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Werner Herzog Maverick Director
Werner Herzog is one of the greatest, strangest living filmmakers in the world today. His latest film Rescue Dawn (currently in theaters) stars Christian Bale as an American soldier struggling to survive in a POW camp during the Vietnam War. While it may look like a Rambo-like thrill-ride from the trailer, make no mistake: Rescue Dawn is nothing if not Herzogian – a surreal cinematic trip through the forbidding jungles of our existence. If you haven't heard Herzog's ominous Teutonic voice or seen his mindblowing movies, here are five YouTube clips to get you started.
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Werner Herzog gets shot during interview
Yes, that's right, during an interview in Los Angeles for British television, Werner Herzog was actually shot by an air rifle, and here it is, captured on video. Welcome to the wild world of Herzog, where random wounds are everyday happenings, and his response is always wryly hilarious: "the world is not really very friendly
towards filmmaking," he says after being whisked away in a car. |
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Aguirre, The Wrath of God
In this iconic surreal scene from Herzog's classic 1972 film about a Spanish conquistador going mad in the rainforest, long-tailed
monkeys scurry around a raft like hopping rats as Aguirre plots his next mission among the failed, irreparable ruins of his quest. |
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Here are excerpts from Les Blank's quintessential 1980 Herzog documentary, in which the famous filmmaker rails against contemporary culture ("There should be a real war against commercials,
a real war against 'Rawhide' and 'Bonanza' and all these things) and eats a shoe publically on stage after losing a bet with Errol Morris.
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Burden of Dreams
Another classic example of the Herzogian universe, this except from Les Blank's 1982 documentary Burden of Dreams -- a look at the making of Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo -- reveals the filmmaker's famous attitudes on nature and one of his most famous quotes when he says the jungle holds the "harmony of overwhelming and collective murder." For Herzog, the birds "don't sing, they screech in pain." |
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Grizzly Man
Amateur naturalist and emblematic Herzogian hero Timothy Treadwell -- who lived among his beloved Grizzly Bears and was then eaten by one -- is the subject of Herzog's recent breakthrough 2005 documentary. Here, Treadmill freaks out in a scene worthy of past Herzog protagonists who can't fathom their own limits. |
One of the best endings I've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcTvhyof8I