From: bvickers@net3.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Subject: FWWM thoughts (SPOILERS)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 31 Aug 92 03:25:26 GMT

SPOILERS ahead


Well, I just got back from seeing the film a second time.  It was
even better than the first time around; I caught more of the de-
tails and the story seemed to flow better.  If you haven't seen
it twice yet, go see it again.

Here are some of my thoughts:

- The first half hour of the movie with agents Chet Desmond and
Sam Stanley was downright hilarious.  The opening scene with the
school bus full of screaming children would have had me on the
floor if movie theatre floors weren't so sticky.  The sheer
silliness of watching FBI agents bust a school bus driver and a
couple of slutty looking school girls had me (and a lot of
other people) laughing.

- Irene, the waitress at Hap's Place, was great.  Her wry sense
of humor reminded me a lot of Albert.  Her "Who's the toehead"
line had the theatre in stitches both times I saw it.

- Harry Dean Stanton was great as the Fat Trout trailer admin-
istrator.  I thought it was funny that both Desmond and Coop
managed to wake him up before 9am.

- The scene with Coop trying to catch himself on the TV
monitors was also pretty comical.  Note the use of the
"long-hallway" theme again.  The TV series used this theme
quite a bit, and it was nice to see it again.

- Bowie's accent was great.  The whole Jeffries sequence was
a bit too short, but it was sure crammed with great imagery.
We got to see the convenience store that Mike talked about in
the TV show.  And a lot of the Lodge weirdos were living up
there: LMFAP, Bob, Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont), her grandson, and
a few new ones.  I never quite figured out what the deal was
with the formica table.

- The room above the convenience store appeared to be another
entrance into the Lodge.  The picture that Mrs. Tremond later gave
Laura looked like that room, and we remember Laura entering the
red room that way during one of her later dreams/visions.

- Albert had a chance to use some of his dry wit on Coop
once again when Coop was explaining his vision of the next
victim.  "You've just described half of the teenage girls
in America!"  Unfortunately, Albert was never matched up
with a small-town dimwit like Andy (or Sheriff Truman),
so we didn't get to see him in full form.

- The whole Laura Palmer story was an entire shift from
the upbeat to the depressing.  I agree with other people
who stated that her segment was entirely serious.  This
shift in mood and tone was used by Lynch in _Wild at Heart_
when Sailor and Lula entered Big Tuna.  The only exception
in FWWM was when Bobby had shot the cocaine carrier.
"Bobby, do you realize what you've done?  You killed Mike."

- I thought it was great to see the way Laura could manipulate
men.  The scene in which she turns Bobby's interrogatory
behavior into dancing was great.  She's very hard on him
at first, and when Bobby threatens her, implying that she
won't get any more cocaine, Laura turns on the smile and
the charm.  Bobby buys it hook, line and sinker.  Laura
sure knows how to get her way.

- I was impressed with Moira Kelly.  I came into the movie the
first time being prepared to be disappointed by the switch in
actresses.  But she made me believe in her more than Lara Flynn
Boyle probably ever could.  When she said "I wonder if Mike could
write a poem," I felt sympathy for her.  She was in many ways like
Laura -- she had a jerk boyfriend, and she was willing to take more
risks than we would have guessed on first impression.  But ulti-
mately, she was Laura's friend through it all, and she made me
believe it.

- We saw several old themes recapped: the fan, the hallway, the
flashing lights, the smell of burnt oil, the red room, creamed
corn.  But we were also introduced to a few new ones: the owl-ring,
the chirping telephone wires, the TV static, the blue rose, paper-
mache masks, angels.

That's about all the comments I have time to make right now.
Overall I thought the movie was great.  I'll probably see it
again just to catch a few more details.

Couple questions, first:

- What was the significance of the monkey(s) in the red room/
convenience store?

- Whose blood do you suppose was representing the pain and
sorrow (garmonbozia) that Mike and the LMFAP asked Bob for?
Leland's or Laura's?  Does anyone know what garmonbozia
really means?

- What was the funny-looking stick that Mrs. Tremond's "grandson"
was always holding?  There was also an elder man-behind-the-
pointy-nosed-mask in the convenience store holding the same
stick.  Something to do with the wood theme, perhaps?

- If Laura put on the ring at the end, do you suppose that
Leland actually ended up killing the evil Laura doppleganger?
And is the good Laura trapped in the Lodge the same way
that Cooper is?

Enough for now.

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Brett J. Vickers (bvickers@ics.uci.edu)
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