![]() ![]() Lynch is aware that the audience should be revelling in his haunting imagery and non-linear storytelling, rather than what his characters are saying, in most scenes. ![]() The dull conversations in Mulholland Drive draw the audience’s attention away from what the characters are saying, and into what the film meansand how the story is being told. However, although much of Lynch’s dialogue is utterly nondescript, this actually works to the film’s advantage, for a number of reasons. What’s more the scene where the old couple (Jeanne Bates & Dan Birnbaum) says goodbye to Betty (Naomi Watts) after her flight into LAX, the scene where Betty is shown the apartment by Coco (Ann Miller) and the scene where Betty and Rita (Laura Harring) call the police, all seem like they were written by a poorly trained screenwriting AI. The scene where Adam meets the Cowboy (Monty Montgomery) is famously stilted and weird, as if Lynch kept redoing takes asking Montgomery to play it more and more wooden each time. There are plenty of other scenes that are just as plain as this one. Lynch has Adam and Cynthia repeating things back to one another for seemingly no reason and finishing with a lacklustre joke. Its entire purpose seems to be establishing and re-establishing information. Out of context, this dialogue isn’t worthy of a Screenwriting 101 class. Should I wear my ten-gallon hat and my six shooters?” Jason said he thought it would be a good idea.”ĪDAM: “Oh, Jason thought it would be a good idea for me to meet the Cowboy. Take this scene between Adam (Justin Theroux) and Cynthia (Katharine Towne).ĬYNTHIA: “Do you know somebody called the Cowboy?”ĬYNTHIA: “Yeah, the Cowboy. If you changed the names of the characters, you could probably convince an undiscerning critic that it came from Tommy Wiseau’s latest movie, or an SNL sketch about bad exposition. The reason for most people’s inability to quote Mulholland Drive is the fact that most of the film’s dialogue is written flatly and delivered monotonously. Despite all this, no one can quote the film beyond the word “Silencio”. It won Lynch Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival and is often referred to as one of the best films of the 21 st century. It’s an all-time classic film that keeps you on the edge of a seat that you think might disappear into smoke at any moment. In 2001, David Lynch blessed and cursed the world with Mulholland Drive, an intricately crafted, deeply confusing suspense-noir that deals in Hollywood cynicism, dread, guilt, illusion, innocence, beauty and disdain in equal measure, often at the same time. ![]()
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