"Shuangfeng: Walking with Fire" is probably the most underrated Lynch work so far. Of course, the reason must be directly related to the difficulty of viewing it: 1. The audience must have watched the two seasons of "Shuangfeng" After the episode (1990-1991), it was possible to understand the content of this work; 2. This film is also the beginning of Lynch’s narrative style becoming extreme, no longer following "The Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet" or "My Heart" The linear narrative in "Wild" gradually evolved into the more "chaotic" or so-called "pretentious" narrative style in the later masterpieces "Monster Night Panic" and "Muholland Road". However, this does not mean that this work should not be taken seriously by the audience. This work was booed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. MTC scored only 28 points, and the box office results were quite low. It was not re-examined until many years later. And appreciation, but a very large number of viewers (including many fans of "Double Peaks" or Lynch’s works) still hold prejudices about the film. Good thing (you don't want to see the new season being booed like this). In fact, "Walking with Fire" is like Lynch’s other masterpieces, showing his superb artistic attainments and film skills, even to some extent, surpassing the TV series version of "Shuangfeng" (at least most of them are not Lin The episodes directed by Qi have almost been killed). Many people’s opinions on the film are "relatively nothing new in the series". Having seen this world from a perspective, it is complete, which is why Lynch chose to shoot the prequel instead of the sequel.
A lot of spoilers next
When Lynch promoted the third season of "Twin Peaks", he repeatedly emphasized the importance of watching or rewatching "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" (hereinafter referred to as FWWM), because the style of the new season has been It is far from the original series and closer to FWWM and even "Monster Night Panic" and "Inland Empire". This must be the reason why Lynch emphasizes the importance of re-watching FWWM. At the same time, it solves the problems thrown by FWWM. Doubts will also become one of the core of the new season. As we all know, FWWM is the prequel to the "Twin Peaks" series, which is divided into two parts: 1. Agent Chester Desmond investigates the murder of Teresa Banks in Deer Meadow near Twin Peaks; 2. One year later, before Laura Palmer was killed Stories that happened within a week.
In the opening subtitles of FWWM, what we saw was a close-up of a huge TV that was gradually moving away. There was no content playing. Then the TV was smashed by someone (Leland/BOB). We knew it was the murder of Teresa Banks. The moment. At the beginning, I smashed a TV. It sounded like a joke made by Lynch, saying: We want to overthrow the TV series.
DEER MEADOW
The first part of FWWM may be the most nerve-wracking part. Even fans of the "Twin Peaks" series may become anxious because of the dramatic changes in style. Some media even said after watching the film that this half Hours of plot is used to empty the movie theater. However, the first part of FWWM obviously did not take place in Shuangfeng Town, which we are familiar with. Lynch can be said to have consciously used Deer Meadow Town to create a completely different environment from Shuangfeng Town: indifferent and violent sheriffs and police officers. It’s a far cry from the police station in Shuangfeng Town; the owner of the small restaurant Hap's has a serious face, and the restaurant does not even have signature dishes, while Shelly and Norma from RR Diner in Shuangfeng Town are hospitable, with their signature dishes. In Shuangfeng Town, the houses are all beautifully decorated and live in one family. In Deer Meadow, the only residential area we see is a trailer park that doesn’t even have hot water. The more important thing is that, unlike the Palmer case that shocked Shuangfeng Town, the death of Teresa Banks had no impact on the town. The body was unclaimed, and no one mourned for her. Everyone was using one. Treat this matter with indifferent to terrifying "rationality", or don't care at all. This atmosphere is completely different from the drama, the latter's kind of fairy-tale color scheme has also completely disappeared in FWWM.
Lynch used a different kind of cold humor in FWWM, including his own cameo appearance with FBI Director Gordon Cole in the opening scene: He said to Agent Stanley, "Chet (that is, Chester Desmond) has his own MO, MODUS OPERANDI!” Obviously he is referring to himself. After all, using a weird dance to explain the task to his agent is a Lynchian approach. Here I think the audience does not need to be too entangled, because This is the kind of weird thing Lynch would do, and afterwards, Chet decoded the "secret" himself. Of course, there is something called "Blue Rose" that has not been answered, but Lynch also gave hints in the subsequent plots in his own way. All the audience has to do is to observe. The key content of the Deer Meadow part is not the part dealing with the body of Teresa Banks (oh, there is a ring), because everyone who has watched the episode knows what will happen, and the mysterious part appears in this part called "Fat Catfish" "The place of the trailer park, and introduced a new role Carl Rodd (starred by Lynch's old partner Harry Dean Stanton, this is the first time the two have worked together), this role also appeared in the third season of "Twin Peaks".
Chet visited this parking lot twice. The first time was to investigate the Banks trailer, where they confirmed the existence of a ring. This green ring will be the most important object of the movie, with episodes inscribed on it. The Owl Cave logo symbolizing the Black Lodge. There is an interesting place here. We saw Carl Rodd standing there thinking about something. Then, at 22 minutes and 48 seconds, the camera suddenly cut to a telephone pole with the word "6", accompanied by a weird beep. (This voice will also be explained later), then the camera cut back to Rodd, and he said a strange line. In fact, Lynch is definitely deliberately digging holes at this time, because FWWM originally wanted to bring out two other sequels to make the final conclusion to the Twin Peaks World. Unfortunately, due to the poor box office of FWWM, it did not make the trip. Of course, there are now. In the third season, the opportunity to fill the hole also came.
Chet’s second visit to the parking lot led to the most mysterious "Blue Rose" plot of the first part of the FWWM. This time he was alone. In order to keep it secret, he misled Rodd that he was going to a trailer called Constable Cliff (many fans are in Ask who this Cliff is. It is actually the guy who started the scene at the Deer Meadow police station and was taught by Chet.) Of course, Chet did not go to the police officer’s trailer at all. Observing the footage and editing will reveal that he is factual. Going up and looking for another trailer in the opposite direction. At this time, the telephone pole with the word "6" appeared again with the beeping sound. Chet came to his target and found the ring under the trailer. The moment he was about to touch the ring, the picture was frozen and he Disappeared. The trailer that Chet visited originally belonged to the souls of the two Black Lodges. They were Mrs. Tremond and her grandson who appeared at the beginning of the second season of the show (the one who turned "cream corn" magic, as to why they are both Lodge’s The soul will be revealed soon), coupled with the discovery of the cave ring under the trailer, it is more certain that the so-called "Blue Rose" case refers to all cases related to Black Lodge (for Blue Rose, the third season of "Shuangfeng "The 12th and 14th episodes have already given a very clear explanation).
PHILIP JEFFRIES & JUDY
Then the camera cut to the FBI headquarters in Philadelphia. We met the familiar agent Cooper, but he was obviously worried. Standing in front of the surveillance camera, he kept walking to the nearby surveillance room, seeming to think he would appear inside. At this time, a new character stepped out of the elevator, and the most mysterious character in the FWWM and even the entire Twin Peaks world: Agent Phillip Jeffries played by David Bowie appeared at this time. He appeared on the aisle together with Cooper. At this time, when Cooper walked into the surveillance room, he found his voice and shadow still appearing on the screen. It is theorized that the person Cooper saw on CCTV was actually Cooper’s doppelgänger, who appeared in Black Lodge in episode 22 of the second season and replaced the agent’s identity in reality (specifically reflected To be possessed by BOB), I'm not sure about this theory, but it must be directly related to Jeffries's sudden appearance. Obviously, Bowie's role will not be explained until the FWWM sequel, but because this did not happen, his role and who this character named Judy is has become an unsolvable mystery (in episode 17 of season three, Lin Cole, played by Qi himself, personally revealed Judy's "identity", but...). What we know is only his understanding of Black Lodge. He even personally visited the meeting above the "convenience store" and learned something about the ring from The Man From Another Place (the dwarf).
In fact, this paragraph is my favorite paragraph in FWWM. This is the most classic Lynch play, full of incomprehensible mystery and unconcealable coolness. Lynch officially launched "Twin Peaks: The Lost Fragment" (we call it TMP) in the Blu-ray restoration version in 2014, a feature film edited from cut-off fragments in FWWM, in which the Bowie paragraph The previous consequences were shown for the first time: he appeared in a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires in 1987, received a letter from "Miss Judy", then entered the hotel elevator and disappeared; the next moment was 1988, he Appeared at the FBI headquarters to warn Gordon Cole, telling him about the content of the meeting above the "convenience store" (which was incomprehensible to the agents), and then disappeared; the next moment he appeared again at the hotel in 1987, behind him His walls were burned, and he never appeared again (except for the one in 1988).
No matter how strange the content seems, it at least illustrates an important feature of Black Lodge: non-linearity. I guess that in Black Lodge, the concept of time will be a lower-dimensional existence, so the characters in the Lodge can convey information to different points in time (through dreams or similar methods like Jeffries). Jeffries is probably in 1987. Entered the Black Lodge, visited the meeting above the "convenience store", and then traveled through time to the FBI headquarters in 1988. As he appeared at the FBI headquarters, he behaved strangely and walked slowly. A few seconds before he disappeared again, he even showed up. Painful, physically traveling through time and space inflicted great damage on him. In TMP, he appeared in the same state when he reappeared in a hotel in Argentina. In addition, the Jeffries paragraph in the FWWM also gave another hint: In addition to visiting the meeting above the "convenience store", Jeffries personally met Cooper who entered the Black Lodge at the end of the episode when he entered the Black Lodge (given that Jeffries It may have disappeared and entered the Lodge in 1987, which has confirmed the nonlinearity of the Lodge, but it is not sure whether Jeffries met Cooper himself or his doppelgänger), so when he met Cooper at the FBI headquarters, he looked shocked and asked Gordon: " Who do you think is standing here??"
The meeting above the "convenience store" was also shown in Bowie's paragraph. This mysterious place was first introduced in the famous dreamland in the third episode of the first season of the series. MIKE, the soul of Lodge, said "we live in the convenience store". This passage is typical of Lynchian weirdness. Among the characters we can see are The Man From Another Place and BOB sitting at the table in the foreground of the screen, Mrs. Tremond and her grandson in the background of the screen, The Jumping Man, and Two electricians with unknown identities. Among them, I am here to extract the keynote speech of The Man From Another Place (only the last two sentences appear in the FWWM, and the first two sentences are from TMP):
THE CHROME REFLECTS OUR IMAGE. FROM PURE AIR, WE HAVE DESCENDED, FROM PURE AIR, GOING UP AND DOWN, INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLDS! GARMONBOZIA. THIS IS A FORMICA TABLE, GREEN IS ITS COLOR. Tremond's grandson: FELL A VICTIM. WITH THIS RING, I THEE WED. HAHAHAHAHA...... ELECTRICITY.
The first sentence, my preliminary understanding, should be related to the spirit of Lodge that can be seen through the mirror, such as Leland/BOB and Cooper/BOB, and even Laura/BOB: When Laura was killed at the end of FWWM, BOB The purpose is not to kill, but to possess Laura (although it was unsuccessful because of the ring, this will be discussed later), so he put a mirror in front of Laura, Laura leaned forward and looked at the mirror, her face For a moment it became a BOB, and Laura screamed along with it (this is related to Laura's doppelgänger's meaningless scream in S02E22).
The second sentence is easier to understand. Black Lodge exists in another dimension of the world, and "Going up and down" should be related to time travel.
The third sentence introduced us to GARMONBOZIA, don't look up the dictionary, it doesn't exist. After The Man From Another Place uttered the word, the scene immediately switched to a plate of cream corn (which appeared when Donna delivered meals to Mrs. Tremond and her grandson in the second season of the show). At the end of the movie, we will find that this GARMONBOZIA is nothing else, it exists in the form of cream corn, the "food" of evil spirits in Black Lodge (just like Coop loves coffee)! (They take people's pain and sorrow as "food", GARMONBOZIA is synonymous with it, so the evil spirits in Black Lodge are always killing people, explaining what Tremond's grandson said next)
Why mention the green Formica table? As far as FWWM is concerned, I don’t know at all, but Lynch likes to use green to show evil and horror in the movie. The most classic is that "Inland Empire" finally leads to the bunny’s "cursed" room 47. The outside is very scary. In "Blue Velvet", "Monster Night Panic" and "Mulholland Road", Lynch also showed the dark and cold atmosphere through the disturbing gray-green in a large number of props and decorations. BTW, the ring mentioned next also has the same green color.
"With the ring, you and I are connected" undoubtedly implies the fate of all those who touch or carry the ring, including the missing Agent Chet, Teresa Banks, and Laura Palmer who will soon be dealing with the ring ( And someone in the third season).
The last sentence "electricity", we will add later.
So the final question is: What the hell is Judy ?
In the 25 years before the start of the third season, there were too many different versions of explanations on the Internet, which is really dazzling. It can be described as the hottest topic about FWWM. So let's review the scene again. Agent Jeffries enters the office and he says:
"So, I won't talk about Judy now, in fact I won't mention Judy at all, we have to put her aside."
So, how many explanations exist about Judy?
(The following content is partly from the article "Judy, Judy, Judy" in the 75th issue of Wrapped In Plastic magazine, please click here for the full text: http://abovethestore.blogspot.jp/2009/04/judy-judy-judy.html?m =1 )
1. Judy is the sister of Josie Packard, the character of Chen Chong in the TV series . This statement comes from FWWM's screenwriter Robert Engels, but this setting comes from FWWM's early script, which may have been overturned during the filming and final editing. Interesting Yes, in Chen Chong's recent open letter to David Lynch in the name of Josie, it was mentioned that Judy was her twin sister. Given that Chen Chong did not return, this may be just her thoughts.
2. Judy is the victim of another BOB, which is also the most representative statement, that is, she became the first victim before Laura and Teresa, and Agent Jeffries was the agent in charge of this case (like Chet/Teresa, Cooper/Laura), and Jeffries disappeared like Chet during the investigation, or fainted after entering Black Lodge like Cooper. However, given that both Teresa and Laura's killers were Leland/BOB, did Leland kill people before that? What's even stranger is that at the end of FWWM, there is a scene showing what may be a monkey in Black Lodge, and it gently says "Judy", which obviously implies more.
3. Judy is the identity of the soul of Laura Palmer in the Lodge. Behind the scenes of the weird monkeys, there appeared scenes where the iconic dead Laura was found in the pilot episode of the episode. It is likely that this is the suggestion that Laura = Judy, otherwise, why did David Lynch inexplicably join the scenes of the monkeys? Woolen cloth? Although there are several paragraphs in TMP that contradict this theory, I personally support this idea, because Lynch always repeatedly emphasizes the importance of Laura Palmer as the core of the bimodal world (after all, FWWM is also Laura's story) , The most famous remark is that "solving the Laura case is equivalent to killing "Two Peaks". If Lynch wants to continue Laura's existence, then deriving the high-dimensional role of Judy is one way. We already know that Laura’s soul is very likely to enter White Lodge after death (see the end of episode S1E3 and FWWM). In this high-dimensional space, as long as one person enters the Lodge, she/he will stay there forever And ignore the existence of time. So, Jeffries may have met her in the Lodge, and obtained a lot of information from her. At this time, Laura has not been killed, and the FBI agents will not be able to match the character in the Lodge to the town of Twin Peaks. Associated with Laura Palmer, a female high school student. There is also a clue in TMP, involving Jeffries’ last words before disappearing. He accurately reported the date of Laura’s murder, but he could not say more because he was afraid that he did not know who Laura was in reality. He was probably trying to report this seemingly random information, hoping that his colleague could find out the meaning for him, but unfortunately, Inspector Gordon Cole, who was behind his ears, probably didn't hear it.
Of course, none of the above is the idea of Lynch himself. In the third season, he can say that he not only explained the mystery of Judy, but at the same time greatly deepened the mystery of the whole incident. You must know the ultimate goal of the pit king to dig the pit, which is Dig more and more pits. Of course, for Lynch, nothing is more important than the character below, she is the core of the entire Twin Peaks world.
The last seven days of LAURA PALMER
Lynch showed the last seven days of Laura Palmer’s life in an orderly manner. We have learned most of the plots in the series, so that many viewers think that going back to tell the story of Laura is a bit Superfluous, but this is exactly Lynch’s original intention. He doesn’t want Laura’s life to be explained by some third parties (such as Agent Cooper, Donna, James, Harold Smith, etc.). It’s better to let her stand directly on the camera. Before, let the audience directly enter her world. This is also the difference between the two creators of the series. Mark Frost is more inclined to dig into the history of Twin Peaks, some of the more mysterious darkness, as he did in the recently published "Twin Peaks: Mysterious History", he I hope to shoot a sequel to continue the story after the second season; Lynch is on the contrary, he loves the role of Laura Palmer more than any other person or thing, which is why he chose to shoot a prequel instead of a sequel s reason. Watching the episode carefully, you will find that after the 10th episode of the second season of the episode, with the end of the Laura case, the Palmer family completely disappeared, just like Lynch. But in the final episode directed by Lynch himself, he not only brought back Laura Palmer, Maddy Ferguson and Leland Palmer in the red room, but even Ronette Pulaski, another victim of the Laura case. Most importantly, Lynch also brought back Sarah Palmer, the sad mother we have never seen since the 10th episode of the second season. Although her role is basically a cameo, it is her. Introduced us into the terrifying Black Lodge. These characters have been determined to return to the upcoming third season. No matter what Lynch prepares to deal with, it will inevitably be a core element. For Lynch, without Laura Palmer and her family, Shuangfeng would not exist for him. NS.
"Walk with Fire" completely cut off most of the branch lines in the Shuangfeng series (Lin Qi did film their stories, but they were basically deleted. Friends who are interested can go to "The Lost Fragment") , Locked the story completely on Laura, creating an extremely depressing atmosphere, even better than Deer Meadow in the first chapter, knowing that this is probably the most tragic seven days in her life. Lynch directly presented Laura's repressed life as a victim of sexual assault (this is also the core reason why Laura took a fork in her life). A real fear was presented on the screen, which made her accustomed to the relative ease of the drama. It’s a big test for people with the style of "Palmer". In the Palmer’s house, Sarah’s cigarette butt can wrap around the ashtray twice. Laura is tortured by Leland/BOB, and Leland himself is tortured by the possessed devil. , No one will talk to you about coffee, pies and donuts. In short, there is only darkness here. You can also see from the relatively dimmed photography style, empty shots and shocking close-ups.
What makes the audience even more puzzled is that Lynch continues to show his mystery despite this repression. This afternoon, when Laura was about to deliver the meal, the mysterious Mrs. Tremond and grandson showed up and gave her a "good-looking" painting. There was an empty room on it with the door ajar. That night Laura hung the painting on the wall and dreamed of it. Yes, Lynch likes to shoot dreams, and this is one of the best dreams he has ever shot. The realm in this painting undoubtedly belongs to the world of the soul. From the first-person perspective, we walk through the rooms in the painting. Are they part of the Black Lodge? Are they connected to the place above the "convenience store"? Tremond’s grandson snapped his fingers and we entered the red room in the fire (the clip faded in and out) (so we can guess that “fire” is the ultimate medium to enter Black Lodge? Because in the episode you need burnt oil as The physical medium came to open the door, but after all, walk with the fire), Cooper walked in when he saw the dwarf looking at the cave ring on the table. The dwarf is very clever, he said some interesting things, the most important message is "I am arm", that is to say, he is MIKE ("one-armed man" cut off his arm to stop the killing) . The dwarf made a beep, echoing the beep in the telephone pole in the first paragraph (another hint: The relationship between Black Lodge and "electricity" is similar to the relationship between "fire" and when Philip Jeffries disappeared. , There is a strong power-on sound, accompanied by a fast-moving wire lens), when the "one-armed man" appeared in the second half of the movie, the beep sounded again.
Cooper's appearance connected to the end of the second season. After being attacked by his own doppelgänger, Cooper was obviously still dangling in the red room. Finally, he came to this special room and said to Laura, "Don't take the ring." Obviously. , We’ll find out later that Cooper doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Even more bizarre is the appearance of Annie Blackburn. She appeared next to Laura's bed as she was injured at the end of the second season of the show, telling her "Good Dale is in the lodge and he cannot leave. Write it in your diary." This warning The lines seem obvious, but Annie's appearance here is the strangest place in itself. After all, she should be resting in the hospital in the future more than a month later. It is also a big mystery that Annie's mysterious chance will not be revealed in the third season. After all, Heather Graham, who played her, has not returned. (Annie’s ending is revealed in Mark Frost’s book The Final Archive, which also reveals the big and small things about the characters in Twin Peaks during the quarter of a century from season two to season three. But at the same time expand the new puzzles brought by the third season.)
To be continued
As we all know, the third season of "Twin Peaks" has returned. After this season is over, I will discuss some connections between the two works here, so stay tuned.
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