20. It Was Inspired By Frost And Lynch's Failed Marilyn Monroe Show
There are two things that continue to trouble me, and Im speaking now not only as an agent of the bureau but also as a human being, says FBI Agent Dale Cooper in one of his trademark monologues that would go on to epitomise the character, this particlar one introducing him and the show's primary concerns. What really went on between Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys, and who really pulled the trigger on JFK. On the surface, it makes sense for a distrust of authority and penchant for conspiracy theories especially when they concern people in power whose public images were squeaky clean compared to their murky private lives to come through in Cooper from the very beginning. Those are qualities that would lead him to the darkness beneath Twin Peaks. But the real reason for its inclusion was that Twin Peaks co-creators had previously worked together on an (eventually unmade) Marilyn Monroe biopic, titled Goddess. Many of the themes and characterisations they had cooked up for that project wound up in Twin Peaks, with the tragic death of smiling blonde prom queen Laura Palmer echoing the troubled private life and death of the actress.
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