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Given Agent Jeffries’s somewhat freaked-out state, and the fact he’s been missing for several years, and that he’s been to ‘one of their meetings’ and says we live inside a dream, I’d always kind of assumed that he was someone who was looking into Black-Lodge-style stuff (Blue Rose cases, perhaps you might call them) early on. And I assumed that Judy was someone that he lost as a result of vanishing for years on end or following this quest. Whether the monkey’s him (…) saying her name plaintively, Judy herself, or something or someone else is entirely a dunno, though given the fact it’s at the end of the film, amongst so many other scenes of loss, I guess I kind of favour the former interpretation.
Possibly. The place above the convinience store that Jefferies talks about was apparently the residence of Bob and Mike, according to Mike's speech from the European pilot or the dream in episode 2 ("We lived above a convenience store.") I'd suspect Judy was another lodge figure, possibly someone from Jefferies' past, who he sees again in the lodge, like Cooper sees Caroline.
PatrickMM, do you think that image of Laura with the deathly-pale face is in any way connected with the way Earle looks as we see him swinging the spiderbag in front of Leo? I understand that the look of Kenneth Welsh there was supposedly some kind of joke on David Lynch being almost obsessive about dental hygiene (where the hell ARE Earle’s teeth?), but there’s more than a passing similarity between the way the two of them look, and I wonder if in any way it’s connected… especially given that the two of them almost share the same fate. Almost like a ‘white horse’ precursor, perhaps.
I think there's a definite parallel. Earle put on the makeup before he was making his journey to the black lodge, and Laura sees herself like that when she is talking about Bob taking her in to the black lodge. Leland also has the makeup on at some point, which you can see on one of the banners here: http://www.dugpa.com/links.html
Unfortunately, I don't have my copy of FWWM on me, and I can't remember exactly when the Leland image occurred.
I like FWWM a lot, though it’s a hell of a gearchange from the tone of the TV series. Given that, and the fact that it’s pretty hard to fully appreciate if you haven’t seen the TV show, it may well have left both newcomers and established fans a bit confused/disappointed or similar. Apparently one of Alan Moore’s favourite films, which is interesting. Love the brief appearance from Annie Blackburne, one of those nice circular paradoxes : if Laura had done what Annie had told her to, then she wouldn’t have ended up in a situation where she would have been able to tell Laura what to write in her diary…
For me, it's that brief appearance of Annie in FWWM that makes the entire arc with her in season 2 worth it.
And I read that not only is Alan Moore a huge fan of the series, it's the only licensed comic he'd write if he got the chance. And in addition to that, he apparently has a "black lodge party room" in his basement, and I think a black lodge party with Alan Moore would officially be the coolest thing ever. |
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