Speaking of Salvador Dalí’s eccentricities, what crazy things do they show him doing in this movie?
In the college scenes, Salvador mostly gets drunk a lot. At a dinner party, a very drunk Salvador shouts to everyone at the table, “I’m Salvador Dalí, savior of modern art!” As he leaves the party, he shouts to some police officers on the street, “Viva la revolución!” (English translation: “Long live the revolution!) The officers chase him and Federico down the street. Federico and Salvador duck in an alley and “get close,” and it looks like they’re going to kiss, but they don’t. In another scene, Salvador tells a group of instructors that they’re too stupid to judge him, and he gets expelled from school. There are a few scenes where Pattinson does the “bug-eyed crazy look” that Dalí was known for in real life. After Salvador has seen Federico and Magdalena having sex, Salvador freaks out in another scene. A female student catches him rolling around, ranting, sobbing, covered in paint, with his head completely shaved. (Shades of Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver.” Or Britney Spears in 200
