Yeah, truly. From my recollection she was shockingly great back in high school, but I was a punk rock kid back then and didn't properly appreciate it.
Hopefully she performs your reunions!!
I think in that Lynch scene it's critical to the scene and to noir as a genre.
Mulholland Drive is CLEARLY integrated with both
Sunset Boulevard the film itself as well as the theme of doom by significance. Hollywood
is the real world epicenter of where you can gain and lose significance. He makes overt references to
Sunset (the street sign at the beginning, the film's title being an iconic Hollywood related road) and subtle ones (the car that drives Gloria Swanson to the lot in
Sunset is literally parked on the lot when Betty gets there in
Mulholland). And obviously this scene is a direct "ready for my closeup" evocation.
That scene is so so so brilliant, as it captures all of the true human emotion that is real and vulnerable, and loves, and is
fixated on the female gaze, and it is the moment when the truth of that feeling wakes her up to the Real Story. All of this is happening on Naomi Watts' face throughout this scene. It's super complex, the travel she makes (god I hate the word 'journey,' the most overused shallow word in the english language) from the beginning of this scene to the end. She is not experiencing exactly the same thing as Rita, and Rita having a similar visage/coloring to the singer is not unimportant.
I love the fact that Naomi Watts who obviously had made some films before that truly broke through with this, which is her character's fantasy. I love a lot of things about that film. It's all about dreams in
MD, and in noir the dreams are where noir characters lose their control on their own narrative and the paranoia and PTSD sets in.
Andy Cohen was a few years ahead of me in HS and did not know him, but if I had happened to say "yeah I loved it, it was fun!" when my parents asked me age 11 if I liked trying out a new school then I would have grown up knowing Jon Hamm pretty well and these days we would go to Blues games together and know all the Blues. I'd be his "keeping it real" friend we would talk about how great #28 Bob Bassen was, a lot. But instead I was like "it was fine" so we moved to Andy Cohen's school district instead. I did know Erin Cohen pretty well even though she was two years behind me. She was a really good person, honestly would stand out to me as a good person if I never heard about her again. She changed her name to Erin Daniels she was Dana in the L Word (ask a lesbian, they know who she is) and she was in One Our Photo.
ps off topic for this thread but 1st interaction in a few months with Seattle sub mod, you can tell your board I saw Catton play about 4 more times before the WJC and was impressed and last night I watched his whole 4 point game last night, a 10-0 drubbing of Kelowna. I go game by game with observations and I watch prospects and think about how their game will fit in the NHL while I watch them. since that early game where I didn't hear his name all night, in my other viewings he has looked great, he is obviously going to be a very good NHL player. I just haven't gone back to the board to say it and don't need to in order to avoid conflict. nobody seemed ready to give me the benefit of the doubt which is why I stopped posting over there. I have seen a ton of WHL watching our guys Stancl (Kelowna) Jecho (Edmonton) Mrsic (Prince Albert) McIsaac (Spokane). in fact I am going to see Kelowna play Seattle this Saturday because I am over the moon about Jakub Stancl who is making The Leap before my eyes and I'm pretty interested in Radim Mtrka heading into this draft.
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