He sets the establishment-vs.-counterculture scene, sometimes with a light flourish and sometimes with heavy-handed melodrama: This is the America of Vietnam, J. But, Lynchian shadings notwithstanding, Goddard (whose credits include the screenplay for The Martian) is interested in down-to-earth thriller tropes, not otherworldly dreamscapes or free-floating evil. A hallucinatory concoction of wood and stone, surrounded by towering pines, the El Royale naturally brings to mind the Great Northern Hotel of Twin Peaks - and the fact that one character turns out to be an FBI agent amplifies the resonance. The setting earns top billing, with Martin Whist’s ace production design bringing the title establishment to vividly faded life.
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