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- The film is a very deliberate satire of Hollywood and one of the best examples of such, certainly since Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (A film that Lynch has admitted is one of his favourite films from the classical Hollywood period).
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Jun 19, 2014 · Since we are forced to see the first portion of Mulholland Drive as a fantasy narrative, we can consider that entire segment as a metaphor for mainstream Hollywood cinema. When we look at it from that perspective, we can see what Lynch is asking us to do.
- Clint Stivers
Jul 23, 2024 · Mulholland isn’t just some road — Lynch is using it as a metaphor for an actor’s ascension to Hollywood success. Mulholland Drive is a dark, twisting dream road that leads to the Cowboy ...
- Syed Zain
Oct 27, 2016 · Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive, image courtesy Universal. In some ways, the films of David Lynch are the best for deconstructing themes and extracting metaphors. They’re so conceptual and...
Jul 5, 2018 · Now, at its surface and stripping the film down to the most banal meaning, ‘Mulholland Dr.’ is a movie about a struggling Hollywood actress, period. That much is evident in the first few shots of the movie.
- Lynch as Hollywood Critic and Devotee
- Mirrors and Identity Creation
- Closing Thoughts
- Works Cited
In demonstrating exactly how Lynch visualises memory, it is crucial to outline what he is visualising and why he chooses it as his subject. The physical representation of memory is by definition an impossible task. How do we display, as David MacDougal poses: “the mind’s landscape, whose images and sequential logic are always hidden from view” (Tra...
Lynch’s use of mirrors in Mulholland Drive, as both narrative device and symbolic object, demonstrates both the duality of the protagonists and how he draws parallels between old and new Hollywood. In the scene where the amnesiac brunette assumes the name ‘Rita’ there are two core components that highlight how Lynch creates a link between Hollywood...
Mulholland Driveis not just a visualisation of Diane Selwyn’s memory of her career; it is an acknowledgment and visualisation of the divergence between classical Hollywood cinema and early 21st century independent cinema, a movement in which Lynch defiantly flouts convention. In interpreting this film one must be aware of how viewer expectations of...
Booth, W. C. (1961) The Rhetoric of Fiction, Second Edition, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) Bordwell, D. (1985) Narration in the Fiction Film, (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.) ——– The Art Film as a Mode of Film Practice’ (1979) in Film Criticism, 4:1 pp.716-724 (Pennsylvania: Allegheny College) Chapman, J. (1941) ‘Red Heads’, in Chicago Daily T...
Oct 21, 2016 · This list will look to explain exactly why, despite many able contenders, Mulholland Drive deserves to top BBC Culture’s poll and why it is a masterpiece of American cinema. 1. Lynch manipulates our expectations like other directors manipulate lighting
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In what follows I shall explore this thesis by considering one of Lynch's most challenging films, Mulholland Drive, a film that we can ‘understand’ by being attentive to not only to its complex narrative structure, but also to the role of what I shall call ‘cinematic Ideas’.
