{"id":278,"date":"2013-03-05T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/blog\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2020-12-07T02:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:54:49","slug":"the-strange-passions-of-luis-bunuel-devout-atheist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?page_id=278","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Passions of Luis Bunuel, Devout Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">(First published on time.com and used with the written permission of the author and publication of first instance.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">By Ed Grant<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?attachment_id=1846\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Milky-Way-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Milky-Way-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Milky-Way.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Blasphemy just ain\u2019t what it used to be. On television every week one WWF wrestler headbutts his opponents in the crotch and then makes the sign of the cross. \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien\u201d offers shtick featuring an actor dressed up as Jesus Christ. And the pint-sized, helium-voiced denizens of &#8220;South Park&#8221; frequently meet up with Christ himself, whether it be hosting a cable-access show or taking the devil on in a wrestling match. These days it seems that an artist\/entertainer would have to go pretty far (<em>Piss Christ<\/em>, anyone?) before he or she can actually outrage the majority of the zoned-out American public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">But it wasn\u2019t always that way. Back in 1930, a Spanish filmmaker living in France debuted his first solo feature, a dreamlike exercise in l\u2019amour fou entitled <em>L\u2019Age d\u2019Or<\/em><i> (<\/i><em>The Golden Age)<\/em>. The film concludes with the introduction of a man described as \u201cthe leader and chief instigator\u201d of a band of \u201cfiends.\u201d As the gent steps out of his chateau, we\u2019re confronted with\u2026Jesus Christ. The bearded one then takes a young woman back into his lair, and screams are heard from behind the door. Cut to: a crucifix covered in women\u2019s scalps, THE END. Protests over this sequence, and the film in general, in local newspapers caused a group of fervent rightists to invade the theater showing it, where they sliced up the screen, attacked the audience physically, and destroyed the original Surrealist canvases adorning the theater\u2019s lobby. Others found the filmmaker\u2019s artistic act of provocation to be a work of genius: avowed fan Henry Miller proclaimed that \u201cthey should take Bunuel and crucify him, or at least burn him at the stake. He deserves the greatest reward that man can bestow upon man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The man behind this provocation was Luis Bunuel, currently the subject of a comprehensive two-month retrospective at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art in honor of the centennial of his birth. \u201cDon Luis\u201d was actually born in February of 1900, but the delay between the actual event and its celebration makes perfect sense, as there are few filmmakers who are as appropriate as this rengade stylist to lead moviegoers into the 21st century (Kubrick being another prominent, but far too easy, choice for ringing in 2001).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Several of today\u2019s most prominent filmmakers betray the influence of Bunuel. David Lynch\u2019s radically bizarre first feature <em>Eraserhead<\/em> frankly couldn\u2019t have existed without the example of Bunuel\u2019s rulebreaking Surrealist masterwork <em>Un Chien Andalou<\/em> (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar\u2019s deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Bunuel\u2019s Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Bunuel\u2019s giddily psychotic <em>The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz<\/em> (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar\u2019s <em>Live Flesh <\/em>(1997). And former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam is a clear Bunuel acolyte\u2014the opening sequence of his <em>Brazil<\/em> (1985) seemingly picking up on the imagery that ended Bunuel\u2019s final film, <em>That Obscure Object of Desire<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Unlike his successors, Bunuel\u2019s work transcends all genre classifications. He was a critic of social and religious mores, who is best known for what he grudgingly called his \u201cobsessions.\u201d Objective parties might more appropriately call them fetishes, but Bunuel was quick to state for the record that these were not his own fetishes. In the delightful book <em>Objects of Desire: Conversations with Luis Bunuel<\/em>, he notes that &#8220;I am attracted by foot fetishism as a picturesque and humorous element. Sexual perversion repulses me, but I can be attracted to it intellectually&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">His protests to the contrary, one can see the same images appear again and again in his films, from <em>Chien Andalou<\/em> to <em>That Obscure Object<\/em>: insects; eyes being harmed; blind men as unscrupulous predators; sheep as serene creatures\/roosters and hens as evil ones; and the most famous Bunuelian motif of all, erotically charged images of feet and shoes. Though he declared he maintained an emotional distance from the majority of his \u201cobsessions,\u201d <em>Objects of Desire <\/em>does contain the admission that a personal fascination did indeed lie behind the inclusion in his films of various sequences showing the bared thighs of young women. More importantly, he never denied the personal nature of another of his obsessions, namely the use of religious icons and rituals as a vehicle for satire and political statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Raised Catholic, Bunuel\u2019s religious training formulated his later, jaded worldview. One childhood game found him entertaining his sisters by pretending to be a priest saying mass; an early sexual experience occurred when he began to study under the Jesuits, who, he revealed to one interviewer, would attempt to channel young boys\u2019 sexual urges by encouraging them to masturbate to a statue of the Blessed Mother. Years later, while living at a now-famed students\u2019 residence in Madrid (where he first encountered Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali), Bunuel took his childhood game a step further by wandering the streets dressed as a priest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">A photo from this era shows Bunuel is full nun-drag\u2014making it no surprise that early on in <em>Chien Andalou<\/em> (after the infamous eyeball slitting scene, featuring Bunuel himself) our hero is seen bicycling through the streets wearing nun-like apparel. Later on, as the hero attempts to sexually attack the heroine, he is required to pull ropes connected to a variety of weighty impediments\u2014including two reclining Marist brothers (one of whom is purportedly Dali). <em>L\u2019Age d\u2019Or<\/em> followed soon after, but Bunuel was not able to return to his trademark imagery until the 1950s, as the political climate in the countries he inhabited (Spain and America) made it impossible for him to work again on a personal project. In 1946, Bunuel moved to Mexico, where his work on pedestrian comedies and the great success of his gritty, yet still dreamlike, juvenile delinquent saga <em>Los Olvidados<\/em> (1950) made him a bankable commodity. He proceeded to make a series of torrid melodramas and light comedies that pleased his studio bosses and also allowed him to indulge his sacrilegious imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The Christian images he first used in his Mexican films were, he claimed, all based in reality. Thus we see a shrine to the Virgin in a slaughterhouse (<em>El Bruto<\/em>, 1952), a bloody statue of Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar (<em>Illusion Travels by Streetcar<\/em>, 1953), and a man viewing a priest\u2019s ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys\u2019 feet\u2026leading to sexually-charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved (<em>El\/This Strange Passion<\/em>, 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in <em>Archibaldo de la Cruz<\/em> when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft\u2014producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Bunuel reached the height of blasphemy in 1961 when he returned to Spain to make <em>Virdiana<\/em>, a film that was instantly repudiated by the Franco government\u2014right after it had won the Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A biting social satire about a novice (Silvia Pinal) who visits her lecherous uncle\u2019s estate before taking her final vows, the film is rife with blasphemous images: a cross that doubles as a pocketknife, a cross of thorns being tossed on a blazing fire, a group of mangy beggars assembling into a \u201cLast Supper\u201d tableau vivant. The Spanish government banned the film, but it was a worldwide success and reestablished Bunuel in the front rank of international filmmakers\u2014and sacrilegious troublemakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The last two must-see religious-themed Bunuel films draw their plotlines from actual historical events. <em>Simon of the Desert<\/em> (1965) is a low-budget production about a holy man who lives in a remote part of the desert, perched on a high pillar. The devil comes to tempt Simon, in the form of a sexy young woman (Silvia Pinal); for her final act, she shows this ascetic a vision of a modern day \u201cblack mass,\u201d taking him inside a noisy, sweaty, rockin\u2019 1960s discotheque! <em>The Milky Way<\/em>, Bunuel\u2019s final statement on Catholicism, is an episodic exploration of noted historical heretics, including Bunuel\u2019s professed \u201cmaster,\u201d the Marquis de Sade (Michel Piccoli). Two pilgrims en route to a Spanish shrine travel from era to era, and also have \u201cvisions\u201d (including one of a jovial, chuckling Christ chiding his stern Apostles) as they try to sort out what, if any, of the things they\u2019re hearing are true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">It\u2019s important to note, however, that the film that probably best illustrates Bunuel\u2019s feelings about Christianity is also one of his most sober-minded, the Mexican production <em>Nazarin<\/em> (1958). Hailed by Christian critics as well as Bunuel\u2019s usual contingent of nonconformist fans, the film concerns a small-town priest whose attempts to dispense real Christian charity result in derision, poverty, exile, and arrest. <em>Nazarin<\/em> demonstrates the essential difference between Bunuel\u2019s brand of blasphemy and that currently practiced in American pop-culture: Bunuel\u2019s gags and images contain a strong sense of outrage. Even though he lost his faith in his teens, Bunuel continued to count among his closest friends a number of liberal-minded priests and monks. He also remained fascinated by church history and ceremony long after he became one of the most famous atheists of all time. His thorough knowledge of the institution he personally refuted and took great delight in mocking established him as that most dangerous of heretics, a blasphemer with a purpose. Though many of his most noted works shine a spotlight on the hypocrisy of organized religion, he balanced this viewpoint with the acknowledgement, in <em>Nazarin<\/em> and <em>Viridiana<\/em>, that the principles of Christian charity are noble and laudable, although sadly unworkable in modern society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Bunuel was more comfortable talking about his atheism in interviews than he was exploring the mysteries of his films. He was so adamant about his position that he boasted of a spiteful prank he hoped to pull on his \u201catheist, communist\u201d friends. When he knew he was about die, he stated \u201cI will call a priest\u2026confess loudly\u2026accuse myself of everything, say I believe in God and tell them to take my death as an example. \u2018You\u2019ve shared my sinister beliefs,\u2019 [I\u2019ll tell them] \u2018look at how I die.\u2019 And then I\u2019ll die and go straight to hell.\u201d The likelihood is that, if there is an afterlife, Don Luis is sharing a few carefully-made martinis (his specialty) with Fellini, Kurosawa, and his first cinematic hero Fritz Lang. If not, well\u2026he did always proclaim to anyone who would listen, \u201cI am a Catholic and an atheist, thank God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><b>Trailers:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The majority of Bunuel\u2019s films have been released on home video, with some titles unfortunately going in and out of distribution; for a reliable list, try www.moviesunlimited.com. The best books about Bunuel are the aforementioned <i>Objects of Desire<\/i> and <i>Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography<\/i>. Bunuel\u2019s own writings can be found in <i>An Unspeakable Betrayal<\/i> and his autobiography (largely ghostwritten by his frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere), <i>My Last Sigh<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">c. 2000, 2013 Ed Grant<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(First published on time.com and used with the written permission of the author and publication of first instance.) By Ed Grant Blasphemy just ain\u2019t what it used to be. 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