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Oct 29, 2024 · In this first part of Mulholland Drive, vivid scenes come and go—as they do in dreams or nightmares—seemingly unconnected to each other, and new characters are introduced: two detectives investigate a car accident; a director named Adam (Justin Theroux), who is being strong-armed by mobsters into casting a certain woman in his upcoming film, discovers that his wife is cheating on him; an ...
Apr 1, 2023 · At its core, Mulholland Drive is a film about the American Dream, one of Lynch’s favourite topics to explore within his work. Mulholland Drive is divided into two realms: reality and Diane’s dream world. The dream world comes first, although clues that we’re witnessing an idealised fantasy are dropped throughout, with these motifs, such ...
Mulholland Drive is a mind-screwing 2001 drama/mystery film, directed by mind-screw king David Lynch, that helped launch the career of Naomi Watts.. The plot primarily focuses on two young women: Betty Elms (Watts), a perky blonde Canadian who comes to Hollywood to pursue an acting career, and Rita (Laura Harring), a sultry brunette who's developed a case of amnesia after an attempted hit on ...
Jan 4, 2024 · In this interview, cinematographer Peter Deming, ASC, explains in great detail how various sequences were shot (with some great comments about the one featuring Monty Montgomery’s mysterious cowboy), the management of light and some of David Lynch’s stranger decisions, and the dual nature, moods, and colors of Mulholland Drive.
- Mulholland Drive Explained - What Is The Dream Theory?
- Which Clues Reveal It’S A Dream?
- What Do Betty and Rita represent?
- What Happens in The Car Crash?
- Who Is The Hitman?
- Who Is The ‘Monster’ Behind The Winkie’S?
- Who Are The Old Couple - and What Do They Mean in The Film?
- What Happens at The End of Mulholland Drive?
According to one of the most common - and surprisingly coherent - interpretations of Lynch’s film, the first part of Mulholland Drive is best understood as a dream sequence, in which elements of the ‘real’ story are explored in heightened or distorted ways, until the protagonist Diane wakes up. It’s a clever play, too, on Hollywood as a dream facto...
Just before the film’s opening credits, we see a bed with red sheets, arguably our first hint that what is about to unfold is happening in the dream world; the same bed and sheets are later seen when Betty and Rita visit the apartment with the dead body, and then again when Betty / Diane wakes from the dream. The character Louise, the next-door nei...
One way of looking at Mulholland Drive’s first section is as a comment on Hollywood movie-making, and how the industry can flatten stories and characters into easily digestible tropes and characters as a way of making sense of the world. It follows then, that both Betty and Rita, the dream versions of the more fraught and complicated Diane and Cami...
We first meet Rita when she is sitting in the back of a limo, and is surprised when the driver pulls over at an unexpected stop along Mulholland Drive, up in the Hollywood Hills. A man in the front of the car pulls out a gun, and it seems that he is about to shoot her - perhaps foreshadowing Camilla’s actual death offscreen at the hands of the hitm...
In the film’s first section, Joe (Mark Pellegrino) is a clumsy hitman who messes up an attempt to steal a little black book, killing not only the target but a woman in the next room, and the janitor who witnesses the murder, before triggering the fire alarm. It’s a darkly comic sequence where the slapstick humour sits unsettlingly alongside the spa...
Towards the beginning of the film, a man named Dan, who is sitting in a Winkie’s diner, explains that he had a nightmare where he saw a terrifying figure behind the same restaurant. When he checks around the back, the strange man appears, causing him (and probably viewers of a nervous disposition) to collapse in fright. The same man appears again t...
We first meet Betty when she emerges from LAX airport, accompanied by an old lady, who we soon learn is named Irene, and an elderly man. The pair reiterate how nice it was to travel with Betty, and wish her well in her attempts to crack Hollywood, promising to watch out for her “on the big screen”. It seems like a sweet farewell, but this is a Lync...
Cornered by the vision of the old couple, Diane reaches into a drawer to pull out a gun, then shoots herself. After Diane dies and everything fades to black, we see her and Camilla’s - or should that be Betty and Rita’s? - smiling faces superimposed over the bright lights of Los Angeles. It’s reminiscent of an old-fashioned movie poster, as if Dian...
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Jul 5, 2018 · The magician is forcing her to face the truth; to deconstruct her fantasy, to open the box and let the harsh truth come out. Mulholland Drive is one of those cinematic marvels which come once in a decades. It is the stuff which dreams and delusions are made of. It is the brainchild of an artistic mastermind like none other.
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Feb 9, 2017 · Betty is a Doris Day role, a Little Miss Sunshine virgin too cheerful and dumb to tweak to the fact that Rock Hudson’s gay. Behind a diner, a man is confronted by a monster, dies of fright, in ...
