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# Tell me what the film's about
And I'll laugh if I get it
(I helped save b3ta! Brown cow, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:09, archived)
# If anyone
knows what Un Chien Andalou is about can they tell me too please.
(I helped save b3ta! lord bofingham, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:11, archived)
# But why the razor?
/young and/or stupid
(I helped save b3ta! Brown cow, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:13, archived)
# Ah, I see (!)
the opening scene is a woman having her eyeball sliced open with a razor (see top right pane on poster) There's a .mpg of it around somewhere
(I helped save b3ta! lord bofingham, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:14, archived)
# It's a surrealist classic
and in the frame underneath the names bunuel and dali the woman is about to get her eye slit open with a razor blade - hence the reference
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:12, archived)
# Ah thank you
Subtle but I like it
(I helped save b3ta! Brown cow, Sat 23 Apr 2005, 17:13, archived)