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Re: Un Chien Andalou

Boogn1sh — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:29:48 GMT

Author: Boogn1sh

Posted: 01/24/2010 22:29

Not a huge fan of Un Chien, kind of have no reaction to it at all. I get the surrealism, has cool images, just doesn't do it for me, but I do love unusual films, some of my fav's:
Every Jodorowski film is awesome, Holy Mountain in particular. Cool random sidenote, The Holy Mountain was funded entirely by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

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Here's a link to all of Aguirre the Wrath of God one of my all time favs, unusual by todays standards

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Wings of Desire

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Re: Un Chien Andalou

Norman Bates — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:47:18 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 12/22/2009 19:47

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Re: Un Chien Andalou

Elston — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:22:26 GMT

Author: Elston

Posted: 12/22/2009 18:22

I've heard Bunuel say in an interview that Un Chein Anadalou was not supposed to be about anything, just random things with no logical explanation. And I can accept that from the point of view of the artist, who might not have any intentions with what he's communicating. However, from the perspective of the audience I think surrealism, or any art, can mean a great deal. L'Age D'Or is a much better example to use, but even with Andalou there seems to be all kinds of things about sexual repression and religion (and maybe how these two are related). I've always thought of the ants crawling out of his hand as being a result of him not getting to have sex. And maybe the film is saying that religion is a kind of distraction from sexual frustration. Now it's quite likely that I'm pulling this out of my ass, but still, I think that if Surrealism is done well (ie David Lynch) that it can be extremely profound.

Re: Un Chien Andalou

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:52:21 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/20/2009 15:52

I don't think surrealism in general is really "about" anything other than breaking down traditional beariers of what you believe you are supposed to see. Personally, I think that's why it's such an unattractive movement now, because we've all seen alot of wierd shit; check out jewsom's last post in funny forum pictures, I bet that would have been considered high art if something like it were done in that movement. In the same sense I think that's why Fauvism and Expressionism are also mostly appreciated by people with a personal connection to them.

The only movements I can think of that are attractive are Romanticism, or some other realism, and Post-Impressionism; because either you enjoy seeing what is, and likely enjoy seing historical and religous and literary figures with your realism, or you enjoy breaking down beariers, which is what the Post-Impressionists did. All art since Cezanne, came from Cezanne... so you better appreciate that shit (think of him like the Beatles of art).

Any thoughts? on art?

That's right, I just turned this into a pretentious art-faggot thread, suck it.

Re: Un Chien Andalou

Elston — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:41:19 GMT

Author: Elston

Posted: 12/20/2009 09:41

purple wrote:

I actually like the ants coming out of the hands better than the eyeball slicing

I totally agree with you. Also, Bunuel's next film L'Age D'Or is much better than Un Chein Andalou. He made it the year after and really improved as a filmmaker and I would highly recommend it. Un Chein Andalou is cool though. I would try watching it again sometime as it kind of seems to be about something. I think my biggest problem with it was that I was expecting some sort of huge crazy fucking thing and it just wasn't what I expected. The eyeball scene didn't do anything to me because everybody always talks about it...so it was ruined.

Re: Un Chien Andalou

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:29:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/20/2009 04:29

I actually like the ants coming out of the hands better than the eyeball slicing, but Old Boy did it better later...

And on suicide, I think burning yourself is much more pure than most other meens of suicide...

Re: Un Chien Andalou

joannajewsom — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:16:27 GMT

Author: joannajewsom

Posted: 12/20/2009 04:16

Yeah, the eyeball slice is the highlight, the rest is just surrealistic wankery. The dude being all pervy was kind of funny, though. Interestingly enough, the lead actress wound up committing suicide by burning herself in public.

Un Chien Andalou

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:39:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/20/2009 03:39

Just finished Un Chien Andalou. WTF? I like the Pixies song better than the film...