Joe
MarkPellegrino
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Sex |
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Male |
Quotes: "Gee, I hope you're not goin' to get in any trouble." "Once you handed
that over to me,
it's a done deal!"
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Age |
Early 30s |
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Address |
Pink's, Winkie's |
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Occupation |
Hitman, pimp |
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Fashion style |
Leather jacket, jeans |
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Relationship |
Ed, Laney, Diane |
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Doppelganger |
Diane? |
I interpret the
whole sequence where Joe kills 3 people trying to kill one as a manifestation
of Diane's misgivings about the professional abilities of the man she hired to
kill Camilla. Remember, it's her dream. In this light, the pretext of why Joe
had to kill Ed in the first place is less important. Seeing the black book at
the diner would have naturally prompted Diane's curiosity about how he
operated.
The fact that Joe is looking for Rita in this scene is consistent with the
idea that his attempt to kill her failed, a construction in the sleeping mind
of Diane. Having had Camilla killed, Diane now dreams that Camilla somehow
escaped her fate (by the grace of the drunken teenagers crashing into the
limo). It is easy to imagine that the part of Diane that desires Camilla wants
her to be alive, as well as the part of Diane that feels guilty for having
ordered her death. - (Carla Beaudet)
The book appears to be a thread, showing the hit man during a previous hit, before Diane hired him to do Camilla. Her dream of the messed up murder of the long-haired guy is part of her wishful-thinking fantasy that he was actually incompetent, hence she could dream that his hit on Camilla had gone awry, which allowed Camilla to come back to Diane/Betty in her dream/fantasy. - (Ellen Gwynn)
Moreover, we also see the hit man in another scene seeking for Rita when he asks a prostitute about her, something that enhances the feeling of persecution for Rita. These things give more strength to Betty's protective role in the fantasy, where Camilla/Rita is in the need of this protection and dependence; if Rita was not still in danger after the car crash, Betty wouldn't be so necessary, and her fantasy wouldn't be truly fulfilled. Here we see how Diane breaks the link between herself and the hit man, dissociating completely the person who wanted Camilla dead (Diane) and the person who loved her (Betty). - (Maia George)
The assassin with his short blonde hair, kills his a friend with his long dark hair in another parallel to Diane and Camilla, because they were also friends once. - (Alan Shaw)
Joe
is having a dark eye and a blue eye in Diane's dream, but two blue eyes
in her flashback. Is it that she couldn't remember what eye color he had
when she met him in real life and so her mind came up with a kind of
hybrid?
I saw the actor Mark Pellegrino on NYPD Blue the other night, and his eyes are neither green nor blue; they're almost amber. Maybe I am reaching, but having personally been struck enough by the blue of his eyes in the Winkie's scene to wonder if Lynch intended some significance - and now knowing that the actor's eyes are nowhere near that color - leads me to put it up for grabs again. - (22cute)
Trivia
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This black and comical, absurdly violent scene [hit massacre] was, unsurprisingly, one of the scenes that caused problems with the ABC network. Rather than the standard gripe about slow pacing, they objected to the graphic detail of the central assassination, and the black comic element of the stray bullet hitting the fat woman's buns. It's unlikely to be a coincidence that the executives viewed Lynch's cut of the pilot very shortly before the entire TV industry came under pressure from Washington, in the immediate aftermath of the April '99 Columbine High School massacre. (Weirdsville USA: Obsessive Universe of David Lynch)
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Mark Pellegrino played the role of a mobster in the Coen bros "The Big Lebowski" (1998).
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