Mulholland Drive OTS Analysis

Mulholland Drive:

Plot:

A beautiful woman riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth. While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher , Kesher's producers and money men insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight. Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. 
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Opening Title Sequence :

In the opening shot there is a group of men and women dressed in 50's clothing dancing, then we see a woman crowned the winner of a competition, in the next shot it is filmed in a first person POV shot as all we can hear is heavy breathing and see the character grab hold of a pillow, in the next shot the viewer is looking in the perspective asthough though they are in a car, the credits roll past like signposts, it then fades to a female character sitting in limo next to two heavy built men, she is escorted out of the car where guns are drawn on her, in a wide shot a car being driven recklessly by teenagers crashes into the limo.  The lightening used is very dark which is very common in a film noir as it makes the audience think of mystery and even crime. The femme fatale is present during the opening the viewer can identify her with her bright red lipstick, it is a very deep red as this represents danger to whoever crosses paths with her. The types of cars used is also common in film noir's as they show that the person is sophisicated and doesnt require an expensive vechile. Another aspect that is seen is the heavy use of smoke and fire, this can represent uncertainty of a situation as the whole screen is in one part completely covered and leaves the audience wondering if anyone had survived. One thing that is not common in a film noir (like Red Riding 1974, see below) is that is is filmed in colour. 

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