# Why Andalusia? (Dali film) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276 "2004-03-14T20:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/1 "2004-03-14T20:38:32Z")
Just curious as to why the film was called “Un Chien Andalou”, as opposed to any other country/province. Was there a particular purpose? Or was the title much like the film, an image without symbolic meaning? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/2 "2004-03-14T20:40:15Z")
It’s a pun. No, wait… that would be Dadaism. It’s a bad dream. Yeah, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/3 "2004-03-14T21:27:12Z")
It wasn’t chosen for any particular meaning but like a dream , people might read meaning into it after the event. ---
**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/4 "2004-03-15T00:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > It wasn’t chosen for any particular meaning but like a dream , people might read meaning into it after the event. I figured as much, but is there any source that actually says this? ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/5 "2004-03-15T01:42:23Z")
I may be wrong, but somewhere in my memory lurks the hazy notion that it is a reference to Dali and Bunuel’s friend Federico Garcia Lorca, who was Andalusian. According to historian and Lorca biographer Ian Gibson: > [@](#): > > El perro andaluz es Lorca, de eso no hay duda. Sin embargo, mas que una critica, pienso que Un perro andaluz es un homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/6 "2004-03-15T01:47:08Z")
Sorry, premature submission syndrome - no one is immune. Translation of Ian Gibson’s quote: > [@](#): > > There is no doubt that the Andalusian dog was Lorca. However, rather than criticism, I think that Le chien andalou was a homage to Federico Garcia Lorca. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/7 "2004-03-15T05:50:35Z")
I don’t know, but it paved the way for the lyrics of that kickass song from the Pixies, “Debaser”. ‘I am un… CHIEN ANDALUSIA!!!’ Go listen to it if you don’t know what I’m talking about! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/8 "2004-03-15T13:32:16Z")
This is about a film, so I’ll move this thread to our arts forum, Cafe Society. bibliophage moderator GQ ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/9 "2004-03-15T14:29:50Z")
> [@Sigmundex](#): > > I don’t know, but it paved the way for the lyrics of that kickass song from the Pixies, “Debaser”. > > ‘I am un… CHIEN ANDALUSIA!!!’ > > Go listen to it if you don’t know what I’m talking about! not to mention the line “slicin’ up eyeballs, I want you to know!”, which is a direct reference to the notorious scene in the movie with a close-up of a goat-eye getting sliced. ---
**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-andalusia-dali-film/234276/10 "2004-03-16T04:56:17Z")
Thanks Martha, that’s the kind of info I was looking for.