“Try To Act Normal”
Take the Salvador Dali-esque, psychedelic suggestion in this one-sheet for Bruce Robinson‘s The Rum Diary (Film District, 10.28) with a grain of salt. As noted earlier, the idea of the film reflecting “some crazed hallucination” is a stretch. It’s based on Hunter S. Thompson’s book, which was begun in Puerto Rico in 1959. Nobody has weird visions on rum.
I think you’re reading too much into it. It’s not Dali they’re trying to imitate – it’s The Hangover.
Okay, The Hangover is what dumbasses will take from it. But the poster is clearly riffing on Dali-esque distortions.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=salvador+dali+surrealism+art&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=0l0l2l1571l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&biw=1280&bih=619&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
It’s hard to look at bowling pins and not think Lebowski.
I don’t see anything “Dali-esque” here…what is distorted? The glass in the fish bowl? No. The dead fish floating upside down? No.
Okay, but one of the bowling pins is tilted. That says Dali, not Lebowski. Take an art class.
Jeff, maybe you are hallucinating…
And the water in the fish bowl isn’t level. Maybe the guy who drew this illustration was hallucinating also.
“Nobody has weird visions on rum.”
I’m guessing you’re unfamiliar with Captain Jack Sparrow.
Art wise, it’s more Norman Rockwell than Dali. The clarity, depth of field, and chance airplane message all scream rejected Saturday Evening Post cover.
I like the poster. Not sure yet if I’ll see the movie.
….except when I saw it it was called “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
@actionlover
The only similarity is both books were written by Hunter S. Thompson.
“One of the bowling pins is tilted. That says Dali.”
Just told that to my wife. She’s an art historian and she laughed.
But either way, it’s not a good poster.
My take is that Depp has bolted out of the bed, knocked the pin over, and caused the fish bowl to roll over on its side, putting the water in motion.
No Dali, no distortion of elements in the scene to suggest hallucination.
Nice to see painted artwork used for a one-sheet in this day and age, though it probably would’ve worked better as a photo. (Looks like the cover of a VERTIGO graphic novel.)
Doesn’t anyone have a sense of literary and film history around here?
Let’s do a quick connect the dots.
This is a movie about Hunter S. Thompson.
This is a movie directed by Bruce Robinson
The illustrator for Hunter S. Thompson’s books was Ralph Steadman
Guess who illustrated the poster for Bruce Robinson’s first film Withnail and I? Why it’s Ralph Steadman.
http://celebritywonder.ugo.com/mp/1988_Withnail_and_I/1988_withnail_and_i_wallpaper_001.jpg
This photo of Hunter’s destroyed hotel room reflects Steadman’s poster for Robinson’s movie. Thus the circle of life is joined between this trio.
A serious painter I knew back in the ’80s once described the work of Salvador Dali, which he did not particularly admire, as “Norman Rockwell on acid.”
Jeff, he was winding you up. Rockwell was Dali on acid.
Nothing about this poster seems Dali to me, because nothing about it is particularly surreal. A number of the angles, granted, are skewed slightly (the room service food thingy in relation to the desk is another), but couldn’t one just as easily consider that a reference to alcohol induced disorientation? Or the fatigue and paranoia of a marathon bender?
All I know is, Amber Heard looks insanely beautiful in the trailer……
Wells to Gilde: Sit down on the couch and tell us exactly what you have against Dali, surrealism, dreamscape worlds, hallucinogens and general all-around weirdness…please. We’d like to understand.
Wow. Really, Jeff? I don’t know that my comment merits that kind of response. Maybe you’re having a rough night or something.
I think I’ll forgo the couch. It’s easier to talk to you on your high horse that way.
I have nothing against surrealism. I enjoy a number of works that came from the movement, although at the end of the day it doesn’t always hold my interest. I do consider it to be a valuable bridge between modernism and abstract expressionism in early-mid 20th century art. I especially love the experimentation that Rothko and de Kooning, among others, used in the form while finding their own aesthetic voices, which in and of itself would have made the movement a triumph.
Oh, I’m sorry, did you really want to talk about this subject? Or did you just think that I probably didn’t know anything about it?
I’m looking right now at the Dali dreamscapes on the google page you linked. Melting clocks. A sunset evocative of a broken egg. A whale flying through the sky, cloud balloons and anthropomorphic trees. And on and on.
Yes? Good. Keep that horse steady, I don’t want you to miss anything.
Because if you look at that poster, NONE OF THAT IS THERE. Literally nothing of those imaginative leaps, that distortion and melding of real things into grand visions of another world. If a tilted pin in a one-sheet is surreal, then what ISN’T? I’m sorry, but you’re grasping at straws. Being smug about it doesn’t help that.
I was offering a way that one could interpret the disorder of the poster that didn’t involve drug induced hallucination. Drunk and disorderly. Messy and irresponsible. TIPSY. I thought you’d maybe take this into consideration, especially since you’ve spoken before about finding anachronistic hallucinatory references within the marketing of this film. My bad, I guess.
The conceit of this post was a hit and a miss. Own up to it or don’t, but please don’t try to take it out on me.
I have nothing against surrealism. I enjoy a number of works that came from the movement,But the poster is clearly riffing on Dali-esque distortions.A whale flying through the sky, cloud balloons and anthropomorphic trees.
Seriously, a tilted bowling pin makes it Dali-esque???
I joined up literally just to congratulate Mr. Gilde on such an awesome take-down.
Thanks, man. I saw your comment on the Polanski post and, yeah, the place is same old same old, by and large. Which is mostly good, in my opinion, with a thread here and there that I just stay clear of altogether. I’ve never had a beef with Jeff.
But groundless condescension cannot and will not go by unchecked.
Hope you stick around!
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