Here is a short YouTube guide to a few of David Lynch and Mark Frost's influences and allusions. Please take a quick look at these before class (should take no more than 15 minutes). These are certainly not the only influences, but they should give you a little bit of insight into the show's unusual aesthetic and the somewhat artificial acting style that you have all noticed.Film Noir:
Trailer for "Double Indemnity"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3wjJcuGsVE
Trailer for "Laura"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f8jRplej8&feature=related
TV detective show "Dragnet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxhuUdZzGYw
Iconic 1950s rebellious-teenager movies:
West Side Story (two of the main Twin Peaks actors, Leland Palmer [Laura's father] and Dr. Jacoby, were also lead actors in West Side Story as young men)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGJsv6ZNlo
Rebel Without a Cause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3EJuGAke5E&feature=related
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