Win.

I want that on a t-shirt, in fact...

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

 Zing!

So in other words, if you're still paying for DL.com then you'll pay for this, too.  

Whatever it takes, David!  Make more movies!   

Another day, another 'deep throat' character hinting at inside knowledge on a David Lynch messageboard. Mon dieu. I'd swap the Lime Green set, dlf.tv and the Catching The Big Fish documentary for those FWWM deleted scenes... 

I'm just sayin's all...  

I'm not sure any of the deleted scenes from FWWM would be all that thrilling as far as I'm concerned, 16 years after the film came out. Which deleted scenes would be the most interesting?

I'd rather hear of a new film from Lynch that's a step on from INLAND EMP and has the same quality and even 'feel' of Twin Peaks' finest moments. Lynch ought to film something in a woodsy small town setting again after all this LA Hollywood stuff, I find that too alienating. I did like the Poland stuff though.

PS... didnt the trend of misusing the .tv TLD as a gee-wiz-neato-looking abbreviation for "television" become uncool when it was officially licensed (i.e., sold out) in 2000? For shame!

 I'd love to see Major Briggs reading from the Book of Revelations, the Deer Meadow fight scene and Annie in the hospital. I'm even more intrigued by scenes that might have been filmed but weren't scripted. When FWWM was released I felt swindled because the significance of the mound of dirt, the candles and the scrap of paper wasn't properly explained. The ritual aspect of Laura's murder was an important part of the first series because it hinted at much bigger, darker things. Because DL developed this with another mound of dirt at the Fat Trout Trailer park I suspect he was planning to come back to it at a later date. 

 What I would like to see from David Lynch at some point is a Twin Peaks style (narrative style) mystery. I love Mulholland Drive and INLAND EMPIRE but both of those films rely on confusion rather than mystery and the mysteries the films set out to solve are just MacGuffins that hold the films together. I sometimes think not solving Laura's murder would have been a cheap trick because if it had been handled properly the town of Twin Peaks had more than enough mystery to keep viewers coming back week after week. It was much bigger than Laura's murder, but despite all the talk about darkness and strangeness, characters like Mike, the Log Lady, Dr Jacoby, Sarah Palmer, Major Briggs and the Tremonds were bundled off stage left after Laura's murder and that's what really killed the series IMHO. Any of those characters could have helped sustain the sense of mystery.  

 I'm probably in the minority when it comes to DL online. Davidlynch.com always seemed like a bit of a white elephant and I'd rather watch any future short films on DVD a la Dynamic No. 1. anyway. It was David Lynch who made me appreciate the value of good sound and the best possible picture quality in the first place.      

I wonder if the Major Briggs scene was actually filmed. I don't think it was. I am certain the Annie in the hospital scene wasn't filmed. Of course I would love to see any unscripted filmed scenes.

I completely agree with you about the mound of dirt, the necklace, the 'fire walk with me' note not shown in FWWM. That was a strange omission actually, I wonder why they were omitted....? Instead we had new ideas like the Owl cave ring (maybe we shouldn't call it that?) , the Angels - I wonder where these ideas came from - Engels or Lynch?

Again, I absolutely would love to see Lynch make a more mystery-centred film or series of some sort, akin to Twin Peaks in mood, style and workings. TP didn't work out perfectly as you say but it was due to certain aspects being dropped, the more mysterious ones, replaced by more traditional soap opera characters/plotlines.

About internet ventures, if the projects are released through DVD in the end then that's fine by me but you can't really enjoy something on a computer screen that much can you? I'd rather watch something on a tv screen or at the cinema.

Both were filmed. Pretty much the only scene that wasn't filmed was the Ben Horne scenes. More interesting is the number of scenes that were shot that were not scripted. During teh filming, Lynch and Bob Engels came up with at least 5 scenes that I know of that were not part of the shooting script.

-B

I would be v intrigued too to hear of the 5 extra unscripted scenes that were filmed.

If you follow the Spectrum magazines link there's an excerpt from Wrapped In Plastic's Heather Graham interview where she talks about filming the hospital scene

http://spectrummagazines.bizland.com/WIP24.chtml

In the documentary on the R1 FWWM DVD Michael Horse mentions DL phoning to tell him his scene had been cut and Kimmy Robertson talks about the scene with the 'raccoons'. Grace Zabriskie discussed the scene where the Palmer's speaking Norwegian in Wrapped In Plastic, and if you follow this link

http://www.geocities.com/fwwmfight/

there are stills showing Norma and Ed and Chet Desmond fighting Sheriff Cable.

Wow, I'm surprised as I said!

I did actually read that interview before, but obviously forgot Heather's comments on the scenes she filmed.

Thanks for posting that up, very good of you.

I just conveniently forgot because it seems so alien to the rest of FWWM as we know it, the edit we have. It goes to show that there must be a sequence from these scenes filmed that basically could act as a whole other epilogue to FWWM. Lynch could make a sequel of sorts to Twin Peaks if he liked.

It sort of makes some sense of his reluctance to re-visit Twin Peaks in any shape or form since 1992, since he probably feels like he's been there and done that, especially all the extra footage from the FWWM shoot. Shame really.

I still hold out whatever pathetic hopes that we'll see these extra scenes in some good form and hopefully some further Twin Peaks-esque drama from Lynch. I don't expect any direct follow-up really, but an indirect one would be great - well that's my view anyway. It would be a more interesting direction to go in than making further films about TM or another INLAND EMPIRE, and would surely be superior.