Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Analysis - Intro, Deer Meadow, and Philadelphia (Part 1)

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Welcome to Part 5 in my 10 part series on the original works of David Lynch! These videos will discuss the themes of Lynch's original works, starting with Eraserhead and ending finally with Twin Peaks: The Return.
In this installment of The Postmodern Condition, we discuss the Twin Peaks prequel film, Fire Walk With Me. This installment has been split into 4 parts due to technical limitations. This video will include SPOILERS for Fire Walk With Me, the original Twin Peaks show, Twin Peaks: The Return, and there may be occasional spoilers for other Lynch films in the mix.
This video, Part 1 of my Fire Walk With Me Analysis, will recap some important details from the Twin Peaks original show analysis that I've done prior. As well, we'll discuss the Blue Rose, Special Agent Chester Desmond, the town of Deer Meadow (as well as the murder of Teresa Banks), and the strange scene involving Phillip Jeffries in Philadelphia at the Blue Rose headquarters.
In Part 2, I will discuss Laura Palmer's story and the dual nature of her character, as well as the dual natures of both Leland Palmer and Dale Cooper as presented in the film.
In Parts 3 and 4, I'll discuss all of the strange new elements in the film: electricity, the jade ring, garmonbozia, the place above the convenience store, as well as tie the themes of Laura's circumstances and the surrealism of the film to broader societal issues of colonialism and capitalism.
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00:00 - Introduction
5:17 - Twin Peaks Recap
11:10 - Part 1: Blue Rose
13:45 - Part 2: Deer Meadow
18:37 - Part 3: Chet Desmond
27:01 - Part 4: "The Dream I Told You About" (Philadelphia)

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@shadyguy23 3 года назад

"Inside you there are two Dales; one is love, one is hate. And just for fun, there's also a Dougie."

@smilodon87 3 года назад

For sure, I have "Dougie" days.

@CrankyRayy 3 месяца назад

dougie is me after a day of socialising

@ariannaclearday 2 месяца назад

Mr C and Dougie are one in the same. Dougie is simply the "good Dale". The original Cooper is beyond flawed. He's on a lost highway of emotionally vulnerable young women, cherry pies, and black coffee.

@Brandon_Powell 2 года назад

35:56 In the behind the scenes videos on Twin Peaks season 3 there's a section where David Lynch is directing Kyle MacLachlan on the scene where he returns to the Twin Peaks sheriff station. Kyle McLaughlin asks if there should be a moment between Dale and Andy considering they haven't seen each other in 25 years and David Lynch says to Dale no time has passed at all. This suggests that Dale Cooper didn't perceive any time passing in the Black Lodge.

@lorcanmcgeehan9106 3 года назад

I really enjoy your analysis of Lynch's work, can't wait to see more in the future.

@jameslagervall9227 27 дней назад

I've been re-watching twin peaks with my friends who have never seen it, and I can't wait for them to see Fire Walk With Me!

@dogma9609 3 года назад

RE: the weird camera trick. I always thought Dale left a Psychic Imprint on the camera, since he is psychic. and the imprint is only on the camera, obviously not really in the hallway. and Jeffries walked around it not to run into the Imprint, which normal ppl would never see, but Jefferies did see it, indicating hes not fully human or hes been changed. thats why Dale freaks out after that...

@nicholaszacharewicz693 3 года назад

Thanks for a great analysis video! The way you break everything down really helps put together a clear and (strangely) straightforward version of the story and its themes

@ronocgrrl 3 года назад

honey wake up it’s part 5 of the post modern condition- i deeply love your analysis i can’t wait to see more

@vibesmom 3 года назад

I love your analysis, I just found your channel a few weeks ago. I’m excited for your next video.

@medusadyke 3 года назад

Stoked that you're getting around to FWWM!

@jonathanshortall Год назад

Hey I'm a year late to the party but just wanna say these analysis are unbelievably good, thank you so much for making them!

@smilodon87 3 года назад

Wonderful material. I just wish you would slow the pace a bit so I could mentally keep up and savour the ideas. Your vids are the only true, classic analysis of Twin Peaks I've found. Others seem to be all plot summaries and/or trying to solve the puzzle or explain it all. Can't wait for FWWM part II.

@robfalgiano 10 месяцев назад

I understand what you mean. When videos are rich with thoughtful content sometimes I watch them at .75 and / or pause to ponder interesting moments. Perhaps that would help you as well.

@shelbichandler7571 3 года назад

Love your perspective. Keep up the good the work! 🥀 💙 I imagined Deer Meadow as the same place in Eraserhead when I first saw FWWM

@carrie2469 Год назад

In the original script, the character of Chet Desmond was written as Dale Cooper. But Kyle Machlachlan originally turned down the role. So they changed it to Chet Desmond. Then when Kyle changed his mind, they added Dale in but in a smaller role and then changed the script to include Chet’s disappearance. So I don’t really see a contrast between them at all.

@Fracture585 3 года назад

Been waiting for this to continue! Thanks!

@jaywhangmakes 3 года назад

You're back!!!!

@adriantheabstract 3 года назад

About time!!!

@drnough9047 2 месяца назад

I always took it as, unlike cooper who had imperfect courage and thus gave into fear inside the lodge and then was taken over by bob, Jeffries had perfect courage and survived that trial, wasn't taken over and was able to walk with that fire as if it just passed through him but didn't over take him over, he could exist along side it, and that the magician kid is Jeffries at the start of his evolution. with the old lady possibly guiding him, due to her being a white lodge entity like the giant. With the lodges a extra dimension that overlaps ours, see how bob comes in through Laura's second story window? he is all but floating but he isn't cuase he came in from a place in the lodge that overlaps our world. And that's how the trick with the camera works, Jeffries is walking through the lodge space as cooper was standing looking at the camera, phasing in and out of the other dimension and the real fbi building

@kyerta 3 года назад

Great video! Rewatched this movie recently so I'm glad you made this, it seems that the vague and open-ended nature of this film is what turns a lot of people away from it, but that aspect of the film is what I love, I am curious what the planned sequels to the film would have been like though, I'm sure a lot of the ideas for them were probably used in the return anyway.

@samsocash9514 2 года назад

You're the only one who dissects lynch regularly literally love your content

@biancachristie 3 года назад

Hi! I just found this today and I will be checking out your other TP YT stuff because I am so damn stoked to hear a feminine voice in the conversation. I come from college in the 90s when postmodernism and post structuralism were almost everything (not quite tho). Here’s a thought and I think it is 100% true for Lynch: his work supports more than one narrative interpretation, and I think that is feminist as hell-you don’t have to choose and stick with a single dominant theory. Instead, there are multiple interpretations that actually strengthen and give depth to one another, and also add aesthetic value to the overall work. I’m not saying that any and all interpretations are valid-I’m not supporting total relativism here-but his work is so layered that I think a multiplicity is baked into the cake. Something to think about-

@MalmroseProjects 3 года назад

yea! I agree with what ur saying. I think that there is sort of a "fact of the text" with any given piece of art, but people don't all agree on what that fact of the text actually is, and subtext is always open to interpretation. For me, a really bad interpretation is one that has no basis in the text, or requires actively changing the text in order to have the interpretation work. To me, really great films can have so many different and interesting interpretations from the text. Eraserhead is probably the best example, people don't have to change what happened in the film to have so many different things to say about it

@Ocyon 2 года назад

Glad I'm not alone with "Fire walk with me" being my favorite Lynch movie :)

@christophergrewe3651 Год назад

Do I need to watch Twin Peaks the show before I watch Twin Peaks the movie?

@gorehound3414 Год назад

YES DO NOT WATCH MOVIE BEFORE SHOW

@grfnklgrfnkl Год назад

Incredible job, really great sociological approach.

@itsmethemusicman4704 3 года назад

watched this like 20 times

@Nilnot 2 года назад

So do you think Chet is just sort of lodge-locked like Dale was? I’m kinda thinking there just as much chance that he slipped though and then the woodsmen ripped him to shreds. He certainly doesn’t show up as an apparition or anything that I can remember

@marshrabbit7565 Год назад

I don't think Jeffries gets turned into a tea kettle. I think he is in an old-fashioned oil can. He says, "It's slippery in here" and there's a theme throughout the show of scorched engine oil.

@robfalgiano 10 месяцев назад

Do I recall correctly that Lynch himself tried to clarify things by calling it a machine? There’s some logic to that.

@LemonsAndSalt69 2 месяца назад

Either way, The Return is a train wreck. An artistic disaster with horrible acting, bad directing, lazy writing, and the world’s dumbest ending. A kid defeats a Bob with a superhero green glove . . . ughhhhh. A total failure on every level.

@marshrabbit7565 2 месяца назад

@@LemonsAndSalt69 I love the opening episodes, various scenes throughout and the final episode. I do agree Episode 17 and the end of Bob is terrible but I think you're far too negative otherwise. Have a glass of coke or something.

@LemonsAndSalt69 2 месяца назад

@@marshrabbit7565 I disagree. I don’t think it’s possible to be negative enough about The Return. I’m a David Lynch fan, and a big Twin Peaks/Fire Walk With me fan, but The Return was an absolute disaster on every level. David Lynch is an amazingly talented artist who lost the ability to make compelling films/stories after Mulholland Drive. But that happens with almost every artist as they get old. Very few artists like Rembrandt, Goya, or Beethoven function/perform at the top of their game late in life. For such an amazingly original artist, he is now, simply repeating himself. Nothing in The Return is something we hadn’t seen before. The Return was like a watered-down greatest hits album - some highlights, but nothing new.

@marshrabbit7565 2 месяца назад

@@LemonsAndSalt69 The playing card with the Judy symbol, the interview with Evil Cooper, the Dutchman's. I like lots of elements, it's ageing badly because of CGI and like the original series, the pilot seems to be a set-up for a different story. For example, the head of Ruth Davenport and body of Garland were probably supposed to be what manifested 'The Experiment' in the glass box. There's a whole black magic element with dog's legs and tongues that vanished too. Many shows change over the writing process, just look at Season 1 of Lost and how it compares to the rest.

@alyssafoster4765 2 года назад

Love your channel ❤️

@Noahyy3 5 месяцев назад

Hey, I love these videos! I was wondering where the Twin Peaks Part 3 video is, I cannot seem to find it... :(

@MalmroseProjects 5 месяцев назад

it got taken down by copyright bots, i cant put it back up for now but i will try to put it back up when i have the time for it

@Noahyy3 5 месяцев назад

@@MalmroseProjects Thank you for responding, and of course, take your time, no pressure! :)

@mewt5358 3 года назад

Your sentences keep cutting off abruptly

@MalmroseProjects 3 года назад

oops, that's an audio mistake

@kaitlynatown 3 года назад

Well done 👍

@jaminavestajugo3456 Год назад

Hm. If Teresa had had a cushier life and lived in a kinder town, maybe she would have been Laura. Laura's death does get to "mean something," but she does get brutalized and killed, too. Maybe through this film, we can remember to also care about the Teresas of the world, and not demand that every victim or survivor be a Laura in order to deserve care.

@MalmroseProjects Год назад

sure, i agree with this, though you're sort of making the same point im trying to make in the video, that violence is preventable but broader circumstances which lead to violence reflect how the two characters were perceived afterwards. people loved laura, and people *should have* loved teresa, but the negligence of their local communities were part of why they were killed, and that negligence is a great problem in the broader culture. in the real world there's typically a race and class component to the societal negligence that leads to women being murdered, but while the class element is present in fwwm, the racialized components of violent misogyny isn't emphasized as much, which is an obvious point of critique. still, the point im making in the video is that societal negligence is the reason why teresa didn't have anyone looking out for her the same way laura did, and why nobody seemed to be that impacted by her death

@nineteenfortyeight6762 3 года назад

Note that a meadow is a very dangerous place for a deer. :(

@e11esounds 3 года назад

Oh great point. In that same vein is a peak a very dangerous place for a twin (or if you want to take it truly deep, in the spirit of points made in this vid - can our ambition and quest for spiritual ascension in the higher realms lead our shadow astray, just as our humanity weakness can make us a target for predators on earth?

@bawintermage8351 8 месяцев назад

I certainly hope that you still read these comments. You did a passionate and masterful job. I have always enjoyed watching and rewatching shows and movies that require mental digestion in all it's facets, mastication, saliva bathing and regurgitation. The juxtaposition of the national politics of the day, the characters in the film and the cultural fiction of the small town wholesomeness. I wonder how you would compare Twin Peaks vs the current political landscape, especially the rise of and convergence of peuedo-religion, false piety, and white supremacist dogma .

@MalmroseProjects 8 месяцев назад

i think season 3 does a great job looking at the current political landscape, it's a rise in attitudes that were rising during the 80s that twin peaks was reflecting originally, but updated via the role of the internet and the shifts that it has caused in how people relate to one another, simultaneously fostering greater selfishness and greater selflessness. the internet gave everyone a voice but that exposed more evil in american culture that didnt have a mainstream voice prior. twin peaks didnt so much predict the growing trend towards bigotry and exploitation but instead took notice of a trend that has only ever grown since the 70s and esp since reagan took office. that's part of why the old show still resonates even with new viewers

@heywhatsthat1221 3 года назад

Perhaps my favorite point in this analysis is at 24:26. That's a nice way of looking at the difference between Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.

@bencole8230 2 года назад

To be honest I enjoyed this video but I definitely didn't like this quote, Blue Velvet is saying a lot more than "it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun", yes that happens, but the themes and message run deep in depth throughout the movie and have similar parallels to Twin Peaks revolving such.

@dogma9609 3 года назад

what...ever happened to Chet Desmond!?!?!??????!?????????!?!!!???

@seriousbismuth2173 2 года назад

He dead. Probably Black Lodged to hell and back.😃

@randomkiliinterviews9453 Год назад

Good video ! Incredible how much meaning there is in LYnch's work. May I ask though how you liked Twin Perfect's 4 hour take?

@gorehound3414 Год назад

It takes the magic out the show

@gorehound3414 Год назад

I don’t confide to his analysis much it’s a good watch and discusses the source material very deeply.

@coffeebeancoffeebean 3 года назад

yaaaaay

@jimjack3447 7 месяцев назад

Dale does actually save Laura...season 3

@zorkoolao2731 Год назад

It is not a "tea kettle"

@pf887 2 года назад

wheres part 2?

@MrSN99 2 года назад

on the channel

@e11esounds 3 года назад

Some absolutely transcendant observations here. Thank you! Some stellar points (particularly that of Dale's face being like that of one reflected in a TV screen in the Return providing an on-theme meta layer, and additionally Jeffrie's quest for knowledge having taken his humanity away - brilliance. On a lesser note do you use an auto-editing software? I've noticed some of the ends of sentences get cut off in your videos. Your video essays are so thick with knowledge taking pauses between sentences, chapters and talking slower might help your audience take it all in (I watched this on 0.75 speed which is an option too.) But the main point of my comment is to say thanks and well done. :) Are you a film theory major?

@MalmroseProjects 3 года назад

im a sociology and history major! and no i edit it myself, but i don't listen to it in playback (hate hearing my speaking voice) so i edit to the waveforms, which sometimes means the end of a paragraph gets cut off on accident. idk how to get around it!

@user-ud5qj7dj1q 8 месяцев назад

Coffee percolator not tea pot.

@Thor-Orion 11 месяцев назад

You have some editing issues here.

@RoboBoomStick 5 месяцев назад

if your takeaway from Twin Peaks is "patriarchy bad" then you don't really get it.

@MalmroseProjects 5 месяцев назад

if your takeaway from my video was "patriarchy bad" then you dont really get the video

@jimjack3447 7 месяцев назад

Love your videos, intelligent views but you do give 'men' a bit too much stick. I'm not being defensive here, and would not have mentioned it if it was only the one time

@CreativeMaxer Год назад

Can you read faster?

@daediaz186 3 года назад

I wish I could agree with your feminist interpretation of Lynch's work. However he himself at the time gave deeply mysoginistic explanations for his narrative and character choices. For example, the explanation he gave when asked about the long shots of the dead body of Laura, the fact that he had a lot of scenes of women being tortured and bleeding or his fascination with the damiseles in distress such as Laura or Monroe so it's hard for me to interpret differently

@MalmroseProjects 3 года назад

is there a link to what he said? im curious. regardless my interpretation isn't based off of his statements in interviews, it's based on the text of the films themselves. he's even said before "the film is the talking" so i take his statements about his films as secondary to the intent within the actual narrative

@e11esounds 3 года назад

@@MalmroseProjects My questions and thoughts exactly. I can't help but see competing narratives in Lynch himself. He's both in love and critical of he golden age of modern Americana and likewise he is both critical of and a product of a misogonistic world and era. I land on him being a feminist director because of the points covered in this book, and his later words (Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Inland Empire and FWWM are all his most feminist works imo as they are deeply critical of the patriachal systems his heroines find themselves navigating.

@sagus_mage 2 года назад

I think it’s important to recognize with Lynch that almost all of his filmmaking is focused on dualities - light and dark, good and evil, female and male. More often than not, the female side is the light side, and the male the dark. Lynch tends to associate the feminine with the divine, and the masculine with the devilish. That’s not to say that there aren’t shades of gray though, because there certainly are. As a man, I imagine that Lynch is trying to juxtapose these two, which would account for his gratuitous sense, and also his sentimentality.

@jessicaweese2982 4 месяца назад

So no one gonna metion any of the satanic shit about fire walk with me?? If i ever heard any satanic ritualistic abuse survivor story.... its just like this movie. Like jessie czebotar's story.

@ElevenDollarCheese 3 года назад

Woke nonsense.

@MalmroseProjects 3 года назад

which part? bonus points if you say "all of it"

@e11esounds 3 года назад

@@MalmroseProjects Don't feed the trolls. You cook up the finest feasts and this cretin clearly survives on junk food.

@isabeamon1190 2 года назад

I know. Absolute woke nonsensical rhetoric by some feminist who stumbles over her words in an attempt to convey intelligence. She is reaching for meaning that isn't there. Some people have that pathetic need for attention because they didn't get enough from their fathers, hence the hatred for the nuclear family.