1. I know that Dali had a mustache like that, but it just makes Mr. Spunk Ransom look hilariously ridiculous. Maybe his actual acting will make me believe he is Dali, but till then, I'm going to chuckle every time I see this picture.

hehehe

Posted at 11:13AM on Oct 29th 2008 by Erin

2. Dali's own mustache was achieved with the use of hair extensions mounted on drinking straws for easy removal and re-application, and was every bit as outrageously over-the-top and fake-looking as the one in this photo.

Interestingly enough, when Dali met The Beatles in the mid-sixties, George Harrison offered his wife Gala 300,000 pounds for a single hair from his mustache. Gala gladly took his money and handed over the souvenir, but never mentioned that the hair had originally belonged to someone else.

Posted at 9:01PM on Nov 1st 2008 by Victor Marzowicz-Velasquez

3. Dali had the moustache so get used to it. But in the film Pattinson only has it for the last quarter of the film. People who saw the film at the sold out showing at Raindance had nothing but praise for it. Some comments:

"The passion between Robert Pattinson playing Dali and Javier Beltran as Lorca is wonderful, when they are happy you can't help but smile with them and when they are tense you will be gripping the armrests of your chair."

"I have two favourite scenes which I thought captured the torturous and yet exciting feelings that the leads were successfully attempting to portray. The first is when they were riding bicycles and playing on the beach, the ease the fun in there relationship before they had crossed the physical line was picture perfect romance, truly heartwarming even though the whole time you knew it could never end well. My second favourite scene is when Lorca goes to visit Dali in a hotel 8 years after they parted under awkward circumstances. You can actually feel Lorca's pain at seeing Dali hide under affections and exaggerated eccentricity and at the same time feel Dali's need to just push his guard down and grab the only person he's every really loved.
The final scene of Dali with the black paint (no I wont go into any more detail than that it would ruin it!) is cinematic genius, so powerful and moving."

Abotu Rob:"He is really, really funny. There’s one scene, where he skives off an art lesson, quietly chases Lorca and his girlfriend down the street and nips round them so when they see him he can act casual. He plays it beyond perfectly, with truly awesome comic timing."

"Robert Pattinson plays Dali as such a captivating mix of guileless charm, self-awareness and awkwardness in the early part of the film that it’s easy to see why Lorca would fall for him."

Posted at 12:28PM on Oct 29th 2008 by jo

4. Is it just me, or does that mustache look drawn on, like somebody got a hold of Mr. Pattinson's yearbook photo?

Posted at 9:01PM on Oct 29th 2008 by Yoda's House of Pancakes

5. I so thought the same thing when I first saw the photo over at EW.

Btw, here's a hilarious quote from Dali about Lorca:

"He was homosexual, as everyone knows, and madly in love with me. He tried to screw me twice .... I was extremely annoyed, because I wasn’t homosexual, and I wasn’t interested in giving in. Besides, it hurts. So nothing came of it. But I felt awfully flattered vis-à-vis the prestige. Deep down I felt that he was a great poet and that I owe him a tiny bit of the Divine Dalí's ass****."

I love the "Besides, it hurts" part, which makes one thinks he tried it at least once ...

Posted at 4:03AM on Oct 30th 2008 by Movie_Dearest

6. This movie will be terrible.

Posted at 3:43PM on Oct 30th 2008 by thirdmanphilip

7. Salvador Dali is an extremely interesting character for Rob to play. With his intensity he will do a wonderful job I am sure and it will help him out of the typecasting regime that most actors find themselves in. I am interested in seeing his future works, very curious.

Posted at 4:18PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Crystal

8. I was sure that photo was a mock-up. Because it is hilarious.

Posted at 10:24PM on Oct 30th 2008 by AJ Wiley

9. Rob Pattinson gives a sensational performance in this film as does Javier Beltran. Its a tremendous film. Pattinson should be put forward for a best supporting actor oscar.

Posted at 9:27AM on Oct 31st 2008 by carol

10. Actually, your information is dated. Yes, back in the mid-sixties, while living under the last fascist dictator in Europe, Dali DID insist Lorca's desire for him was unreciprocated. However, in the 1980s, he summoned Lorca biographer Ian Gibson to his deathbed to tell him the entire story of their relationship. He said he deeply loved Lorca, felt they were soul-mates, but that though he'd been desirous and willing, they'd been unable to consummate their relationship (at least in terms of the heterocentric model) because he'd been "too scared" and it hurt too much, so they'd had to stop. Instead, they'd decided Lorca should sleep with a female friend of theirs while Dali watched and masturbated -- a kind of "consummation by proxy," if you will. And so, the story depicted in the story is EXACTLY as Dali himself told it to Gibson, and the very fact that he summoned a biographer to pass this story on indicates that he wanted it told. And so it is being told.

I just find it really frustrating that the press feels the need to emphasize the non-existent "controversy" over the veracity of the story depicted in the film, based on an ancient, sensationalistic quote from a man in denial about his sexuality.

Posted at 8:47PM on Nov 1st 2008 by Victor Marzowicz-Velasquez