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Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino 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: Ending Explained in Short
- Mulholland Drive: What Is Really Happening?
- Mulholland Drive Explained: The Dream, The Fantasy
- Mulholland Drive’s “Silencio” Scene Explained
The Ending of Mulholland Drive shows us that Diane is an unsuccessful actress in love with the successful Camilla. Outraged for being ditched, Diane hires a hitman to kill Camilla. The confirmation for the kill is communicated by the hitman with a blue key. Diane goes to sleep, flooded with guilt and self-hate. Her dream is the majority plot, where...
The Real Diane
Diane Selwyn (Naomi Watts) is a struggling actress who moved to Hollywood with the hope to become a star. Her Aunt Ruth, now dead, left her a small inheritance. Ruth also worked in the movies but was nobody famous. Diane doesn’t make it beyond side roles in a few films. Her love for a successful actor, Camilla Rhodes (Laura Elena Harring), turns out to be one-sided. Diane’s personal and professional failure causes her to take to drugs and is hurled into a state of deep depression.
The Real Camilla Rhodes
We’re told that both Diane and Camilla auditioned for a movie called “Sylvia North Story” directed by a Bob Brooker. While Diane really wanted the break, Camilla was the one to make the part. It’s insinuated in the film that Camilla slept around with the right people to get the role. Arguably, this role is what put Camilla onto the path of stardom. Diane falls in love, but Camilla only sees it as a fling; Camilla is shown to be someone who has casual relationships with both men and women. Cam...
Meeting The Hitman: Winkie’s Diner & The Blue Key
This bit is a little speculative, but heartbroken Diane is hiring a hitman, Joe, to kill Camilla. Diane dreads Winkie’s Diner and this particular moment. Throughout Mulholland Drive, we see this diner appear multiple times, but the indicator to her fear of the place is the scene with the hobo behind the site (we’ll get to that when we talk about the dream). Diane pays him a hefty sum of money and also shows him a photo of Camilla. Now, Diane could just be hiring Joe to snoop on Camilla, but c...
What we see for the most part of the movie Mulholland Drive is a dream, a fabricated version of reality that is running inside Diane’s head. People from Diane’s real-life play various roles in this fantasy, but with altered characters. Let’s go through the dream in detail.
Fearing for her life, Betty changes Rita’s look (strangely enough to match her own). Betty makes love to Rita that night and proclaims her love to Rita. Even in the dream, Rita doesn’t reciprocate her love for Betty. Later that night Rita mumbles “Silencio” in her sleep. The two women head to a club by that name. They see a magician perform and dem...
Oct 20, 2021 · In this entry, we examine Naomi Watts’ performance in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. As an aspiring actress arrives in Hollywood, starry-eyed and full of hope, a mysterious woman loses her ...
Sep 28, 2022 · Revisiting Naomi Watts’ show-stopping dual role performance in ‘Mulholland Drive’. David Lynch has a fair share of masterpieces under his belt, and Mulholland Drive is no exception. Released in 2001, Lynch was firmly established as a surrealist genius by this point, with over 30 years of filmmaking experience behind him.
May 9, 2024 · Mulholland Drive, which stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux, received widespread critical acclaim and was named the best film of the 21st century in a poll of critics commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2015.
Oct 19, 2021 · It’s Naomi Watts! ... Betty is a cliché with unexpectedly bottomless depths, and as Mulholland Drive goes on, Watts takes the character—and us—into some seriously sunken places.
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