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[QUOTE="Jasper, post: 4563, member: 5"] The immediate and narratively practical thing about Nae Yuuki is that she isn’t Laura Dern, so we the viewers might not know that she’s actually Diane as we watch for the first time. (Some people figured out very early on that Naido might in some way be related to Diane, since Naido backwards is Odian.) That one actor is Asian and the other European certainly helps to further conceal Naido’s identity. Once you realize that Naido is Diane, and you go back and watch the “Mauve Zone” scene, it’s clear that upon touching Cooper’s face she says something like, “Cooper? Cooper? Yes! Yes!” I don’t think that this is likely to be controversial. The other thing, of course, is the condition of Naido’s eyes, which, in practical narrative terms, are part of her overall imprisonment and inability to effectively communicate, identify herself, orient herself, and so on. Is there any additional meaning there, such as I’ve suggested in the first post, and has been suggested by others? I find it very likely, but who knows? It’s ultimately better left mysterious and abstract. If Lynch or Frost came out and said, yes, that was part of the inspiration for Naido, it might be somewhat diminished. There are further things linking Naido/Diane to the bomb. I pointed out that the Naido/Diane transformation is in the lodge, and the lodge is within her, appearing in Naido’s face, then in Diane’s appearance. It’s also been noted that Diane’s appearance upon emerging from her Naido form is so much like that of whack job Marjorie Cameron that it’s hard to imagine that it’s a coincidence. See for example [URL='https://medium.com/@cryptokubrology/episodes-17-18-of-twin-peaks-the-return-are-meant-to-be-watched-in-sync-81352ce38e8']this[/URL] article on Medium, and [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/bmrvx8/all_diane_evans_and_marjorie_cameron/']this[/URL] Reddit post, which feature some useful observations and images. The similarities with Cameron also extend to the Diane tulpa. From said Medium article: Regarding Inland Empire, I was going to touch upon it, but it didn’t seem relevant enough to include, especially since Lynch reuses actors all the time. I think Nae Yuuki’s character mentions a monkey in IE, and for some reason Naido makes monkey-like vocalizations in the sheriff’s station holding cell, but trying to connect those things seems like a stretch, and I also don’t know if there’s any connection between Naido’s monkey sounds and the FWWM “Judy” monkey. It’s also curious that Naido is replaced in the Mauve Zone by Phoebe Augustine, credited as American Girl. She also warns that her mother is coming, accompanied by loud pounding. The mother of all bombs? Many assume an association with Judy. Is Augustine “American Girl” because the bomb was American? Is it a coincidence that Mr. C makes his entrance with a pounding Lynch-mixed version of American Woman? More food for thought. P.S. It is sort of amazing that the final original Twin Peaks installment is a continuing story told in a Japanese coffee commercial, but it's less surprising when we remember that Japan was the last place where Twin Peaks mania held its grip. Even FWWM went over well in Japan. Lynch and Frost are well aware of the special love for Twin Peaks in Japan, which of course increases the likelihood that they'd think of Japan when working on their bomb narrative (as when [I]“Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”[/I] was used as the score for the bomb sequence) since, obviously, it's Japan that was bombed. [/QUOTE]
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