At one point, the movie set was raided by a hunting party from a nearby tribe, leading to several injured people. That this is just a footnote in the crazyness of this project says a lot.
The nearby tribe was the one they were trying to force into being part of the movie. Herzog and his crew invited themselves into indigenous land, forcing them to participate, the indigenous tribe had to attack them in order to regain their land. They found another tribe, a more peaceful one. And it wasn’t just “several injured”, people died, especially indigenous people who were treated as slaves and less than human. Herzog should be rotting in jail for the crimes he committed
@@AR-GuidesAndMore My dad was there, there's an article about it in french. I"m not just inventing things, they put my dad in jail for 2 months because he was helping the indigenous tribe.
Many who say they love this movie seem to only talk about the hardships and crazyness of making the movie...and I agree. The movie by itself is just some rich idiot trying to push a boat over a mountain, so not much of a story or point to it. Watching the documentaries beforehand makes watching the movie a better experience.
I imagine the shooting of this movie was as complicated as Apocalypse Now, besides, I realized that making a movie is stressful and at the same time funnny
When it comes to Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski movies I think Aguirre is better. Here in Germany Kinski is often made fun of and there's the notion that fitzcarraldo is only popular because of kinskis insane behaviour
Too bad it's not popular in Germany because they moved a boat up across a fucking hill in the fucking amazonian jungle. But it should be remembered because it's a great film, also.
@@MalAnders94 what the actual fuck? nothing good will ever come from getting rid of the amazon rain forest, only problems. and the worst snakes and spiders don't even come from there
That "divine madness." After I watched 'Paris, Texas' I was not sure if I even liked it at all and then it would not get out of my head for weeks. Never watched it again and, like this film, it remains indelible.
@@MisterWin Wenders, Fassbinder, Herzog und Werner Schroeter are back in the 70s and 80s a kind of "outlaws" in the German film business. But just the good ones from today's perspective. 🎞😉
What a FASCINATING film. I read that the ship was just left in the woods? Would be interesting to see if its still there or what it looks like today. I would imagine ppl living in it for shelter or disassembling it for scrap.
When rich people can’t understand they aren’t rich in the jungle haha Werner could have had him killed and just been like “it’s the jungle, shit happens”
Just watched this, you can find the full movie good quality on RU-vid and wow, one of the best movies ever made. I recently read Papillon (if you haven't do yourself a favour and read it), which lead my friend to recommend Lost City of Z (another adventure classic) where it mentioned the opera house in the Amazon. I watched the movie (terrible) but there's brief scene where Fawcett comes upon the opera house in the jungle. We did some research and discovered this movie, and wow I'm glad I did! Just beautiful
Herzog was really lucky to get Kinski and Cardinale. They were both good, especially the former. Kinski with that white suit and popped up blonde hair was an almost iconic image to be in the jungle. He was so much better than Robards could have been. So much manic energy.
Herzog didn’t make 2 planes crash. He didn’t place the snake under the tree the woodworker was in. He didn’t have anything to do with the woman who took a canoe without asking, and drowned. The guy who got a spear through his throat was also explained to little blame to be placed as hard as it has been on Herzog. Mistreating animals, and ever having a pregnant woman on this boat is really all anyone reaally has on him as far as I know - and terrible luck when it comes to deaths during production that are blamed entirely on him.
You say all of that like it's true. He wanted to make the movie and he made the movie. All actions listed just came as a consequence of doing the movie. This stuff will be looked at differently within the next few years. It was just a rich white dude forcing his way into a country he really didn't need to go to and doing everything the hardest way possible causing deaths and many other tragedies that could have been avoided if they just oh I don't know, shot the movie in a more reasonable location or provided much more funding for doing something as dangerous as sailing a boat down the amazon river. He even openly admits that they segregated the camp and ate their own food and so on and so fourth. I'm not exactly saying he's the fucking devil, but he's obviously made some poor discissions in the past and justifying it all as art is disingenuous. Just like it would be disingenuous for me to claim he's evil or something. Things were different and we can all acknowledge that. I just don't see how you can blame everyone but him for his own desires.
I would have paid half of my wealth, meager as it is, to have been an assistant to Kinski when he filmed Aguire. I would also give the other half to have a date with his lovely daughter Nastasia.
This is up there with ROAR in the "wtf were they thinking". Im mean, yes, the movie is a classic, but a bunch of people died and they disrupted an indigineous tribe.
I love this movie. I actually really like Jason Robards I would’ve liked to see him in this film, but Klaus Kinskin is an utter lunatic and I’m here for it.
@@rebeccanehan3540 everybody survived the crash, but more things happened: somebody got bitten by snake and they had to cut of his leg with a chainsaw, somebody got hit by an arrow, somebody got badly hurt by the ship pull system, werner herzog had an badly infected leg for a while, somebody lost one of the toes, some people got cut by machetes, read his diaries "conquest of the useless" and will understand the whole madness of this project
@007 CM It never would've looked the same, that's part of the magic from this movie, that the boat is real and it's been transported trhough the middle of the jungle... it's an act of lunacy? probably, but without that act of lunacy the movie never would've been what it is. What do you think, for instance, about The bridge on River Kwai? imagine that David Lean had decided to shoot a damn model bridge... same case here
Too bad the cinematography is terrible, you never get a sense of scale in this movie, they always feel small and drab. The scene when the boat is in the floundering in the river may as well have been a model.
