NP Twin Peaks Return, season 1

[John Bailey]

After Eraserhead, Lynch spent years planning a film called Ronnie
Rocket of which he said: "It's an absurd mystery of the strange forces
of existence. It's about electricity... coal and oil and electricity."
He also described one of its characters as "60-cycle alternating
current electricity".
I think a lot of that must have bled into his other work. Someone in
The Return explicitly mentioned how fire and electricity are similar
forces in the TP cosmos and various spirits and characters have
physically travelled on electric currents. Plus there's the light
spectrum - blue and red have particular meanings in Lynch's work.
I feel the symbolism and choice of imagery in both Lynch and Pynchon's
stuff is more loose and instinctive, though. Both tease the reader who
wants to look for rigid codes that will 'decipher' the work.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. Lynch's electricity in TP:TR not unlike TRP's electric light in AtD.
>
> The [spoiler?] phantom miner types in TP:TR, for one thing. The multiple
> overlapping, intersecting planes of being.
>
> Lynch is generally more overtly personal and less systematic/historical than
> Pynchon, but I think the nature of the project brings out some affinities.
> Lynch is bridging three decades in this quasi-real space--Twin Peaks being
> more a Pynchonian kind of space than most of Lynch's other worlds, in my
> opinion--where extrahuman forces effect a losing of something like
> innocence.
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anybody else feel Twin Peaks: The Return bears certain parallels with
>> Against The Day?
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, August 6, 2017, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There's talk that it's the last TV/film thing he'll do (I imagine
>>> he'll keep painting).
>>> I'm struck by how self-reflexive the show is now. The movie Fire Walk
>>> With Me opens with a TV screen being destroyed but this season has so
>>> many moments that seem to be speaking directly to the expectations
>>> people have of Lynch himself.
>>> From the radio signal in part 8 to the New York box, there's lots of
>>> meta-commentary on the insidious possibilities of media injure or
>>> corrupt, but now we have the auteur himself appearing early on to say
>>> "I don't understand this situation at all"!
>>> There's a great recap of the last episode that notes how the extended
>>> exit of Lynch's French lady-friend is so deliberate:
>>>
>>> "Watch the look of pure joy on Lynch-as-Gordon’s face as Gordon’s
>>> French date sloooooowly makes her exit: She puts on her shoes, shows
>>> off her legs, straightens her clothes, checks her makeup, reapplies
>>> her lipstick, takes another sip of wine, and kisses him goodbye,
>>> dragging everything out as long as humanly possible. And Gordon is
>>> just thrilled to pieces.
>>>
>>> Albert, watching, is less pleased. He wants to sit down with Gordon
>>> and talk business. When Gordon suggests that he get back to his date
>>> and his glass of wine, Albert is stonefaced.
>>>
>>> Gordon puts a comforting arm on his shoulder. “Albert,” he says,
>>> “sometimes I really worry about you.”
>>>
>>> The idea of talking business on this show is worrying. It’s as if the
>>> show itself is asking why the audience is so invested in the idea of a
>>> resolution. Why devote so much emotional energy to trying to solve the
>>> mysteries when, after all, there is good wine to be drunk, and when
>>> there are beautiful women to chat up? Twin Peaks wants you to relax.
>>> Enjoy yourself."
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Very happy to read this message. Glad other people are experiencing
>>> > this
>>> > similarly.
>>> >
>>> > I was thinking today that one of the most distinctive things about the
>>> > return, to me, in addition to how good it is, is the prominence of
>>> > Lynch on
>>> > screen. His character is probably eclipsing Cooper as the closest thing
>>> > we
>>> > have to a protagonist/hero we have--at least through the first dozen
>>> > episodes or so.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Ian Livingston
>>> > <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Absolutely.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I love the last half of episode 8.  The Kubrick reference to the post
>>> >>> Bomb couldn't have bee more literal.  Then things get freaky.  Pure
>>> >>> Lynch.
>>> >>> Such a treat.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> David Morris
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
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