I think there are a few similarities between this film - and Un Chien Andalou - and David Lynch's Eraserhead, for example the boy who grabs the head from the street in Eraserhead, and in both Eraserhead and Un Chien Andalou there is a man in the moon at the beginning.
sharewhere did you see a man in the moon in "Un chien andalou"? there is only a man smoking and staring at the moon (Bunuel himself) but there is no indication whatsoever that he is in the moon.
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shareWhere did you see a man in the moon in Eraserhead? It was The Man In The Planet you´re probably thinking of - and besides his name, there was no indication given where exactly is it he resides. Quite appropriate for a figure anything but literal.
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I'd guess that Lynch watched a great many Bunuel films in his youth.
shareDespite a tidbit that is under David Lynch's info here on IMDB, I've seen Lynch say (just recently) that he really has barely seen any Bunuel films, and is not really heavily influenced by him.
sharei think Lynch is more into influencing others rather than he himself being influenced. loved Eraserhead, loved Un chien andalou, looking forward to L'age d'or.
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(Despite a tidbit that is under David Lynch's info here on IMDB, I've seen Lynch say (just recently) that he really has barely seen any Bunuel films, and is not really heavily influenced by him.)
In fact David Lynch said that the only Buñuel film he has ever seen was "Un Chien Andalou", and it was after the filming of "Blue Velvet".
When did he say this and where?
shareI read that in a book... I don´t remember if the book was "David Lynch" by Michel Chion or the book "Lynch On Lynch".
Or course... if the first Buñuel movie he saw was "Un Chien Andalou", and after the filming of "Blue Velvet"... it doesn´t mean that between 1986-2007 he have´t seen more of him.
You must have not seen Persona.
shareHi,there is also similarities between L'Age d'Or (about 26mins into film)and the last bit of season 2 of Twin Peaks with Dale Cooper in front of mirror.
shareIMO Lynch have seen most films by Buñuel but perhaps he wanted to sound "smart" and "original" by saying he haven't seen his films.
Anyway, if David Lynch have really only seen "Un chien andalou", then he should feel kinda embarrased.
I mean how on earth somebody whose movies have a clear surrealist touch haven't seen the films by the "surrealist" filmmaker "par excellence"?
It's like Tarantino saying that he haven't seen any movie, or just "one" movie, by Sergio Leone or Scorsese, c'mon!
Hey, David, please start watching Buñuel films! you can learn one or two things from the master of surrealism who also happens to be one of the best directors of all time! (If not the best).
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"Perhaps he wanted to sound "smart" and "original" by saying he haven´t seen his films"
Since his work doesn´t bear any particular similarity to Bunuel´s at all (except for Un Chien Andalou/ Eraserhead connection), your comment is utterly pointless.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
This is an utterly pointless comment. It's like saying Messi has to watch Maradona play to be called a great player. He has his own style. There is no necessity that one can't be better than his predecessor with his own talent rather than following him.
Saying one can make a Pulp Fiction only when he has watched Taxi Driver is as pointless as skating in a desert
Lynch is surely as good as Bunuel if not better. Even though Bunuel is the predecessor, Lynch's body of work is in no way inferior to Bunuel's.
shareLike Andy Warhol is as good as Michelangelo if not better, concerning Mr. Warhol's 'body of work'.
/i do not mean by that that Mr. Warhol was bad indeed. He was just Mr. Warhol./
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Except that, unlike Warhol, Lynch is not some sensationalist pop artist. In fact, Bunuel with his provocations is arguably closer to Warhol.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Do you mean by that that Bunuel was no more than "some sensationalist pop artist"?
Well, to each his own opinion.
But undoubtely you rob yourself of the great pleasure Señor Bunuel bestows to everybody open- and creatively minded.
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No, I don´t mean that Bunuel "was no more than "some sensational pop artist"" - but outright provocation was indeed ´part´ of the way he often (very much consciously) operated. Sure, Lynch has done that, too, but not as prevalently - which isn´t to say it makes him objectively or inherently ´better´ than Bunuel. Even if it does make him somewhat more interesting to me personally.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I think it was probably a reaction against anyone who dismissed him as a wannabe Buñuel: he wanted to be the first Lynch, not Buñuel #2. I find it near-impossible to believe that he hadn't seen almost every Buñuel film many times.
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