"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

There's a discussion of what was filmed for FWWM here: 

http://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=221

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

The problem with this thread is there's David Lynch fans and Twin Peaks fans and they're not necessarily the same thing. I'm a huge fan of both and am fascinated by how people who are primarily Twin Peaks fans make sense of the hysteria surrounding DL's films, and vice versa. I love FWWM. It's my favourite film of all time - not because it's a spin-off from the TV series but because it's an incredible David Lynch film in its own right. As long as people insist on seeing it as a continuation of the series they'll never appreciate it. It's not the same thing and nor was it meant to be....

Secondly, whether INLAND EMPIRE is a work of genius or a boring, convoluted mess (I have to go with the former) has nothing whatsoever to do with FWWM. We can have both. INLAND EMPIRE's brilliance doesn't take anything away from FWWM. If the INLAND EMPIRE scenes had been discussed but not released people would naturally want to see them, if only so they could decide for themselves how important they were... 

And thirdly, people place too much importance on the FWWM shooting script. Some of my favourite scenes weren't scripted so yes, what's left in the shooting script may not be essential but who knows what else is lying around? I don't personally feel I can judge how essential the deleted scenes are without seeing them first.

As for Richard Beymer not appearing in the film, hour after hour of the series is devoted to Ben and he would have brought very little to the film which, lest we forget, is about Laura. I think the shooting script was too ambitious and lacking in focus anyway. I'd rather not see characters from the series popping up just to please Twin Peaks fans who would still have hated the film anyway, whilst diverting attention away from the real purpose of the film (Laura's last seven days). Many people don't like FWWM and they never will no matter how long it is, who appears in it, or what the blue rose means...  

The deleted scenes will be released, it's just a question of when and I for one am quite prepared to kick, punch and claw my way to the front of the queue.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper