FSM # 4: The proof is in the pudding, but the Muse is in the score…
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When TWIN PEAKS aired on Norwegian TV screens about 10 years ago, I was hooked. I was still in upper secondary school back then and the vivacious, larger-than-life fictional writings of my childhood had been compromized by strict, non-fictional rules and regulations. A lid was put on my creative juices.
However, that series ignited a spark. There was something about the “atmosphere” – vast forest areas, constant grey and drizzly weather contrasted with the warm and fuzzy interiors of the log-built hotel by the huge waterfall. The “twin peaks” themselves towering lugubriously over the village. Additionally, of course, there was the offbeat nature of the characters – some sort of absurd play and the subdued, seemingly passive acting of Kyle MacLachlan that fit marvelously as an opposition to the quirky villagers.
The icing on the cake and the final boost, however, was all Angelo Badalamenti. I am having HUGE difficulties explaining just how that music fit so wonderfully with the visuals, and how it worked independently as well. That bass groove, with reverb effects connoting vast landscapes. The jazzy high-hat rhythm. The somewhat sad melody of the main theme underlining the loss of innocence of the murdered Laura Palmer. Things like that.
And, while some claimed that the series got worse the longer it ran, I thought the opposite. It got weirder, more abstract – just the way I liked it. And few TV villains have scared me more than Bob.
In any case, the series eventually inspired me so much that I sat down, put on my cassette tape of the score and wrote an entire novel. The novel was basically based on a series of long introductions in which I laid out the atmosphere of an autumn-covered drizzly Canada, several hundred miles from nearest city (Dawson), before I started the action. The creative juices were flowing again. And all thanks to a series and a score just a little out of the ordinary.
No, the “owls were not what they seemed to be” for sure.
Does anyone know what I mean? Are there any films or scores like this that have resurrected the Muse in you and inspired you to write, paint, compose something?
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This post was inspired by the “STEPMOM effect”-thread.
Loved the series back then and was so upset when the murderer was spoilered in the media. I still feel even on a rewatch some years ago that the series lost a bit after that in season 1 already. But I liked the rather confusing season 2 as well. Haven’t seen that later follow up season 3. The movie was mixed for me.
The scores is of course a classic. The times when you went out to instantly buy the CD 😉
Does anyone know what I mean? Are there any films or scores like this that have resurrected the Muse in you and inspired you to write, paint, compose something?
I remember being highly creatively inspired when I had watched the movie THE HOURS. When I came home back from the cinema I immediately started drawing. These two pictures might be the best or at least most couragous drawings I have ever done.
Funnily, the movie is about writing, not painting. But the movie appeared to me as a wonderful work of art.
Oh, my. If I recall correctly, the live ascent of one of the space shuttles had me illustrating an answer at that time to the questions you posed almost 25 years ago. And of late I eagerly awaited reading the part on Stepmom in the John Williams bio and was anything but disappointed; in fact, author Greiving’s description matched up well with the post from 1999 that spawned your post, Thor.😎
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