The 2001 film Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch is as thrilling as it is confusing to some people. As I watched it for the first time, I couldn't help but wonder the point that Lynch was trying to make was. To me, there was a comprehensible meaning to the story and it mainly involves the character Betty. Although, I later found out Betty was someone entirely different, Diane. Betty being a dream of Diane's is at the root of the story I believe Lynch was trying to tell. I see this film as a
Mulholland Drive, written and directed by David Lynch tells the story of Diane Selwyn, a aspiring actor, as she struggles to advance her acting career. The film is a masterpiece with a story line that is quite complex and sometimes hard to understand. Upon watching the movie the first time, I had no idea that the first half of it was just a dream. Diane, our main character, creates an imagery world in her dream. This dream world represents the life that she wishes she had. Mulholland Drive is the
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001), under the background of Hollywood, it tells the story between two pairs of characters, Diane and Camilla, Betty and Rita. David Lynch, the director, made the whole film outstanding from the traditional narrative style. Starting from the story of Betty and Rita, Lynch successfully tricked on audience’s perception, as most of them would assume the first scene was the beginning of a story. In flashbacks, the dreams are presented disconnectedly. On the one hand
Creating a whirlwind of confusion and an intriguing storyline, David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive brings the whole audience to question the true meaning behind the movie. Many view this film as a psychological thriller, causing individuals to wonder what had just happened in multiple scenes involving the two main female characters, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) and Rita Hayworth (Laura Harring). Throughout the film, it is clear that Betty/Diane attempts to assist Rita/Camilla in regaining her memory
If you’ve stumbled upon this article, I’m willing to bet, that you were just googling Mulholland Drive, that’s not surprising. I'm sure most people who watch Mulholland Drive end up googling it, but why is that? What made you look it up? Did you google it because you didn't understand it? Or was it because you've been thinking about it all day? As I look back at some of my favorite pieces of art I realize that at one point I was, or still am, completely baffled by it. Whether it's 2001: A Space
film genres. Mulholland Drive is not a typical film that can be placed into the major genres so it falls into a sub-genre class. The film has some characteristics of a black comedy with the casting of Billy Ray Cyrus, a one hit wonder, and the scene where the director discusses the cowboy has a dark humor. Yet it also has the feel of a horror movie or a film noir if you focus on the lighting but it does not show the standards of these genres. The film Mulholland Drive is a hybrid movie
Blue Velvet was first released in 1986 and became a huge contreversy internationally. It was deemed as pornography and was at the centre of a national firestorm, yet years later, the film is widley regarded to be an American classic, one of the greatest cinematic achievements. The themes in the film are rich and complex. Blue Velvet introduced several common elements of Lynch's work, including distorted characters, a polarized world, debilitating damage to the skull or brain and the dark underbelly
The Destruction of Identity in Vertigo, The Tenant, & Mulholland Drive The rudimentary form of narrative storytelling lends itself towards application to an individual subject’s life story due to the correspondence of a narrative’s finite bounds and the subject’s mortality. Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), The Tenant (dir. Roman Polanski, 1976), and Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch, 2001) are consistent with this idea because their narratives follow an individual human subject from
video games, schizoid postmodernism and film noir are commonly visible in films described as “postmodern.” I will attempt in this paper to show how these characteristics are incorporated into the films Existenz, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World and Mulholland Drive and how these films can be considered “postmodern” in accordance with Lyotard’s, Baudrillard’s and Jameson’s theories of postmodernism. Jean-François Lyotard, a French philosopher, defined postmodernism as incredulity towards all metanarratives
St. Francis Dam was a 1924 project that was supposed to provide water for the people of California. It was engineered by William Mulholland. The project, however, ended up being a disaster as it killed 600 people. The dam collapsed due to poor engineering. From this incidence, we learn that we should give competent individuals responsibilities to execute projects. We also learn that we should not assume any slight sign of an impending danger. Introduction The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity
available per person from 160 to 640 that settlers began to flood the area. The water wars began proper in 1898 when Frederick Eaton was elected as the mayor of Los Angeles. One of Eaton’s first business matters was to appoint his friend William Mulholland as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The two held a grand vision that Los Angeles could become one of the nation’s great cities if given the proper time and care to expand. The one factor that seriously limited
The Importance of Setting Goals Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come. When setting direction to success you must make good choices on the path you are going to choose. The wrong path will put you
possessive, scheming, and greedy individuals. These two characters make the play very interesting. Both brothers’ physiological makeup fit the play perfectly. This is because Ben tires to look like a nice guy on the outside but has only one motive that drives his character. This motive is money. He will do anything to get his cotton mill deal to go through. Then there is Oscar. He is also a lot like Ben, but on the surface not as nice. Because of these two characters, the rest of the characters feed of
everyday resistance if she herself as an outsider? Hurston encounters resistance from the workers on the job when she first arrives.(15) In these early scenes at the lumber camp, her narrative style is present as a clumsy "I" who can't quite fit in. She drives a fancy car, she wears expensive clothing, and the workers suspect that she is a detective. She explains what she had to do to become part of the "inner circle": "I had first to convince the 'job' that I was not an enemy in the person of the law;
to be smaller, faster and smarter. For the past 20 years, CPU performance has doubled about every 18 months. The PC will stay close to this pace for the next 10 years--a nearly 100-fold improvement in that time. The storage capacities of hard drives will continue to expand, they are currently growing at a rate of about 60 percent per year. Intel's Pentium II had only 7.5 million transistors. Within a few years, Intel processors should contain 50 million to 100 million transistors. In 5 years
bases of the pyramids (cortical arches) and extends down between each pyramid as the renal columns. Urine passes through the body in a fairly complex way. The initial site of urine production in the body is the glomerus. The arterial blood pressure drives a filtrate of plasma containing salts, glucose, amino acids, and nitrogenous wastes such as urea and a small amount of ammonia through the glomerus. Proteins and fats are filtered out of the plasma, to remain in the normal blood stream. The plasma
Brigid O'Shaughhnessy, Joel Cairo, Mr. Gutman, and Wilmer. When O'Shaughnessy comes to Spade and asks him to shadow Thursby, the story takes off ona rampage of events with seemingly no relevance until they are revealed in the end. The conflict that drives the story is the unknown location of the Maltese falcon, a golden falcon of immense value. All the actions and even emotinos fo the characters are driven by the desire to obtain the falcon ormoney from obtaining the falcon. While some characters are
“A” student from Brooklyn, New York. Her only brother and twin brother Matthew is an artist that likes to draw and paint. She lives with her mom and brother, she used to live with her dad but he is deceased. One day, on his way from work some drunk drives hit his car and killed him. That day changed their lives forever. When her father left them, he took a part of everybody with him. Mattie and Mathew were only eleven years old when a lost their father, what a horrible loss, and at such a time that
wipers work constantly. On this cold, dreary September night young two year old Mica is safely buckled in her child safety seat, which is attached to the passenger seat belt. Her older brother, Sean, quietly sleeps in the backseat while his mother drives the exhausted children home. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a tall, 12 point buck is caught by the vehicles' headlights. Both the buck and the mother freeze. A milli-second later, a powerful explosion occurs inside the cabin. The airbags deflate nearly
individualism has acquired a positive connotation. However, individualism is also linked with the tendency to withdraw from social life and turn in towards oneself. Alexis de Tocqueville described individualism as the cool and considered attitude which drives people to withdraw into a small, enclosed world consisting of their family and a few select friends, leaving the rest of society to its own devices. The most obvious problem stemming from the process of individualism is of a socio-economic nature