Remember the weird editing in the beginning of episode 3, in the purple place? It reminded me so strongly of Martin Arnold’s short film “Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy” that I feel it almost had to be an intentional influence.
It’s a great film, and very Lynchian in its way. The filmmaker found a novel method of manipulating the playback of film reels, and used it to create these intense deconstructions of a bunch of old conservative/traditionalist Leave-it-to-Beaver type movies. I find it really startling and creepy, but when I watched it in a film class there was a whole range of reactions, from laughter to deep sadness.
[spoiler]So they’re watching Twin Peaks on the ol’ projector in the white lodge and get worried about humanity because of nuclear tests, so they create Laura Palmer in a Dragon Ball to counteract Bob. Got it.
Can’t wait for the Giant floating in the air to become the new four brains meme. [/spoiler]
high school me would of really flipped his lid at nine inch nails in the roadhouse. adult me still loved it too though.
I think one of the old ideas from bob engels back in the fire walk with me days was the lodge people were from a planet of creamed corn or something and people would always say that sounded dumb as hell, “must be an engels idea not a lynch idea” etc, but I always thought lynch would erasehead the hell out of something like that, so this episode was great. everything about this show so far has been everything I could have hoped for from more twin peaks after seeing fwwm
