Es ist eine Illusion… Analyse einer Szene aus David Lynchs Mulholland Dr.

CREDITS: Mulholland Dr. (dt: Mulholland Drive – Straße der Finsternis) | USA, 2002 | REGIE, BUCH:

David Lynch | KAMERA: Peter Deming | PRODUKTION, SCHNITT: Mary Sweeney | MU-

SIK: Angelo Badalamenti; David Lynch; John Neff | DARSTELLER: Justin Theroux (Adam

Kesher); Naomi Watts (Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn); Laura Elena Harring (Rita/Camilla Rho- des); Ann Miller (Catherine ›Coco‹ Lenoix); Dan Hedaya (Vincenzo Castigliane); Mark Pel-

legrino (Joe Messing) … | LAUFZEIT: 4 min (deutsche DVD-Fassung)

Abb. 1 Der Widerschein von Hollywood. Einstellung aus der Anfangssequenz.

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  A woman known only as Rita is involved in a car crash on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood California  

  with two men who are apparently evil In the crash the two men die but Rita escapes She remembers  

  nothing afterwards not even her name but simply crawls away She stumbles to an apartment complex and  

  hides in a bush outside of it Meanwhile at a restaurant two men named Herb and Dan converse Dan re-  

  veals he had a nightmarish dream about the particular restaurant they re in When the dream begins to  

  come true the two high-tail it out of there They go to an alley next to it where Dan dies for no apparent  

  reason Later a wannabe actress named Betty arrives in Los Angeles and takes a cab to the apartment com-  

  plex her Aunt Ruth lives in There she meets Coco (Ann Miller) the manager of the apartment complex  

  She takes Betty to her Aunt s room (her aunt being away she is letting Betty stay there) Once Coco leaves  

  Betty finds Rita hiding in there Rita eventually tells Betty about her amnesia and the two try to figure out  

  who she is In another part of Los Angeles a man named Adam Kesher a film director is being conned  

  into hiring a specific actress for his new movie by a pair of brothers named Luigi and Vincenzo Castiglia-  

  ne (apparently mafia types) He refuses and returns home to find his wife in bed with a cleaner The clea-  

  ner beats Adam up and Adam goes to stay at a hotel When he s there he finds the the Castigliane brothers  

  have evaporated all his money resources and he has only enough for one night  

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