mms said:
i was secretly slightly disappointed with that one, yeah it was visually stunning, claustrophobic and crazy but hmmm i dunno
maybe i never bought aguirre as sane in the first place. i think i was also burdened by thinking that it was going to be more than loosely based on the real life story, not that it needed to be, but i was expecting something different.
i mean, i did like it but maybe not as much as i was expecting...
i do love the way the director werner herzog just goes totally mental sometimes, like the scene where theyre riding real wooden rafts down fucking terrifying rapids and have absolutely no control and the camera lens is all covered in spray cos he's on there too about to get drowned
the horse thing is amazing too,
or in fitzcarraldo where they really are dragging that steam ship over the mountain...
the backstory to the film is pretty amazing... isnt this the one where klaus kinski threatened to leave and herzog said if ihe did he'd shoot him and then himself? and where the cast and crew actually got lost in the jungle while making it and nearly starved but the director just kept them going, kept them in peroid costume.
then when they got out of the jungle it was christmass eve and there was only one flight out of peru that wasnt cancelled and they had to draw lots for seats but they lost. then the plane crashed and only one woman survived cos everyone else got blown off her row and the empty seats acted like the wing on a sycamore seed and she spiralled down into the jungle where she was lost for a month. i think he went back to make a documentary about that...