{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-07T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:38:02","slug":"lage-dor-1930-luis-bunuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Age d&#8217;Or (1930, Luis Bunuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financed by the same guy who produced <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/80\">Blood of a Poet<\/a><\/em>, it turns out.  This one&#8217;s harder to remember than <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16\">Un Chien Andalou<\/a><\/em> for some reason.  So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Scorpion documentary intro (commentary guy leads us to believe that like a scorpion&#8217;s tail, the film is composed of five segments, ending in a sixth that is filled with poison), then bunch of decrepit guys in a shack hike away to fight the bishops, then group of people stumble upon the dead bishops.  Group gets upset at our couple and takes the man away (who angrily kicks a dog).  Possibly the first poop joke in the movies.  Group lays cornerstone for what will be Rome.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lagedor1.jpg\" alt=\"L'age d'Or 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Man kicks a violin down the sidewalk and guy with bread on his head walks through a field, while our man is being led down the street and our woman (speaking with sync sound) kicks a cow out of her bedroom.  After she sees visions in her mirror, he kicks a blind man and escapes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lagedor2.jpg\" alt=\"L'age d'Or 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During a grand party at which the groundskeeper kills his son (to the approval of everyone present) and a fire kills a maid, our couple reconnects.  During a concert after the party, the two sneak off to the garden to suck each other&#8217;s fingers and develop foot fetishes with statues.  The minister of the interior shoots himself after a phone call and ends up on the ceiling, then it&#8217;s another touching scene in the garden.  But our woman leaves our man for the conductor of the concert.  The man hits the bedroom in a rage, spraying pillow feathers everywhere and tossing priests and burning trees out the window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lagedor3.jpg\" alt=\"L'age d'Or 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a Jesus-like man and three guys with fancy hats emerge from a 120-day orgy at a chateau.  Jesus returns briefly to the chateau to kill a woman, losing his beard in the process.  A bunch of scalps hang on a cross.  The end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lagedor4.jpg\" alt=\"L'age d'Or 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pretty interesting movie, and really fun in parts.  The commentary actually helped on this one, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financed by the same guy who produced Blood of a Poet, it turns out. This one&#8217;s harder to remember than Un Chien Andalou for some reason. So&#8230; Scorpion documentary intro (commentary guy leads us to believe that like a scorpion&#8217;s tail, the film is composed of five segments, ending in a sixth that is filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,6,64],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}