stackyFACTSLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí didn't just make a movie; they engineered a riot.
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí didn't just make a movie; they engineered a riot. When their anti-clerical, bourgeois-bashing surrealist fever dream L'Age d'Or premiered in 1930, right-wing extremists didn't just write angry Yelp reviews. They stormed the theater, hurled purple ink at the screen, assaulted the audience, and destroyed surrealist paintings in the lobby. The police rewarded this fascist temper tantrum by banning the film for half a century.
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