I
have posted Blogs about Dali or his art work several times in the past.
The last one was some while ago when a German/Spanish magazine put him
on a magazine cover.
I was surprised to have received 3 messages asking about whether
there's more available pictures of Dali in my album. I hadn't then, but I
managed to find one of him taken in 1929.
You will easily recognised that the last one in red was not Dali,. but the actor Robert Pattinson interpreting Dali in the film 'Little Ashes'. The first one is evident, a poster of the Film 'Dali' of Simon West, with Antonio Banderas as the highly acclaimed artist.
What is it about Dali that had evoked such Hollywood fever to make films of the surreal life of Dali all of a sudden? Like the biopic 'Little Ashes' now having another re-run just now. Many other big screen names had jostled to put on that unmistakable moustache to transform themselves to Dali - Antonio Banderas, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and including Peter O'toole.
All projects about Dali have to compete for the attention and scrutiny of Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, proprietor of legal rights of all Dali's work, and most seemed to have met with opposition. It was revealed that most of these hypothetical films would put to ruins 15 years' effort to situate the ingenious painter in the history of 'serious' art of the 20th century, beyond his reputation of scandals and colourful legends of all kinds, some related to the falsification of his graphic work in recent years.
"The last thing we need now is a bad movie that becomes a great commercial success." commented Joan Manel Sevillano, manager of the foundation, who had received 11 scripts in the last 6 years (Little Ashes not amongst these), all of them rejected. "Dali's life was colourful enough, no need whatsoever to invent things", he emphasized
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Current Mood: 
Artistic
Artistic
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