Werner Herzog Walker Dialogue with Roger Ebert 

The matrix has you

For some reason, people rarely put the date on uploads.

@@jude999 I prefer to have it in the description as well, but it does say April 30., 1999 within the first ten seconds of the video to be fair.

Thanks.

Not even close.

​@@ToxicTurtleIsMadI dont think there's such thing as a "greatest director", however, there are moments of profound beauty, strangeness and absolute horror (all at once) in his films that no filmmaker has else ever come close to. His films have such a quiet intensity, underscored by such stoic placidity, so calm and confident yet so fierce. These things are uniquely his and really do make him great. I've never seen film with such instantaneously, effortlessly communicated urgency, it's not realism, it's real fantasy. Its a verissimilitude of the unreal. To say "not even closec is of course meaningless because there is no greatest director, but the dismissiveness is just moronic.

Knowing how he is I wonder how much of it is fabricated BS so that, in his words, he can get to a deeper truth.

To see the clips they're talking about.

​@@bahhumbug9824 Mmmm

What's vital is that he's emotionally fearless as well as the physical kind.

indeed

😂​@@L.L.2045

He does haha

It was actually audible, so if you're being sarcastic, Idk where you're coming from

can you elaborate on your last sentence?

@@jibbarich The post to which I was replying, and which provided context, seems to be missing. But the conventional, and least disorienting, way to mix, for example, dialogue between two characters who are on either side of the screen is to place the sound as if both characters were in the centre. Even the voice of a single character on one side of the screen should appear to come from the centre. Many "stereoized" remixes of classic movies originally recorded in mono make the mistake of trying to position the sound to match the position of the speaker. TCM used to do this a lot, although I haven't watched their output for many years. Of course, the poor saps who are given this monotonous task are usually not trained in movie sound conventions, and are probably just doing what they're told, or what seems "natural" to them.

Makes you wonder if he could suspend that long enough to enjoy the first King Kong.

He doesnt like adventure for adventures sake. He is there to "loot" footage in his own words.

We'll, now there's a film about their relationship (K and H) and lots of bits of his work on youtube.

They can`t include it out of legal reasons.

1999

Thats a steal

Yes, but as a novel - The Twilight World. A brief but good read!

Now that is a very German thing to say.

Crowd were not ready for this maybe. It was tough for me too, I have too watch this again

This comment is best read aloud with a Bavarian accent.

@@mikeFolco I think it would be different shown in Berlin..

Cope.

THANK YOU!!!

well maybe he's not about achieving things, but rather just the experience of things. His docs are about grand things, but from what I understand, it was never about claiming it (like those racing to the north pole) just witnessing the beauty/horror of those things as they are which is the great thing in itself. He has earlier films about people with delusions of grandeur, and he sees it as sad (Aguirre, fitzcaraldo, stroszek, even Nosferatu).

He did a film with Messner about climbing mountains called The Dark Glow of the Mountains and it wasn’t about getting to the summit, it was about why Messner climbs in the first place.

A year later, coming back to this interview and reading your answers again, I think I get it, thank you!

I think he’s against the kind of ‘sport’ of adventuring; the race, the competition…. He’s more interested in the personal, spiritual, emotional quest.

He’s a hard man to follow

@@melker-nn4md Yes indeed.

Germany is small like Montana. For sure he did.

​@@shieldsluck1969I need to be certain. Montana isn't small.

@@Johnconno I can't validate that Beuys met Herzog, but cultural people move in cultural circles. With the (Montana) size comparison, I merely tried to suggest that it must have happened at some point in the 25 or so possible years because of the manageability of the space. 🙂

Oh, i love Herzog's films, some of them have become a part of me, without me knowing it. But i do think the man Herzog craves the laughs, or at least the attention. He created worlds in his films, but he has also created a character for himself, one of artist who will go to extremes to fullfill his vision (which he is), and the other of the uncompromising person who will always speak his mind no matter what others will think (which he is not always.. many times he will say exactly what he knows will cause a stirr, still calculated). But i do love his films

You find so many sexist or slightly sexist comments underneath Werner Herzog interviews

​@@octopusexperiment1931a female cannot understand herzog.

Install adblock on your computer, then watch (I know that adblock isn't available on phones but I assume you do have a computer).

@@Vingul vmvmiktmvm

@@charliesettles9519 okay.

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They laugh because he says things that are funny.

Yeah it’s called conversation

@@julianfrederick9082 Ebert keeps interrupting too much, preventing conversation

He's allowed to. He's Roger fucking Ebert.

Seethe.