  A pink rose appears on her door.
Mrs. Tremond & her grandson are in the room. LMFAP is in the the room
holding the Green ring toward the screen.  Cooper (from future) says "Laura,
don't take the ring.)  Anne appears in Laura's bed.  Anne says.  I have
been with the good Dale who is trapped in the black lodge.  Write it in
your diary.  Laura wakes up with everything O.K.   
Laura identifies the next day after her dream as "Day One" in her diary.
Laura tells Mr. Palmer to 'stay away from her' after the dream.
Laura has a picture with an angel standing behind a a table with a family
eating dinner.
Laura goes over to Donna's hysterical after seeing Bob in her room one day.
Laura & Donna go on a trip one noght with Jacques, Leo & one other to a
Canadian alternative bar where they do drugs, drink & get naked. (Unfortunately
the morality of this part of the movie falls so low that most people will
probably walk out during this scene - what was this part for?  Trying to
outdo Basic Instinct for sleazy sex scenes in an R movie???  A few of the
women in the theater I was in left during this scene, but most of the
guys stayed.  I have to admit that I was wondering how much I could pay
Sheryl Lee to come to visit me at a bar near school after this part of the
movie.)  Donna borrows Laura's shirt.  Laura gets oddly upset about Donna
'borrowing her things' 
Laura & Donna somehow make it home the next night.
Laura & Bobby meet a guy in the woods for a Drug deal. Laura is out of
it.  The guy pulls a gun on Bobby & Bobby shoots him (3 times).  Bobby
tries to bury the guy.  Laura laughs & keeps saying 'You killed Mike.'
Laura & her father go driving somewhere.  Logging truck gets held up
by 2 old people crossing the street (one possibly the woman from the
trailer park.)  The one armed man desperately tries to flag down 
Leland.  Her father revs up the car.  Laura smells the burning engine
oil & says (mirroring Maddy's statements) 'What burning?  What's that
smell?)  The One Armed Man turns the truck around to the wrong side
of the street & yells: "You stole the corn (pain & suffering).  I had
it canned over the store.  And miss, the look on her face when it
was opened.  There was a closeness.  Like the formica table top.
The thread will be torn, Mr. Palmer.  The thread will be torn!  It's
him, its your father!!
Back at Laura's house the angel disappears off of her painting.
Leland has flashbacks of his affair with Theresa Banks.  He remembers
murdering Theresa Banks & throwing her body in the river wrapped
in a white bag.  He must have also taken her ring.  He remembers
telling Theresa that he is backing out (she was blackmailing him).
Leland walks off.  The grandson pops out of the bushes & dances.  We
hear 'Black dog runs at night'.  A Black dog barked twice during
the One Armed Man yelling at Leland scene.  Leland remembers killing
Theresa.  Laura remembers sitting with Ronette on a bed in lingerie (
a good thing to show ). 

Laura remembers that Theresa had the same green ring.  
Laura-Ronette-Jacques party at cabin.  Laura is looking mighty fine.
Jacques ties up Laura and has his way with her.  Waldo is there.  Leland
shows up.  Leland beats Jacque up when he walks out of the cabin.  Leo
takes off in his red corvette.  Leland pushes the girls to the train
car all tied up.  Leland torments  Laura.  Leland puts a mirror in front
of Laura.  Laura sees her face and then Bobs.  The One Armed man has been
chasing Leland through the woods.  He reaches the train car.  The one
armed man gets Ronettes door open.  Ronnete sees a white angel that
looks like Laura. Ronette is kicked out of the train car.  Laura is
killed with a knife.  Leland puts the green ring on Laura's hand.
Leland wraps Laura in a bag and dumps her in the river.
Leland holds up one half of the heart necklace.
We see the body floating down the river.  The next morning we see
Harry's hand start to take the plastic off.
Leland goes into Glastonberry Grove into the Black Lodge.
Leland floats to the ceiling.  One armed man gives his blood to the lodge.
(after the OAM and LMFAP say 'We want all our garmbozia (pain & suffering.)
We see someone eating the corn off of a spoon.
We see the face of the monkey again.
We see Laura in the Red room crying while cooper holds her hand.  An
angel appears overhead & Laura starts to laugh.  The movie ends with
Laura's face in a white glow and then the crdits.
Other things I forgot to mention:
Laura calls herself a turkey in an incredibly retarded scene with James.
(but we do get to see her topless again.)
Laura mentions that Theresa also worked at one eyed jacks.
Mrs. palmer sees the White Horse again one night in a vision.
Laura focuses on the wires and electricity as she is walking down the
street (I think this is how Phillip Jeffries travels.)
Laura visits Harold & tells him to hide her diary.  She tells him that
she will probably will not see him again.   Then she gets very angry
and yells "fire walk with me"  Her lips turn black (similar to the
way Windom Earl was & the man behind the mask.)  
In a short scene the Log Lady says something outside the Roadhouse to
Laura like 'bad feelings can turn your heart to the evil side in time
like these'
Laura tells James she is 'going home'.  
Theresas left arm went numb before she was killed. 

Overall I thought,  Chris Issak should give up acting.
                    Kiefer Sutherland did a poor job.  One more 'golly gee
Agent Chet Desmond where to now??? and I would have screamed.'
                    Sheryl Lee did way too much of the movie.  None of
the other characters were developed much at all.
                    The movie looks like it was just made to give a better
ending than the series had.  I really hope he does not make any more though
because his latest movies have gotten off the 'logic' track.
                    Moira Kelly didn't impress me that much.  
                    The film & sound quality was poor in places (if that 
was due to a low budget, I guess it couldn't be helped.
I really couldn't recommend this movie to anyone.  It is about as bad as
Wild at Heart.  It lacks style more than anything else.

Here is how it goes:    Eraserhead:     Average
                        Blue Velvet:    Awesome
                        Dune:           Good
                        Wild at Heart:  Retarded
                        Twin Peaks (season 1) : Awesome
                        Twin Peaks (season 2) : Good
                        On the Air:     Extremely Retarded
                        FWWM:           Average to Bad

New symbols from the movie?: Blue rose, pink rose, black dog, white mask, 
monkey, angel.
By the way, there were 5 rings all together....


Rings:  Audrey - See my ring? - to cooper.
        Theresa - The green ring.
        Windome Earl - The twisted snake ring.
        Cooper - The gold circle ring.
        Donna - The diamond ring James gave her.