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bryanthelion:
How was carnivale though? I hear he was involved in that series.

KvP:
He wasn't, but it was heavily indebted to Twin Peaks (as are, to varying degrees, the X-Files, Lost and other mystery serials) It also features the Little Man From Another Place, whose name escapes me and I am too lazy to research.

tomselleck69:
Michael J. Anderson!

For the record, yeah Carnivale is completely awesome. If you enjoy Twin Peaks, there's a good chance you'll enjoy Carnivale. They're not built from the same mold, but they have a lot in common (tons of americana, gradually building mysticism, personified good and evil and an ending that pisses you off because there is clearly so much more to be told).

wm_star:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 02 Mar 2008, 19:55 ---It's not even that his plots are bad, it's just that he has almost no grasp whatsoever of dramatic tension or pacing.
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Wow - Khar, I was reading your post, disagreeing with most of what you said, but wasn't going to comment because of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and at least you were making a technical critique instead of taking a personal affront at his films, and Lynch is definitely not for everyone.  But the statement above made me almost gasp out loud because I could not possibly disagree more.  I think Lynch has an absolute flair for dramatic tension, like almost no other film-maker.  Yes, in Blue Velvet, the scenes with Dennis Hopper are great and fun and kinda creepy, but the scenes with Isabella Rossellini (the girl who wore blue velvet) are entirely filled with tension - they are the crux of the film.  And Wild at Heart, which is one of my personal favorites because it's just a great little romantic comedy, David Lynch style, has two intensely dramatic scenes - the moment with Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe, when he asks to use the head in her motel room ("Bunnies hop back fast; you hop back slow"), and the moment where Diane Ladd (as Dern's mother) smears lipstick all over her face - are both terribly tense and creepy.  And don't even get me started about Bob in Twin Peaks.  *shudder*  There are a million more examples, too, all of his movies are fraught with dramatic tension (except maybe The Straight Story).

I agree with you that his use of sound and music are essential to the creation of his movies and shows, and to those dramatic scenes in particular, but that's how he rolls, as it were.  He uses sound and music to create dramatic tension, and he does it brilliantly.  I'll be the first to admit that he's not going to be the film-maker that everyone loves, he's too weird and a little bit kitschy, but I completely disagree with the comment that he has no grasp of dramatic tension.  I think he does dramatic tension better than anyone else.

And, imo, the very best Twin Peaks episodes were the ones he directed - it's so easy to tell which episodes were directed by him, and they are in every case the best episodes of the show.

KvP:
Word on the street is that there is a Mulholland Drive 2 in the works. As I was saying on the Facebook, I believe there was a line of dialogue in Fire Walk With Me that stated something was going to happen 20 years in the future, and it is now 20 years since Twin Peaks debuted. So I'd rather have more Dale Cooper, all things considered.

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