The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

Flying through the atom bomb blast scene was very 2001 A Space Odyssey. I read someone saying the scenes where it goes back to the Giant/White Lodge (?) are like the HTML code of the universe. I liked that. Great episode, I've never seen any Brakhage but I did feel this was an avant-garde, experimental movie on tv

The Joel Bocko review of this made me really want to watch the begotten

The scene where the soot men were removing the BOB blob specifically reminded me of Begotten. It's a fun little movie.

going to start a BOB blob blog

it actually takes some boldness to soundtrack that footage with that penderecki piece doesn't it, on paper it sounds so obv and corny-- besides the already noted on-the-noseness of penderecki's titular dedication, his stuff of the 1960s is second only to 1910s Stravinsky in terms of the ridiculous influence it has had on horror film scoring, it's almost like scoring a fantasy epic battle scene with Carmina Burana 'O Fortuna' in 2017 and making it not only work but fucking KILL...

begotten is on youtube btw

Yeah the threnody kind of answers my question from last week re what would be next after take 5/green onions/sleep walk! Lynch def doing interesting things with super familiar pieces of music

Xp nice, will check it out

also hard for someone like Lynch to program that piece because Kubrick used Penderecki in some of his movies, and the scene itself was very Kubrick.

it's almost on the nose enough to be considered some kind of arthouse in-joke

At this rate, I expect that BOB's expulsion from earth will be undertaken to the tune of 'Ghostbusters'.

xp there's definitely a few of those in here

I'm hoping Simon's will be the TP podcast to pronounce Penderecki correctly

Begotten! Thank you! It was on the tip of my brain when watching this episode, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Penderecki is hardly super-familiar tho is he? I knew I'd heard that piece of music before but I couldn't place exactly what it was

Not on the level of those pop tunes but far from novel in this sort of context

Some scenes feel like Lynch is a little influenced by people that were influenced by him! Like, the purple palace (or whatever)--and especially the lady that lives there and kisses the Laura orb--is very Guy Maddin.

iirc Penderecki is one of the few major modern composers who gets used in film but has not done any work specifically for scoring film

Him and the also-mispronounced ligeti

Ligeti split

^^^ i use that too

Some scenes feel like Lynch is a little influenced by people that were influenced by him!

Agreed, the way scenes rub against one another and the pace and use of music reminds me a lot of Cremaster.

agree on the maddinesque purple zone

Ep 8 even better after a third viewing. The final radio station sequence in particular now feels like a unsettled part of my own subconscious, like it was one of my own dreams or a frightening bit of film I saw as a kid and that stuck with me.

In addition to Penderecki and the Platters I thought the ambient score in this was amazing, genuinely frightening during the soot men's ritual with Mr. C and brought out a few tears during the lady-kisses-the-Laura-orb sequence. Overall this was easily the most emotional ep for me so far.

And like jed_ above I take back any previous niggling complaints. This is such a gift.

We're the scenes in the theater with the giant the longest stretch of the show so far featuring Badalamenti music?

Yeah as good as the licensed music is the badalamenti stuff in this is incredible - I was also close to tears during that sequence and looking online this isn't an uncommon reaction

According to Wikipedia there was a David Lynch in the Platters 1954-70.

Ooooooookay, I've had this nagging memory of something that I couldn't quite put my finger on since watching this the other night and I just figured out what it was. I believe the screenplay for Ronnie Rocket might be worth a re-read, y'all.

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I really wanted to hear what those deeeep struck-tube/like synth notes during the woodsmen's ritual on cooper might sound like on big good speakers, that part of the score was incredible

Was that lynch or Angelo?

read on the internet that the music during the woodsmen ritual was moonlight sonata slowed down 300%

still love that the giant's footsteps have the audio backward

The final radio station sequence in particular now feels like a unsettled part of my own subconscious, like it was one of my own dreams or a frightening bit of film I saw as a kid and that stuck with me.

Beautifully put.

seeing NIN on TP made "the perfect drug" get stuck in my head this morning

read on the internet that the music during the woodsmen ritual was moonlight sonata slowed down 300%

― circa1916, Tuesday, June 27, 2017 2:03 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!! Can someone do something with software & confirm this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6jpn5n/s3e8_moonlight/

i can't access soundcloud at work, but apparently this guy did it

Lynch is like Ben Burtt's doppelganger, and I love it.

i forgot to talk about this because it got overshadowed by everything else but: i love the bullshit macguffin technology that evil coop has access to. the phone call that set off all the jail alarms, the app that only has three buttons but somehow tells him there are three trackers on the car and lets him transfer(?!?) their signal to a truck (!?!). love that there's no attempt to make this realistic at all.

the tracker transfer thing was amazingly cheesy

I didn't catch it for sure, was the number he entered on that app the truck's license plate number? And then he just threw the phone out the window!

It was the license number, yeah. NA otm, I love the magic tech, it's like "what if windom earle was actually awesome"

I honestly can't remember a lot of the second season's middle and I have the suspicion it was that ol' Windom Earle getting up to shenanigans that Ive forgotten

Another example is the voice recorder that recorded ray & daria's phone conversation - there's no attempt to make it realistic in the same way that there's no attempt to make the mystery man's ability to be at both ends of the phone realistic

I rewatched the entire original series just before the revival started and I can't remember a lot of the second season's middle.

xpost it's like the wonderful wonderful technology Jack Kirby would draw in a comics panel because he couldn't be bothered to go get photo reference for a transistor radio or guitar amp or whatever, he'd just envision it his way

YES

Thematically Mr. C's impossible devices make sense in light of the Black Lodge's connection to technology (spirits traveling through electricity or manipulating fire, the Trinity atomic tests releasing the Experiment Model), but you're right, they're also just delightful as a matter of narrative economy.

imo the best thing about them is I think "hmm, that's odd" but don't give it a second thought because it's irrelevant to the plot

I honestly can't remember a lot of the second season's middle and I have the suspicion it was that ol' Windom Earle getting up to shenanigans that Ive forgotten

― mh, Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:14 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something i forgot completely that turned out to be really awesome was all the major briggs abduction stuff

I love the 90s Kid Pix / HyperCard stack look of Mr. C's software, too. Something totemic about certain stylizations and variations in the font

had a devilish urge to shop david lynch's face onto the boy out strolling with the young girl and post it to fire walk with memes with the legend "when you're not going with Mary anymore" :-/