1972 Check out our picks for movies that (hopefully) won't keep you up at night. Herzog, a German director who speaks of the “voodoo of location,” took his actors and crew into a remote jungle district where fever was frequent and starvation seemed like a possibility.
34, No. There are also men stranded, trapped, irresistibly carried forward in a direction not necessarily of their choosing, and going round in circles. 6 Marlow and Willard are narrators who take us on a journey towards a meeting with a character (called Kurtz in both the novella and the film) who has driven himself on into megalomania, but here we follow the Kurtz-like character, Aguirre, more directly. In my slightly unwell state, I craved the onscreen sight of dry, open land.
Is it that Aguirre is an agent of God, bringing the anger of an Old Testament God down on his avaricious people? It almost seems to be another presence in the film, the personification of nature observing the madness of humans consume itself, and burn out. ( Log Out / Grizzly Man is the only other Herzog film I have seen and it happens to be my current favorite documentary of all time, so needless to say I was quite excited to see another film by him.
Aguirre rules with a reign of terror.
Everyone begins to lose their mind and deny reality.
According to him, ‘Put under extreme pressure, people give you many more insights into their innermost being and tell us about who we really are’. Visually, we are given a beautiful and haunting film. In fact, I felt completely relieved (and well again) when the expedition finally and utterly failed, and the monkeys reigned supreme on the raft. I was watching Werner Herzog’s West German classic with a queasy stomach the other day.
The audio story of this movie is wild and I imagine not even close to the wildest story about the making of this thing. Always further. "the earth i walk upon sees me and quakes.". Film #1 of 'It's June Jim, but not as we know it.'. In 1971, while Werner Herzog was location scouting for the film in Peru, his reservation on LANSA Flight 508 was cancelled due to a last-minute change in itinerary.
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For this opening sequence, Herzog told me, “We used a strange instrument, which we called a ‘choir-organ.’ It has inside it three dozen different tapes running parallel to each other in loops. It was something of a relief when they found the Amazonian village, which is in a dry clearing, even though it led to the beginning of their ultimate downfall. Not Rated Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. He is later found strangled, and those that remain feast on his meal. Aguirre, in this sense, is the tragic hero who succeeds in creating meaning out of the meaninglessness of existence. Report this film, "That man is a head taller than me. A large expedition of Spanish adventurers, led by Gonzalo Pizzaro, set off from the Peruvian highlands in the late 1560. The captured Indian speaks solemnly to the last remnants of a Spanish expedition seeking the fabled El Dorado, the city of gold.
We already know that these people are doomed.
185– 94) sees the director and the actor as ‘two versions of the same madness, barely under control’ (p. 193). ‘Tragic Jungle’ Review: A Mayan Legend About a Man-Eating Demon Is Recast by the Female Gaze. Water hits the camera lens. but "why?
The actors weren't pretending to be exhausted, fearful, and paranoid, between the deadly Amazon jungle and Klaus Kinski's powder keg temper their suffering was not only real it was legendary! The physical journey may be downriver towards the sea but the psychological journey mirrors Marlow’s upriver in the novella, The Heart of Darkness, and Willard’s (Martin Sheen) in the film Apocalypse Now. The only document to survive from this lost expedition is the diary of the monk Gaspar de Carvajal.”, Werner Herzog’s Amazon journey was the hardest film there ever has been made (I’d rather have joined the “Apocalypse Now” shoot), so remote and cut-off from typical filming locations, I don’t believe I’ll ever see another filmmaker in my lifetime replicate anything…. Aguirre sees himself as the very essence of treachery: ‘I am the great traitor. This is the film which explores human folly – and failure – in the purest, clearest way.
For when you want to wallow in despair. His decision it seems is to embrace destiny, to throw himself headlong into his fate in such a way that he is no longer at the mercy of fate; to become the wrath of God in order that he should no longer be at the mercy of that terrible anger. The filming of “Aguirre” is a legend in film circles. Cinematographer: Thomas Mauch. A padre hands him a Bible, “the word of God.” He holds it to his ear but can hear nothing. As a god he ‘despises’ mere mortals. An easy way of seeing how…, Darren Carver-Balsiger 851 films 17,678 1279 Edit. At the epicentre of the material and spiritual deterioration of the expedition is Kinski's mesmering, glassy-eyed Lope de Aguirre. The actors are consumed by the presence of the unforgiving environment, closing in on them and lapping at their feet. Certainly, for the post-war generation of Germans in the early 1970s, dealing with the legacy of the Second World War, the comparisons would have been apparent. The Awesome: Klaus Kinski. The film may be based on the journal of the real Gaspar de Carvajal, who accompanied an expedition to Peru under Gonzalo Pizarro (half-brother of the brutal Francisco Pizarro who conquered the Incas), but it is a fiction conflating the story of the historical Aguirre with de Carvajal’s account of a different expedition.
Little wonder that he has directed many operas. Cynthia L. Stone, ‘Aguirre Goes to the Movies: Twentieth-Century Visions of Colonial-Era “Relaciones”’, Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, Vol. In relation to Aguirre and the nature of history and truth, and the creation of narratives of the past, see Luisela Alvaray, ‘Filming the Discovery of America: How and Whose History is Being Told’, Film-Historia, Vol. 35–44. He doesn't lose his mind in the jungle so much as recognize right away that the chaos of the jungle suits his particular brand of grand delusion — and then proceeds to embrace the possibilities. Director and screenwriter: Werner Herzog. Also in the party, along with soldiers and slaves, are a priest, Gaspar de Carvajal; the fatuous nobleman Fernando de Guzman; Ursua’s wife, Flores; Aguirre’s daughter Inez, and a black slave named Okello, who sadly tells one of the women, “I was born a prince, and men were forbidden to look on me.
On the other hand, he is the ultimate rebel against authority, refusing to accept the power of the leader of the small advanced party, Don Pedro de Ursua, or of the leader of the expedition, Pizarro, or, even, of the Spanish king, Philip II. Of course Herzog literally dragged a real ship across land to make the film, despite urgent warnings by engineers that the cables would snap and slice everyone in half.
A documentary about the shooting of that film, “Burden of Dreams,” by Les Blank, is as harrowing as the film itself.
Aguirre declares himself leader, and Ursúa is taken into the jungle and hanged. Around his neck hangs a golden bauble.
Guzman’s dead body is found soon after. This is the start of my Werner Herzog marathon. | Until that is, perhaps, somebody else with the drive to create meaning out of the meaninglessness of existence comes along and brings about your resurrection.
His stories begin in a straightforward manner, but their result is incalculable, and there is no telling where they may lead: They conclude not in an “ending” but in the creation of a mood within us -- a spiritual or visionary feeling. The natives press their attack, and the deadly arrows flying through the air are endless. It’s the 1500’s, and a team of fully armored Spanish Conquistadores, dragging cannons and dozens of chained ‘Indian’ slaves, stumble down the Andes mountains into the jungles towards the east, in search of the fabled Inca country of ‘El Dorado’. Consider how Herzog handles an early crisis, when one of the rafts is caught in a whirlpool. I emphasize the music because the sound of a Herzog film is organically part of its effect.
He brings with him, it seems, not the love of God but the wrath of God; and when Aguirre takes control, Gaspar makes clear that the historical position of the Church ‘was always on the side of the strong’. Happy times!
A bunch of idiots go to South America and pack the wrong clothes.
A horse goes mad, he orders it thrown overboard, and men mutter darkly that it would have supplied meat for a week. View production, box office, & company info, ‘Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds’ Review: Werner Herzog’s Meteor Mystery Tour, 16 Rock Stars Turned Movie Composers, From Trent Reznor to Jonny Greenwood (Photos), ‘Tragic Jungle’ Review: A Mayan Legend About a Man-Eating Demon Is Recast by the Female Gaze.
At one point he offers Flores a slow loris he has found. The point is that death is the destiny of this expedition.
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