thots on this mans work
>>67930228
who is that? the zodiac killer?
>>67930832
Werner Herzog
fuck him he should have been killed there along with Kinski
okay
Good movies.
Jack Reacher was tight
Turned into too much of a reddit meme figure in his old age.
>>67930228
He was great in the birdcage
>Rio Maranon, 3 July 1979
A local man had hollowed out a tree trunk and filled it with a hundred pounds of cocaine, which he set adrift. He followed the floating tree trunk for weeks in a dugout, until he reached Leticia, over the border in Colombia. There the trail of the drifting tree and its escort was lost.
When I went into the forest to take a shit, a pig followed me, snuffling and waiting with shameless greed for my shit. Even when I threw sticks at it, the animal took only a few symbolic steps backward.
>Rio Maranon, 4 July 1979
In the Rio Santiago the body of a soldier who had been shot came floating along, on his back, swollen, the legs bent at the knees and the arms bent likewise; he looked as if he were raising his hands. Birds had already hacked out his eyes and eaten away part of the face. The comandante here advised letting him float by - so as to avoid any trouble; they would have to deal with him farther downstream. He gave the swimmer a gentle nudge with his boot, and the corpse spun around once before the current took hold of him.
...
Our cannister with twenty-six kilos of pure curare, for poisoning arrow tips, made a great impression. For a spoonful of this black, sticky mass, you can get yourself a woman to marry, I was told in a respectful whisper by a boatman, as he cleaned his toes with a screwdriver.
>Santa Maria de Nieve - Rio Cenepa, 5 July 1979
Apparently rumors are swirling around to the effect that we are planning to dig a canal from the Rio Cenepa to the Rio Maranon, and that they will dry up the fields. A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
the definitive madman of film
>>67933723
Yeah, the production of The Revenant is nothing compared to Fitzcarraldo
>>67933723
posting more in case anyone is interested
>Another argument broke out over who would translate, and eventually the translating was done by someone affiliated with the Indian council from farther downriver, who, as Jaime de Aguilar told us afterward, having listened from close by, had intentionally distorted the meaning of our words and even translated some parts completely wrong. He wanted to play himself up as a protector of the comunidad. It was crucial that we be prevented from digging a canal that would partially transform the settlement into an island. Among some in the crowd a brand of hostility sprang up that I had encountered previously only in the reports of early seafarers, except that now the natives were wearing "John Travolta Fever" and "Disneyland" T-shirts. It ended with everyone shouting at me and making menacing gestures, and one man brandished a spear and forced his way toward me, snorting furiously. He thrust the spear right at my belly, but retracted it with only centimeters to spare. Somehow I realized that this was just a sort of ritual attack, and to my own astonishment I stood there very calmly.
>>67934048
>Saramiriza, 9 July 1979
>At the military outpost of Teniente Pinglo none of the soldiers knew how high the water level was. They merely pointed out that a few days ago a boat with eleven men on board had disappeared without a trace.
Suddenly we were facing a wall of raging water, into which we crashed like a projectile. We received a blow so powerful that the boat went spinning into the air, the propeller howling in the void. For a moment we hit the water vertically, and I saw like an apparition a second wall of water towering in front of us, which struck us even harder, twirling the boat into the air again, this time in the opposite direction. Before we entered the rapids I had already secured the anchor chain so firmly that it could not fly overboard and get tangled in the screw, and the gas tank was fastened in place with iron clamps, but suddenly the battery, as big as a truck's, went hurtling through the air. Or rather, for a moment it hovered in the air on its straining cables directly in front of my face, and my head collided with it...
In Borja at the lower end of the Pongo they did not want to believe their eyes, because no one had survived the passage when the water level was sixteen feet above normal, and our level had been eighteen.
>San Francisco, 24 July 1979
>A report by telex from Walter in Iquitos reporting on the situation on the Cenepa. The group of Aguarunas from far downstream, who want to call attention to themselves, informed Vivanco that our camp would be attacked, and journalists would be brought along... At first it was just a geographical decision: two rivers that almost touch each other but are separated by a steep ridge, but now there is a political dimension, and possibly, lurking in the shadows behind that, a military one. For now I push aside the thought, hard to shake off, that on the very location chosen for our film a war with Ecuador could break out.
IMO Errol Morris is a much better documentation but you've gotta respect early Herzog's ability to throw himself on a cactus, move that ship and eat that shoe. He was such a bad ass.
>>67934298
errol morris makes educational documentaries and nice looking commercial but herzog makes capital-f Films
>>67933723
>reading this in Herzogs voice
Made my day senpai
He was one of the greatest. One of the few masters still alive. He doesn't make great films anymore, he makes good movies tho. More than most old people that used to be good.
>>67933723
>A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
Goddamn
Imagine him directing The Revenant
