Dali didn't co-write L'age d'Or with Bunuel as he did Un Chien Andalou. He was responsible for coming up with 2 or 3 scenes, including the giraffe falling out of the window, but that's it. This is where their friendship started to fail ending with Dali getting Bunuel fired from his job at MoMA by telling them he was a fascist. A dickass move if you ask me.
shareThat really sucks! Bunuel is awesome.
shareThat also shows how eccentric and unpredictable Salvador Dali was in his life.
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Dali's friendship with Bunuel was also failing because of Bunuel's virrelant anti-catholicism. Dali was from a Catholic background and although he drifted from it to a certain extent, he returned to it later in life. His last words in public were "God save the king, God save Spain".
shareCheck this out. I found it searching in google.
"Luis Bunuel is fingering a gun in his pocket-- thelast of the beloved pearl-handled pistols he had purchased his first weekin New York City-- in the bar of the Sherry Netherland Hotel.
He is shaking with anger, waiting forhis former collaborator, Salvador Dali, to join him for a drink. Bunuelplans to kill his former friend, now a fascist sympathizer, and then escapeto his favorite gun shop near Times Square to sell the piece.
The angular gadfly's autobiography,"The Secret Life of Salvador Dali," is still at the top of the bestseller's list, but it has cost Bunuel his job10 in a whirlwind of anti-communist paranoia andCatholic heresy-hunt; And his selective memory over the true authorshipof his two historic, and still potent, motion pictures with Bunuel haveboth diminished and implicated his former partner.11
After reading Dali's account oftheir collborations of Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or in his book, acrazed, right-wing rabblerouser named Arbogast raised hell with the StateDepartment over Bunuel's position at the Museum. The nefarious LuisBunuel (a crazed Marxist anarchist in Dali's unyieldingprattle) was living in New York City and editing documentaries for theU.S. government-- the maker of the life-hating, God-loathing L'AgeD'Or!!
Bunuel resigned when thetabloids got ahold of the scandal.12
Dali's paintings, his lifestyle, hisbizarre sense of humor-- all have combined into a "flavor of themonth" moth-flame for the Surrealist painter in a bored, post-war NYC.His outrageous, and childlike, adherence to the dripping timepiece and thebold non-sequiter has made him and his wife/agent, thedespised Gala, rich beyond reason. There is even a story in "LifeMagazine" that Dali will collaborating with Alfred Hitchcock on a newsuspense film. . .
Bunuel's left hand is in his pocket,fingering the trigger. He will shoot his friend first in the knee, watchinghim suffer, and then he will aim for the groin.Then he. . .
Dali arrives, in a torrent of flashbulbsand hullaballoo. 15 minutes late, dressed in purple velvet, his wingtipmoustache caked with clear goo and shaped into sharp horns. For all thetime past, he still looked to Bunuel like the lost 23-year-old he knew a decade before-- the pre-Gala Salvador! This"genius," a wide-eyed stringbean who needed his sister's hand tocross the street, an easily-confused soul who couldn't even buy a busticket by himself.
Dali looks the restaraunt over, andlooks straight through Luis, not recognizing him. The flashbulbs haveblinded him. Bunuel fingers the gun, thinking that this could be hischance. Did he remember to bring bullets?13"
From what i know Dali was expelled from the Surrealist Group due to siding with the Fascists, whereas the rest of the Surrealists were hardcore Marxists.
I am very interested in the Surrealist movement and a while ago i was really obsessed with this movement because my artwork is very close to this movement.
In terms of the relationship with Dali and Bunuel, i believe that there was more than just the political views that drew them apart. Bunuel, for instance, hated Gala, Dali's wife. I have about two books on Dali, but neither really focuses on the Dali/Bunuel relationship. The above piece is very interesting although i do not know who wrote it or whether its pure fiction or not.
This is where their friendship started to fail ending with Dali getting Bunuel fired from his job at MoMA by telling them he was a fascist.