PeeperStorm on 14/8/2010 at 01:12
Quote Posted by demagogue
"A horse is a horse of course, of course..."
"They call him Flipper, Flipper..."
fett on 14/8/2010 at 04:23
"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...."
jtr7 on 14/8/2010 at 04:26
How many opening credits sequences are awesome with the sound turned off. How many are awesome only because of the soundtrack?
Kolya on 14/8/2010 at 11:52
Even if it isn't that great without sound that doesn't mean it was only awesome for the soundtrack, as the sound and images create a synergistic effect, the sum being more than its parts.
Scots Taffer on 14/8/2010 at 13:50
Agreed. I nearly typed a response about eating food absent your sense of smell.
Chimpy Chompy on 14/8/2010 at 14:15
Quote Posted by Thirith
I wonder how much of our appreciation of the intro sequences (and the series themselves) is simply nostalgia.
I've never seen Twin Peaks, and if I didn't know otherwise I'd have thought that intro was for some educational program about milling turbine blades (or whatever it was they were doing there).
Scots Taffer on 14/8/2010 at 14:21
Yeah. While Twin Peaks is a great show, the titles are pretty dreadful, especially when judging them on the merits of successfully selling the tone and vibe of the show (not just the setting).
rachel on 14/8/2010 at 14:30
Well to each his own, obviously. I think Badalamenti's moody, mysterious score succeeds in doing just that, complementing the images which indeed "only" show the pretty settings. Like many of Lynch's other works, it's all implied, subtle, which is why I find it so brilliant.
quinch on 14/8/2010 at 15:57
I think the Twin Peaks intro sets the tone of it's own oddness very well.
Mark Frost may have been responsible though. Don't forget poor old Mark Frost!
fett on 14/8/2010 at 17:14
Gah, Mark Frost is an underrated genius IMO. Probably my all time favorite pulp novel is his List of 7, followed by the 6 Messiahs, a series which he sadly never got to finish. He also wrote the screenplay for the first Fanstatic Four movie which I thought was spot on and very well done for a Marvel movie.
