Just saw this for the first time after binge watching telast five episodes of the show. What's up with Coop? He seems sn ot into his job when compared to the lively, happy go lucky Dale of the show. Did Lynch not think the bubbly TV Cooper would fit with the more dreary, graphic tone of the movie or something?
shareHe seems to be more happy go lucky in the beginning although the Cooper in the latter part of the movie maybe foreshadows what will happen to him in the tv series.
Its that man again!!
I didn't think about that, it's an interesting theory. So in that case his acting different is a stand alone plot device solely for the movie and has no bearing on the show.
shareI'm assuming it's because he didn't want to resprise his role in the movie in fear of being typecast. So they made his role smaller.
shareOh I knew they made his role small, I was just confused by why he seemed different. I guess it could have been the actor's boredom with the role showing through. It's too bad really. A little bit of optimistic, fun Coop in the first act might have helped balance out the gloomier, more graphic parts later on.
shareIn the series, we don't really see much of Cooper before he arrives in Twin Peaks. He's chipper at least in part because he loves the town and its people -- he feels, perhaps for the first time in his life, as though he belongs somewhere.
We learn in this movie that Cooper was always fated to spend decades (an eternity?) in the Black Lodge, because he has dreams and visions about it long before he even learns Laura Palmer's name. So in a sense, Cooper always belonged in Twin Peaks. Maybe he was bored and frustrated in his FBI cubicle, and that's coming across in his performance here.
In the series, we don't really see much of Cooper before he arrives in Twin Peaks. He's chipper at least in part because he loves the town and its people -- he feels, perhaps for the first time in his life, as though he belongs somewhere.
We learn in this movie that Cooper was always fated to spend decades (an eternity?) in the Black Lodge, because he has dreams and visions about it long before he even learns Laura Palmer's name. So in a sense, Cooper always belonged in Twin Peaks. Maybe he was bored and frustrated in his FBI cubicle, and that's coming across in his performance here.
Yeah, this is my thinking as well. Once someone enters the Black Lodge, they become unstuck in time. Since residents of the Black Lodge exist in all time periods at once, cause and effect become muddled when describing their interactions with people in the real world. Laura and Cooper each welcome each other to the Black Lodge, and there's nothing wrong with this because neither event really follows the other.
But I do think there's something to the idea that Cooper is drawn to Twin Peaks because of his connection to the Black Lodge, and that his sense of belonging is the real cause of his chipper attitude (which we don't see in FWWM).
Agreed.
We learn in this movie that Cooper was always fated to spend decades (an eternity?) in the Black Lodge, because he has dreams and visions about it long before he even learns Laura Palmer's name. So in a sense, Cooper always belonged in Twin Peaks
But, is the only reason he's destined to spend time in the lodge, is because hes already stuck there?
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