From: jsnyder@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (J Snyder)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: 2nd viewing musings
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:40:47 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Sep2.211218.22627@adobe.com> asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal) writes:
|Saw the movie for a second time last night.  Spoilers...

I'm up to #3 at this point...

|Who was the red-clothed figure jumping on and off the box during Jeffreys'
|narrative?  He was wearing whiteface and an artificial nose (like the owl
|mask) and had his hair colored black.

I was under the impression that it was Phillip Jeffries Lodge-counterpoint
BECAUSE that is the first character we see through the static in Jeffries'
diatribe.  However, the jumping figure is listed seperately in the credits
leading me to believe otherwise.

|What did the grandson have in his hand?  He was carrying it around, both
|during the scene where they gave Laura the picture and the scene where he
|jumped around after Leland fled the motel.

It looks like a slingshot, or maybe a small dowsing rod (hmmmm...looking
for water?).

|There's a long tracking shot at the end in the lodge, after the BOB/Mike/
|Leland/LMFAP scene but before the Cooper/Laura scene, where the camera tracks
|across the floor towards the curtains.  It appears that there is something
|behind the curtains right where the camera is headed.  I have no idea what it
|was.

I was looking carefully (per your suggestion), but was unable to make 
anything out.

|Observations:

	<stuff deleted>

|Laura can tell that the OAM and the LMFAP are related.  After the car-yelling
|scene, Laura says something like, "Who was that?  Do I know him?"  It was
|clear that he looked familiar.  Then she flashed on the memory of her dream
|with the LMFAP offering the ring.

"No, honey, you don't know him.  Do you know him?"

I noticed that we hear the arm "whooping" as Mike's car first starts
approaching.  (You know, the "I am the arm, and I sound like this..."
whooping)  We also hear it when Desmond and Cooper get the vision of
the utility pole with the 6 on it, and in Laura's dream when it seems
to be coming from downstairs when she gets out of bed and goes to her
bedroom door, before she looks back at the picture.

|My guess is that the same thing happened to Jeffreys as happened to
|Desmond.  (What is it with FBI agents with first names for last names?
|Stanley, Desmond, Jeffreys...)
|
|Mrs. Chalfont lived in the trailer that had previously been occupied by a Mr.
|Chalfont.  As Mrs. Tremond, she lived in a house that was currently occupied
|by a Mrs. Tremond.  Interesting parallel.  I don't think we've really learned
|her name at all.

The first name in the credits reads like this:
	Mrs. Chalfont (Tremond)

|There are lots of things I think I now understand, and lots of things I think
|I sort of understand, or at least have hypotheses for.  2 things I don't
|understand at all:
|
|- The ring.  Is it protection?  A mark?  Teresa had it for quite some time
|before she died (it was in all the pictures, and notice how pale her skin was
|where it had been).  Did she lose it before she died or after?  My guess is
|after since her skin was dirty elsewhere, but clean there.  What was it doing
|under the trailer?  How did the OAM get it?  Is there more than one ring?  It
|looked as if the OAM threw it to Laura in the train car.  Did wearing it at
|death help her?  Why did dream Cooper tell her not to take the ring?

Also, why did the mound of dirt after Theresa's death have the ring, while
after Laura's death the mound had her necklace?

|- Why did Laura keep saying the Bobby killed Mike?  It could just be drunken
|ramblings, but I can't help but think there was more to it.  But I have no
|idea what.

My hypothesis goes like this...Laura has some guilt associated with the
deputy's death, disqualifying her for the Federal Lodge Assistance Program.
So to speak.  Now that her habit has led to a death, Mike cannot help her.
Tie this in with the "All the angels have gone away" thread, and you have
a theory so full of holes that it's structure is now weaker than Laura's
sinus cavities.

|Questions, questions, questions...
|
|__   -paul asente
|\/     asente@adobe.com   ...decwrl!adobe!asente   moo-bear@cs.stanford.edu
|
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|certain instances theft is a moral obligation.

And if I have been able to provide and answers, I'm as surprised as you.

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