7 Times David Lynch Confused The Hell Out Of Us
1. The Black Lodge (Twin Peaks)
In 1990, Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost tore up the television rule book with Twin Peaks. A show unlike no other before it, it introduced Lynch's wicked brand of surrealism into the homes of millions. And it was the iconic Black Lodge that would create confused water-cooler conversations everywhere.
The Black Lodge first appeared in the dreams of FBI Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), primary in the form of the Red Room of the Lodge. With its red curtains, zig-zag painted floor, and a Venus de' Medici statue, it's a visually arresting location. The Lodge was revealed to be a gateway between dimensions, and Cooper was to experience the full madness of what that meant.
His encounters there with The Man From Another Place (Michael J. Anderson) became the heart of the Twin Peaks mythology. This red-suited dwarf who talked backwards (Lynch used a unique, reverse backwards filming technique to create the Black Lodge residents' distorted voices), would go on to be immortalized, and oft parodied, in the legacy of the show long after its cancellation.
You can't keep a good Dale in the Lodge though and in Twin Peaks: The Return, he found himself back in the Red Room. Except now, The Man From Another Place was a tree. Yes, a tree. Proof indeed that Lynch is still a master of baffling audiences to this day.