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It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?
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The film was the product of Deren's and Hammid's desire to create an avant garde personal film that dealt with devastating psychological problems, like the French surrealist films of the 1920s such as Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou ( 1929 ) and L ' Age d ' Or ( 1930 ).
Friedkin had asked his casting director to get a Spanish actor he had seen in Luis Buñuel's French film, Belle de Jour, who was actually Francisco Rabal, but Friedkin did not know his name, and Rey, who had played in several other films directed by Buñuel, was instead contacted.
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.
In Buñuel's original script, the last shot was to feature the corpses " consumed by swarms of flies ".
" Buñuel's relationship with Dalí was somewhat more troubled, being tinged with jealousy over the growing intimacy between Dalí and Lorca and resentment over Dalí's early success as an artist.
Buñuel's interest in films was intensified by a viewing of Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod: " I came out of the Vieux Colombier completely transformed.
Through these interests, he met a number of influential people, including the pianist Ricardo Viñes, who was instrumental in securing Buñuel's selection as artistic director of the Dutch premiere of Manuel de Falla's puppet-opera El retablo de maese Pedro in 1926.
In Buñuel's words: " Our only rule was very simple: no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted.
Initially, Friedkin intended to cast Francisco Rabal as Charnier, but could not remember his name after seeing him in Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour ; he only knew the person he had in mind was a Spanish actor who had worked with Buñuel.
Actually the just mentioned Buñuel's movies were co-productions: Viridiana was Spanish-Mexican, and Tristana Spanish-French-Italian.
Screening of Buñuel's movie was banned by the authorities at that time, the Government of the Second Spanish Republic, for allegedly exploiting the misery in which the local people lived.
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But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.
In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
If it was, then it must have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity.
Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;
But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.
If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's intention he has achieved a notable failure.
Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.
But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.
In anorectal abscesses, primary closure healed faster, but 25 % of abscesses healed by secondary intention and recurrence was higher.
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.
Christian perfection ( or entire sanctification ), according to Wesley, is " purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God " and " the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.
The intention was to exploit the fresh air ( well away from smoky factories ) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses.
Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.
It was Absalon's intention to clear the Baltic Sea of the Wendish pirates who inhabited its southern littoral zone which was later called Pomerania.
A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.
The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.
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`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.
it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.
A mild electrical shock served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by feeding.
It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.
At 17:07 that afternoon ( Greenwich time ) the shock was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu.
Pete came to meet us when we stepped out of the elevator on Seven -- he'd had a case of post-operative shock, but it was all taken care of now.
The outbreak of the First World War was clearly a shock to Carnegie and his optimistic view on world peace.
Their research was applied on the MiG-15 and F-86 Sabre and bombers such as the B-47 Stratojet used swept wings which delay the onset of shock waves and reduce drag.
Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle in flight at Mach 7, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm. On September 30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held in Rome with the topic of high velocity flight and the possibility of breaking the sound barrier.
This led to some immediate international trade liberalization, but there was no shock to the economy.
Charlton suffered cuts to his head and severe shock and was in hospital for a week.
Cuban-exiled architect Enrique Gutierrez created a building that was hurricane-proof, using a system of steel cables and pulleys which allow the building to move slightly in the event of a strong shock.
After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.
One possible explanation was that upwardly accelerating shock waves from the impact accelerated charged particles enough to cause auroral emission, a phenomenon more typically associated with fast-moving solar wind particles striking a planetary atmosphere near a magnetic pole.
The mobility and shock value of the cavalry was greatly appreciated and exploited in armed forces in the Ancient and Middle Ages ; some forces were mostly cavalry, particularly in nomadic societies of Asia, notably the Mongol armies.
To restructure the Soviet administrative command system and implement a transition to a market-based economy, Yeltsin's shock program was employed within days of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
European reaction was of shock and dismay, with far-reaching and intense consequences.
This shock therapy program was implemented in several former communist states like Poland and Russia.
During the tour Thomas was invited to many parties and functions and on several occasions became drunk, going out of his way to shock people and was a difficult guest.
:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.
What was often sought was an emotional response to the information, the shock, the fear, and the confrontation.
British forces used airpower to shock the Afghans, and the King's home was directly attacked in what is the first case of aerial bombardment in Afghanistan's history.
Paracoccus denitrificans was one of the bacteria which displayed not only survival but also robust cellular growth under these conditions of hyperacceleration which are usually found only in cosmic environments, such as on very massive stars or in the shock waves of supernovas.
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