Wed
10
Dec
2008
Dali, the messias lives on forever...
Since I promissed this post to Marlene I will now write a few sentences about Salvador Dali.
Dali for sure is one of my favourite artists and I would like to emphasize that he is an artist not only a painter. Following I will explain this opinion to you.
Actually the first masterpiece of Salvador Dali that impressed me a lot wasn't a painting. It was a dog! Do you know which masterpiece I'm talking about? It is "Le chien andalou", one of the greatest movies I ever saw. Moreover the history of that movie is quite interesting.
Once upon a time Salvador Dali described a crazy dream he
had had to his friend Luis Buñuel who was going to become a famous movie director at this time. Both decided to make a movie about that dream which was also inspired by another thing Luis Buñuel had dreamt of some weeks ago.
This movie is a milestone in the motion picture history. Dali tried to make a movie by avoiding any logical relation between the different sequences. The goal was not to have any logical connection within that movie. Both Buñuel and Dali wanted to stimulate the subconsciousness of human beings by showing the most surrealistic thing that humans have in their mind - DREAMS.
Maybe it would be great to watch out that movie in class.
Bruce, what do you think?
4 Comments
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#1
I have never heard something about that movie, but you made me curious. It sounds definitly interesting, since I have not a clue, how it is to watch such a obviously weird movie.
So I am looking forward to watch it soon.
Maybe youtube can help...
Off-topic: greetings from Hamburg, I am sure you noticed who I am (it isn't that hard ;) ) hope we'll see us during the holidays
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#2
Hey Dreas,
great post and thank you for the personel dedication!
I've never heard of this film either. Actually, we should convince Bruce that it's worth watching this movie together..
Until soon Marlene! -
#3
In fact, I just watched one sequence on youtube and I realized that I've already watched this film but I can't remember when or where.
Strange thing, but great! -
#4
We watched it in that one class with M. Na...somethin' in 3 Semester in France, I think even Bärchen here presented it to us.
Check out Mr.Oizos promotional video for lambs anger, it features a recreation of the famous eye splitting scene - only with Flat Eric.
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