Editing Mulholland Drive (film) (section)

==Plot==
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A woman is about to be shot by her chauffeur, but is saved when a car crashes into them at night on [[Mulholland Drive]]. The woman is the sole survivor. Dazed, she hides in a vacant apartment. The next morning, Betty Elms, an aspiring actress from [[Deep River, Ontario]], arrives at the apartment, which her aunt has lent her. She finds the woman, who has [[amnesia]] but remembers she is in danger. The woman adopts the name "Rita" from a ''[[Gilda (film)|Gilda]]'' poster featuring [[Rita Hayworth]]. Betty and Rita discover a large quantity of cash and a blue key in Rita's purse.

A man describes a recurring nightmare in which a horrific figure waits for him in the alley behind the Winkie's diner on [[Sunset Boulevard]]. His friend dismisses it, but the two investigate the alley anyway. The figure appears as predicted, and the man collapses in shock.

Film director Adam Kesher is threatened by mobsters who want him to cast unknown actress Camilla Rhodes as the lead in his new project, ''The Sylvia North Story''. When he refuses, the mobsters shut down the production. Adam returns home and finds his wife in bed with another man. After a scuffle, his wife's lover throws him out of his own house. Adam's personal assistant offers sex, but he declines. He is pressured into meeting a cowboy, who urges him to cast Camilla for his own good. Elsewhere, incompetent hitman Joe Messing bungles a job, killing two people.

After meeting a waitress named "Diane" at Winkie's, Rita remembers the name "Diane Selwyn". Betty finds Diane's address in the phone book, but leaves for an audition, where she does marvelously. The casting agent brings her to meet Adam, who is auditioning actresses for ''The Sylvia North Story''. The two lock eyes, but Betty flees after remembering she promised to meet Rita. Adam reluctantly casts Camilla to please the mob.

Betty and Rita visit Diane Selwyn's apartment and discover a woman's decomposing corpse in the bed. Horrified, Rita tries to cut her hair off, but Betty persuades her to instead wear a blonde wig similar to Betty's own hairstyle. They have sex and fall asleep, but Rita wakes them both up when she chants "silencio, no hay banda" (Spanish for "silence, there is no band") in her sleep.

Rita insists on visiting Club Silencio immediately. There, Betty and Rita watch a stage show in which a trumpeter and singer [[Rebekah Del Rio]] mime and lip-sync performances that are eventually revealed to have been pre-recorded. After Rebekah's performance, Betty discovers a blue box in her purse matching Rita's key, and they return home. Rita is about to unlock the box, but finds that Betty has vanished. After unlocking the box, Rita also vanishes.

Diane Selwyn, a depressed and struggling actress who looks exactly like Betty, awakens in the apartment Betty and Rita investigated. Her neighbor visits to pick up her things and warns that detectives are looking for Diane. Diane daydreams about Camilla Rhodes, a successful actress who looks exactly like Rita. She cries after recalling that Camilla broke up with her.

Camilla invites Diane to a party at Adam's house on Mulholland Drive. Diane tells Adam's mother that she moved to Los Angeles with money she inherited from her deceased aunt and that she met Camilla when they both auditioned for the lead in ''The Sylvia North Story''. It is revealed that Adam cast Camilla as the lead in a film; that Adam and Camilla are now dating; and that Camilla ostensibly threw the party to announce their engagement. Camilla kisses a woman who looks exactly like the "Camilla Rhodes" sponsored by the mobsters. Diane shakes with rage.

Diane meets Joe Messing at Winkie's (where a waitress is named "Betty") and hires him to kill Camilla. He promises to leave Diane a blue key as a sign that the job is done. Later, a traumatized Diane stares at the blue key on her coffee table. Terrorized by hallucinations, she runs into her bedroom and shoots herself. At Club Silencio, a blue-haired woman whispers "silencio".