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Jun 3, 2023 · Toyota, at least in the New Orleans, LA area, was an early imported car pioneer with c-c-cold air conditioning systems that did not overly tax the engine’s performance or cooling system.
- Tom Halter
Jul 5, 2018 · ‘Mulholland Dr.’, quite simply, offers the greatest cinematic mystery of all time. In this article, we try to explain the major questions that you might have had and its various interpretations. Now, at its surface and stripping the film down to the most banal meaning, ‘Mulholland Dr.’ is a movie about a struggling Hollywood actress ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Over the past several years, I’ve detailed much of the early history of automotive air conditioning in my Cold Comfort series of posts. However, air conditioning did not really become commonplace until the 1970s: Prior to that time, more than 50% of cars were still sold without A/C.
- Tom Halter
Jun 2, 2023 · Based largely on the success of the aftermarket, Lincoln, Cadillac, and Chrysler reintroduced factory air conditioning in their cars in 1953. By the mid-1950s, factory A/C was available from every major manufacturer. The re-entry of Detroit into the automotive air conditioning business did little to slow the sales of aftermarket A/C.
- Tom Halter
- 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 28, 2023 · The movie begins… A young, dark-haired, carefully made-up girl in an evening dress is driving an elegant limousine. The limousine pulls to the side of the road. But that was not the purpose of the trip; girl, concerned, protests. The driver points a gun at her and tells her to get out.
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Jun 24, 2010 · The 1940 Packard was the first car to offer factory-installed air-conditioning. By 1969, more than half of all new cars sold were equipped with A/C. Some brands affixed window decals to promote...
