Lynch on Bob

Writer/Director David Lynch discusses Bob's origins.

[@toditron]

Is this what everything sounds like to FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole?

[@dreamtheater6343]

AGENT COOPER, ARE YOU THERE?!

[@liambrawley]

I always thought of Bob as a chilling metaphor for the evil that is in all of us. Or maybe its just evil in general - you cant see evil, you cant put your finger on it - its just there, like Bob.

[@skateforzero357]

If you're into Carl Jung, I always saw Bob as a representation of the shadow self in its purest form. Bob is the deepest level of unconscious desires in our mind. But for us humans (the more self-realized ones at least) we are able to control those unconcious desires. But Bob, being the unconcious desires in itself, is the manifestation of fear/lust/greed, etc.... And dont even get me started on the parallels between Carl Jung and the shadow self, another doppelgangers from TP.

[@danielbaltodano6907]

@@skateforzero357 shadow selves are the dopplegangers. this theme is seen in various "other dimension" shows and movies, the otherside seems to be where our other selves resides. BOB..he is a new addition in our "dimension", new even to the group that live in the convenience store..

[@cesarmetallico]

No shit Sherlock

[@herakleitus]

"Chance favors the prepared observer"--Louis Pasteur

[@ToozdaysChild]

I CAN'T HEAR YA, COLE. CAN YA SPEAK UP?

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Hehehehehehehe!

[@thesandband]

I love this man. He himself seems to be one of his metaphysical creatures, but he would probably belong to the White Lodge...

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Too pure for the Black Lodge, for sure.

[@agesflow6815]

David Lynch explaining how the mind of a genius works.

[@rickdeckard1075]

what genius?

[@agesflow6815]

Deckard, apologies for the delayed response. My comment was vague and, at any rate, incorrect. I'm unsure why I wrote it. I have a kind of memory of writing it but it seems detached from any other conscious experience or memory. In fact, I'm unsure if what I remember is correct-or if it even happened at all. Perhaps you can relate. Best wishes

[@agesflow6815]

Sir or Ma'am, I'd ask you to take note of the comment I left to Mr. Deckard. Best wishes

[@gilligan80]

The part that to me is WAY more frightening than BOB is the final episode of season 2. In the black lodge... when Laura Palmer starts screaming...

[@slim4L]

True.. I thought I was a 'big boy' already when I first watched Twin Peaks in 1991, but Bob scared the crap out of me too. lol

[@ffs6158]

90% of creating something is pulling things out of your ass and happy accidents. Great story.

[@MontyCantsin5]

Really? 90%? Sure about that?

[@brianshoman1723]

@@MontyCantsin5 maybe 88.9997998%? 🤔 😃

[@DJdext]

THat has to be the greatest story ever told.

[@LokiFreign]

The symbolism is in the serendipity, and in the strange fact of the depth of the evil evoked by what amounts to a random passerby. All the best art is that way.

[@maychen]

Oh, this is cool! I live in Everett and now I want to walk over and stand in front of that house and think -- I'm here. Where BOB was conceived. Epic cool. I didn't know that.

[@obscure.reference]

you should knock on the palmer house and scream if anyone answers

[@benjaminconnor2411]

What a genuine man and a genius truly !

[@luboceric6468]

Bob Roth is a great TM teacher. Makes me feel at home. I feel like I've been in touch with him since late 71/early 72.

[@smooth111012]

He was destined to be in this great show

[@umachan9286]

Like so many things that David has done, the creation of Bob was just a happy accident. He'll film a scene that has nothing to do with what he's filming because he thinks it's interesting. And later on he comes back and gets an idea how to use it.

[@JakeBrannan5499]

I just love how one of the greatest tv villains of all time came about completely on accident

[@sliceserve234]

but I think from Lynch's POV the idea wanted to be there, the idea wasn't an accident

[@anastasiabananastasia]

Thx for uploading !!

[@thesnobsupreme]

sonic youth and lynch go well together

[@DemoniacLL]

I love this man!

[@JeremyBeBeau]

@DailyBrusher This was taken in Seattle, Washington at Town Hall...date is probably near the date uploaded...I'd have to go find the file.

[@oorcinus]

Jesus christ, his fingers in the thumbnail. I’m going to have nightmares.

[@ghostgate82]

I'm curious to know how BOB wasn't meant to be in the series as he is the killer of Laura Palmer and lives in the Black Lodge. I was under the impression Twin Peaks was all kinda written out beforehand like LOST. Can anyone explain more to me about this? Speaking of LOST...why is it that it takes 15 years for TV networks to realize there is a "smart people" market out there who like cerebral entertainment and not just the latest CSI knock off? I'm so sick of this bullshit. Can't wait for 2025!

[@JohnMSawyer]

I'm not sure of all the details of the answer, but when Lynch and Frost started Twin Peaks, they didn't intend for Laura Palmer's killer to be revealed--the mystery would just keep going on. They knew from the start, when creating the backstory of Twin Peaks and its characters, that Laura's father killed her under the control of BOB, but they didn't want to reveal that. But during the second season, the network said they had to, in order to revive the show's falling ratings, which may have been caused by viewers starting to realize that the killer might never be revealed. Since Lynch and Frost originally didn't intend to reveal BOB, they might not have given any thought to deciding on an actor to portray him. But once Lynch went through the two experiences he describes in the video here--meeting Silva in Laura's room moving furniture, which inspired Lynch, without quite knowing why, to film him crouching at the foot of Laura's bed, and then later Silva inadvertently being filmed reflected in the room's mirror while Laura's mother is shown getting a vision of BOB crouching (using the shot that Lynch had decided to film earlier), Lynch seems to have had a brainstorm--as Cooper said in the first two seasons, "When two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry, we must always pay strict attention", and "Fellas, coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives." Also, often when someone who's hiding in a room in a film, is shown reflected by a mirror in the room, it's meant to show the person as sinister, and about to attack someone in the room. That may have gotten Lynch to thinking that this was the person who could fulfill the network's new requirement that Laura's killer be revealed, by embodying the evil spirit that Lynch and Frost had written as the backstory for the killer.

[@austinpearce5442]

John Sawyer and ABC moved the show to Saturday nights and the gulf war was happening at that same time

[@Vingul]

@@JohnMSawyer obviously they didn't know Leland did it under BOB's control as there was no BOB. But yes, Leland Palmer was always meant to be the killer.

[@TheObserver37]

Hahaha LOST is my favorite show ever but that was not planned out all the way lol

[@GhibliFan1]

@nathanisaksson I know the show is old now, but the Twin Peaks fan community usually still make a point of avoiding this spoiler (or we provide a warning) on public forums. It is such a timeless piece of television and is still being discovered every day by a new generation of young people. Can you imagine if you were made aware of this before or during discovering it for the first time? I wouldn't want to tell you what to do, but it would be really considerate of you if you deleted this post.

[@jimbrown257]

I would never want anything of the original trilogy to be changed but I always wish I could see what Return of the Jedi had turned out like if David Lynch had directed it as George Lucas wanted.

[@AnnaLVajda]

David had no interest in it.

[@grahamrudyk6778]

Come on you twos! Twomorrow will be our day.

[@mahakala]

every night when i brush my teeth, i feel like bob will appear behind me and i see him in the mirror. i regret watching twin peaks.

[@divelostmind]

we just have happy accidents.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

How the diabolical genius mind works.

[@ButtTackler]

That stache with the Mic tho

[@Vingul]

Loool didn't notice that.

[@synchc]

who cares? all the characters from his films HAVE character and thats enough for me. people slate dune and twin peaks but for me they are works of sheer talent. the acting is hammy, the scripts are sometimes improvised but the realization, imagination and characterization are second to none. no other director couldve breathed so much life into dunes strong characters. first class job, i say! i truly wish there were 1000 david lynchs to take his place. film making needs more people like this!

[@scientifik666]

BUBBLES are awesome

[@Spotnik]

BUB saw me!

[@DailyBrusher]

Where and when was this video made, please?

[@Bill-xx2yh]

CAPTIONS

[@jaemorgan5974]

In the beginning there wasn’t any Bob and I’ve told this story before but I’ll tell a bit of it. I was up in Everett (and that’s where Laura Palmer’s house is) and I was in the house, upstairs, underneath the fan, if you’ve seen the series you know there’s a fan in the hallway, and I was turned away more toward the parent’s bedroom, and behind me I heard a girl say, “Frank, don’t lock yourself in that room” because he was in Laura Palmer’s room, Frank Silva the set dresser, moving things around and he put a dresser in front of the door, so this girl was just joking around. But, in my mind, I see Frank locked in that room, and I went rushing in to Frank, not knowing why I rushed in really, and I said “Frank, are you an actor?” and he said “Well, as a matter of fact, I am” and I of course thought “Of course he is, everybody’s an actor.” So, I said “Frank, I think you’re going to be in this scene” and he said “Okay” and there at the end of the scene we did these panning shots and two of them Frank wasn’t in, but then I asked Frank to get down at the bottom of the bed, hold the rungs of the bed, and freeze, and there Frank was in that scene. But, I didn’t know what in the world Frank was doing. That same night we went downstairs and we were shooting Grace Zabriskie, who was Laura Palmer’s mother, and she was on the couch very troubled and in her mind she’s going over all the day and she’s distraught and all of a sudden she sees something in her mind’s eye and bolts upright. Now, the camera operator has to turn the wheels and follow her very rapidly up when she goes up, because it’s a close-up, and he flips the camera up and it’s, to my mind, near perfect, and I said “Beautiful!” Grace did a beautiful job, I said “Cut! It’s perfect!” And the shot operator said “No, it isn’t perfect” and I said “What is the problem?” he said “Someone was reflected in the mirror” I said “Who was reflected in the mirror” and he said “Frank was reflected” So, that started Bob.

[@GhibliFan1]

@zemery Please see my other post about posting this major spoiler for those yet to discover Twin Peaks (believe it or not, many haven't seen it yet). Thanks.

[@Денис-ц3х7ъ]

Please write someone what David Lynch says in this video. I am Russian, and this video has no subtitles

[@sclogse1]

Too much to type.

[@jaemorgan5974]

In the beginning there wasn’t any Bob and I’ve told this story before but I’ll tell a bit of it. I was up in Everett (and that’s where Laura Palmer’s house is) and I was in the house, upstairs, underneath the fan, if you’ve seen the series you know there’s a fan in the hallway, and I was turned away more toward the parent’s bedroom, and behind me I heard a girl say, “Frank, don’t lock yourself in that room” because he was in Laura Palmer’s room, Frank Silva the set dresser, moving things around and he put a dresser in front of the door, so this girl was just joking around. But, in my mind, I see Frank locked in that room, and I went rushing in to Frank, not knowing why I rushed in really, and I said “Frank, are you an actor?” and he said “Well, as a matter of fact, I am” and I of course thought “Of course he is, everybody’s an actor.” So, I said “Frank, I think you’re going to be in this scene” and he said “Okay” and there at the end of the scene we did these panning shots and two of them Frank wasn’t in, but then I asked Frank to get down at the bottom of the bed, hold the rungs of the bed, and freeze, and there Frank was in that scene. But, I didn’t know what in the world Frank was doing. That same night we went downstairs and we were shooting Grace Zabriskie, who was Laura Palmer’s mother, and she was on the couch very troubled and in her mind she’s going over all the day and she’s distraught and all of a sudden she sees something in her mind’s eye and bolts upright. Now, the camera operator has to turn the wheels and follow her very rapidly up when she goes up, because it’s a close-up, and he flips the camera up and it’s, to my mind, near perfect, and I said “Beautiful!” Grace did a beautiful job, I said “Cut! It’s perfect!” And the shot operator said “No, it isn’t perfect” and I said “What is the problem?” he said “Someone was reflected in the mirror” I said “Who was reflected in the mirror” and he said “Frank was reflected” So, that started Bob.

[@slim4L]

Frank Silva died in 1995

[@MDkid1]

I wonder if BOB stands for anything.

[@dylanotto]

it's short for Robert

[@plasticweapon]

in "the secret diary of laura palmer" laura reallizes what it stands for: "Beware Of Bob".

[@raymondsteen5316]

@@plasticweapon - Well said as I can't and won't argue with that one!

[@DailyBrusher]

@asmugglersbible That's close enough! Thanks for the reply!

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

looks a bit like the interior of PAFA

[@giampi814]

chi traduce?

[@seamac206]

sooo.... how can twin peaks come back?

[@pkyyro]

BOB saw evil!

[@ThisIsTheRoad]

Was this filmed with a log?

[@alexkrycek3359]

I paid £50 for this content! Did you pay more?

[@Goatllama]

Log Lady did her best, okay

[@luiginicoletta9404]

Aiutatemi a capire Chi è oppure cosa è judi

[@Masticore317]

BOB was evil!

[@jordanmoscovitch]

!ekil ht666

[@Floydthefuckbag]

Frank Silva will live forever in our nightmares.

[@lepistanuda]

Godspeede

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Wasn’t aware Mr. Silva passed away. When was it?

[@fortalezadador]

@@Shred_The_Weapon Sadly, he died in 1995 at the age of 44.

[@marcohabichned7858]

Well said 😀

[@GameBoyPL1991]

He is one of few living people that I can truly call an artist and also he is in top 10 of coolest people ever lived. And I only watched Twin Peaks, must get some of his movies.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Begin with Dune. Don’t let the bad press get in your way.

[@MontyCantsin5]

Lynch is brilliant but really, he’s one of the few people you would call an artist? That’s just absurd. There loads of amazing film makers, musicians, and visual artists working today.

[@JaCkmArc0]

R.I.P Frank Silva

[@sladey21]

im only watching these because i have just watched the series and film fully for the first time.and i agree i love every second of them and would of been so upset if i had it spoiled for me

[@JonervaK]

Each of us has Bob within.

[@djbethell]

I guess Frank really wanted to be in that movie.

[@tenkenroo]

Considering the recent season I think BOB is some primordial revenge for Nukes being tested in Mexico. He’s a being meant to cause untold pain and misery as revenge for humans harming the nature

[@stephensimington479]

This is more Lynch than Lynch than Lunch

[@randomkiliinterviews9453]

If David Lynch was a 30 year old woman, he would be my crush

[@steffish]

@egoistdeviant The funny part is it wouldn't help to have the lights on, if bob actually existed.

[@MDkid1]

@Ygdrasel ah!