{"id":7551,"date":"2019-07-09T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:39:21","slug":"film-notes-mulholland-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2019\/07\/09\/film-notes-mulholland-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Notes: Mulholland Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple nights we re-watched one of my favorite movies of all time &#8212; Mulholland Drive (stylized, in Wikipedia&#8217;s take, Mulholland Dr.). I like it for its depiction of &#8217;70s era Hollywood, and especially for Angelo Badalamenti&#8217;s score &#8212; here&#8217;s the key passage of his compelling, mysterious music at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8VS-cP8qeQ\">YouTube<\/a>. We watched it so long ago, maybe 15 years ago, I didn&#8217;t remember what the &#8216;solution&#8217; was, if any, for all the discordant and seemingly supernatural events. Having watched it again, I got a take &#8212; but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mulholland_Drive_(film)\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>, there is no single interpretation of the film, beyond resource to &#8216;dream logic&#8217;. My rough take: the first 3\/4 of the film is a fantasy by a young actress from Ohio about what Hollywood is like, from charming cottages to a brilliant audition, about high-strung directors and mysterious mafiosi. And the final quarter is about her waking up to reality. And killing herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple nights we re-watched one of my favorite movies of all time &#8212; Mulholland Drive (stylized, in Wikipedia&#8217;s take, Mulholland Dr.). I like it for its depiction of &#8217;70s era Hollywood, and especially for Angelo Badalamenti&#8217;s score &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2019\/07\/09\/film-notes-mulholland-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}