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Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an ...
Mulholland Drive: Directed by David Lynch. With Naomi Watts, Jeanne Bates, Dan Birnbaum, Laura Harring. After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- David Lynch
- 2001-10-19
- The Film Was Initially Conceived as A TV Pilot For ABC
- David Lynch Refused to Explain The Meaning of The Film to The Cast
- The Mobster Who Spits Out Coffee Was Played by The Film’S Composer
- According to Naomi Watts, The Masturbation Scene Was The Toughest One to Shoot
- The Winkie’s Was Supposed to Be A Denny’s
- The Film Is Dedicated to David Lynch’s Assistant, Who Died in A Car Accident
- Naomi Watts Almost Quit Acting Right Before Mulholland Drive Hit Theaters
- Laura Harring Got Into A Fender Bender on The Way to Her Audition
David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as a 90-minute TV pilot for ABC. However, network executives balked at Lynch’s vision, chopped up the pilot episode in the edit to the point that it was barely recognizable, and then didn’t pick up the show. Just when Lynch was ready to abandon the project, Canal+ offered to give the director enough...
During production of Mulholland Drive, David Lynch refused to tell any of the actors the true meaning of the film. He was receptive to questions from the cast, but he wouldn’t give them any straight answers. According to Justin Theroux, the actors were all given a full script, but he found the whole to be an entirely different beast than the indivi...
Near the beginning of the movie, when Adam is meeting with the studio and finds that his film is being influenced by the mob, a mobster named Luigi Castigliane spits out espresso into a napkin. This character was played by Angelo Badalamenti, who composed the score for this movie and a handful of other David Lynch projects.
Naomi Watts said that the toughest scene to shoot in Mulholland Drivewas the masturbation scene. David Lynch put a small tent over Watts’ head so that she wouldn’t have to look at the crew, but he also refused to cut. RELATED: 10 Movies David Lynch Almost Directed This was so that he could capture every little nuance, including when Watts felt unco...
The Winkie’s diner is one of the prominent locations in Mulholland Drive, holding key information to understanding the movie. In the script, this diner was written to be a Denny’s. However, David Lynch ended up changing it to the fictional Winkie’s, possibly due to licensing issues with Denny’s.
Lynch dedicated Mulholland Drive to the memory of Jennifer Syme, who worked as an assistant to the director around the time that the movie was being made. Syme was an aspiring actor, much like Betty, and she was killed in a car accident in April 2001, prior to the movie’s release.
Much like her character, Naomi Watts was a struggling actor worrying that she might not make it in Hollywood when Mulholland Drivewas in production. Her performance in the movie ended up making her a star, putting her on the radar of every producer in town. RELATED: 10 Best Performances In David Lynch Films But before the film was released, Watts l...
On the way to her audition for Mulholland Drive, Laura Harring got into a minor car accident.When she got to the audition and found out that her character would get into a car accident in the film’s opening scene, she thought she was destined to play the role. And of course, she was.
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
It’s not until the final 30 minutes that the obscurantism for which MULHOLLAND DRIVE has become known really comes into play. In this portion scenes from earlier in the film are replayed with different cast members and characters assume entirely different guises (Lynch was admittedly under the spell of PERSONA ), all in route to a profoundly bleak fade-out.
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Set in motion by a car crash on Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, Lynch’s 2001 film stars Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in dual roles, with a cast that also includes Justin Theroux.
