From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: misc.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:05:12 EST
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rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) writes:

> In article <7NRguB5w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>,
> pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) wrote:
> > 
> > rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) writes:
> > 
> > > In article <75V7TB2w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>,
> > > pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) wrote:
> > > > convinced that I know EXACTLY who the Little Man From Another Place is.
> > > 
> > > Mind sharing this insight with the rest of us?
> > > 
> > > -Rich Haller
> > 
> >  
> >  Sure. 
> >  First season, Cooper's dream tells him that Bob and Mike used to kill 
> > people. Mike "got tired of the killing" and cut off his arm in some sort 
> > of weird absolution...thus making him The One-Armed Man and a kind of 
> > anti-Bob.
> >  Now, in FWWM, The Little Man From Another Place says "I am the arm, and 
> > I sound like this...", and at the end, when Bob gives him Leland's "pain 
> > and sorrow", The Little Man and Mike are both in the Black Lodge. Mike 
> > looks dazed/possessed, and the Little Man is standing next to him, 
> > touching the One Armed Man's STUMP.
> >  
> >  Therefore, I think that the Little Man is Mike's "arm", or his evil, 
> > which somehow ended up in the Black Lodge and is using Bob to gather 
> > "pain and sorrow"...the arm still has some kind of control over Mike, but 
> > just how much is very open to debate.
> 
> Please don't take offense, Philip (any relation to the detective?), but
> this interpretation has been discussed here previously, since it is the
> most straightforward interpretation of the primary facts regarding Mike and
> MFAP (which you relate above), in particular, the new revelation in FWWM
> that "I am the arm". I was hoping you had some additional insights into
> their current relationship which, as you so aptly put it is very open to
> debate. In particular, people wonder what to make of the joint recital of
> the garmonbozia speech at the end. Are we looking at a doppelganger Mike,
> was Mike lying when he claimed to be a good guy, does, as you state, the
> arm somehow still have some control over the rest of Mike as you state, et
> cetera?
>   
> > marlowe
> 
> -Rich Haller <rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu>   University of Oregon, Eugene, OR,
> USA

 
 No offence at all. I wasn't under the vain illusion that I was the only 
TP fan on the net who recognized the obvious -- but, after all, someone 
asked me to give my theory.
 
 Anyway, you're right -- the nature of Mike and his relationship with the 
Little Man is up for dispute, and I have no answer. Mike has multiple 
personalities -- maybe, hiding in that broken mind, is a person who still 
is "evil".
 
 By the way (and this isn't necessarily directed at you), I have two 
questions:
 
1. If Lynch had no intention of making further TP movies, why did he add 
all of those additional plot complications? (assuming that I'm wrong in 
thinking that Chet Desmond wasn't mentioned in the series) There's enough 
new material for a SERIES of sequels.
 
2. Are there any theories floating around about David Bowie's character? 
The second time seeing the movie, I noticed that he pointed to Cooper and 
asked his boss (Lynch's character -- can't remember the name) "Do you 
know who this is?" (or something like that) 
 
marlowe
 (the biggest Raymond Chandler fan on the face of the Earth)

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