Anybody else still reeling? ‘Cuz, I mean, part fourteen of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks 2017/Twin Peaks : The Return/Twin Peaks season three was one “holy shit!” moment after another —
In fact, about the only thing that wasn’t surprising to find out tonight that Lynch’s Gordon Cole has Monica Bellucci dreams — but they’re considerably “cleaner” than yours or mine would most likely be, and Ms. Bellucci even offers cryptic hints as to the very nature of dreaming itself within them. Let us, then, turn our attention away from this and toward our catalogue of shocking instances —
Holy shit! It’s one of my favorite scenes from Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me — the one with David Bowie’s Phillip Jeffries — and this time it comes complete with something vaguely approximating explanations! Great to see Bowie again, and he needn’t worry about…
Hi, everyone! Obviously I’m getting a little bit of late start on Twin Peaks tonight. As always, these are just my initial thoughts. A full recap will show up either tonight or tomorrow. (Probably tomorrow because I’m getting a late start…)
Apparently, Showtime is not planning on doing any further seasons of Twin Peaks. They used Twin Peaks to meet their quota of new subscribers and now they can concentrate on stuff like I’m Dying Up Here.
Yay! Gordon’s on the phone!
I love David Lynch’s performance as Gordon Cole. I have to admit that, whenever I imagine what David Lynch is like in real life, I always imagine him telling corny jokes and adjusting a hearing aide.
Oh my God! Diane’s related to Janey-E!
Diane, how can you hate your sister? Sisters are the best!
Monica Bellucci?
Ha! Fuck you, Chad! Corrupt cops are the worst.
So, just to make sure that I understand … Monica Bellucci is some sort of supernatural being?
The blogger known as Jedadiah Leland just assured me that she is.
Agck! I find the lack of eyes to be disturbing.
Oh my God! Of all the people to take this trip, why Deputy Andy?
“Got a light?” No, you bastard! Get outta here and leave Andy alone!
Andy’s giving orders! It’s about time.
It’s sweet that Lucy is concerned about whether the eyeless woman likes the pajamas.
James Hurley is a security guard now? And his colleague know him as Jimmy?
Okay, so where has the suddenly important Freddie Sykes been hiding all this time?
This guy at the bar is bothering Sarah. He says it’s a free country. What a jerk, I hope she tells him off…
Oh my God, she just took off her face…
OH MY GOD, SHE JUST RIPPED OUT HIS FUCKING THROAT!
Once upon a time, there were two movies about the legendary Western lawman (or outlaw, depending on who is telling the story) Wyatt Earp. One came out in 1993 and the other came out in 1994.
The 1993 movie was called Tombstone. That is the one that starred Kurt Russell was Wyatt, with Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton in the roles of his brothers and Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. Tombstone deals with the circumstances that led to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. “I’m your huckleberry,” Doc Holliday says right before his gunfight with Michael Biehn’s Johnny Ringo. Tombstone is the movie that everyone remembers.
The 1994 movies was called Wyatt Earp. This was a big budget extravaganza that was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starred Kevin Costner as Wyatt. Dennis Quaid played Doc Holliday and supporting roles were played by almost everyone who was an active SAG member in 1994. If they were not in Tombstone, they were probably in Wyatt Earp. Gene Hackman, Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Annabeth Gish, Gene Hackman, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, and many others all appeared as supporting characters in the (very) long story of Wyatt Earp’s life.
Of course, Wyatt Earp features the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral but it also deals with every other chapter of Earp’s life, including his multiple marriages, his career as a buffalo hunter, and his time as a gold prospector. With a three-hour running time, there is little about Wyatt Earp’s life that is not included. Unfortunately, with the exception of his time in Tomstone, Wyatt Earp’s life was not that interesting. Neither was Kevin Costner’s performance. Costner tried to channel Gary Cooper in his performance but Cooper would have known better than to have starred in a slowly paced, three-hour movie. The film is so centered around Costner and his all-American persona that, with the exception of Dennis Quaid, the impressive cast is wasted in glorified cameos. Wyatt Earp the movie tries to be an elegy for the old west but neither Wyatt Earp as a character nor Kevin Costner’s performance was strong enough to carry such heavy symbolism. A good western should never be boring and that is a rule that Wyatt Earp breaks from the minute that Costner delivers his first line.
Costner was originally cast in Tombstone, just to leave the project so he could produce his own Wyatt Earp film. As a big, Oscar-winnng star, Costner went as far as to try to have production of Tombstone canceled. Ironically, Tombstone turned out to be the film that everyone remember while Wyatt Earp is the film that most people want to forget.
If you want something dark and serious, then I point you to yesterday’s A Movie A Day post that Jedadiah wrote. I’m not doing that today.
Yesterday, I did the apparently famous, but still obscure version of The Tide Is High by Blondie, where Debbie Harry rolls around on a circular pink bed. Since I brought that to people’s attention, then I might as well do the batshit Rod Stewart video that is Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Hurt Me).
The video starts normally enough. It’s a song for a night on the town, so we’re getting some shots of the city.
Oh, that’s clever. It’s a much better way to introduce the song and artist than superimposed text.
I guess we’re going down to this pool. That looks like Stewart down there.
Ah, it is Stewart.
Some women in the pool. Makes sense. The video needs some sex appeal for people who aren’t attracted to Stewart.
What’s going on here? Is she head-banging to Rod Stewart?
Why is she getting out of the pool in a scuba outfit?
Do I even want to know what is happening here?
I’m beginning to think that they hired a bunch of women, brought out racks and boxes of stock outfits, and told them to just pick whatever feels right–then ad-libbed a lot of the video. This lady seems to have really gotten into the dominating teacher role. Back into the pool for you!
I think this guy fell in the pool during filming.
Did a fight actually break out on set during filming? Did they think that would be funny? Was this planned?
These two picked out the slumber party outfits. I’m really glad they came with pillows. Otherwise you could try to explain this as two lesbians having a night out who happened to hear the party going on outside. With the pillows there, we are assured that this is yet another thing that makes no sense.
I see nothing odd about this though.
A little Old Hollywood musical bit.
The lady with the piano leg looks like the most planned out part of this video.
And this looks like the least planned part of the video to me. I’m pretty sure she had no direction, so she just started shaking a tree.
Is this some kind of an orgy?
This lady is the one who has me convinced the outfits were picked out at random. Why would there be a detective here? She shows up in several shots as if she’s spying on them.
I could probably list drugs as a co-director on this video, couldn’t I?
The video did well on MTV, which was new at the time and had no choice but to play lots of Rod Stewart videos, since he made so many. It was directed by Russell Mulcahy and shot at the Sunset Marquis in Los Angeles, where scores of beautiful women are scene larking about in and around the pool and on the balconies as the band performs.
According to Mulcahy, Stewart had a little too much fun the night before and didn’t want to do the video. Mulcahy told him he was going to shoot the video with or without him, so he found the strength to do it.
That explains why Stewart looks worn out. It also explains a fair amount of the craziness. It’s not hard to imagine taking Stewart and the band out of the video, and still having something that works.
Paul Flattery produced the video, and while I’m sure he has some stories to tell, I want hear from Peter Lippman. He was the production manager.
There’s rarely anything useful in the comments section on a music video. The following is an exception:
Kind of geeky comment, but this video would be a hell of a lot easier to film today with the new drone technology!
I haven’t come across a wilder Rod Stewart video…yet.
Once upon a time, there were two movies about the legendary Western lawman (or outlaw, depending on who is telling the story) Wyatt Earp. One came out in 1993 and the other came out in 1994.
Through the Shattered Lens 