If I remember correctly that's the movie where the third billed guy was also a notoriously difficult actor to work with, but Kinski was so bad that the third guy and Reed ended up being on their best behavior because they felt bad for the director for having to deal with him.
I believe Kinski blew up on Reed and Susan George asked Oliver Reed why he didn't just punch him and Reed said something like "because he'd go into his trailer and come back with a gun."
Don't think there's any other actor quite like Kinski that so openly parades the fact he's not a good or nice person. Delivered some superb performances in his time mind, can't deny that.
@@justinezafra I just watched a movie called, _Slaughter Hotel_ a couple nights ago, which starred Kinski. It was abysmal, but Klaus was good in it. 😅 I'll have to add _Time Stalkers_ to my list. 👍
"I came into this world in the form of a human, but the sun, the stars, the wind, fire, deserts, forests, mountains, skies, oceans, and clouds were trapped inside me." - Klaus Kinski "Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realise its own ends through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense - he is 'collective man' - one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being." - C. G. Jung “There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is - particularly the artist - particularly myself!” ~ Hermann Hesse
The reason people can't believe Mr. Kinski got work is precisely why he's so compelling to watch. He projects intense passion for a subject, combined with a genuine rage for things not working out as he envisioned. Not all great acting is acting.
I agree with you. The thing is, that would make a perfect combination in a B movie. But as stated in the video, where you have quite an effort done to film it, and then you have _that_ guy... :) I don't know, man, I don't know... :)
@@nerkoidsHardly comparable. Cage is just a tourist, an actor who merely trademarked eccentricity to pitch himself to fame. Klaus is a native in the land of madness. He's a tsunami of barbaric ego. If he wasn't an actor he would have been in a strait jacket.
So, the movie 'Venom' had a vicious, venomous, villainous, violent reptile as the star. It had Oliver Reed as the co-star. Also, there was a snake in it.
The notion that Aguirre is like going back in time with a camera and hitting REC is one I've harbored since first seeing it. So intense because of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog's vision.
Oliver Reed AND KLAUS KINSKI????? Who paid the insurance for this film? How are millions of people not dead as a result of these two being in close proximity of each other???
Oliver Reed probably got a very expensive brandy like a carrot to being in his best behavior.. Kinski.. I don’t know how.. except I do think that snake most of the time was thinking “ he doesn’t bite right.. I am a poisonous snake but whatever is the blood of this creature could kill the double of what I can do…! “
@@bacht4799 😁 I just watched "Cobra Verde" yesterday. It was great - and so was Kinski (he could be an exceptional performer). I do wonder sometimes if he knows where reality ends and illusion begins. The rage in that man was palpable.
Apparently Reed and the director got along well, so he behaved for most of the production. According to the director, the real problem was Kinski, who was constantly looking for a fight, because of course he was, and Reed wouldn't back from it either, so every time they were together they'd just scream at each other like crazy.
I was on the downslope of a good psychedelic - lucid but still in a dreamstate - in a theater as "Aguirre The Wrath of God" begins, "On Christmas Day 1560 we reached the last pass of the Andes and for the first time looked down at the legendary jungle. In the morning I read Mass, then we descended through the clouds." Then the next five minutes conquistadores and their native slaves, hauling cannon and litters with Spanish nobles, carrying pole axes and long matchlock muskets literally descend down a steep mountain path into the clouds while mellotronic music of angel choirs soars across the plodding line of explorers searching for El Dorado. The greatest fever dream ever put to film.
One time I went to the local video store looking for Fellini movies. I mentioned some titles and the clerk kept saying "9 1/2 weeks? We got that."Never heard of those other ones."
I lived around the corner from Klaus Kinski in the late 80’s… this was in the 16th Arrondissement in Paris. I wrote a short story about meeting him at Le Nôtre on the Av Victor Hugo, but it was pure fantasy, I never saw him there. I might have had a fantasy about his daughter around the same time, but it had little to do with a fancy patisserie save for the whipped cream.
I just remember the severed head continuing the countdown. I never realized Venom was produced by George Harrison's company. I remember the ads comparing it to Jaws.
Criminally underrated movie. One of my top 5 movies from George Harrison's HandMade Films company alongside Life of Brian, Withnail And I, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and The Long Good Friday.
Kinski is in my mind the greatest actor of all time, at least if you measure in peak performance. He was completely mad, a horrible person and did a lot of shitty movies, but put him in Aguirre or Nosferatu and you get something even more mesmerizing and mad than you could ever imagine!
Herzog made a documentary about his work relation with Klaus Kinsky, Mein liebster Feind (my most beloved enemy). Growing up in Europe in the 70's and 80's I was lucky because I got to see movies like Fitzcarraldo, Woyzeck and Nosferatu in movie theaters. And many more great European movies, because the movie industry in Europe was not dominated by Hollywood to the extent it is now.
Kinski was one of the only people who, instead of being in a straight jacket, ended up as a character actor and getting away with treating his coworkers like dog shit, probably thanks to the word his daughter put in for him on numerous occasions. Unfreakingbelievable how anyone would hire that nutjob, including Herzog, who seems to be a fairly intelligent individual!
Werner Herzog is the only man, who kept m*rdering Kinski in every movie he made with him, so if we take him to the actual present, Klaus Kinski would be probably cancelled today because of his dark side and the hell he created when he was on a set.
@@plasticweapon Yeah, some of the things Kinski did wasn't just intense and "crazy" but outright illegal and really crazy. Even before his death, people came out and spoke about stuff he did (incl. his own daughter Natassja Kinski) that really makes him seem like a true monster and a predator. Shooting the finger off an extra because he was irritated isn't the worst thing he did, by far.
I've read that Oliver Reed and Nicol Williamson, who were both famously difficult, temperamental actors, were on their best behavior during the filming of Venom, because they felt sorry for director Piers Haggard, seeing all the crap he had to put up with from Kinski.
The whole point of his "Jesus Christ, Saviour" Tour early in his career was to provoke the audience in such a way they'd want to assault him, just for the sake of art.
Sad you don't know the way Klaus Kinski was in Germany, on stage, off stage, in interviews. Super hilarious comedians exist in Germany who make jokes of him by just repeating what he used to say. You will laugh your asses off .
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So the movie is about a big snake who has to escape from Kinski??
“Snakes on a Kinski”
Good god, Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski on the same set? That must have been pure chaos
If I remember correctly that's the movie where the third billed guy was also a notoriously difficult actor to work with, but Kinski was so bad that the third guy and Reed ended up being on their best behavior because they felt bad for the director for having to deal with him.
@@Tuosma Who was the casting director for this film? Beelzebub?
I believe Kinski blew up on Reed and Susan George asked Oliver Reed why he didn't just punch him and Reed said something like "because he'd go into his trailer and come back with a gun."
It was!
Kinski, Reed, Hayden.. Haven't seen it, but a snake probably isn't the scariest thing in that movie.
I'll always remember Klaus Kinski as the guy that Lee Van Cleef strikes a match off of in 'For a Few Dollars More',
Fckn hell I just watched that movie yesterday and did not recognize him!
Bar scene was epic, cheers 👍
And after that, Klaus was never the same, that was his breaking point.
@@LukJarzyna pahaha yeah it was his villain origin story
Don't think there's any other actor quite like Kinski that so openly parades the fact he's not a good or nice person. Delivered some superb performances in his time mind, can't deny that.
He seemed alright in that opera house movie
Yes, even though he's acting, it's obvious that the actor himself is a complete psycho. I like him in 'Time Stalkers', which is a case in point. 😳
@@EmperorofMu
_Fitzcarraldo,_ also directed by Werner Herzog!
@@justinezafra I just watched a movie called, _Slaughter Hotel_ a couple nights ago, which starred Kinski. It was abysmal, but Klaus was good in it. 😅
I'll have to add _Time Stalkers_ to my list. 👍
"I came into this world in the form of a human, but the sun, the stars, the wind, fire, deserts, forests, mountains, skies, oceans, and clouds were trapped inside me."
- Klaus Kinski
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realise its own ends through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense - he is 'collective man' - one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
- C. G. Jung
“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is - particularly the artist - particularly myself!”
~ Hermann Hesse
The reason people can't believe Mr. Kinski got work is precisely why he's so compelling to watch. He projects intense passion for a subject, combined with a genuine rage for things not working out as he envisioned.
Not all great acting is acting.
I agree with you.
The thing is, that would make a perfect combination in a B movie.
But as stated in the video, where you have quite an effort done to film it, and then you have _that_ guy... :)
I don't know, man, I don't know... :)
Just had a flash. This might explain the Nicholas Cage phenomenon.
@@nerkoidsHardly comparable.
Cage is just a tourist, an actor who merely trademarked eccentricity to pitch himself to fame. Klaus is a native in the land of madness. He's a tsunami of barbaric ego. If he wasn't an actor he would have been in a strait jacket.
Klaus Kinski is one of the greatest actors ever. Also, one of the most insane, irate, hardest to work with actors of all time. He was one of a kind
If Klaus Kinski was Ted Bundy neighbor, Ted Bundy would never go outside.
He would have scared him straight.
I could listen to Bill Hader talk films all day.
So, the movie 'Venom' had a vicious, venomous, villainous, violent reptile as the star. It had Oliver Reed as the co-star. Also, there was a snake in it.
The notion that Aguirre is like going back in time with a camera and hitting REC is one I've harbored since first seeing it. So intense because of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog's vision.
Oliver Reed AND KLAUS KINSKI????? Who paid the insurance for this film? How are millions of people not dead as a result of these two being in close proximity of each other???
Oliver Reed probably got a very expensive brandy like a carrot to being in his best behavior.. Kinski.. I don’t know how.. except I do think that snake most of the time was thinking “ he doesn’t bite right.. I am a poisonous snake but whatever is the blood of this creature could kill the double of what I can do…! “
@@bacht4799 😁 I just watched "Cobra Verde" yesterday. It was great - and so was Kinski (he could be an exceptional performer). I do wonder sometimes if he knows where reality ends and illusion begins. The rage in that man was palpable.
Plus Sterling Hayden and Nicol Williamson.
Who paid the insurance? George Harrison! Handmade Films is his production company
Apparently Reed and the director got along well, so he behaved for most of the production. According to the director, the real problem was Kinski, who was constantly looking for a fight, because of course he was, and Reed wouldn't back from it either, so every time they were together they'd just scream at each other like crazy.
Bill Hader could have been a professional movie critic. He’s incredibly insightful and is such a huge movie fan it really comes through.
Yes he would be better than Siskel and Ebert dipshits. Those morons would know a good film if one of the 35mm reels fell on their nuts!
I totally agree. I love his take on films and actors. A true cinephile. His take on Aguirre is so true.
Like watching a dangerous creature ready to attack but when He's on screen you can't take your eyes off him.
Kinski really was a phenomenal mesmerizing actor but good god what a maniac. Sometimes talent is totally bonkers.
"My Best Fiend" - Werner Herzog
I was on the downslope of a good psychedelic - lucid but still in a dreamstate - in a theater as "Aguirre The Wrath of God" begins,
"On Christmas Day 1560 we reached the last pass of the Andes and for the first time looked down at the legendary jungle. In the morning I read Mass, then we descended through the clouds."
Then the next five minutes conquistadores and their native slaves, hauling cannon and litters with Spanish nobles, carrying pole axes and long matchlock muskets literally descend down a steep mountain path into the clouds while mellotronic music of angel choirs soars across the plodding line of explorers searching for El Dorado.
The greatest fever dream ever put to film.
I just love the fact that Werner Herzog contemplated murdering Kinski on not just one occasion.
Ya know, normal german friendship things.
The natives apparently offered to do it for him during the filming of Fitzcorraldo.
Bill Hader’s Paul Giamatti impression was hilarious on that one.
Crawlspace was my introduction to Kinski when I was 12. That movie still gives me the creeps.
The chair scene.
What an evil clown Klaus Kinski would have been in IT!
"Cut! Klaus you're only supposed to pretend to kill the kids"
Klaus kinski would have made the perfect joker in a Batman movie
@@DylanMcCleary-zt9im He was probably too crazy to play Joker!
Klaus kinski had the right look to play the joker in a Batman movie@@spinsandneedles
Maybe Randall Flagg as well.
Kinski is one of the best actors of all time. 💯
Few film critics would deny that. But at what cost?
I'd kill to see a SNL sketch of Bill hader doing Klaus kinski
Kinski was compelling as an actor but what a wreck of a human being.
Someone related a story about Kinski stating to prepare for a role, he screamed at the top of lungs for hours in his bedroom like a madman.
He did stuff like that regardless of whether he was preparing for a role or not.
@@aaronstark5060 true. I'm sure. He was intense
Klaus Kinski was in Shelly Duvall’s Fairy Tale Theater: Beauty and the Beast
One time I went to the local video store looking for Fellini movies. I mentioned some titles and the clerk kept saying "9 1/2 weeks? We got that."Never heard of those other ones."
I lived around the corner from Klaus Kinski in the late 80’s… this was in the 16th Arrondissement in Paris. I wrote a short story about meeting him at Le Nôtre on the Av Victor Hugo, but it was pure fantasy, I never saw him there. I might have had a fantasy about his daughter around the same time, but it had little to do with a fancy patisserie save for the whipped cream.
Klaus Kinski is the most fuckin' intense / insane force of nature EVER to walk on this planet. period.
Aguirre is definitely a one of a kind film.
Yeah, I saw it on a late night TV channel when I was 14, back in 1981. Blew my mind. Still one of the best movies I’ve seen.
I just remember the severed head continuing the countdown. I never realized Venom was produced by George Harrison's company. I remember the ads comparing it to Jaws.
Klaus was a force of nature, Bill. THAT'S why they hired him.
Aguirre is a mind blowing film. An unforgettable experience.
greatest thumbnail ever
Criminally underrated movie. One of my top 5 movies from George Harrison's HandMade Films company alongside Life of Brian, Withnail And I, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and The Long Good Friday.
God, I could spend hours listening to Bill Hader talk film
Kinski is in my mind the greatest actor of all time, at least if you measure in peak performance. He was completely mad, a horrible person and did a lot of shitty movies, but put him in Aguirre or Nosferatu and you get something even more mesmerizing and mad than you could ever imagine!
Herzog made a documentary about his work relation with Klaus Kinsky, Mein liebster Feind (my most beloved enemy). Growing up in Europe in the 70's and 80's I was lucky because I got to see movies like Fitzcarraldo, Woyzeck and Nosferatu in movie theaters. And many more great European movies, because the movie industry in Europe was not dominated by Hollywood to the extent it is now.
The documentary is absolutely worth watching
I can’t imagine how Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski were in a movie together without killing each other.
Had Bill Hader ever talked about Hard to Be a God? I think he'd like it.
Wo ist deine opera haus! Ich war meine opera haus!
Love you Bill hader ❤
Kinski was one of the only people who, instead of being in a straight jacket, ended up as a character actor and getting away with treating his coworkers like dog shit, probably thanks to the word his daughter put in for him on numerous occasions. Unfreakingbelievable how anyone would hire that nutjob, including Herzog, who seems to be a fairly intelligent individual!
Thought of Hader at a Blockbuster gave me a dopamine hit
Bill went all Alan Alda on us in the last part here...
Klaus Kinski made a number of outbursts on the set of his movies
Werner Herzog is the only man, who kept m*rdering Kinski in every movie he made with him, so if we take him to the actual present, Klaus Kinski would be probably cancelled today because of his dark side and the hell he created when he was on a set.
kinski didn't die in fitzcarraldo, and today he would be in prison.
@@plasticweapon Yeah, some of the things Kinski did wasn't just intense and "crazy" but outright illegal and really crazy. Even before his death, people came out and spoke about stuff he did (incl. his own daughter Natassja Kinski) that really makes him seem like a true monster and a predator. Shooting the finger off an extra because he was irritated isn't the worst thing he did, by far.
He'd probably more be cancelled for the child abuse.
Klaus Kinski was well behaved on Nosferatu 77 , I guess due to Isabelle Adjani
Is that Paul Giamatti at the start of this when they discuss Venom? What event/show was the discussion at?
It’s from Paul Giamatti’s podcast called Chinwag. It’s really great and this episode in particular was stellar.
@@Pat_Springleaf Excellent. Thanks very much.
Nessuno come Klaus ... Uno come lui non era previsto nel genere umano
I've read that Oliver Reed and Nicol Williamson, who were both famously difficult, temperamental actors, were on their best behavior during the filming of Venom, because they felt sorry for director Piers Haggard, seeing all the crap he had to put up with from Kinski.
Kinski is a real life human car crash, impossible to unwatch.
KK’s best work was debating on stage in front of a live audience about Christianity. Look it up.
Considering KK’s private life - read his memoirs at your peril - I suspect he was put on this Earth to corrupt everything he touched!
@@Rendell001 chaos personified 😂
The whole point of his "Jesus Christ, Saviour" Tour early in his career was to provoke the audience in such a way they'd want to assault him, just for the sake of art.
" I will marry you"😂
Bill hader could play a great kinski.
I love that Bill Hader is such a film geek. I think he and I could talk for hours about the minutiae of obscure movies.
for me it's Cobra Verde
great film.
The good Herzog movies with Kinski are so much better if you have no idea who he is.
Klaus Kinski AND Oliver Reed in the same movie? I'm not sure if it's a good idea to put a choleric and a heavy drinker on the same set...
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I will probably get flamed for this but I found Kinski unwatchable because his vile character just oozed through the screen, a horrible human being.
I wish bill would get involved with mst3k
Sad you don't know the way Klaus Kinski was in Germany, on stage, off stage, in interviews.
Super hilarious comedians exist in Germany who make jokes of him by just repeating what he used to say. You will laugh your asses off .
👍👍👍
Bill Hader on Denis Villeneuve?
Bit of a resemblance between the two, come to think about it
Kinski was a great actor coz he didn't 'act' in real life
Agheerwhaaat?
Wernerwhaaat?
Nein, er hat eine Peitsche genommen und ihnen in die FRESSE geschlagen!
It gets no better than Aguirre.
klaus kinski should have been treated not put on a screen
Die schwarze Mamba
Oliver Reed was as uncontrollable as Kinski.
But he wasn't insane or mean-spirited (more a pain in the ass), and saved most of his antics for outside of filming.
Kinski is one of the best actors and one of the worst persons.
Warren Hedgehog? Who the hell is Warren Hedgehog?
Two minutes wasted.
Great actor. Horrible father...
Junk.
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