Differences between Script and Film
From Lost Highway
The Lost Highway screenplay is available in two forms:
- Paperback: Lynch, David and Barry Gifford, Lost Highway, Faber and Faber (1997) (ISBN 0571191509). The book also includes a 15 page interview of David Lynch by Chris Rodley.
- Online: The Lost Highway script is available online at the Internet Script Movie Database (IMSDb).
Differences
Differences between the script and film may be deleted scenes, whether they were filmed or not, deleted or altered lines of dialogue, or scenes that appear in both the script and film but at different points in the story.
Fred's female fans
Previous scene: Fred's sax performance at the "Luna Lounge"
Subsequent scene: Fred's phone call home
The script includes the following brief scene:
INT. LUNA LOUNGE - LATER
After the band quits to take a break, female fans come on to Fred, but he moves away, refusing their attentions.
Shooting status: unknown
Interpretations: Fred's sexual desires focus solely on Renee, and his suspicions about Renee's honesty and faithfulness outweigh any satisfaction he would receive from other women.
Renee's book reading
Previous scene: Fred and Renee watch the first videotape
Subsequent scene: Fred and Renee have sex
The script includes the following confrontation between Fred and Renee:
INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - DINING ROOM - DAY Renee is seated at the dining room table - coffee cup and grapefruit in front of her. She is wearing glasses, reading a book. Fred enters, and sees Renee, who does not look up or acknowledge him. Fred goes into the kitchen, which is just off the dining room. He comes back into the dining room with a cup of coffee, and sits down with it opposite Renee. He lights up a cigarette, sips his coffee, and looks at her.
FRED Good book, huh?
RENEE (she looks up) Huh?... oh, yeah, it is.
FRED Same one you were reading the other night?
RENEE What night?
FRED When you didn't come to the club.
RENEE Oh. Oh, yeah. No. This is a different one.
FRED I called, you know.
RENEE Called? When?
FRED From the club. You didn't answer.
RENEE I must have fallen asleep. I was asleep when you got home, wasn't I?
FRED You were asleep when I got home, yes.
Renee goes back to her book. Fred sips his coffee and smokes.
RENEE (without looking up) I told you you could wake me up if you wanted to.
Renee looks up at him now, takes off her glasses, and stares at him.
CLOSE UP: Fred's face - a disturbed expression.
Renee seems about to say something more, but stops, puts her glasses back on and resumes reading.
Shooting status: unknown
Interpretations: This scene further expresses Fred's suspicions about Renee.
Ed and Al consider the camera angle
Previous scene: Ed and Al watch the second videotape with Fred and Renee
Subsequent scene: Ed and Al talk with Fred and Renee in the bedroom
The script includes the following dialogue:
INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY All four of them go to the hallway, where Ed and Al look around, especially up toward the ceiling.
AL Very strange.
RENEE What is?
AL The angle. The high angle shot on the tape.
ED How'd the camera get so high like that?
AL And smooth... Almost no movement - back and forth, I mean.
ED Like you'd get if it was hand held.
AL Right ... This just glided along.
Shooting status: unknown
Interpretations: Given the remainder of the film, this dialogue seems to suggest that the source of the videotapes cannot be human, for a person would be incapable of videotaping at that angle and without lateral movement.
