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(@michangelina)
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is it real?? I mean I know the roadhouse is real but is the bang bang bar?? Is the bang bang bar the bar where we keep getting conversations that we have no idea what anyone is talking about?? 

I think I'm starting to get really confused 

 
Posted : 27/08/2017 5:38 pm
(@badalamenti-fan)
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My understanding: The Bang Bang Bar is what TP locals casually call "The Roadhouse."

In the original series, it functioned as a liminal space between "reality" and "dream," the "natural" and the "supernatural..."

Others have raised alleged continuity issues (e.g.  unseen but audible musicians)... but I think this misses the point. It is a favorite Lynchian device to play with the presumed boundary between "illusion" and "reality" via a theatrical stage proscenium and curtain (c.f. "El Club Silencio" in Mulholland Drive or the final act of Inland Empire)

That said, I have always been intrigued by the fact that Jacques, Ronette, Laura and Donna went "to party" at an entirely different bar with a secret/private, strobe-lit back room in FWWM (identified as "The Pink Room" in the title for Angelo's corresponding cue on the OST). 

I find that nightclubs/bars/theaters are a recurring trope throughout L's work-- in TP, FWWM, and The Return, the stage proscenium/curtain as a metaphor for mystical space is more ubiquitous than ever, now fragmented or distributed in a manner akin to Lynch's characters played by multiple actors, IMO.

 
Posted : 27/08/2017 5:57 pm
(@garmonbozia_addict)
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Posted by: Badalamenti Fan

My understanding: The Bang Bang Bar is what TP locals casually call "The Roadhouse."

In the original series, it functioned as a liminal space between "reality" and "dream," the "natural" and the "supernatural..."

Others have raised alleged continuity issues (e.g.  unseen but audible musicians)... but I think this misses the point. It is a favorite Lynchian device to play with the presumed boundary between "illusion" and "reality" via a theatrical stage proscenium and curtain (c.f. "El Club Silencio" in Mulholland Drive or the final act of Inland Empire)

That said, I have always been intrigued by the fact that Jacques, Ronette, Laura and Donna went "to party" at an entirely different bar with a secret/private, strobe-lit back room in FWWM (identified as "The Pink Room" in the title for Angelo's corresponding cue on the OST). 

I find that nightclubs/bars/theaters are a recurring trope throughout L's work-- in TP, FWWM, and The Return, the stage proscenium/curtain as a metaphor for mystical space is more ubiquitous than ever, now fragmented or distributed in a manner akin to Lynch's characters played by multiple actors, IMO.

You're a fuckin genius, mate.

 
Posted : 27/08/2017 6:05 pm
(@kyle-anderson)
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I think the Bang Bang is the bar where they sell alcohol; the Roadhouse is the entire building. Incidentally, in the first two seasons Italian translators used always "la Roadhouse" (which is correct, since Roadhouse means in Italian "casa della/sulla strada" and strada is feminine); in the Return most characters say "il Roadhouse."

 
Posted : 27/08/2017 6:06 pm
(@samxtherapy)
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I'm guessing they use "Roadhouse" in the same way we use "Pub" here.  My local is the Blue Bell Inn, but everyone calls it "The Pub".

 
Posted : 27/08/2017 6:33 pm
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