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And by the same token, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are about people who try to build alternate projections of themselves, new idealized alternate identities, but fail since they ignore the more negative aspects of their characters. Fred Madison does this over and over in Lost Highway, first building an alternate world where Renee wasn't murdered, then by abandoning himself all together and crafting the Pete Dayton persona. Both these attempts fail, since each time he denies his passions and jealousy they just come back, first in the form of the videotapes, then in the form of Alice Wakefield, and the fantasy collapses. Something similar happens in Mulholland Drive, with Diane Selwyn creating her Betty Elms persona and her idealized Rita, only for the two of them to continually dance around the lives of the actual Diane and Camilla.
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Hell, let's not forget Chester Desmond. He has the same intuitive gifts as Dale Cooper, but while Dale loved the world and everything in it, Chester treats everyone he meets with polite contempt and uses his abilities to show his superiority to everyone around him.
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Jan 30, 2015 19:13
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So, I was watching Inland Empire today, and I discovered Terry Crews was in it. He was one of the three homeless people in Nikki/Sue's death scene. Did not see that one coming.
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Periodiko posted:The weird thing about MD is that, as I understand it, most of the dream parts were filmed for the original television pilot, while most of the last act was constructed from newly shot footage. That it winds up making a neat little self-contained film is incredible to me, and really makes me wonder what the heck a Mulholland Drive series would have been like. I'd say Inland Empire is a faint echo of what a Mulholland Drive series would have been, or at the very least the first hour or so of IE before Nikki falls into Wonderland. The more I think about it, the more I understand why ABC passed on the pilot. Twin Peaks at least had the investigation of Laura Palmer's death to act as a catalyst for the action, but with MD the mystery of "Rita" doesn't have that power. It's a whole bunch of seemingly unconnected threads that weave together (maybe) at the very end. Also, I rewatched MD a few months ago and I realized that Diane's apartment looks like an early iteration of the Rabbit's apartment. Same decor and paint, but different layout.
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Jul 18, 2015 23:38
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Yeah, I definitely don't see anything that happens in Diane's flashbacks as the objective truth of "what happened." This is, after all, a woman who spent the first two hours of the movie fantasizing a complete alternate reality for herself. Some of it is probably true, but filtered through a heavily subjective lens. It's like in Lost Highway (which is pretty much Mulholland Drive back-to-front) where Fred Madison says he "likes to remember things his own way," and we see him spin of versions of reality where Renée is still alive, where he's a different person and Renée is two people (Shelia/Alice), and it gets to the point where you're not even sure Renée ever actually cheated on Fred, because he's a jealous obsessive who lies to himself all the time, so why wouldn't just make that up?
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Sep 20, 2015 18:22
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The Trap posted:Am I the only one who's favorite Lynch film is Lost Highway? I just love how heavy metal and youthful it is. Lynch's films usually take place in some weird mash up between present day and 1950s aesthetic. Lost Highway was very immediate and in the present. I just love how 90s it is, and it reminds of me of growing up in the desert out in Nevada. I even like that my copy is a lovely old pan'n'scan DVD. It looks just like videotape!!!
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My understanding was that the pilot covered the entire movie from the beginning to Betty and Rita in bed, and that everything afterward was what Lynch would've eventually revealed. I saw one critic describe Mulholland Drive as akin a version of Twin Peaks that consists of just the first episode and Fire Walk With Me.
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