The film "Twin Peaks": actors and roles, description of the plot and reviews

Mystic-existential detective drama "Twin Peaks" (actors: Kyle McLachlan, Cheryl Lee, Michael Ontkin, Sherilin Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ray Wise) was another joint project between David Lynch and Mark Frost after a successful collaboration in the work on the film "Bubble out Saliva. "

Initiators and creators

The main initiator of the "Twin Peaks" was Agent Tony Krantz, who persuaded the creative union to create a television series, while costly projects in the movies were not planned. One of the creators - the avant-garde director David Lynch - by that time had already earned the fame of an intellectual, but absurdly surrealistic director. The second (Frost) was also known and even nominated for an Emmy television award thanks to the Hill Street Blues project. They this time wanted to dilute the genre of the criminal series (detective investigation) mystical component. The script was written only a week, and the pilot episode was filmed in a crazy pace - the creators kept within 21 days. April 1990 was marked by the release of the opening series and after another 7. So the "Twin Peaks" series appeared, the actors and roles of which immediately became very popular after the pilot release.

Mythical Cinovariate

The enthusiastic and intrigued spectators had to wait almost half a year to air the subsequent TV series, which finally had to shed light on the fate of FBI agent Dale Cooper. Beware of the imagination of fans and the mystical circumstances of the murder of the cutie Laura Palmer, as well as all the other strange events taking place in the town of Twin Peaks. The actors of the series also became related to their roles.

The most successful discovery, the discovery of criticism was called the episodes, supposedly taking place in a different, surrealistic space, where the astral entities of the characters lived. They have become a kind of clues looking unusual TV project "Twin Peaks". Actors and roles were so well chosen by the creators of the series that it was not possible to reproach the characters for incompatibility of the actors. The pilot series has a kinovariate - an alternative two-hour film version with the questioning title "Who killed Laura Palmer?".

In a dispute with the classic American television product

By and large the film "Twin Peaks" (1990), whose actors and roles became canonical, was created in a fierce competition with conventional television production. Although it had a television nature and real cinematic roots. If you do not pay attention to the fact that Lynch only owns a quarter of the time (including the prequel "Twin Peaks, Fire, Come with Me"), then in this series you can find not only literary, psychoanalytical, verbal symbols and their notation. The series is full of movie quotes that can serve as clues for understanding the intriguing essence of the narrative about the forces of evil that have settled in a quiet provincial town. In which, during the development of the plot, everything turns inside out revealing hidden mania, secret complexes and satanic attractions. The actors of the movie "Twin Peaks" with great pleasure and not without intellectual malice told in interviews to the media about their characters and their dark side. And everyone had something to tell. After all, it is impossible to name the project revelations from the surrealistic messiah, which certain townsfolk tend to recognize Lynch. He's just artfully pretending. Even in such a mystical-existential drama as Twin Peaks.

Actors and roles

1990 was marked by the appearance on the horizon of Hollywood a whole scattering of new stars. This constellation showed the world a series of Lynch. Their lives, like their future career, are different. But the film "Twin Peaks", whose actors and roles in the quantitative composition exceeded three dozen, gave the viewer a lot of interesting characters with well-defined, well-written individuals, each with his own secret. They say that Kyle McLachlan was invited to the main role of Dale Cooper, an FBI agent, because he was a kind of alter-ego director. After the premiere of the series, McLachlan made a successful career not only on TV, but also in the cinema. However, almost all the main actors of Twin Pix did not go unnoticed. Kyle's filmography includes such projects as "Exchange of bodies", "The Mysterious Island" and "Flintstones".

Michael Ontkin - Harry Truman

Michael Ontkin is one of the most successful and sought after actors after completing the shoot. Prior to joining Twin Pix, he was shot exclusively in Canadian films, but this project is his most successful, stellar work. Unfortunately, after 2000 his popularity withered, and he became an actor in the background. The last picture in which he lit up, - the series "Sophie".

For individual participants of the project, participation in the "Twin Peaks" series became a landmark. Actors, whose biography is presented below, mostly used the chance given to them by this film.

Cheryl Lee - Laura Palmer

The role of the mysterious Laura Palmer went to Cheryl Lee and became her first professional work. The start was successful. Cheryl, after completing the shooting, continued to actively participate in various films and series, while playing in parallel performances. Now she is known more as an actress of independent independent films, she did not manage to conquer Hollywood Lee.

James Marshall - James Hurley

Actors of the TV series Twin Peaks reacted with some prejudice to the fact that the son of the producer and one of the directors William R. Greenblatt, who played the role of Laura's sweetheart James Hurley, participated in the shootings. It is not known for certain whether the success of the series, or the eminent father helped the actor become a real (not one-off) star of television and cinema. Now James is one of the most demanded actors in the "dream factory", his films include "In the eyes of the murderer", "Judgment Day", "The King of Football" and others.

Madhen Amik - Shelley Johnson

Her participation in the filming of the series "Twin Peaks" the actors of the project were called a symbolic one, because the girl before that was shot exclusively in video clips. And after the release of the film, the film was nominated for a significant in the US award "Digest of soap operas". After this success, Madhen continued to work in the film industry, starring in the films Sex, Lies, Madness and Sleepwalkers. However, soon after changing the movie, she returned to TV, continuing the career of the TV actress.

Lara Flynn Boyle - Donna Hayward

Before participating in the project, the young and smart actress Flynn Boyle already had some experience working in the cinema and was even recognizable and popular among a narrow circle of viewers. The girl contrived during filming in a mystical series in parallel to appear in other projects. But at the beginning of the 21st century, her career sharply declined, and in the last decade serious projects were not invited at all. Boyle has to limit himself to low-budget paintings.

Sherilin Fenn - Audrey Horn

Popularity Fenn over the years gaining momentum like a snowball to whom: she did not become an actress of one role after filming in the movie "Twin Peaks." Actors who did not become successful, tried in vain to denigrate her name. Her filmography has more than 100 roles, Fenn was among the nominees for the Golden Globe and Emmy. But the role of the errant and broken daughter of the owner of a local hotel in "Twin Pix" is positioned by critics as one of the best.

Ray Wise - Leland Palmer

Fen can outperform only Ray Wise, because on his personal account more than 200 roles on television and in the cinema. In his 67 actor continues to act and make fans happy with his acting skills.

Kimmy Robertson - Lucy Moran

Kimmy, having played the role of the secretary of Sheriff Truman, was remembered by the spectator in his squeaky voice. By the way, it was he (the voice) that helped develop the future career of the actress. Robertson received a huge number of proposals for the voice acting of animated films, and she succeeded. After all, in the big cinema she was offered only secondary roles and even extras. The element, in which the actress herself felt confident, remained animation.

Dana Ashbrook - Bobby Brisg

Dana Ashbrook is the only one from the entire casting of the series, which took place not only as an actor, but also as a screenwriter. However, the actor is proud of his track record, which, among others, includes roles from the films Deadwood, She is Uncontrollable, Strange World and, of course, Twin Peaks.

Two equivalent parts of the series

The structure of Lynch's creation can be conditionally divided into two parts. The first is a real mystical saga about a solitary knight, the will of destinies penetrating into the realm of darkness. Very bright here is the romantic Odri-Cooper line - genuine, at times funny, but exactly touching, touching with its nobility.

The second part is to the viewer as the penetration of the kingdom of darkness into a knight. And the author is inclined to give advantage to darkness. First, darkness consumes Laura, then takes on the moral foundations and principles of the central characters, reducing them to sins. And gradually the tranquil town of the north-west of America turns into a black hole, tightening everyone approaching. But the belief is wrong that all the inhabitants of Twin Peaks are irrevocably vicious and doomed to burning in the "Gehenna of Fire". According to the subtext, everyone is free to get rid of the detrimental impact of the satanic essence, to drive out the mysterious Bob and not let him into himself.

Apple from the apple tree ...

After the diffuse finale of Twin Pix, many fans of the TV crew were left unsatisfied. But to their immense joy, in 1992 the "diaries" of the prostituting and narcotizing Laura Palmer appeared in the rental. This film, with a certain cunning and intent, was composed by the daughter of the provocative director Jennifer Chambers Lynch.

There was also an attempt by Lynch himself in the prequel "Twin Peaks." Through the fire »(actors: Cheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Medken Emik, Dana Ashbrook and others) tell about the events preceding the murder of Laura. The film turned out to be ambiguous. Watch it without previous acquaintance with the content of the series can be, but there is a risk. The viewer can understand nothing, but appreciate Lynch's author's style - or understand, but not appreciate. In order to fully experience "Through the fire," you must first of all see the "Twin Peaks". By the way, the film was made visually much better and more spectacular than the series (reviews are a confirmation of this).

This model of the USA

Many famous critics have considered the town of Twin Peaks as a model of the present US, in which everything has a different essence, the second bottom. Visible well-being, like a curtain, conceals an infernal, vicious interior. However, the viewer should not attach so much to the exaggerated importance of psychoanalytics and mysticism of the series, over which the author, David Lynch, chuckles, and not without malice.