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Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation:
[œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu]
, An
Andalusian Dog ) is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the
Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí .
[1] It was
Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.
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The film has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial
"once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events or characters changing very much. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association , presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.
Soundtrack
Modern prints of the film feature a soundtrack consisting of excerpts from Richard Wagner 's " Liebestod ," the concert version of the finale to his opera " Tristan und Isolde ," and a recording of a tango sometimes mistakenly referred to as " Olé guapa ." This is the same soundtrack that Buñuel chose and played live on a phonograph during the original 1929 screening in Paris. They were first added to a print of the film in 1960 under Buñuel's supervision.
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Analysis
In spite of varying interpretations made since the film originated, Buñuel made clear throughout his writings that, between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." [9] Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis." [10]
Cultural references
 Film scholar Ken Dancyger has argued that Un Chien Andalou might be the genesis of the filmmaking style present in the modern music video.
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 Roger Ebert has called it the inspiration for low budget independent films .
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 Premiere ranked the opening scene as 10th out of "The 25 Most Shocking Moments in Movie
History".
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 Un Chien Andalou is referred to in the Pixies song " Debaser ." The film is cited by Frank Black as being a major influence on the band's work.
[ citation needed ] On the band's recent 2010 Doolittle Tour, the film is shown, sometimes sped up and broken up into multiple "windows" on a screen behind the stage just prior to the band's arrival onstage.
 The eye cutting scene was referred to the cover of Mr. Oizo 's 2008 album " Lambs Anger ." The scene is also described in E. L. Doctorow 's 1971 novel, The Book of Daniel .
 A popular urban legend video states that footage from a Walt Disney version of this film was created as a video called "Suicidemouse".
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 An early sample video for Linkin Park 's "The Catalyst" features a short clip - the razor being held up to Simone Mareuil's eye.
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 In The Simpsons episode Yokel Chords , Lisa is in a theatre with Cletus' kids watching the eyeball
 scene.
Jay Sherman names his dog Un Chien Andalou in an episode of The Critic .
"Un Chien Andalou" is French for what?/ ¿Qué significa “un chien andalou” en español”?
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Who codirected this film with Dali? ¿Quién ha dirigido el filme con Salvador Dalí?
Which scene is the reason "Un Chien Andalou" was banned in a number of movie theaters upon release? ¿Por qué censuraban el filme?
Shortly after the 'eye' scene, a man is shown riding a bicycle. What, besides a suit, is he wearing? Después de la escena con el ojo, había un hombre montando una bicicleta. ¿Qué llevaba?
Another relatively famous scene shows what crawling out of the communicant's hand? ¿Qué se arrastró de la mano de la persona?
Something happens to the woman who picks up the hand in the street. What occurs shortly after that scene? ¿Qué ocurrió a la mujer quien recogio la mano en la calle?
Directly after the nudity we see the man pulling on a rope. In which order do the objects attached to the rope appear? ¿Cuál es el orden de los objetos en la soga?
Bunuel appeared as whom in the film? ¿Bunuel apareció de cuál personaje en el filme?
Dali appeared in the film as well. Whom did he portray? ¿Dalí apareció como quién en el filme?
This film and all its images are from what school of art? ¿De qué escuela de arte vino los imagenes en el filme?
Haz una lista de los objectos y verbos (acciones) en el filme.
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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