November
9, 1950
The Young
and the Damned
The film, Los Olvidados,
Spanish for "The Forgotten Ones"), known in the U.S. as The Young and
the Damned, was released in Mexico, directed by Luis Buñuel.
After conducting some
research, Jesús Camacho and Buñuel came up with a script that Dancigers was
pleased with. The film can be seen in the tradition of social realism, although
it also contains elements of surrealism present in much of Buñuel's work.
Thematically, Los Olvidados
is similar to Buñuel's earlier Spanish film, Las Hurdes. Both films deal with
the never-ending cycle of poverty and despair. Los Olvidados contains such
surrealistic shots as when “a boy throws an egg at the camera lens, where it
shatters and drips” or a scene in which a boy has a dream in slow-motion. The
surrealist dream sequence was actually shot in reverse and switched in post-production.
It earned the Best Director
award at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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