Salvador Dalí And Luis Buñuel would have worn rocks in their pockets during the first of their first film An Andalusian dogAnticipating a violent reaction from the public.
It was a good concern. The film may be almost 90 years old, but it always has the power to provoke – the film presents a photo of a woman who will open with a right razor after all. It turned out that the rocks were not necessary. The public, filled with avant-garde lighting as Pablo Picasso And André Breton I liked the film. A disappointed Dalí later reported that the night was “less exciting” than he had hoped.
An Andalusian dog presented many visual obsessions of Dalí – eyeballs, ants that crawl orifices and rotten animals. Dalí was delighted to shock and encourage people with his magnificent and disturbing images. And he loved grandiose glasses like a riot in a cinema.
Dalí and Buñuel's next film, The Custic The golden ageExhibited the differences between the two artists and their creative partnership imploded in pre-production. Buñuel continued to make a chain of subversive masterpieces like Bread -free,, The exterminating angel And The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie; Dalí has largely left the film in favor of its beautifully designed paintings.
Then Hollywood came to call.
Alfred Hitchcock hired Dalí to create a dream sequence For his 1945 film Unleashed. Dalí has designed more than 20 minutes of sequences, including about four and a half minutes made the film. “I wanted to transmit the dream with great visual sharpness and clarity – a film that the film itself”, Hitchcock explain To François Truffaut in 1962. The sequence, which you can see at the top, is filled with all kinds of daliesque patterns – coupéed eye globes, naked women and whimsical landscapes. It is also the most memorable part of a work that is also a minor of Hitchcock.
Dalí's follow -up work was for all things, Vincente Minnelli comedy Bride (1950). Spencer Tracy Play Stanley Banks whose beautiful girl (Elizabeth Taylorno less) gets married. While Stanley's anxiety about imminent spiral wedding, it has a very strange nightmare. Cue dalí. Stanley is late for marriage. As he rushes into the aisle, his clothes are mysteriously shredded by the tiled floor which bounces and settles down like a piece of flesh.
This dream sequence, which you can see immediately above, has little time visual UnleashedBut he still has a lot of oddity from Dalí's brand. These floating eyes. The way in which Tracy's leg seems to stretch. This floor.
Bride marked the end of Dalí's work in Hollywood, although there were some potential collaborations which would have been incredible if they were in reality. Dalí had an idea for a film with the Marx brothers called Giraffes on horse salad. THE The film would have “Includes a stage of giraffes wearing gas masks and one of the chico sporting a deep diving costume while playing the piano.” Although Harpo would have been enthusiastic about the proposed idea, Groucho was not and the idea unfortunately did not speak anything.
Later in life, Dalí has become a must on the Talk-Show circuit. On Dick Cavett Show in 1970He threw an antiate at Lillian Gish.
Note: a previous version of this article appeared on our site in 2014.
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