Mr. Reindeer
White Lodge
- Apr 13, 2022
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The angels were added at Sheryl Lee’s request. That’s the main thing I’ve heard. That’s always felt off to me in terms of the Lodge mythology, but I don’t even care. Sheryl was right; Laura needed something good at the end. And as Cappy says, the Red Room is a subjective space.Yeah, many of our interpretations of Peaks were altered by The Return, which is what led to some of the initial criticism back on dugpa. I think it's interesting to consider the extent to which Lynch's concept of the film changed *after* the scripting process, and how that might affect his direction of things he'd written. Iirc it's been talked about how the process of collaborating with Sheryl Lee and others had a direct effect on the course the film took during production.
The weird thing about Mike/the ring is that the script doesn’t mention him giving the ring to Laura in the train car. He just listens in on the murder, helps Ronnette, and runs away laughing. I believe I’ve read that the appearance of the ring in that scene was part of a reshoot due to Lynch toning down the violence in that sequence. I’m not certain that I’m correct on that, but if you look at the film, there’s no shot of Mike ever actually throwing or even holding the ring. Just the one insert shot of it landing on the floor. So it seems to me the ring was a very late addition to that scene.
Oddly enough, the ring appears in the script everywhere else it appears in the film, so what exactly was it supposed to be setting up? The nurse stealing it from Annie? That seems pretty anticlimactic.
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