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All we needed was a net to break our fall
Oh, thank God, I finally figured out who James D'Arcy as Jarvis reminds me of. Not vocally, but visually, Jerry Orbach. This shot from a behind-the-scenes set clinched it. I'd seen the actor before in Master and Commander: On the Far Side of the World (2003), but that wasn't what kept clicking away in my brain as I watched Agent Carter. Now I've got "Razzle-Dazzle" stuck in my head.
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rushthatspeaks last night that I can think of many shows that remind me of Twin Peaks (1990), but only because of its influence on them. It has no obvious direct ancestors; if the show feels like anything beside itself, it's weird fiction, not other television or film. Walking around Wilson Farms with my niece this afternoon (read: being enthusiastically towed by a thirteen-month-old whose primary form of locomotion is running until stopped by Newtonian physics or an intervening adult), I realized this is not entirely true. There is a cinematic precursor to Twin Peaks. It's David Byrne's True Stories (1986). Imagine Byrne's Narrator and Dale Cooper discussing coffee. The Log Lady passing the Lying Woman at a town function. The handling of the realism of small-town life, which is anywhere from sur- to irrelevant. They're not examining identical cultures or asking the same moral questions, but they're in the same universe. And I have no idea if David Lynch has ever seen it. Attempting to answer this question via the internet went nowhere. Help?
rose_lemberg is now reading unsolicited submissions for Spelling the Hours: a poetry anthology of forgotten and marginalized figures in science and technology. Do you like science? Do you write poems? Go for it.
I was saying to
rushthatspeaks last night that I can think of many shows that remind me of Twin Peaks (1990), but only because of its influence on them. It has no obvious direct ancestors; if the show feels like anything beside itself, it's weird fiction, not other television or film. Walking around Wilson Farms with my niece this afternoon (read: being enthusiastically towed by a thirteen-month-old whose primary form of locomotion is running until stopped by Newtonian physics or an intervening adult), I realized this is not entirely true. There is a cinematic precursor to Twin Peaks. It's David Byrne's True Stories (1986). Imagine Byrne's Narrator and Dale Cooper discussing coffee. The Log Lady passing the Lying Woman at a town function. The handling of the realism of small-town life, which is anywhere from sur- to irrelevant. They're not examining identical cultures or asking the same moral questions, but they're in the same universe. And I have no idea if David Lynch has ever seen it. Attempting to answer this question via the internet went nowhere. Help?rose_lemberg is now reading unsolicited submissions for Spelling the Hours: a poetry anthology of forgotten and marginalized figures in science and technology. Do you like science? Do you write poems? Go for it.
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