POPOL VUH "Aguirre pt I, II, III" 

films should be like müziq?? -:- kübrich ^^

Totally agree Vodrim, a truly great cinematic experience. & yeh Kinski just dominates the screen/action like no-one else, intensity to the max, truly terrifying (as you say) - he would've traumatised a theatre audience! He had/brought PRESENCE (& made sure you knew it huh?)

you are so right!

Kinski did portray Richard III (kind of, in one scene) in Andrzej Zulawski's L'important c'est d'aimer, as part of a play-within-a-film. We only see part of the opening monologue, but it's intense.

I know what you mean by making 90 minutes feel twice as long: he gives the viewer so much to look at and so much to think about.

Watch documentary my best fiend

What is this human condition you speak of? Is it the human experience? Or the realization being aware?

@@snikrepak It's the realization that we are all "expereriencing" all the time - the irresistable impulse for us to "rationalise" our actions, decisions, values, drives etc. Consciousness compels us to seek & ascribe "meaning" to existence, a smoke & mirrors exercse, engrossing yet ultimately futile. Life is real, it is resilient, it will persist, we are involved, engaged, entangled; All explanation is simply delusional however comforting or satisfying.

Physics truly is a great thing

like a tentative hazy heartbeat rhythm about the soundtrack, and a feeling of ever-present uncertainty, wonderment, danger, discovery, challenge, and fragile mortality@@snikrepak

möre hümähn zen hümänn ^?^

I think a better alternative ending would be to have Aguirre seek Inez after the crew died off. He could apprehend her just before she dies in the forest. The last shot of him holding her limp body in his arms. A testament to all things lost as he years for future dreams with this woman.

Humans can be incredibly beautiful sometimes.

@@bonitacacao2609 i think this movie shows how horrible a supposed beauty is..

totally agree.....it's like a dream

This film slays anyone that doesn't get it or like it is an ignorant d bag

It's a masterpiece, in the sense that no cg was used, a camera Werner stole from someone at an airport, and the other fact that he paid the locals to dress up and shlap a bloody boat and cannons (all real weight) . A true insperation to future filmmakers, unlike today where we demand the most high def and the most shallow storylines and plots, pushing narratives that have no room in this day and age. Sure, advocating is one thing, but forcing it down our throats is, to me an act of war. The ability to make movies like this has come down to a handful of directors. May your Journey be an easy one.

"Aguirre o la ira de Dios" es mi favorita de Werner Herzog, la música del grupo alemán Popol Vuh es genial...en la película de Herzog llamada "Corazón de cristal rojo" (título en español) hicieron música maravillosa. Abrazos. Laura.

La actuación de Klaus Kinski es memorable...es magnífica.

hi laura - in english the film is "heart of glass" but i haven't seen it! kinski was a great actor but a bad man! the music is so "other worldly" - not sure how that will translate. guess what - i have enrolled to take spanish lessons - they start next week and i am going to practice online as well. so hopefully i will write to you in your own language (not google spanish)!!! jason

Hi Jason, Yes, Kinski was a bad man, but excellent actor. One day you commented "a good artist does not have to be a good person, Dalí is an example of that" I believe that you and I must excuse the nastiness of the naughty Kinski. More hugs.

I understand English only in writing... numerous books come in your language and I can read them without a problem but I do not speak English. I wanted to take a course to speak English, but always have things that prevent me from that. I am happy to go to a course to learn Spanish... you and I can talk and practice!

we all do... all of us - then 20 yrs old /when we were lucky to see this film.../

Me too, completely.

i saw this with my dad 10 years ago and rewatched it from time to time. now im 20... this soundtrack stayed in my head... A strange feel this movie gave...

Do you think it has open a door to a slight mental derange in your mind ?

Me too. The mark of a great film, it stays with you, occasionally you remember excerpts and dream off to another world.

+cosmicdrifter287 I see what you did there.

Benjamin Thompson didn`t took me that long to think about that one either.

Benjamin Thompson a bit of wordplay on display.

+cosmicdrifter287 to our dismay. ;P

Richard Ross quite the contrary.

𝕻ơ𝖕ȍ𝖑 𝖁𝔲𝖍 maitre mètre master mastered ⱣɎɌɆ𝔛 ☠️ and those point far away to follow

This is my first Herzog work, I loved it, is the rest of his filmography equally as good?

YES. Herzog is mostly a documentary filmmaker now but his early works were remarkable and academy award nominated. Check out Fitzcarraldo, based on a true story. A docudrama about a rich mad opera fan who endeavors to build an opera house in a South American jungle. Herzog recreated the true feat of dragging a paddle wheel boat over a mountain. Genius!

Agreed felt this way too

@@adamharth1 No Aguirred

It is really an amazing and quite unique opening for a film !!!

As an auti-adhd, I connect music with experience, and this is definitely one that I can say makes me feel like I'm descending into madness. The uneasiness, the low synthetic sounds reverberating in the studio making have this reverb, it drips clarity and smells like wet dirt and ozone.

@@snikrepak I'm an aspie (ASD) and this music has the opposite effect on me! I love your comment "like wet dirt and ozone"... I know exactly what you mean and I first noticed in the most unlikely of places; my first trip to Europe (Italy) many years ago!

You might enjoy The Cabinet of Doctor Mabuse, although it lacks a soundtrack.

TheAXXELLALAN What a plot twist if they met a lost White tribe... Who then proceeded to slay the priest and imprison them until they had assimilated.

@@sadsackkvisling9694 sure, they would definitely not get destroyed by arquebuse and cannon fire 🤡

Yo soy la colera de Dios, la tierra sobre la que camino me ve y tiembla.

I am spiritually awakened by this music and this movie. Am a Spanish Who comes from Peru. Enlighting!

i concur, good observation

+aardwerk2 I believe he said so himself at one point.

Russel Bell, Werner consulted Francis or Francis consulted Werner for making Apocalypse Now?

Coppola was inspired by Joseph Conrad's book 'Heart of Darkness'. Perhaps Herzog was also inspired by it.

@Matejko108 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro

Breaks my heart every time.

Only here could I find the link between popol vuh and del the funky homosapien ~ both geniuses in their own right.

@Sai K Bravo Sai K!! Kinski is transcendent!!

Sa va t'a le temps encore

+La furie bleu de Boya Il est décédé la semaine dernière...

ça ne presse pas,,,

Theres so much misinformation regarding The Choir Organ that you dont know whats fact or fiction. Some say its an old 50s instrument with sound recorded on discs instead of tape.Kraftwerk claim they had one bought from a Vienna music fair and was used on Man Machine and Trans Europe Express and they said it was called an Orchestrum. Now I ind this chap called Jimmy Jackson used it all the time. its a beautiful yet fustratingly obscure instrument

Fron Julian Cope´s "Head Heritage" site (www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/popol-vuh-music-from-the-film-aguirre): (...) "I only offer this preamble of minutiae to clear away some of the many misconceptions about a very overlooked and misjudged album that offers so much in terms of substantially transcendental moments. Moments which were the direct result of Fricke’s interfacing with not only the Moog synthesizer (in 1969, Fricke owned one of the very first Moog synthesizers in West Germany) but also the lesser known choir-organ. The choir-organ was a unique, handmade instrument capable of producing sounds similar to a mellotron recorded with substantial tape echo. The creator of this machine was an Austrian by the name of Herbert Prasch, owner of Bavaria Studios in Munich where his self-made keyboard instrument was stored. This machine, according to Amon Düül II guitarist John Weinzierl, was ‘comprised of four big boxes with tape recorders and four sets of keyboards’ and was initially used by American keyboardist Jimmy Jackson on Amon Düül II’s 1971 album, “Tanz Der Lemminge.” Jackson later continued his choir-organ contributions throughout Amon Düül II’s fifth album, “Wolf City,” as well as the one-off Amon Düül II project, Utopia. (The highlights included: “Surrounded By The Stars,” “Green-Bubble-Raincoated-Man,” “Jail-House Frog” and most noticeably of all -- both Amon Düül II’s and its offshoot Utopia’s respective versions of the terrifying “Deutsch Nepal.”) It was at this time of the “Wolf City” sessions that Florian Fricke lent his Moog synthesizer to Amon Düül II, which indirectly led to his discovery of the choir-organ through several hubs of associations: not only with Bavaria Studios (where Popol Vuh had recorded many of their albums since their inception) but Amon Düül II (who shared a common member with Popol Vuh in Daniel Fichelscher) as well as Herbert Prasch (who also worked as a sound engineer on films directed by Werner Herzog.) Regardless of the sequence of events, Fricke did discover the choir-organ, did recordings for Werner Herzog’s film and then... " also, from sanjindumisic.com/popol-vuh-and-the-choir-organ-sound-in-aguirre/: "The choir sound in the film Aguirre: The Wrath of God, where the etheral sound is uniquely beautiful comes from a mellotron that was actually a choir organ. Created by Herbert Prasch and stored in his Bavarian studio in Münich. The first time it was used was when Jimmy Jackson together with Amon Düül recorded the album Tanz Der Lemminge. The choir sounds were recorded onto three dussins of tapes, that were hooked together parallel on a turning axle that turned all tapes continuously - resulting in that haunting ethereal sound. Some of the keys were colored to mark those that didn’t work, which must have given it a special look indeed. The choir organ is supposed to be at some museum these days, in which I don’t know and haven’t found any information about it. I also haven’t found a photo of it, with neither Florian or anyone else playing the instrument. In an interview the Amon Düül singer, Renate Knaup says: 'It was a large, ancient Mellotron-type instrument that had been designed by some crazy instrument builder.' "

mellotron.

@@plasticweaponNo. Choir-organ, another instrument. Just read the text above.

​@@plasticweaponall the musicians and engineers interviewed knew the mellotron. That's why they all called the choir organ a huge "mellotro-like" instrument.

+Luc Biétry Déjà au XVIe???? La cupidité existe certainement depuis que l'homme a des possessions, peut être même depuis la préhistoire. ça n'a rien a voir avec l'homme "moderne." C'est l'homme le problème.

Oui, oui, c'est ce qu'il voulait dire !!

The real Aguirre was worst, he killed his own daughter before being captured

Truly great

yes, very.

No, it's not! It's exactly the child of its time...

+Frantz Balinski (zebulon) Excellent idée. Vas-y !

Votre idée est belle comme la rencontre mortifère d'une cuillère à dessert imbibée de chocolat et d'une bouteille plastifiée sans bouchon de protection, sur le rebord d'une lande dévastée et couverte d’ivraies à la suite d'une succession d'intempéries engendrées par une dépression venant du nord de l'Europe.

Hey c'mon, Herzog was the only director able to "get "Kinski & Herzog was the only director Kinski would collaborate with. They matched each other perfectly - just watch the "Clock tower scene" from "Mien Libster Fiend" -- Herzog is a supreme story-teller & Kinski made his visions live, "capture his madness & what do our battles matter?"

If you read the book you cannot imagine Harrison Ford in the part Deckard. The guy is married, a bit hrnpecked, and pines for animal of his own which inspires hm to track down these rogue androids. It is hardly the action flick that Blade Runner is. I enjoy it for what it is but it simplifies the source novel to the extreme where they barely resemble one another. I do love the ending. The mobologue by Batty is my favorite moment in the movie. When we are wound up to expect a rock 'em sock 'em confrontation between the two it ends on this very quiet and sad note. I wish Batty was a better developed character. He is a bit one dimensional bad guy. I like when things are a bit more gray and our initial perceptions are altered. I do not consider Ridley Scott an intellectual director. He has a great visual eye (he directed two stunning commercials for Chanel No 5 in the 70's) but they are not much deeper than the surface.

Emmanuel is basically correct in my view. I collect all PKD and love his work to the core. This does not change the fact that Blade Runner is a Dickian masterpiece albeit different... it is nothing but grand and the opposite of hallow in every way... cops and robbers or not. Cheers.

GREG FREEMAN I like your picture lol. Altered States by Russell, isn't?

Yes. Who but Ken Russell could (or would) imagine a multi-eyed goat Christ? Miss that guy.

+GREG FREEMAN Have you seen the Stalker (rus. Сталкер) already? Pretty similar dreamy and surrealistic atmosphere. The same with the Artemyev soundtrack. I have always found those two movies, i.e. Aquire, der Zorn Gottes and Сталкер, somehow related to each other. Both are imo way deeper than 2001. American cinema tends to be usually overrated as the 2001 is itself.