Twin Peaks: Fire... words in bar ????
Varis08
girls go to the bar?
"I am the great when." ect.
thanks.
Gary Jukes
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I have a transcript, but it's at home; I'll post it once I get home from
work.
Gary Jukes
Laura (To Donna as they enter the club): Welcome to Canada. Don't expect a
turkey dog in here.
Jacques: Hey Slowpokes. Guess what?
Laura: What?
Jacques: There's no tomorrow. Know why, baby? Because it'll never get here.
Laura: Hey, Jacques.
Jacques: I'm not Jacques. I am The Great Went.
Laura: I am the Muffin
Jacques: And what a muffin you have. (Makes motions of shooting his brains
out) I am as blank as a fart.
(They trade drinks; Buck drops something in Donna's drink)
Laura: Chug-a-lug, Donna.
(They drain their bottles. Laura is topless, dancing with Buck. Donna is
stoned, dancing with Tommy. Laura sees Ronette)
Laura: I haven't seen you since I was thrown out of One-Eyed Jack's.
Ronette: What else did we do together? Oh, I remember...
Jacques: The party twins. My high school sandwich. Let's put some meat
inside.
Ronette: She's been dead a year.
Jacques: Who?
Ronette: Teresa.
Laura: Teresa Banks? Yeah, a whole year.
Ronette: Yeah, she was going to get rich blackmailing somebody.
Jacques: That's right. She called me one day. She even asked me what your
father looked like.
Laura: What? She asked about my father?
Jacques: Hey, why don't you two come up to the cabin this week? Thursday.
(Cut to Laura and Ronette at a booth)
Ronette: Here we go again...like we're back at One Eyed Jack's.
Laura: Oh God, it sure is...
Ronette (sees Donna): Oh shit! Is that Donna Hayward?
(Donna is topless having a good time with Tommy. Laura makes Jacques help
her get Donna out of the club, screaming at Donna never to wear her stuff)
Laura: Donna, not you!
(Jacques carries Donna out)
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twitch
I believe he says: "I am the great went"
and Laura replies "I am the muffin"
..."and what a muffin you've got huh"...
Christian Smith
'I am The Great Went'. A Phish site, interestingly enough, provided some
information. You may find it useful (the complete link is
http://www.phish.net/faq/lgreatwent.html#twinpeaks ):
The Great Went in Twin Peaks
The most common understanding of The Great Went is as a reference to the
dancing/party scene of the David Lynch film Fire, Walk With Me. Indeed,
Kristen Godard contended that this scene was the theme of the Great Went
weekend: "We should all go watch that scene again, but the drinking, the
dancing, the laughing, fire, etc... Definitely 'where' we were being put."
But the mention of "The Great Went" in this scene was, itself, a reference
to another scene. M.T. Wentz is a restaurant critic (and mother of diner
owner Nora) mentioned in the second episode of the second season of Twin
Peaks (also referred to as "The Great Went"), and this character is
referenced in the movie Fire Walk With Me (based on, following, and
"explaining" (ha!) Twin Peaks).
Source scene: Richard <lanc...@aol.com> posted (3-12-97 to Phish.Net this
account of the name: " The term "The Great Went" is used in the David Lynch
movie, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME. For those of you who have seen the
movie---Jacques (the fat Canadian bar owner) refers to himself as THE GREAT
WENT in the bar scene where Laura Palmer and her friend Donna get all
drugged up and freaked out. Really intense scene-----> Loud music, strobe
lights, the works. The words spoken in this scene are actually shown in
subtitles because the music in the bar is so loud. I have cut and paste a
clip from the actual scene below. Check it out:
The group enters a large room with the filthiest wall to wall carpet
imaginable. In the back corner is a small stage. On it a three piece
HELL-METAL BAND is building up toward oblivion. The LEAD SINGER is dressed
in a buffalo skin complete with at least half the buffalo head and horns. He
wears spray painted, day glow orange cowboy boots. Some HALF DRESSED GIRLS
and COWBOYS are dancing to the band. In darkened corners away from the stage
other groups are racing the band to oblivion.
Laura leans over to Donna noticing her shocked look.
LAURA: Don't expect a turkey dog in here.
Jacques Renault comes up to the group.
JACQUES: Hey, slow pokes, guess what? There's no tomorrow.
He grabs Laura up and gives her a big, sloppy wet kiss.
JACQUES: Baby, you know why? Cause it'll never get here.
LAURA: Hey, Jacques...
JACQUES: (slurred) No "Jacques". I am the Great Went.
LAURA: (for Donna) I am The Muffin.
JACQUES: And what a muffin you have.
The two truckers laugh with Jacques. He mimes a gun with his right hand
and pointing it to his forehead pulls the trigger with a weak, slack cheeked
puff sound.
JACQUES: (slurred) I am as blank as a fart.
Laura winks at Buck as he SECRETLY drops a red depth charge into Donna's
beer.
LAURA: Hey, Donna, chug-a-lug.
"The Man In Black" <agent_...@global-data.com> clarified via email
(3-12-97), "The Great Went is what Jacques Renault called himself in Fire
Walk With Me (the TP movie) when he was drunk and stoned in the Pink Room."
Why the Great Went? Jimmy <orsi...@tony.bc.edu> posted (3/13/97): "One
possible explanation is that I think Twin Peaks is still heavily played in
Europe. [Note: It was run in full in parts of Europe, including Amsterdam
and France, during a period overlapping the spring 1997 Europe tour.] You
can also catch it on Bravo from time to time." Jimmy added thse important
thoughts: "Just a word of advice, watch episodes in order or you will be
lost and think that the show sucks and also the movie. If you ever plan on
watching all 25 hours of the show do not watch Fire Walk With Me until after
you have seen all the episodes."
But in that scene, Jacques was, in fact, wasted, practically falling over,
slobbering, yelling. The nickname The Great Went is not just something
random he yelled out -- it refers to a scene in the diner, in one of the
early episodes of the television series Twin Peaks (after which the movie
was made). In that scene, there is fear about the arrival of I.M. Went, aka
The Great Went, a feared restaurant critic.
The Geology of the Went
Martin Acaster <maca...@sprintmail.com> posted (4-4-97 14:17:40) to the
Phish.Net a wonderful "Geology of the Great Went":
The geology of the gorge post made me do this
Geologic Setting and Tectonic History of The Great Went
The site of the Great Went, Limestone, Maine is underlain by rocks of the
Hurricane Mountain Formation. The geology and tectonic history of the
Hurricane Mountain formation was summarized (Boudette, Boone, and Goldsmith,
1989) for a field trip I attended at the 81st annual meeting of the New
England intercollegiate Geological Conference. The Hurricane Mountain
melange (Boone, 1989) represents part of an accreted wedge of carbonaceous,
sulfidic scaly metapelite and metasiltstone which is charged with blocks and
rafts of autoclastic and exotic rocks). Localized occurrences of different
exotic lithologies along the strike of the Hurricane Mountain Formation
suggest that subduction may have been oblique, and that strike-slip faulting
within the forearc environment or arcward of it, brought different
provenances into the zone of active fragmentation where gravity-driven
submarine slides were incorporated into the growing accretionary wedge.
The Hurricane Mountain Formation retains a rather consistent structural
thickness of 900 to 1000 m throughout the lobster mountain anticlinorium;
this thickness probably is largely a product of Penobscottian, rather than
Acadian deformation. The structural relationship of the Hurricane to the
underlying, less deformed aguagene volcanic Jim Pond Formation is
essentially a fault contact, involving break-up and olistostromal
emplacement of Jim Pond greenwacke, quartzite and volcanogenic rocks in a
matrix which is increasingly composed of siltstone protolith structurally
upward into the Hurricane in the southwest part of the Hurricane Mountain
Belt (Boudette, 1978).
To put this another way. ...About 600 million years ago this part of Maine
was lying at the bottom of a shallow sea between a volcanic island arc and
the continental margin of Laurentia (what is now referred to as North
America). The phish that lived in this sea were frequently Buried Alive or
Drowned in submarine landslides caused by the numerous earthquakes that
rocked the area. The unfortunate phish were often Swept Away down the Steep
slope that was formed by a Wedge of sediments that were being scraped off
the top of the slab of oceanic crust as it was forced underneath the
volcanic arc. Once the slabs were subducted they would usually Split Open
and Melt. Soon they would once again belch forth from the mouths of a
volcanic Mound or a Rift on the continental margin. Frequently this resulted
in a Fire On The Mountain or a Fog That Surrounds the island arc itself. The
Aftermath of all this was the formation of the Hurricane Mountain Formation.
All Things Reconsidered a Day In The Life of a Cambrian phish was Blue and
Lonesome. If I Could have been there then would You Enjoy Myself as much as
you will at the Great Went????
"Gary Jukes" <gary...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Joshua Zyber
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> I may have been the only one who got a puzzled look on his mug when he
read
> 'I am The Great Went'. A Phish site, interestingly enough, provided some
> information. You may find it useful (the complete link is
> http://www.phish.net/faq/lgreatwent.html#twinpeaks ):
Here I thought he meant to say, "I am the great Wendt", referring to his
physical similarity to George Wendt.
Maybe that's just me!
- Josh
Blackberry
would be holding a concert named after the line in FWWM?
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"It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet."
-- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Brian -- le...@NOnwlinkSPAM.com -- remove "NOSPAM"
Paul D. Crittenden
debut feature, Outside Out, is often described as being "Lynchian." Gordon
himself has often cited David Lynch as one of his favorite directors. FWWM
and WaH are two movies that he specifically states are favorites. In fact,
Love Me, the Elvis song that Sailor sings to Lula in WaH (not Love Me
Tender, the first song he sings to her - the one on the dance floor) is part
of the Phish repetoire. With lead vocals by Mike Gordon, of course.
Mike has often mentioned that The Great Went refers to "a spirit of the
air."
Paul, a Phish fan
Jeff Gower
"Paul D. Crittenden" <pauldcr...@yahoo.comNOSPAM> wrote:
> Mike has often mentioned that The Great Went refers to "a spirit of the
> air."
.....and blank as a fart, to boot! ;-)
Jeff
Christian Smith
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> So... you're saying that the line in FWWM is actually from the future when
Phish
> would be holding a concert named after the line in FWWM?
>
Huh? "The Great Went" is Norma's mom, the food critic. Phish named a song
after it or something...
"But the mention of "The Great Went" in this scene was, itself, a reference
to another scene. M.T. Wentz is a restaurant critic (and mother of diner
owner Nora) mentioned in the second episode of the second season of Twin
Peaks (also referred to as "The Great Went"), and this character is
referenced in the movie Fire Walk With Me (based on, following, and
"explaining" (ha!) Twin Peaks)."
Blackberry
>
>"Blackberry" <le...@NOnwlinkSPAM.com> wrote in message
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>> So... you're saying that the line in FWWM is actually from the future when
>Phish
>> would be holding a concert named after the line in FWWM?
>>
>
>Huh? "The Great Went" is Norma's mom, the food critic. Phish named a song
>after it or something...
>
>"But the mention of "The Great Went" in this scene was, itself, a reference
>to another scene. M.T. Wentz is a restaurant critic (and mother of diner
>owner Nora) mentioned in the second episode of the second season of Twin
>Peaks (also referred to as "The Great Went"), and this character is
>referenced in the movie Fire Walk With Me (based on, following, and
>"explaining" (ha!) Twin Peaks)."
And how does Phish *know* that's the real answer? And how does Jacques Renault
know that M. T. Wentz is going to visit the RR Diner a couple of months in the
future?
Christian Smith
visiting the diner. That's how the viewers find out who M. T. Wentz is.
But because Jacques lives in a world where M. T. Wentz is a famous food
critic, he doesn't have to watch Twin Peaks to find that fact out. I do
believe Jacques is about to apply his critical tasting ability to Laura's
muffin.
-Christian
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doppelganger_79
Wentz
> visiting the diner. That's how the viewers find out who M. T. Wentz is.
> But because Jacques lives in a world where M. T. Wentz is a famous food
> critic, he doesn't have to watch Twin Peaks to find that fact out. I do
> believe Jacques is about to apply his critical tasting ability to Laura's
> muffin.
That's what I assumed from you post, but then I noticed that it is Laura who
interjects with I am the muffin. If it had've been the other way round then
Jacques would've made sense, but alas. My problem isn't that Jacques is
calling himself a muffin conniseur, but that he says it out of the blue
without mention of a muffin to assess.
^O^ ~doppelganger_79
Miguel Puertas
>visiting the diner. That's how the viewers find out who M. T. Wentz is.
>But because Jacques lives in a world where M. T. Wentz is a famous food
>critic, he doesn't have to watch Twin Peaks to find that fact out. I do
>believe Jacques is about to apply his critical tasting ability to Laura's
>muffin.
Then why didn't he say "I am the great _Wentz_?"
You'll say it's because he's drunk/high, but I think a simpler
explanation is that "I am the great Went" is equivalent to
saying "I'm gone, I'm wasted."
~M
fancydress
Christian Smith
however it seems as though it's likely that he's making some form of
allusion to the food critic.
-Christian
"Miguel Puertas" <mga...@panix.no.spam.com> wrote in message
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doppelganger_79
>
> You'll say it's because he's drunk/high, but I think a simpler
> explanation is that "I am the great Went" is equivalent to
> saying "I'm gone, I'm wasted."
"You'll say it's because he's drunk/high" - Isn't that what you are saying
though... Haven't we learnt to look closer at Lynch's films?
--
^O^ ~恤雦ga駁璁_79
Mindy
> You're right, that's what I would say! 8^) I see your point though,
> however it seems as though it's likely that he's making some form of
> allusion to the food critic.
Why is that likely? Jacques is a drug-dealing, bartending French Canadian
loser. Why would he give a rats ass about some high brow restaurant critic
from Seattle? I doubt he reads restaurant reviews in the Sunday Times.
Plus at the time when he said it (Feb 18th), they didn't even know that
Wentz was coming to town. Louie didn't find that out until March 6th. Look
at the other things he says - "There's no tomorrow", " 'cause it'll never
get here". Went is the past of "go", contrast with "tomorrow", the future.
It'll never get here because he's already gone, he went.
I'm probably not making much sense... but to me, the critic thing makes no
sense...
Gary Jukes
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Mindy...? Has the Good Luck Penny returned? Is it really you?!
(Of course if it's not, the above makes no sense whatsoever to whoever
posted. In which case, just ignore me!)