Dali seemed to like the eye and razor image, and the ants. Long after Un Chein Andalou, he used it again.
Alfred Hitchcock, talking about Spellbound:
"I was determined to break with the traditional way of handling dream sequences through a blurred and hazy screen. I asked Seiznick if he could get Dali to work with us and he agreed, though I think he didn't really understand my reasons for wanting Dali. He probably thought I wanted his collaboration for publicity purposes. The real reason was that I wanted to convey the dreams with great visual sharpness and clarity, sharper than the film itself. I wanted Dali because of the architectural sharpness of his work. Chirico has the same quality, you know, the long shadows, the infinity of distance, and the converging lines of perspective.
"But Dali had some strange ideas, he wanted a statue to crack like a shell falling apart, with ants crawling all over it, and underneath, there would be Ingrid Bergman, covered by the ants! It just wasn't possible.
"My idea was to shoot the Dali dream scenes in the open air so that the whole thing, photographed in real sunshine, would be terribly sharp. I was very keen on that idea, but the producers were concerned about the expense. So we shot the dream in the studios."
From Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut (Panther, 1969:
![[image]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2368162577_d6d8bf091c.jpg "[image]")
Interesting - I used the comment running the blade and a friend came backl talking about blades and eyes in relation to me snipping this picture and posting it.
Alfred Hitchcock, talking about Spellbound:
"I was determined to break with the traditional way of handling dream sequences through a blurred and hazy screen. I asked Seiznick if he could get Dali to work with us and he agreed, though I think he didn't really understand my reasons for wanting Dali. He probably thought I wanted his collaboration for publicity purposes. The real reason was that I wanted to convey the dreams with great visual sharpness and clarity, sharper than the film itself. I wanted Dali because of the architectural sharpness of his work. Chirico has the same quality, you know, the long shadows, the infinity of distance, and the converging lines of perspective.
"But Dali had some strange ideas, he wanted a statue to crack like a shell falling apart, with ants crawling all over it, and underneath, there would be Ingrid Bergman, covered by the ants! It just wasn't possible.
"My idea was to shoot the Dali dream scenes in the open air so that the whole thing, photographed in real sunshine, would be terribly sharp. I was very keen on that idea, but the producers were concerned about the expense. So we shot the dream in the studios."
From Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut (Panther, 1969:
Interesting - I used the comment running the blade and a friend came backl talking about blades and eyes in relation to me snipping this picture and posting it.
It's actually a snip from Blade Runner which I am re-watching for it's sheeer brilliance.
Anyway as a result of my friends comment I looked upo Dali and the eye razor connection. I am not sure what else she is referring to - I will update you as soon as ....
