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grant
Mar 04 2002
07:32 pm

Lynch introduced the film as “a nightmare in the city of dreams” to film festivals.

When Jay Leno asked David Lynch to explain what was going on in “Mulholland Drive” , Lynch began lecturing him about how films speak in their own language, and that he’d be doing an injustice to the story of the film by summing it up in just a few short words. Leno asked him if he was refusing to explain the movie. And Lynch said, “Yes, Jay, that’s exactly what I’m doing.”

I think Mulholland Drive should be explained/understood though. To get started, try thinking about the events of the film in this way. Put the two “characters”, the blonde and brunette, together as the same person, one being the regular girl with a dream to be a movie star, the other as the fantasy, as the woman the blond wants to be. Of course, in typical Lynch fashion, you can never have what you most desire, and once you think you have it, it escapes you (he stole that from “Vertigo”), so of course the blonde doesn’t get what she wants and you know what happens.

Well, anyway, that’s just to get us started…

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DvdSchp
Dec 06 2002
07:23 am

I just bought and read Lynch on Lynch and it ended with Lost Highway, which I was disappointed about because I would love to hear about The Straight Story. yeah, it is good.
I sort of have the same opinion about Straight Story as I do O Brother, Where Art Thou? which is yeah, I guess I liked it, but I think he/they have done better. I’m about the only one who thinks this, though. People who didn’t normally like Lynch/the Coen’s liked this movie. That always makes me feel like a heel.
So yeah, JabirdV, I’m not trying to steal the conversation away. Just letting you know I have a skewed taste in movies so that any past or future comments can be read in that light.