The Random Twin Peaks Thread
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You also had a bit of a Frank from Blue Velvet vibe going.
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yes! i liked it, but it's pretty far out.claaa7 wrote:very good post, thanks for this! i agee with pretty much everything you said. Cronenberg is easily one of the best film makers we have got, he would just make my top 5 and still to this day i check for anything he does.. have you read his book "Consumed"?the woods wrote: agree about most of the remakes mentioned being pointless, but, cronenberg's 1986 "the fly" is so vastly different from the original that it almost doesn't qualify as a remake, and it really only barely references the original. i don't think it really belongs grouped with the others and i like it quite a lot. it has only one line of dialogue from the original, very few of the same plot points, is much more of a dark comedy, and it is consistent with cronenberg's usual themes . full of beautiful and clever dialogue, brundlefly's discourse on insect politics alone is worth the price of admission. it's a sad but absolutely true metaphor for the decay of all close human relationships and contact. it's rawer, but if you compare it to his less genre specific and more recent works, it still tells the same story. it even has that same perfect final shot as probably at least half of all cronenberg's films. to my eye, it's really the film that elevated him, critically at least, from being a sort of secret auteur for the gag reflex challenged, the intellectual auteur of "videodrome" (1983) and "rabid" (1977), to the higher profile filmmaker he is today...more commercially viable but still able to make challenging films no one else would touch. i don't think we'd have his beautiful reading of j.g. ballard's "crash" (1997), or his outstanding more recent film "maps to the stars" (2014) without the success of "the fly". his more recent works are more subtle and less visceral, which i think allows more coventional reading and a more sophistcated tendency toward appraisal, but the pallette is the very much the same. his work may seem more self controlled now but he remains one of our best living english language filmmakers as far as i can tell, and i believe "the fly" is an important part of that filmography.
i am however, a little miffed at the prospect of having to face a "suspiria" remake.
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I think all of the lyrics to "Getting to Know You" (from The King and I) fit nicely into the Bob/Cooper mystique
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me.
Getting to know you, putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.
Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.
Sharing your spirit,
Sharing your tears and your laughter
Hoping it goes on,
Hoping it lasts endlessly
Getting to know you, putting it my way,
But sweetly,
You are completely,
My friend you see.
Telling you my dreams,
Getting to feel that you're with me
Making our own fun,
Knowing we know how to play
Now that I've met you
Suddenly I'm mostly happy
I've found a new pal, beautiful and true
Yes I'm talking about you
Friends Today
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me.
Getting to know you, putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.
Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.
Sharing your spirit,
Sharing your tears and your laughter
Hoping it goes on,
Hoping it lasts endlessly
Getting to know you, putting it my way,
But sweetly,
You are completely,
My friend you see.
Telling you my dreams,
Getting to feel that you're with me
Making our own fun,
Knowing we know how to play
Now that I've met you
Suddenly I'm mostly happy
I've found a new pal, beautiful and true
Yes I'm talking about you
Friends Today
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Similar to how Get Happy sounds like a song about getting ready to die.Mace wrote:I think all of the lyrics to "Getting to Know You" (from The King and I) fit nicely into the Bob/Cooper mystique
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I checked it out, just for the hell of it. I do not recommend it to anyoneJerry Horne wrote:
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Thanks for taking one for the teamSoolsma wrote:I checked it out, just for the hell of it. I do not recommend it to anyoneJerry Horne wrote:
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No problemo. People are so frickin weird
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Haha! That's classic.Soolsma wrote:
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Leo's sweater reminds me of a merging of the lodge floor and the static blue tv screen in the FWWM opening.
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Random question -- I re-watched the pilot for the first time in a few years. Was Mark Frost the one reading the news on the broadcast in Leo's place? I thought I read it was him, but he's not on the cast list.
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It's him, and he even reprises the character in the SHOTP audiobook.IcedOver wrote:Random question -- I re-watched the pilot for the first time in a few years. Was Mark Frost the one reading the news on the broadcast in Leo's place? I thought I read it was him, but he's not on the cast list.
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