The Thread for People Who Have Seen "Un Chien Andalou"

Is an unique experience you remember during all your life.

So has anyone seen it? What were your first reactions?

I don't know if this one is the rigth subforum

Well, you could put in the Film subforum, seein' as it's a film. :P

Now is late to do that. Maybe the mods can do it.

I have seen it three times,and still cover my face at the eye scene.

edited 22nd Oct '10 5:06:10 PM by nohaynicklibre

I tried watching it once, but it seemed pretty dull.

It was disappointing, since Salvador Dali was involved and I expected more.]] At least I got another thing parodied here, though/shameless pimp

C'est Un Chien Andalou, je suis présque certain.

^ Oops. I keep doing that mistake.

I've seen it once. I recall very little about it, probably due to a combination of brain shutdown at that scene and not really having a great deal of experience with Dada or surrealism at that point and my memory couldn't figure out how to file it.

And I corrected the title and moved it to Film

edited 22nd Oct '10 5:36:41 PM by Madrugada

I didn't think That Scene was that bad—it's all the lead-up.

By the way, in case anyone hasn't seen Dali's scene from film Spellbound, here it is (with some more Dali at the end). Dali + Hitchcock + Gregory Peck + Miklos Rosza? It's too much!

It really depends. I know that I saw That Scene cold — I had no idea what was coming. And it's the only image from the whole movie I remember at all. I can see where if you knew it was coming you could be more ready to deal with it.

Now it's gotten to the point that it's a case of All There Is To Know About The Crying Game — if you know anything at all about the film, you know about That Scene. And I know folks who have seen That Scene but never seen the rest of the film at all.

edited 23rd Oct '10 12:58:58 PM by Madrugada

You will remember it for That Scene and just That Scene.

I'll be honest.

I turned it off after watching that scene.

Am I a bad person?

Just to be clear, we're talking about the eye slicing, or something else?

Yes. That's That Scene.

Okay, good.

man I am desensitized

You turned it off? It's 15 minutes long and the scene is near the end.

Edit: Misremembered.

edited 24th Oct '10 12:11:53 AM by jewelleddragon

It's right at the beginning... It's the opening scene.

edited 22nd Oct '10 11:09:11 PM by Madrugada

Well, once you're over the intro scene, it's actually not that bad. Sure, it's surreal as all hell, but a man dragging two priests and a piano by rope or ants crawling out of the holes in said guy's palms, ain't all that as far as mindbreaking freakout-fuel goes, although I guess the ant part is actually fairly freaky.

I find the scene where Pierre Batchuef grabs Simone Mareull's breasts and has.... that look on his face actually scarier than the eye one.

I also saw it completely cold, with no idea about what was coming, for a writing class.

I have no idea what happened in the rest of it, because I almost passed out. I have absolutely no tolerance for that sort of thing.

Oh man, I had to watch that for my FIST 210 Silent Film class. It was weird , and not like FLCL weird or Adventure Time Weird. No, it was like if the director of suicidemouse.avi decided to do a live action romantic comedy. The first 5 minutes scared the sh** out of me and the rest of the movie was pretty much a pure acid trip.

You can actually watch it on youtube now:

I suppose the Titties part has been censored or removed

I'm making a Youtube Poop out of it, so today I've seen the eye scene like twelve times.

edited 23rd Oct '10 1:01:43 PM by nohaynicklibre

I saw it a while ago, I'm surprised the scene where the protagonist (?) carrying a piano with a rotten donkey, the Ten Commadements, two priests and some balls are not as referenced as That Scene.

One of the priests there is Dalí.

Yes, and the man doing you know what at That Scene is Buñuel, a bit of a way of saying he's gonna rape you throw your eyesocket.