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Was Leland really going to clock Cooper with his club?

posted 2 years ago by shotmytv (18)
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In the scene where Cooper and Harry pull over Leland for driving recklessly, Leland pulls Cooper around to his trunk where he grabs a golf club. Cooper turns his back as Harry calls out for him, and Leland is holding the club in a position as if he were about to try and knock Coop out with it. He also has an expression on his face like that's what he's going to do.

What would he have even accomplished by doing so? Create a hostage situation using a golf club with Harry not even 10 ft away armed with a gun and a radio to call for back up?

Also I'm watching The Return for the third time to see if it will grow on me and I just want to say I fucking hate the 8th episode.

[–] gp12345us (29) 2 years ago

I know the scene you are talking about well. This is just my interpretation, but I don't think Leland was really planning to hit Cooper. I think they were just trying to drive the point home about how crazy and unpredictable Leland acts when possessed by Bob.

Sorry you don't like the legendary eighth episode from season three. I think it is just a masterpiece of pure Lynch cinema that can be watched on its own apart from the series. I mean, we get to journey inside the mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb, where else can you do that?

[–] shotmytv (18) 2 years ago

I just think its self-indulgent film making. The episode provides you with no clues or even context to what is happening on screen, so all you're left with are pretty visuals and absurd, abstract scenes that make no sense and don't relate to the plot whatsoever aside from seeing Bob Ball's birth. And that's what, a 30 second shot out of a 55 minute episode? It really sums up alot of the problems I have with the entire season, but I just did a full write up of this episode and the season on the official board for it if you wanna read it.

https://moviechat.org/tt4093826/Twin-Peaks/620f080b5210926203f5b486/I-really-hated-the-8th-episode-when-I-saw-it-and-other-ponderings-on-this-season-in-general

[–] sslssg (28032) 2 years ago

I agree with you.

I honestly think that I would have loved it if it were just a Lynch short that wasn't related to Twin Peaks, but I was not loving The Return as much as I wanted to be and by that time that rolled around I was pretty annoyed. I almost quit watching because of it.