This short speech was given by film director David Lynch. Lynch explains his recognition for the true beauty in wood at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles on the premiere of deleted scenes from the series Twin Peaks and the film Fire Walk With Me, both created by Lynch. With this speech about beauty and wood as two inseparable phenomena Lynch confirmed, again, his ability to come up with something unexpected yet striking.
In the series Twin Peaks, about the investigation of the murder of a young woman in the peculiar town of Twin Peaks, wood and lumber yards are appearing several times. But probably the biggest inspiration source for his speech is one the characters in the series, which recognizes better than anyone the beauty in wood; Margaret Lanterman, better known as the Log Lady. Most residents of the town of Twin Peaks regard her as crazy as she has the habit of always carrying a small log in her arms.
At the premiere, David Lynch is actually giving a tribute speech to this fictional character or he is just reading at loud a poem written by the Log Lady herself rather than telling something about the footage shown on the premiere, which was probably expected by the audience. Fascinating for me is how…show more content… Stories you probably didn’t initially think of, or didn’t expect to be there. The spectator can form them as well, which proves that people have the ability to think in narratives. Using this ability is a good tool to achieve the desired reachability of a speech. When knowing who your audience is and what you can and can’t tell them, you can adapt your story to them. But for me it’s also important to activate and stimulate the audience’s minds by talking about something they have never thought of, or never thought of in that way. By doing this, you leave the audience with questions; resulting is the story living on in the minds of
