| The Ghost of RubangB said: I understand most of your list, because most of those were Expressionist films that inspired the rise of film noir in America, so you could call them proto-noir or something, but I have no idea why you're including Un Chien Andalou in that list. Whassup with that? |
Well it starts out in a very somber black and white with some man alone in a room smoking a cigarette, wearing a muscle shirt Edit: It's not really a muscle shirt on closer inspection), and holding a straight razor. He appears to intentionally cut himself with the straight razor and then it switches to a scene of a woman apparenly having her eye cut by the razor. Also, there are sevel scenes of death and mortality throughout the piece including a prolonged scene of a death's head moth (not in the video below but in the full length vesion and that brings up a possible influence on Silence of the Lambs?) that are mixed with very eerie pieces of classic style music. The relationship between the male and female character seems to be of the noire type relationship between men and women, and the main theme sounds like some kind of happy death waltz.
and http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_013/andalou.htm
Heavens to Murgatoids.
