Cracked Eggs

Un chien andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a sixteen-minute surrealist film made in France in 1929 by writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. American film critic Roger Ebert has called Un chien andalou "the most famous short film ever made, and anyone halfway interested in the cinema sees it sooner or later, usually several times."

Critics have suggested that Un chien andalou can be understood as a typically Buñuelian anti-bourgeois, anticlerical piece. The man dragging a piano, donkey and priests has been interpreted as an allegory of man's progress towards his goal being hindered by the baggage of society's conventions that he is forced to bear. Likewise, the image of an eyeball being sliced by a razor can be understood as Buñuel "attacking" the film's viewers.

In spite of these varying interpretations, Buñuel made clear throughout his writings, that between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted."Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis."

Film scholar Ken Dancyger has argued that Un chien andalou might be the genesis of the filmmaking style present in the modern music video. Roger Ebert has called it one of the first low budget independent films.

A 2005 advert for Stella Artois was heavily inspired by the film. The advert's most direct reference is a shot of a cracked egg from which ants emerge.
(from Wikipedia)
See the Stella Artois Advert here.

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Fancy square eggs? All you need is an Egg cuber.

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players take vintage slide collections they have found at garage sales and thrift stores and turn them into pop-rock musical exposes based on these slides.

Watch this on YouTube:
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - Eggs



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You can find an animated version of these marvellous eggs on this Chinese Website among otherwise awful gif animations, God knows where they took it from. They dont crack though.
Animated Link

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