I only have a second...so I am just replying to the original thread about the "face of God" thingy.

I asked Al Strobel (the one armed man himself) about this a few years ago at a fest.

He said the "face of God" line was meant to be ambiguios.  No one does actually SPECIFICALLY know what he was seeing, or what God he actually made reference towards...but I actually like that.

It leaves it open to so many interpretations.  Heck, Lynch blends all kinds of culture and faith into Twin Peaks...so the ambiguity is really a great way to go!

yeah i'm bever in favor of things being spelled out of "saw the light" would be even less definitive and not bring up what americans typically think of as "god"

 just seems weird to me

I think the "face of god" line is another instance of "Lodge translation". That is to say, whenever Lodge entities are encountered (be it spirits or places like the Red Room), they appear to dress, act and speak in a form that is about halfway intelligible to "normal people".

"Seeing the face of god" may just be how Cooper filters Mike's words. As has been suggested here, it may allude to a feeling of enlightment in general.

 I heard somewhere that he is a taxidermist, partner in Tim and Tom's Taxi-Dermy, which is a combination of a taxi company and a taxidermist's. Perhaps this is why he offers a stuffed animal to Richard Tremayne, who memorably describes it as the "supreme incongruity".

He seems to do many other activities, though.

• Taxi
• Dermatology
• Taxidermy
  

This question is probably an easy one for you guys to answer for me, I'm still a newbie and I'm probably missing something in the bigger picture.. 

I can't remember what episode it is, possibly 29 when Earle is talking to Leo and he has the white face/black lips thing going on.. does this mean that he's already been to the Black Lodge and come back?

 It confuses me somewhat because later, when Cooper is in there- he sees Earle and Bob takes his soul. Wouldn't this of already of happened, had he visited the Lodge previously?

ahh I see, so BOB used Earle as a trap to Cooper, knowing he'd go in there after him..

 I was watching the Black Lodge scene again today and another thing that makes me go 'hmm' is why BOB says 'you go' 'he's wrong' 'he cant ask for your soul, i will take his'

 is this because Earle has asked for Dale's soul in return for Annie's life? it's almost like BOB is doing Coop a favour, telling him to go right before his doppelganger appears.

 Kenneth said they just had the idea to blacken the teeth and whiten the face, but Lynch later used it in FWWM to show as a sign of closeness to the Black Lodge and the world of the dopplegangers. 

So it wasn't supposed to be makeup.  Why Lynch slightly changed the makeup is beyond me, though.  He just probably liked it better the other way.  Either way...it is freaky imagery!

 It is SO cool that someone brought this up because I actually asked Al Stroble about this during the fest q and a. 

He said that he was a little dissapointed that the character was left that way....and it was due to David and Mark being involved with Wild At Heart and Storyville, and not being around during all of the later shooting.  He also said that in that scene, he felt Mike and Jerard were actually going through some kind of strange transformation that would take the character to a totally different kind interpretation.  But sadly....nothing ever was done more with this idea.

 he's trying to point cooper and truman in the right direction without being all "hey i knew about the diary the whole time lolz"

i finally got around to rewatching fwwm this weekend, and i somehow never caught the "i thought you always knew it was me"/"i never knew you thought it was me" exchange. holy shit, am i hearing that right, leland was always aware he was raping laura, and thought she knew!??! that's....odd.

I believe the white face is related to loss of the soul or being possessed. It is probably a literal way to show the wearer as a "mask" of the inhabiting spirit. In the movie, Laura's face briefly changes to this state when she speaks the lines "fire walk with me", likely because she is close to being possessed by BOB.

The last time we see the white face is when Leland enters the red room at the end of the movie. Here he seems to experience an agonizing moment of clarity, a realisation that he is indeed BOB's mask, a puppet under his control.

I'm not entirely sure if Earle's white face fits in with those from FWWM, but if it does, one could say that the white face foreshadows or stands for a loss of the soul in general.

http://www.dugpa.com/fwwm_deleted_scenes_part3_page2.php

So  the Pink Room scene bar is really in Canada, and not attached to the Roadhouse? It makes more sense, but the bad editing makes it look like there might be a secret entrance Jaques knows about.  Which would mean the Roadhouse literally straddles the US/Canada border, like the Cal-Neva Lodge straddles the California Nevada border, which is stupid, because we know Ben and Jerry have to take a road trip to OEJ's in Canada...

So they drive to Canada, where it's legal for Laura and Donna to drink (and for Audrey to be an escort)  Hmm...

Like I said, obviously it is in Cananda. That part never slipped past me. (Especially since it's subtitled.) How they got there so fast never made sense to me.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper