it accompanies the hilariously over-sentimental visit from his old casino pal:
"i have a dog. i have a house! i have...my life back"
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
ie, it's brought into a static shot for no particular reason, directly held in front of the camera w logo/branding clearly visible, and then placed outside the shot. it was weird.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
xps
hardest laugh this ep: "He's dead!"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
what is the song that the pianist plays? he switches into a very slow song and dougie immediately turns and looks and is very interested
I couldn't pick this out (or identify the piano player) either but recognized the tune and couldn't place it. for a second I thought he was going to break into the Laura Palmer theme.
if you don't think raisin bran is very important to the unwinding of this plot then you haven't been paying very much attention to twin peaks
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
the very slow song is apparently called "heartbreak" and is credited to badalamenti as writer and performer. the fast part sounded familiar though
I think the song played is a new badalamenti tune?
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
candie. candie? candie look at me!
http://i.imgur.com/rZKMxMN.png
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
among so many great moments let's not forget carl summoning the vw camper van with his whistle
cosign
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
the very slow song is apparently called "heartbreak" and is credited to badalamenti as writer and performer.
huh I could've sworn there was some other canonical melody in there. also the guy behind the piano in the scene is obviously not Badalamenti (at first glance I was like "is that ROMAN POLANSKI?!" lol)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Ha I guess that cereal box shot made no impression on me
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
watching that scene where sexy sexy jim belushi eats raisin bran while talking about how he desperately wants to kill someone really made me want to run out and buy some raisin bran
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
it's just a weird thing to see given that a) Lynch has publicly complained about exactly that kind of shot/set-up and b) presumably there was no real need for sponsorship/placement in this production, given that Showtime was giving him free rein so... why do it?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
I am unloading this cart full of raisin bran into the back of my vw van
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
don't have time to think about it
huh I could've sworn there was some other canonical melody in there.
The song the pianist is playing at the beginning of the scene, before he switches to the slow number that gets DougieCoop's attention, is definitely a "lounge" version of some canonical song, but I couldn't place it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
yeah that's what I was referring to
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
what's the deal with tobey maguire-looking deputy? he's not bad like chad but there's something off about him. he seemed helpful during the twin peaks chaos scene but then next he's busting in on truman and hawk's meeting to ask truman to look at his new car?
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
I love that guy, I've been hoping to see more of him since he first stood awkwardly in a doorway for too long
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
did anyone else find the incidental reveal of Becky's parentage and Bobby and Shelly's split sort of heartbreaking
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
xxp next episode we'll get ten minutes of that guy telling hawk and truman about the incredible mileage he gets from his beautiful new toyota
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
is he also lucy and andy's kid
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
joking, but he seems to have a similar tone
Yeah & a bit of a candie vibe
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
"lynchian"
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
Well yeah
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Shelly's obvious rut is kinda tragic.
― Chris L, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Very tragic, especially because her daughter is making the same mistakes.
― Treeship, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
Bobby getting super-pissed about Becky possibly being abused was p much identical to how he reacted to Leo beating Shelly
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Wtf the raisin bran isn't product placement. It's there because it's so weird looking, everything else in the show being either stylish or retro or delapidated and suddenly this fuschia and bright blue thing is also in this world and in this interior designed house. It's also there because it infantilises belushi's character.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
It's kind of a t"his is still the real world" moment.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 24, 2017 11:57 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, and made doubly sad after noticing for the first time afterwards that Amick is credited as 'Shelly Briggs'.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Okay smart guy but what about the pabst blue ribbon thing xp
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
igarioalco
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
lol I had forgotten about the Pabst vs. Heineken thing
it's funny how that reversed itself in the larger culture over the years, Pabst became the upscale "hipster" beer and Heineken is now swill that the ignorant rubes drink
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
imo the raisin bran was "whoa this is the healthy brother" because he's getting his fiber
couldn't tell for sure what was in the other bowl, looked a little like corn pops
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
granted the hipsters are drinking PBR "ironically" but still
xp
lol PBR isn't upscale, it's still cheap (although not as)
the signifier was "working class" versus "snobbish, upper class" and that's still the marketing perception -- Heineken lost cache as some exotic foreign thing and just reads as for rubes, the modern analogue would be PBR versus some local craft brew
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
imo it's not ironic as much as buying the marketing that "this is unpretentious beer" despite how pretentious it is to drink something marketed as unpretentious
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
in any case, coffee is better. damn good.
NA OTM about the appalling Viva Las Vegas.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 24 July 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
it was about as limp and soulless as the vegas strip actually is
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
TBF, I don't think anyone is capable of making 'Viva Las Vegas' anything but a garbage song.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
was that the sheryl crow version or someone covering the sheryl crow version?
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
it was shawn colvin
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
setting so much of this in Vegas has been an interesting decision
guys I was referring to the very blatant Raisin Bran product placement, which is different in both nature and prominence to the randomly branded other things that appear in various shots like cars and phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
It's like you guys have completely failed to notice that Albert's been munching Flamin' Hot Cheetos (and often exclaiming, 'Now that's flamin'!') through this entire thing.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
The Viva Las Vegas cover was by Shawn Colvin. Probably the only music cue that seemed off to me in the series thus far.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 24 July 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
I thought the other bowl was Cap'n Crunch
― maura, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link