elag wrote:
>
> Parry wrote:
> >
> > Andreas Moss wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey people.
> > > I'm looking for tips on great surrealistic directors..
> > >
> > > Jodorowsky..
> > >
> > > Is there anyone else that do equal great movies?
> >
> > Jean Cocteau.
> >
> > Just kidding. I'll recommend some titles but first note there are
> > problems with your very question. A director like Fellini may have
> > affinities with surrealism, but is not a surrealist. Lynch even less so.
> > A semantic distinction can be made, as Elag likes to point out, between
> > "surreal" and "surrealist." The confusion typically occurs when someone
> > mistakenly thinks surrealism is the use of a certain type of imagery.
>
> Yes, my main argument is that popular usage has transformed the word
> "surreal" into litle more than a synonym for "weird", and so rendered it
> useless. I'll use "surrealistic" if a film exhibits mannered mimicking
> of superficial aspects of the visual style of the original Surrealists
> between the wars (commonly, cribs from Dali, Magritte, Chirico, Bunuel
> or Cocteau). In all other cases I prefer more specific terms, like
> "dreamlike", "Nightmarish" or "Bunuelesque". I'd reserve "surrealist"
> for the output of members of recognized Surrealist groups.
Perhaps you should add your definition to urbandictionary.com, which is
a people's dictionary without quality control, sort of a ridiculous
counterpart to Wikipedia. It has no entry for "surrealism," but the
definitions of "dada" aren't bad:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dadaism
-- Parry
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