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Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an as

Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an astute businessman. Hell he even did brand design - chupa chups for example

micromacrofoot 3y ago
His particular brand of eccentricism probably made it very easy to deviate from standard business practices — who's going to bother arguing in favor of the status quo with dali?
pavlov 3y ago
Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to get Dalí to play the Emperor in his mid-1970s film adaptation of “Dune.” Dalí wanted to be the highest-paid actor in history, so he asked for a salary of $100,000 / hour: ”Dalí agrees with much enthusiasm the idea to play the Emperor of the galaxy. He wants to film in Cadaquès and to use as throne a toilet made up of two intersected dolphins. The tails will form the feet and the two open mouths will be used one to receive the "wee", the other to receive the "excrement". Dalí thinks that it is of terrible bad taste to mix the "wee" and the "excrement". ”It is said to him that I will need him for seven days... Dalí answers that God made the universe in seven days and that Dalí, while not being less than God, must cost a fortune: 100,000 dollars an hour. Perhaps that while arriving at the set he will decide to film each day more than one hour for the same price. ”The only condition is to have the Emperor on the throne scatologic. He does not want to read script: "My ideas are better than yours". He wants to choose his court among his friends, wants to say what he wants and moreover, at the time to sign the contract, will condescend to make me gift of three ideas that I will have the right to use or not.” https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/ https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/ The story of this unmade movie is very interesting on the whole. It led indirectly to “Alien” and other sci-fi classics by introducing European artists like Moebius and Giger to Hollywood.
- beezlewax 3y ago
  The documentary about this is excellent. So many people were involved. I'm almost glad it just lives in my imagination because I don't know if they could have pulled it off with the sfx film/technology of the time. Insanely ambitious.
hourago 3y ago
> Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an astute businessman Like most artists that sell their work in expensive galleries. Their art is not so special but their skill to sell their personal brand is.
MisterTea 3y ago
Having a name in art is 99% of art. The other 1% is making something you can sell with the other 99%.

micromacrofoot 3y ago

His particular brand of eccentricism probably made it very easy to deviate from standard business practices — who's going to bother arguing in favor of the status quo with dali?

pavlov 3y ago

Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to get Dalí to play the Emperor in his mid-1970s film adaptation of “Dune.” Dalí wanted to be the highest-paid actor in history, so he asked for a salary of $100,000 / hour: ”Dalí agrees with much enthusiasm the idea to play the Emperor of the galaxy. He wants to film in Cadaquès and to use as throne a toilet made up of two intersected dolphins. The tails will form the feet and the two open mouths will be used one to receive the "wee", the other to receive the "excrement". Dalí thinks that it is of terrible bad taste to mix the "wee" and the "excrement". ”It is said to him that I will need him for seven days... Dalí answers that God made the universe in seven days and that Dalí, while not being less than God, must cost a fortune: 100,000 dollars an hour. Perhaps that while arriving at the set he will decide to film each day more than one hour for the same price. ”The only condition is to have the Emperor on the throne scatologic. He does not want to read script: "My ideas are better than yours". He wants to choose his court among his friends, wants to say what he wants and moreover, at the time to sign the contract, will condescend to make me gift of three ideas that I will have the right to use or not.” https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/ https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/ The story of this unmade movie is very interesting on the whole. It led indirectly to “Alien” and other sci-fi classics by introducing European artists like Moebius and Giger to Hollywood.

beezlewax 3y ago
The documentary about this is excellent. So many people were involved. I'm almost glad it just lives in my imagination because I don't know if they could have pulled it off with the sfx film/technology of the time. Insanely ambitious.

hourago 3y ago

> Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an astute businessman Like most artists that sell their work in expensive galleries. Their art is not so special but their skill to sell their personal brand is.

MisterTea 3y ago

Having a name in art is 99% of art. The other 1% is making something you can sell with the other 99%.