Post by michaelmorin on Jan 25, 2018 12:20:01 GMT
Hello,
I'm not sure that Monty Python was influenced by the Surrealists, but one Ionesco play had weird stuff in it, and many of the MP skits were very similar to that playwright's work, but what made it better, was the television and the fact that you could see this in color now. Few folks knew Ionesco and the Surrealistic move in the film and theater era. And since Americans don't read literature, they never heard of it!
For the most part, Monty Python, was a visual THE GOONS. No one, before, or since, has ever created such amazing imagery, that rivals Luis Bunuel's and his content, as Spike Milligan did on the GOON SHOW with sound effects, and brilliant writing!
All in all, music did not take to Surrealism very well at all, with maybe an example or two here and there, mostly because the majority of music is based on a concept, and design that is set in stone and brick, and you are not a musician if you don't use it ... and the idea in Surrealism, was exactly to break those bonds inside out ... which music did not do, and still doesn't.
I have written about this subject and connected it to the free form improvisations in Krautrock, that were similar, and wanting to break out of the confines of western musical concepts ... but we're a bunch of socialistic defined and designed people, and can not handle that kind of work a whole lot ...specially today ... some Bunuel, would not only get banned, the American Media would make sure no one enters the theater!
thanks
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I'm not sure that Monty Python was influenced by the Surrealists, but one Ionesco play had weird stuff in it, and many of the MP skits were very similar to that playwright's work, but what made it better, was the television and the fact that you could see this in color now. Few folks knew Ionesco and the Surrealistic move in the film and theater era. And since Americans don't read literature, they never heard of it!
For the most part, Monty Python, was a visual THE GOONS. No one, before, or since, has ever created such amazing imagery, that rivals Luis Bunuel's and his content, as Spike Milligan did on the GOON SHOW with sound effects, and brilliant writing!
All in all, music did not take to Surrealism very well at all, with maybe an example or two here and there, mostly because the majority of music is based on a concept, and design that is set in stone and brick, and you are not a musician if you don't use it ... and the idea in Surrealism, was exactly to break those bonds inside out ... which music did not do, and still doesn't.
I have written about this subject and connected it to the free form improvisations in Krautrock, that were similar, and wanting to break out of the confines of western musical concepts ... but we're a bunch of socialistic defined and designed people, and can not handle that kind of work a whole lot ...specially today ... some Bunuel, would not only get banned, the American Media would make sure no one enters the theater!
thanks
more details:
3d scientific animation video