DUDE
dude. you haven’t seen it?
yes. watch it.
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In my (admittedly flimsy) defence, I was like, 11 or 12 when it came out. And I don’t remember the BBC giving it a very good time slot.
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That’s how old I was when it came out and it was my favorite thing ever. I think they showed it at like… 10pm on Saturdays here? I kind of wonder if I would have liked it as much if I had been older when I saw it.
You should be moderated out of the bbs until you do.
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Stop making excuses and get to watching. We know it’s not your fault. Now, git!
I’m not entirely sure that Twin Peaks CAN return to today’s audience. The cellphone telephone has ruined everything.
But will you understand it?
Oh and by the way does anybody else think The Hidden was a prototype for Twin Peaks?
If it’s anything like Dune, COUNT ME IN. Loved the extended cut.
You know, I’ve never seen that film. I’ll have to see if Netflix has it, because it looks interesting.
Are you referring to Richard Harris dying? I don’t think Dumbledore can be compared to Bob.
It’s a very strange film. Well worth seeing. A curious mix of amazing Lynch, remarkable acting, and unbearably cheesy music by Toto.
TOTO.
Toto. I don’t know how that happened.
For the record, I met Frank Herbert (author of Dune) in the summer of 1974 (!) during a series of lectures at the University of Washington. Other guests in the series included Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg. I can’t believe I just typed that. (Mr. Ellison told us of the one day he spent at Disney Studios, which culminated in his standing on a table in the cafeteria, brandishing a large pornographic drawing of Minnie Mouse. He was subsequently escorted from the premises. All true. At least, that’s what he told us.)
As I was saying, when Mr. Herbert spoke, he had just returned from scouting prospective locations for shooting, and was sunburned to roughly the shade of a beet. He was fried. It wasn’t until years later that David Lynch shot his version of Dune.
For a better understanding of how long ago that was, it was just weeks before Richard Nixon resigned; the last summer I spent in Seattle.
Harlan Ellison was astonishing, and not very tall. His height was inversely proportional to his brilliance. The strange thing is, when we saw him, we knew we were watching Harlan Ellison… but it didn’t sink in that it was like seeing Mark Twain, or Kurt Vonnegut, or Joseph Heller. The memory stayed with me, but sharing it really makes the enormity of the event sink in.
Just one more thing about Mr. Ellison – I know, I’m off topic. This was years before “snark” or people like David Spade (known for snark) had appeared on the global consciousness. Mr. Ellison didn’t dwell on snark, like some people make it their only tool, right? But if he needed to wield it as a weapon, he could kill at 40 paces with a precisely targeted snark deployment. As I said, it was the sort of thing that only sinks in after the fact.
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Toto? As in “Africa” Toto? That’s kind of… confusing?
It’s a very strange film. Well worth seeing. A curious mix of amazing Lynch, remarkable acting, and unbearably cheesy music by Toto.
Just to clarify, you are talking about “Dune”, not “The Hidden”. “The Hidden” had neither Toto nor Lynch. It did have Kyle Maclachlen, though.
Dune is an awesome film. It’s not that Lynchian, though. Especially the extended cut, which Lynch disowned. (For that last reason, I’ve stuck to the theatrical cut)
Thank you! I was confused… yes, @randywalters I’ve seen Dune. And I still didn’t realize that the music was Toto! Please see Ted in the above gif for proper reaction…
Oh, good grief – you’re absolutely right; I lost track of syntax. I was talking about Dune, not The Hidden. Sorry.
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That’s right… Muad’dib and Chani (that is, Kyle & Sean Young) riding the spice worms across the face of Arrakis to the triumphantly Africa-esque tünes of Toto. Inexplicable.
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Spice worms… are these that kitchen cupboard kind that turns delicious powders into wriggling mass of bleh?
[ducks and covers]
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I think a version of that moment made it in to The Starcrossed by Ben Bova.
No, although I’ve wondered more than once if Lynch got the idea for Dale Cooper from it. Mostly, it’s just a great little criminally-underappreciated film.
Any excuese to listen to The Pink Room. It’s still the trippiest and swankiest bass groove of all time.
[…and I’m a big fan of to My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, who usually holds those titles. The Pink Room still wins.]
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