![]() ![]() But with Lynch directing every episode, his was the presence more keenly felt. Which is to say: It felt like Twin Peaks. ![]() ![]() This summer's Twin Peaks: The Return, on Showtime, was by turns brilliant and baffling. They're a two-stroke engine: Lynch is id, emotion, dream logic Frost is superego, intellect, story logic.įorget yin and yang - Lynch is Ernie Frost is Bert. To make Twin Peaks - a demented mix of serialized narrative and dark surrealism - you need them both. Because that is how stories, and lives, work. Consequences dependably ensue and determine characters' next steps. In his novels, weird and even occasionally downright Lynchian things happens, but they're built into a familiar narrative infrastructure. We know what they're thinking before they tell us. He outfits his characters - fictional and not - with defined, detailed and recognizable motivations. The thing that connects them is the clarity of his storytelling. He has written novels dealing with occult conspiracies as well as nonfiction about baseball and golf, for pity's sake. He made his bones on shows like The Equalizer, Hill Street Blues and The Six Million Dollar Man. His films keep working on us long after the credits roll - they live in our memory as a series of discrete images matched to intense emotions, just as we remember our dreams.įrost, on the other hand, has written for television and film for years. It's that openness to happenstance, as much as his gleeful willingness to expose the darkest and most violent patches of the human soul, that makes Lynch Lynch. He is a director in such close touch with his subconscious that it bleeds into every shot he often lets it guide where and how he places his camera, and what his actors say. Lynch delights in combining arresting, often absurd visuals (a giant teapot communicating via steam numerals and symbols!) and uncanny soundscapes (the low, electric crackle of ozone). But their essential difference is one of kind, not quality. Mark Frost is a storyteller.Ĭertainly there is story in Lynch's art and art in Frost's storytelling. Let's begin with a sweeping, simplistic and grossly unfair generalization: David Lynch is an artist. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Twin Peaks Subtitle The Final Dossier Author Mark Frost ![]()
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