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PlanetHarrieR hat geschrieben:das nachholen von twin peaks kann ich mir jetzt sparen, hat gestern auf der weihnachtsfeier ein kollege gespoilert...

PlanetHarrieR hat geschrieben:das nachholen von twin peaks kann ich mir jetzt sparen, hat gestern auf der weihnachtsfeier ein kollege gespoilert...

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PlanetHarrieR hat geschrieben:das nachholen von twin peaks kann ich mir jetzt sparen, hat gestern auf der weihnachtsfeier ein kollege gespoilert...

das macht nichts. trotzdem schauen. das grosse geheimnis wird nämlich schon nach 15 folgen gelöst, wobei so ganz wirklich eben doch nicht und dann gehts nochmal 15 folgen weiter. und es ist nichtmal das wichtigste. das ganze drumherum, die inszenierung und die charaktere sind das reizvolle. es gab und gibt nix vergleichbares. twin peaks ist ein tv erlebnis.

Bizarre hipster ‘Twin Peaks’ menswear from Japan

FILM; Export News: 'Twin Peaks' Mania Peaks in Japan
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: August 2, 1992


TOKYO— It might seem strange that people usually known for their industriousness fly across the Pacific Ocean to be photographed in plastic sheets. But that is what Japanese fans of "Twin Peaks" do on group tours to Snoqualmie, Wash., where the now-defunct ABC series was shot. They pretend to be Laura Palmer, the high school homecoming queen whose body, wrapped in plastic, is found as the series opens.

Long after interest in the eerie David Lynch series has faded in the United States, Japan is in the midst of "Peaker" mania. Several thousand fans attended mock funerals for Laura Palmer in Tokyo and two other cities earlier this year. Some people say there has even been an increase in the popularity of cherry pie, the food favored by one of the characters, the F.B.I. agent Dale Cooper.

The new movie, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," has been playing here since the mid-May, though it won't open in the United States until Aug. 28 -- the reverse of the usual screening pattern for an American movie.

But if all this seems strange, the strangest aspect of all might be this: relatively few people here have actually seen the series. The show is carried only on Wowow, a pay television satellite channel with a mere 900,000 subscribers.

Since March 1991, Wowow has shown the entire series six times and is now on the seventh round. Last month, it showed all the episodes in a 28-hour marathon. A survey taken by the station found that more than 30 percent of its subscribers joined just to be able to watch "Twin Peaks."

For those who don't subscribe to Wowow, videocassettes can be rented -- there are long waits -- or bought. A complete set of 14 cassettes sells for $440. About 15,000 sets have been sold, plus 7,000 sets of equally pricey laser videodisks, according to Amuse Video, distributor of the tapes and disks.

Japan has also been awash in "Twin Peaks" paraphernalia. Theaters showing the movie are peddling "Twin Peaks" baseball caps, T-shirts and handheld fans. Bookstores are carrying Japanese versions of books like "Laura's Diary," "Cooper Speaks Out" and "How to Be a Peaker."

Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's largest travel agency, has organized six group tours, with a total of 300 people, to Snoqualmie. They stay at the lodge where Cooper stayed, eat cherry pie at the diner where Cooper ate and lie on the beach where Laura's body lay. The five-day tour is priced at $1,600 to $2,000.

"Twin Peaks" expressed Mr. Lynch's vision that small-town America, sheltering the secrets of the mysteriously murdered Laura Palmer, was not as wholesome as it seemed. The new movie, also directed by Mr. Lynch, is a prequel, showing Laura's disintegrating life in the days before her death.

With its complicated plot and quirky characters, the television show was a phenomenal hit when first broadcast in the United States in April 1990. But as the story dragged on, becoming more farfetched without resolving the murder mystery, viewers lost interest and the program was canceled a year later.

No one can fully explain why "Twin Peaks" has generated such a cultlike following here, especially since other American programs like "Dallas" and "Dynasty," which were more successful in the United States, failed to win big audiences in Japan.

"The way it became popular was unprecedented," said Makoto Takimoto, a film critic and senior editor of Jiyujikan, a leisure magazine. "I don't think, generally speaking, that David Lynch's view of the world fits the Japanese feeling. That's the point I have trouble figuring out."

Some say "Twin Peaks" is popular because it is so different from mundane Japanese soap operas.

"We are tired of regular dramas with regular human relationships," said Hitomi Tsutamoto, a 32-year-old word processor in Kobe who is a member of both the "Twin Peaks" fan club and a club for Kyle Mac Lachlan, who plays Cooper. "Each character is very vivid," she said. "Even if I see it many times, I don't get bored."

Others say that the Japanese, who lead extremely rigid lives, are fascinated by freaks and outlandish behavior. And the supernatural elements of the program play to a growing interest among Japan's young people in the occult. Most "Twin Peaks" fans are young women, ranging from high school age to the early 30's.

Still others, however, say that the frenzy mounted merely because people heard of "Twin Peaks" but few could see it.

"If 'Twin Peaks' had been released on regular, free television, the boom would not have been so big," said Takuji Ushiyama, a spokesman for Nippon Herald Films, distributor of the "Twin Peaks" movie in Japan. The new movie, he said, would have been "a very minor phenomenon, just a strange occult movie," but because of the intense curiosity, "it got media attention just like a Spielberg movie or 'Terminator 2.' "

Because of the boom, Nippon Herald Films rushed to open the movie here, staging the mock funerals to generate publicity. The film, which in Japan is being called "Twin Peaks: The Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer," played to packed houses initially because it was the first chance many people had to see an example of "Twin Peaks."

But if the mania was fueled by scarcity, it is being extinguished by the fact that anyone can see the movie and by viewer disappointment. Many who have not seen the television show don't understood the movie. Even among those who have seen the show, opinions have been mixed.

Nippon Herald says it expects the movie to become one of the top 20 attractions of the year, though not a blockbuster. (Variety reports that the film has grossed only about $2.9 million at the box office so far.) It appears that the Peaker boom has, so to say, just about peaked.

Photos: A woman prays in front of a Laura Palmer mock-up at a "memorial ceremony" in Japan. (Satoru Ohmori); David Bowie and Kyle MacLachlan, right, star in the new "Twin Peaks" movie. (New Line Cinema)

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Dear Twitter Friends, Showtime did not pull the plug on Twin Peaks.

After 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done.

This weekend I started to call actors to let them know I would not be directing. Twin Peaks may still be very much alive at Showtime.

I love the world of Twin Peaks and wish things could have worked out differently.