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Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
Tim Heidecker, Josh Frank
3.32 AVERAGE
54 reviews for:
Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
Tim Heidecker, Josh Frank
3.32 AVERAGE
Loved the trial scene and little nods to catchphrases and other references to the movies.
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced
This book/graphic novel/movie treatment is exactly as advertised - the film Dali and the Marx Brothers never got to make!
Funny, surreal, and well-researched.
Funny, surreal, and well-researched.
The three stars are mainly for the gorgeous art - I found this story utterly unfollowable, though it does click in places. I get that it's meant to be surreal and abstract but mostly I just found myself dying to finish it. The fact that it took nearly 3 weeks to read a 200 page graphic novel is telling!
The illustrations are ravishingly lovely, but the story is cobbled together from Dali's fragments of a script, artistic license, and approximations of Marx humor.
Okay so first you need to understand what this is - Harpo Marx and Salvador Dali were planning to make a film together at MGM (Irving Thalberg reign) in the 1930s. They had a mutual respect and found their talents worked well together.
The movie was never made, but a treatment was written and presented by Marx & Dali to MGM brass. And Dali made a lot of notes and sketches about what the film would look like and what gags would be included.
Taking all that material, which was hard to track down, Josh Frank commissioned an artist and a comedian to help build a graphic novel to imagine what this movie might have been. It's a wild and crazy surrealist ride with gorgeous, colorful graphics on thick paper.
Definitely worth checking out for the place it holds in Hollywood history.
The movie was never made, but a treatment was written and presented by Marx & Dali to MGM brass. And Dali made a lot of notes and sketches about what the film would look like and what gags would be included.
Taking all that material, which was hard to track down, Josh Frank commissioned an artist and a comedian to help build a graphic novel to imagine what this movie might have been. It's a wild and crazy surrealist ride with gorgeous, colorful graphics on thick paper.
Definitely worth checking out for the place it holds in Hollywood history.
This is a gorgeous graphic novel with an inspiring as heck past. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes different styles and comedy!
Little disappointed. On paper, great idea and story that works better in a comic form than it’s original intended film. But you can tell where the Dali starts and ends and where the remainder story feels too contemporary like there are two voices contrasting rather than being seamless. I could NOT tell you what was going on. Also, he’s a good artist but I don’t think he was the right choice for illustrating this.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
