From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Sheryl Lee's "wretched" acting (Re: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:15:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <14740052@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes...

>Yeah, if you mean, by good acting, the regular descent into tear
>filled histrionics that are barely justified and not especially
>convincing.  About half way through the movie I was hoping Leland
>would hurry up and kill her so she would stop crying all the time.

     "Regular" as compared to what?  Barely justified?  If being
     regularly raped by your father since the age of twelve, not
     to mentioned being bombarded by BOB's desire to take away 
     your body and keep you prisoner in it for fifty or sixty years...
     Sure, I'd call that barely reason to cry once or twice... or
     be scared... or to lose your mind and go on coke binges to
     forget your pain (or do anything else that might lessen the
     pain)...
     Sure, I see your point almost immediately.

     As for convincing...  Well...  I guess it is pretty easy for
     us all to be familiar with what kind of person a victim of
     all the above would be like...

>On the whole, I thought her acting job was pretty wretched, and
>the only real reccommendation I could give is, 'go see the movie
>if you want to see Sheryl Lee's breasts'.  Other than that, filming
>this movie was a pretty big mistake as it tries to embody the
>mystery of Larua P, and merely reduces her to a whiny and less
>than sympathetic little twit.   It really may not be something
>Lynch could have changed.  This series was driven and empowered
>by the very mysterious nature of Laura.  They removed that.

     A little more than half of TWIN PEAKS occured AFTER Laura's
     murder was solved...  How does THAT embody her mystery?

     If you think Laura in FWWM was unsympathetic, I'd hate to
     be judged by you.  Whiny?  You'd whine a little if your
     father was molesting you.  

     What's the problem with a movie that isn't driven on the
     mystery of how she wound up dead, but driven by HOW she
     wound up dead?  I thought FWWM was not only driving, but
     also intense and, incredibly, suspenseful.  I think Lynch
     and Engles really turned our foreknowledge of the ending
     into a strength. 

>And the teaser scenes in the series about the murder in the train
>car are FAR more effective dramatically than what they actually
>filmed for the movie.

     For sheer effect, I think I'd have to actually agree with you
     here.  Ronnette's flashbacks were goddamn scary, much more
     intense than what we saw in FWWM.  But the FWWM train car
     scene (while one of the most faulty in the film, I think)
     put a new and wonderful twist on it -- how Laura BEATS BOB,
     how even though she dies, it's in dying that she wins.  For
     Lynch, this is indeed a happy ending -- that is the gold
     in the FWWM version.

>I was disappointed.

     I'm really sorry you feel that way, because I'm thrilled with
     FWWM... The explanations are shocking and interesting, the
     possibilities are open... and the "passion play" mythology --
     I think shown for the first time to their potential (as the
     snippets we got of LMFAP and BOB and Red Room stuff in the
     series was way too few and far between).  

     You know something I just realized, Pierre Tremond and David Bowie,
     and a couple of other people in the above-the-convenience-store
     meeting were wearing OWL masks... I thought they were cute little
     witch masks... but I think they were stylized owls...  Anybody
     else think this?

     Scott