Un Chien Andalou directed exclusively to the artistic sensibility and to the reason of the spectator." Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, "What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?" Through their accomplishment with "Un Chien Andalou", Dalí and Buñuel became the first filmmakers to be
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) Barrel"), a title Debussy found so offensive that Satie changed it to "Avec camaraderie" ("With Friendship"). He may already have been dissatisfied with the work as it stood. After publisher E. Demets rejected the score in the first week of August, Satie told his protégé Alexis Roland-Manuel, "I am going to destroy the "Préludes flasques", and begin anew." He followed through on the second part of this statement with the "Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)", which he completed by August 23 and successfully sold to Demets in September. In his 1948 biography of Satie, Rollo H. Myers cited Roland-Manuel