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Reviews for "L'Amour de Rasputin"
Battosai810 responds:
Only in my art films.
what the hell
was that meant to make sense? ahah i laughed my ass off at the licking of the flower, i didnt understand one thing going on there, unfortunatley i cant rate you too high on this seeing as i didnt understand it, but you get a 6 for effort and the flower scene
by the way wtf is happening to his beard WHEN IT GROWS ALL PUFFY?
Battosai810 responds:
It's surrealism - if it made sense, it wouldn't be surreal!
Thanks for watching :)
J'aime beaucoup!
Love it - super, super cool! Keep it up!
Battosai810 responds:
L'Wuggeh speaks!
surrealism is fun
i love surrealism. this is pretty mild though for me. god knows if i ever made a short film or the like, i'd be thrown in the loony bin for life.
Battosai810 responds:
As I said in the previous review response, this is pretty much "surrealism lite" for the Newgrounds crowd. If I make another Rasputin flash in the surrealism vein, I think I'd have to go full on out with it. As for your surrealist short film; go for it. I'd love to see some more surreal film here.
Isn't the point kinda "I made a surrealist film?"
This actually reminded me of that "Independent Film" music video on HomestarRunner dotcom. You should check it out if you're into surrealism. Although technically I guess it has a point, it basically tells the story of StrongSad trying to make a mind-blowing surreal film using a variety of no-budget filmmaking techniques so it's technically not itself surrealist. But it includes several nods to Dziga Vertov and Salvador Dali, so you can see the influence there.
This brings me to my point, though. Isn't it impossible to make a surrealist film if all you're doing is copying previous surrealist films, down to the limitations of the technologies used at the time? (Black and white, sepia tone, simulated film artifacts.) In my mind, it's too iconic... people look at this, they are reminded of Salvador Dali, even if they're only passingly familiar with the reference.
Basically Salvador Dali is too much of a cultural icon for a derivative work to still be surrealist. For a *truly* surrealist flash cartoon, you'd want one of those looping songs by TheWeebl, or maybe one of those gibberish random cartoons griefers change their submission to after it passes judgement. Those cartoons are more random and nonsensical than this.
The point of this is obvious: copying Dali.
Ceci n'est pas une caricature surréaliste, as it were.
I hope you get a good grade. It's obvious you learned a lot about surrealism in your class. I just feel like the way you went about it kinda misses the mark. You should try applying the *concept* of surrealism to a flash cartoon using modern techniques and imagery.
Copy the *spirit* of surrealism, not just the look & feel.
That said, you put work into this and it shows. Good job on your project; good luck with your future works. :D
Battosai810 responds:
Wow, thanks for the great review! I completely get your point about copying Dali. This wasn't totally conscious until I finished it, but his work was my main influence in this Flash. I didn't want to just go by the modern practice of putting a series of random images, sounds, and colors into my flash, as that is so quickly written off as another "drug" flash. As it serves, this is more of a tribute to the works of the surrealist than a contributing piece of surrealism. Think of it as "surrealism lite" for the Newgrounds crowd. Judging by the score, I think even this is too avant-garde for many of the people on this site.
Reading advice and feedback from others and taking it to heart isn't a terribly surrealist thing to do, I admit. Glad you liked this, and thanks for the wonderful review :) Marked as helpful.