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>He was standing a few miles from here on some barren scrubland in the Hollywood Hills, chosen so that the city of Los Angeles would be the backdrop falling away behind him, and he was explaining how nobody seems to care about his films in Germany when an unexpected noise interrupted him. Herzog flinched. Understandably so, because he had just been shot. >It has never been established who was doing the shooting—if it was more than just someone with an air rifle taking a random pop at a stranger for fun, it may have been because Herzog and the film crew were trespassing. Afterward, Herzog refused to call the police, fearing a SWAT-type overreaction, and he also declined, for the same reason, to seek medical help. Still, the pellet made its mark—under his mauve and pink windmill-motif boxer shorts, now blood-blotted, was a seeping entry wound near Herzog's groin.
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>To propose to his first wife, Herzog traveled on foot about a thousand miles, across the Alps. (Herzog, who had made several other such journeys, is insistent that this not be referred to as walking. "Traveling on foot," he says. "Walking is something different.") He went because he had something important to ask. When I press him to explain further, he says: "There are certain things out there that a manly man has to do in his life, at least once."
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if a young American film student went out and actually made the film he was always only talking about. The young student was Errol Morris, who met the challenge with his off-beat 1978 pet cemetery documentary Gates of Heaven (1978) (and went on to make The Thin Blue Line (1988) and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)). Herzog makes good on his promise in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), directed by Les Blank.
Anonymous
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Why does he talk like Vincent Price though?
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>In the documentary that Herzog made about Kinski after his death, My Best Fiend, he alludes in passing to one other time when he sincerely entertained murderous thoughts toward his leading man, when he planned to firebomb Kinski's house until deterred by Kinski's dog. I'd like to know more. >"We had plans to kill each other, strangely enough, at exactly the same time," Herzog begins, a little hesitantly. "But you have to see it as these beautiful plots, like in a detective story, and those were mostly plots, I would say, in sheer fantasy. But at some moment it got closer than just a pure fantasy."
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
Joaquin Phoenix was in a car accident on a winding canyon road that flipped his car over. Shaken and confused, Phoenix heard a tapping on his window and a voice say, "Just relax." Unable to see the man, Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." Then managed to see that the man was Werner Herzog, and Herzog replied, "No, you're not." After helping Phoenix out of the wreckage, Herzog phoned for an ambulance and vanished.
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>>15819015 this cannot be true
my faith in humanity would be restored and that cannot happen
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
When he was thirteen years old he was part of the Hitler Jugend and actually participated in killing several German citizens. In an interview with German newspaper Bild he admitted he still likes to shoot people, but now with his camera.
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>Nonetheless, he remains a skeptic about 3-D generally, though he has only seen one other movie from the modern 3-D era: Avatar. (He's not a big consumer of modern popular culture. When he was recently asked to appear in a long-running TV show, he asked for the network to send over a DVD—Herzog was, it turns out, the last man in America to see The Simpsons.) Though he says he appreciated Avatar's "sheer fireworks," he also says that he found them exhausting enough that he had to take off the glasses every now and then and that he thought the use of regular action-movie quick editing was a mistake.
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PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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During the filming of Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans he spiked the food with drugs to get the crew in the right mood. Herzog said he got the drugs from Nicholas Cage who stars as the lead in the film. Cage hasn't acknowledged this and only said "Herzog likes to party, and you know about how it goes at a German party."
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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While filming Grizzly Man Werner accidentally went to a meeting of "bears" (a subculture of gay men). He stayed till the ending because he considered it to be improper to leave early.
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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>>15819022 It's true.
Some quotes from him:
"At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students would train every evening from eight to ten with a boxing instructor: sparring, somersaulting (backwards and forwards), juggling, magic card tricks. Whether or not you would be filmmaker by the end I do not know, but at least you would come out as an athlete."
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>>15819045 [citation needed]
TheMovieGod !!C0T8StYQOnK
I have the feeling PosterParent is trolling.
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let's say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.>for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
Mizo !/0Gucci9/c
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>In late 2005, during an interview with BBC film critic Mark Kermode regarding Grizzly Man (2005), a sniper opened fire on them with an air rifle. Kermode panicked when Herzog calmly said, "Someone is shooting at us." One of the pellets then hit Herzog. An unmoved Herzog said that the bullet was 'not a significant one' and insisted on continuing the interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w The Muffin !.KuBPFKrDQ
>>15819182 He's not. I've read most of this shit before. There's even a video of him being shot. Youtube it.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good Kung Fu film.
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>>15819197 See:
>>15819045 Herzong wasn't born until 1942.
The Muffin !.KuBPFKrDQ
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>>15819241 I said most of. Obviously the "drugged the crew" shit is fake. But the shooting thing, the Joaquin Phoenix thing, a lot of it's true.
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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>>15819241 I'm channelling my inner Herzog
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the images and advertisements that surround us in magazines, or I turn on the television, or if I walk into a travel agency and see those huge posters with that same tedious and rickety image of the Grand Canyon on them, I truly feel there is something dangerous emerging here. The biggest danger, in my opinion, is television because to a certain degree it ruins our vision and makes us very sad and lonesome. Our grandchildren will blame us for not having tossing hand-grenades into TV stations because of commercials. Television kills our imagination and what we end up with are worn out images because of the inability of too many people to seek out fresh ones.> Our grandchildren will blame us for not having tossing hand-grenades into TV stations
PosterParent !B2VgOriLLA
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Through invention, through imagination, through fabrication, I become more truthful than the little bureaucrats.
Anonymous
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sounds like a cool guy, too bad he can't make good movies
