Many things are sliced in front of the camera BearThe FX series is set in a Chicago restaurant, but the newly released third season features something rather unusual: a human eye.
The cracked Peeper appears in a montage in the ninth episode of the season, which also features footage of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Red shoes (1948), Alfred Hitchcock dizziness (1958) and other famous films. The eyeball shot is also taken from a famous film by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel andalusian doga 1929 short film that is considered a cornerstone of Surrealism.
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andalusian dogLike many other surrealist works, Surrealism employs a dreamlike logic, floating freely between a series of hauntingly bizarre images with no discernible cause-effect structure linking them. It is widely praised for a single shot in which a man runs a razor across a woman’s eye. The action is simulated, of course, though a quick cut to footage of the blade passing over the eyes of real animals makes it seem real.
In fact, according to Surrealist lore, the image of the knife cutting through the moon “was like a razor slicing through the eye,” something Buñuel dreamed about and even told Dalí. That conversation led the two to make the short, which recently ranked #169 on the 100 Short Films of All Time list. Sight and Sound The greatest film of all time, as voted by the critics. (Although it’s still six months before the film opens in the US, the full version is already circulated widely online.)
exist BearIn The Eye, the eyeball shot appears in a sequence designed to convey magic and entertainment value. Lionel Boyce’s character, Marcus, a chef, is watching a movie clip on his laptop that includes a card game and an alien invasion, and he marvels at it.
Martin Scorsese’s voiceover conveys how filmmakers make subtle adjustments to everyday life to provide an alternative perspective on life. “There’s something else here, and I don’t know what,” Scorsese says in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). “By the very nature of our lives, there are things that are not part of our daily lives, but we are trying to create something different.”
