From: blojo@xcf.berkeley.edu (Jon Blow)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Little Things
Date: 30 Aug 1992 21:51:12 GMT
Organization: Free Hardware Foundation
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I find it interesting that the movie answered a lot of the "little things"
about the series that only die-hard fans ever really wondered about anyway,
like:

  * Why Donna was so entranced with wearing Laura's sunglasses.
  * Why Donna burst into tears when sitting at a certain booth in the
    Roadhouse.

Now I'm going to launch into some random speculations about the movie.
They may not be too coherent since I've been up 32 hours (and am going
to see the movie again in another 2):

  * Maybe Senor Droolcup, Old Mrs. Tremond, the Dirty Old Patch-Eyed Lady
    at the Trailer Park, and the Ancient Teller at the Bank Where Audrey
    Blew Up are all the same.

  * I was totally hit hard by the parallelism between the party in the
    red-colored room in Canada (where the music was loud and thus subtitles
    were used) and the events in the Red Room with which we are so
    familiar.  I sort of had this concept as of the 2nd season fanale
    and the movie has strengthened it:  The Gang From Another Place
    is sort of having a perpetual party hanging out in the Red Room.
    They spend a lot of time doing trite things to amuse each other,
    and also perhaps minimally to show each other their "worthiness"
    of being there-- The Little Man's "Wow, Bob, Wow" in response to
    Bob's playing with the cup of coffee's viscosity in the season
    finale, as well as Leland's levitation trick in the movie, both
    seem to be examples of this.

    As is sort of demonstrated by the creamed corn, I have for a while
    had the idea that they work to create "interesting situations" in
    humanity and feed off them.  A while ago I sort of worked BOB's
    existence and the usage of spotlights into a theory that "BOB" was
    an "active" version of the audience.  By this I mean that the audience
    watching a show like this thrives on characters' tragic situations
    as well as sensual ones, but whereas the audience is only capable
    of taking in what has been written for them, BOB goes out and creates
    his own situations.

    Leland's "levitation trick" in the movie also seemed like some sort
    of formal ceremonial bow or something.  The other people in the room
    were looking at him in a proud/impressed manner; I get the feeling
    that he was taking a bow in connection with the impressive situation
    he had managed to create.

    Laura's most important question seemed to be when she asked Bob, "Who
    are you, really?"  The personalities of the Gang From Another Place
    seem to be blended, indistinct; even though each seems to perform
    separate functions, I sort of get the feeling that they are all acting
    as parts of one entity which is a metaphor for something else, which
    is, well, where "Electricity" comes in.  But I don't dare say anything
    else about that until I see the movie again.


    Someone a long time ago on this newsgroup had a theory that time in the
    Other Place actually ran backward with respect to "normal" time; this
    could be well-borne-out by the appearance of the dead Annie, but which
    would not explain how Laura was in Cooper's dream there in the original
    season.  Perhaps time there goes in both directions.

    The ring under the trailer was placed on a mound of dirt with a
    depression in the top.  If I remember correctly, there was a similar
    mound in the railroad car, with the half of Laura's heart necklace
    on it.


    Well, I have a lot more to say about this movie, but I'm a bit tired.
    Besides, this post is long enough already.  I must say that this is
    a terrific movie and, though I don't like to make "best" comparisons,
    it's the best movie I've seen in quite a while.

    It sort of irks me when people like jsnell@ocf say things like:

> Flawed-- VERY flawed. But fun nonetheless. Just as TP is a fascinating
> television show, but flawed -- VERY flawed.

    because they're trying to sound cool or something.  Folks, if you're
    going to say something like that, please give reasons why.  It takes
    a few seconds to read that sentence but it has almost no content--
    and I'm more or less against content-free Usenet.  Why was it flawed?
    How was it VERY flawed?  I don't buy that assertion.

  -Jon

"Electricity!"