Jump to content
IGNORED

Mulholland Drive

mr. fancypants

By mr. fancypants
in Film, TV & Radio

 Share

Recommended Posts

Meat

Meat

Posted
Posted

Read that page and unravel the purposefulness and attention to detail that has gone into this magnificent film. Then develop an appreciation for, in sequence, the film, the director, then his other films.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
CrispinG

CrispinG

Posted
Posted

Despin always had interesting things to say about this film.

David Lynch has never interested me, really. His films are fine, and Blue Velvet is a classic. But in general he's the lesser of the two surrealist Davids. The other being Cronenberg, of course.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Old Dear's Menu

Old Dear's Menu

Posted
Posted

I'm not predisposed to liking a film by David Lynch, but I was utterly mesmerized for the first two acts of this film (yes, it was slow, but it exuded atmosphere and mystery). When they opened that box (signaling the start of act 3? -- another subject), they lost me.

Technically-speaking, I was completely seduced by the tone and mood of this film. Shot for shot, everything was very clean and sterile, and the images were very straight and linear in their overall appearance. Yet right from the beginning, always present in the background, was this huge sense of foreboding, that nothing is as it seems.

Apart from the final act, I thought Mulholland Drive was great, and the "audition scene" is on my short list of most memorable movie moments of the last ten years.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 2 years later...
:mediadavid:

:mediadavid:

Posted
Posted

Bumpity bump!

i've just watched this again, andee by gum if the first two acts aren't one of the best films I've ever seen. The palpable sense of dread and...wrongness in every scene. The grinning oldies. The dwarf (mafia?) the coffee shop scene with the guy and his therapist. I know it went nowhere, and I largely discount the whole of the third act, but for the first two it is amazing.

it was originally a pilot wasn't it? i wish I had seen where where that series was going to go. So many threads set up...the policemen, the inept hitman, the director and the mafia, substories with his film and of course the amazing central story. Just the shot of Betty walking into her aunts apartement complex seems to strip bare the thin facade of the beauty of hollywood and reveal the writhing maggots within.

I don't know if I can say that Lynch is a great director, after all the main prerequisit of directing is telling a story, which mulholland drive certainly does not, but he can certainly shoot a good scene. Every scene just drips with menace and dark beauty.

And...Silencio. "there is no band..."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Smitty

Smitty

Posted
Posted

Actually, fuck it, i'll go the whole hog: words can barely describe this film and the experience of watching it.

It's......so...heavy. You can breath it in. It's alive. That scene, where the woman and that guy are auditioning for the role....that's what cinema is for.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Garwoofoo

Garwoofoo

Posted
Posted

An absolutely fantastic movie, but then again I've been a fan of Lynch ever since Twin Peaks.

It also made me feel tremendously clever when I was the only person in the room who sussed out what was happening on the first viewing. No-one believed me so I went running off to the Internet to find out and I was absolutely correct. :lol:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Chosty

Chosty

Posted
Posted

Actually, fuck it, i'll go the whole hog: words can barely describe this film and the experience of watching it.

It's......so...heavy. You can breath it in. It's alive. That scene, where the woman and that guy are auditioning for the role....that's what cinema is for.

Exactly. The atmosphere of the film is simply amazing. I find it extraordinary at how Lynch was able to make it feel like a dream without resorting to the usual dream sequence cliches. It's beautifully shot, scored and acted.

I was mesmerised by the audition scence - it works so well because it's exactly what you're not expecting.

As much as I love the film, though, I do wonder how the planned series would have turned out. There are so many story threads I'd have loved to have seen develop over the space of several hours.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
veryjammy

veryjammy

Posted
Posted

This has been my favourite film for the last couple of years. The first time I saw it I was utterly bamboozled but having looked on the internet and rewatched it several times over it all makes sense.

It FUCKING PISSES ME OFF when people start talking shit about his movies not meaning anything and being pretentious just because they don't like them. I think it's amazing how Lynch took a pilot for a series and somehow made it work as a movie. Disjointed sure, and at certain points it's kinda like jamming round pegs into square holes, but mostly it all fits so well that you could believe it was designed to be like that all along.

Like others have said I would have loved to see the series because so many interesting threads were set up. Apparently one of the guys at the ABC network said he had to watch it standing up to stop himself falling asleep. Moron. And I can't believe HBO turned it down, it had HBO written all over it. Bah.

Anyway the sense of feeling in this film is utterly astonishing. Nobody can do mood quite like Lynch and make ordinary scenes seem so downright creepy and weird. I particularly like the scenes that revolve around the movies. Not just her audition but the 16 Reasons/I've Told Every Little Star scene and the bit in the car in the 'real' part of the film as the lights go off in the studio and Watts looks on tearfully. Naomi Watts is a goddess in this film. Her performance in the final third is brilliant. This probably seems like an odd choice for a great moment, but the bit where she angrily masturbates is amazing.

I could gush over this for ages, must stop now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 3 years later...
barkbat

barkbat

Posted
Posted

Hello. I want to write a dissertation on the screenplays of David Lynch but I cannot find the Mulholland Drive feature films script for this anywhere.

The internet is clogged with copies of the Mulholland Drive TV Pilot script. But nowhere has the actual film version.

Does anyone by any chance have a copy/link/torrent? I'll be seriously ecstatic if you do. Like post you a present ecstatic.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Andsom

Andsom

Posted
Posted
Hello. I want to write a dissertation on the screenplays of David Lynch but I cannot find the Mulholland Drive feature films script for this anywhere.

The internet is clogged with copies of the Mulholland Drive TV Pilot script. But nowhere has the actual film version.

Does anyone by any chance have a copy/link/torrent? I'll be seriously ecstatic if you do. Like post you a present ecstatic.

It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a script to be honest. I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) that Inland Empire was pretty much made up as he went along. Is there a chance Lynch did something similar with this?

To be honest, I've warmed to this film slightly since my post above (from 2006!). But it's still far from my favourite Lynch film. I like his films which have more of a balance between the surreal stuff and a more traditional narrative (like Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks).

Link to comment
Share on other sites
barkbat

barkbat

Posted
Posted

There is definately a script - it was nominated for awards as a feature screenplay, and the actors had them on set for the re-shoots.

Inland Empire didn't have a script per se - much was improvised from notes brought by Lynch on the day. But some sections were scripted. I have no hope of getting those short of finding David Lynch himself (tried but so far, no luck), but I do think it possible some one has the Mulholand drive one.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
barkbat

barkbat

Posted
Posted

Yeah I found the transcript - it's not really worthwhile as from an analysis point of view I get nothing apart from the dialogue on screen. The heart of the study is about Lynchs use of language and how his action descriptions translate to the finished imagery and scenes of the films. Thanks for trying though.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 9 months later...
FuzzyDunlop

FuzzyDunlop

Posted
Posted

The misleading plainness of life he likes to illustrate in all his films captivates me a lot. I've only seen Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive and I love the tension. You think something's going to happen, and nothing does. You don't think anything will happen at all, and something does.

I enjoy how he dives into soft porn territory with his sexual scenes. The angry masturbation in Mulholland Drive and the lesbian scenes; Laura being raped

by her dad

and appearing to actually enjoy it before she finds out in Twin Peaks; being given head in the same film.

It's like the inverse of leaving things to your imagination. Sex scenes aside I loved Mulholland Drive, just taking it in and not trying to figure it out.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Use of this website is subject to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Guidelines.

  I accept