A unique personality, a remarkable thinker, and an extraordinary filmmaker. I'll never forget experiencing his work for the first time: I had just graduated high school and walked into a downtown theater to watch AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD. Amazing, but little did I know that FITZCARRALDO was coming 10 years later. Astounding! I have been a Werner Herzog admirer ever since.
@@johnscott7195 Hey Johnny, I think I can help you rethink Herzog and FITZCARRALDO by exorcising the spirit of Klaus Kinski from your critical faculties. Let's give it a try shall we?
Brilliant man. Profound writer. Watching his movies, I always sensed they were really about himself. “Little Dieter Needs to Fly”, just one of a plethora of amazing films of a man in a deadly environment, both natural and human, driven to survive his obsessions. A true genius.
MY great, great grandmother was born in Ireland in 1877 and died in Nevada in 1956 she went from corsets to jeans. Also trains, wagons, trollies to cars and airplanes. She came to the U.S.A. on her own as a teen by boat before Ellis island. Those would have been shocking times. In her life time she saw cars come to the masses, radios, tv's, air planes, Insulin, and the cure for polio.
My favourite artist and my favourite TV outfit. I miss running into Charles Osgood every Sunday morning at the CBS Broadcast Center as he left and I came in for the NFL Today. And I want Werner Herzog to be the last voice I hear as I drift off into the nowhere.
More Werner! Alright! Did so much monumental film work without soulless effects like today ❤❤ His upbringing and rodeo clown stories in the book are great
Yes! When my grandfather was 2 yrs old, his father was still two yrs from buying his first car, (a 2 yr old 1927 Chevrolet.) He is now rocking my 3.5 yr old granddaughter while she colors on her tablet.
Obviously FITZCARRALDO was too lifelike for a self-righteous, smug critic like yourself. Herzog made it clear that your kind of hostility is comically par for the course and that time was on his side.
@TheVid54 Lifelike?..bringing opera to the Amazon is about as intelligent and meaningful as showing pictures of luscious foodstuffs to starving people..
@@johnscott7195 The film is what Herzog said it was: a fever dream. It's no different than any film about Christian missionaries introducing their savage concepts of Christ to the uninitiated. The fact that it wasn't done at the botanical gardens makes the picture lifelike, not the obsessional context of the film's plotline. Your flippant, cutesy metaphor misses the point of the why the film has its proponents.
@@johnscott7195 For many, his concept of twisted ambitions and delusional visions is what makes FITZCARRALDO great. Herzog's assessment is his own, whether anyone shares it or not doesn't affect the impact of the movie. The controversial circumstances of the project itself warrant interest for many as well. I'm glad I saw it and it made a significant impression on me, as did Les Blank's documentary about it: BURDEN OF DREAMS. I find it interesting that you were repulsed by it.
A unique personality, a remarkable thinker, and an extraordinary filmmaker. I'll never forget experiencing his work for the first time: I had just graduated high school and walked into a downtown theater to watch AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD. Amazing, but little did I know that FITZCARRALDO was coming 10 years later. Astounding! I have been a Werner Herzog admirer ever since.
Fitzcarraldo was astounding alright..astoundingly horrible
@@johnscott7195 Hey Johnny, I think I can help you rethink Herzog and FITZCARRALDO by exorcising the spirit of Klaus Kinski from your critical faculties. Let's give it a try shall we?
Thank you for extended cut with Herzog!! 🙏
He is VERY Intelligent & well versed & thoughtful about Life ... mesmerizing..😮
Brilliant man. Profound writer. Watching his movies, I always sensed they were really about himself.
“Little Dieter Needs to Fly”, just one of a plethora of amazing films of a man in a deadly environment, both natural and human, driven to survive his obsessions.
A true genius.
The best DVD-watching experiences ever is to watch Rescue Dawn with Werner’s director’s commentary on.
What a gift of an artist and long form well executed interview without ads!
Perhaps the most fascinating interview of any filmmaker I've ever seen .
MY great, great grandmother was born in Ireland in 1877 and died in Nevada in 1956 she went from corsets to jeans. Also trains, wagons, trollies to cars and airplanes. She came to the U.S.A. on her own as a teen by boat before Ellis island. Those would have been shocking times. In her life time she saw cars come to the masses, radios, tv's, air planes, Insulin, and the cure for polio.
My favourite artist and my favourite TV outfit. I miss running into Charles Osgood every Sunday morning at the CBS Broadcast Center as he left and I came in for the NFL Today. And I want Werner Herzog to be the last voice I hear as I drift off into the nowhere.
More Werner! Alright! Did so much monumental film work without soulless effects like today ❤❤ His upbringing and rodeo clown stories in the book are great
You are spoiling us, CBS.
Without reservation the most insightful interview with any celebrity from any generation. thank you Ben Mankiewicz and CBS Sunday Morning.
💯 agree 🎉
Yes! When my grandfather was 2 yrs old, his father was still two yrs from buying his first car, (a 2 yr old 1927 Chevrolet.)
He is now rocking my 3.5 yr old granddaughter while she colors on her tablet.
Fascinating
1942 year of water horse in the sign of the freat bear. Magnificent being!
yeah it's a puff piece, but come on. Herzog freakin' rules, man. Watch his Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) before the new Eggars one comes out.
have we as a species learned to avoid something, without experiencing it and its negative repercussions first?
I'll try another 24 hour chunk of doing my best
Non-woke hero who loves "the fly overs."
How disgusting he destroyed forests and tainted indigenous people to make that stupid idiotic film Fitzcarraldo..
Obviously FITZCARRALDO was too lifelike for a self-righteous, smug critic like yourself. Herzog made it clear that your kind of hostility is comically par for the course and that time was on his side.
@TheVid54 Lifelike?..bringing opera to the Amazon is about as intelligent and meaningful as showing pictures of luscious foodstuffs to starving people..
@TheVid54 even Herzog thought it was horrible..but his ambition usurped his assessment
@@johnscott7195 The film is what Herzog said it was: a fever dream. It's no different than any film about Christian missionaries introducing their savage concepts of Christ to the uninitiated. The fact that it wasn't done at the botanical gardens makes the picture lifelike, not the obsessional context of the film's plotline. Your flippant, cutesy metaphor misses the point of the why the film has its proponents.
@@johnscott7195 For many, his concept of twisted ambitions and delusional visions is what makes FITZCARRALDO great. Herzog's assessment is his own, whether anyone shares it or not doesn't affect the impact of the movie. The controversial circumstances of the project itself warrant interest for many as well. I'm glad I saw it and it made a significant impression on me, as did Les Blank's documentary about it: BURDEN OF DREAMS. I find it interesting that you were repulsed by it.
Maniac.