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Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) |
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- Marshall McLuhan, Annie Hall, 1977. The medium was not always the message... Bunuel did not fancy flying to New York to be in a cinema queue with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton for a single joke. The $39,000 offer was good but “what I wouldn’t do for a dollar, I wouldn’t do for a million.” Besides, he was deaf... Woody was going to spring him from behind a poster to suckerpunch a know-all behind him. “I happen to have Mr. Bunuel right here...” and Bunuel would let fly: “I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work!” Laughter ensues... Bunuel said he was replaced by: Mac Luhan (sic). When Bunuel saw the film, “I didn’t like it at all.” Woody finally got him - in his Midnight In Paris, 2010, when a young Bunuel was played French TV actor Adrien de Van.
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