Production Hell - Fitzcarraldo (The Most Insane Movie Shoot Ever)
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Arguments, illness, confrontational actors, destroyed sets, deadly wildlife, plane crashes, flash floods, chainsawed limbs and ships being lifted across mountains. The 1982 Werner Herzog movie Fitzcarraldo had them all, and much more. Join me as I chronicle what may be the most insane episode of Production Hell ever.
I think ANY production that involved Klaus Kinski was probably an insane shoot...
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Yeah, that's right. But this movie is the end boss. The making of Video from this movie it is a own Horror movie
His daughter was hot.
@@TeddyRumble yes... Kinski said this too
Unironically the Kinski family name originated with nobility in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Guy is literally a Bohemian.
According to Herzog, the Indians who worked on the film were terrified of Kinski, thought he was a demon , and offered Herzog that they'd kill Kinski for him. Apparently Herzog did not immediately decline lol.
Part 2: Fitzcarraldo
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Kinski does look terrifying
Considering his proclivities towards his daughter, then yes, Kinski was a demon.
There is a actually a slight misunderstanding of that encounter; the Natives weren't scared of Kinski, they were scared of Herzog. To put it generally, their culture made it so people who shouted and threw tantrums like Kinski were looked down upon, while people who could keep their cool were respected. And when they saw Herzog sit through several hours of Kinski's rants without batting an eye, they were very much impressed.
@@Vynne96-jg7er there is a fine line between genius and madness, you should see his interviews in german, most untranslated, he lost his temper within miliseconds when something went against his expectations.
best seen in, well in every moment actually......but his "jesus christus erlöser" stageplay shows this also perfect.
as the audience constantly shouts stuff and he gets very very aggressive
and if all this wouldnt have been bad enough, a few years ago one of his daughter came out with the accusation of misconduct from him
Spielberg: "It's a disaster! I can't get my shark to work."
Herzog: "Cute. Well I have this steamship..."
meanwhile Island of Dr Morreau.....with Brando on set
everyone else: need a drink?
read what he did to his daughter and you will never watch his movies ever
@@darknessvikingWait, what who did to their daughter?
The wizars of Oz production team: Please we got this cheap fake snow that is totally safe to use.
American vs German mentality.
Burden of Dreams (the 1982 documentary made about the production of this film) is one of the most insane documentaries ever made. Hell, it might be more entertaining than the movie itself.
Highest recommendation.
I saw Fitzcarraldo in the theatre in 1982 and was floored by the sheer insanity of the visual experience and story we were given on screen. Like Aguirre, shot and screened a few years earlier, you could tell how deep the cast and crew had dug to get this project wrapped. German movies back then (Wings of Desire, Mephisto, and more) were so awesome during that era.
My dad say it in the theater too!
8:38 Hey ! I saw it back then too! I was in college. Loved this flick! And TOTALLY agree with you re film back then
Another crazy thing about Klaus Kinski. He HATED the word "cut" so every time a director yelled cut he went on an insane screeching rant.
Is there a Freudian reason behind it?
So what did he tell them to say then?
@@osmanyousif7849"All righty that'll doodle-y do it"
@@osmanyousif7849nothing. his mentality was that he descides if a scene is done or not. and I think he also didn't want directors to say Action because it annoyed him... so I think they just said his name to start a scene or something along those lines
@@Whookieee 🤣🤣🤣
After all Fitzcarraldo has something every Disney production is missing; Passion
At least nobody gets hurt in a Disney production. As far as I know.
@@theunknowncommenter725 No pain, no gain.
@@theunknowncommenter725Except the kids. Unfortunately.
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Not true. Every new age disney production is hurting me mentaly...
Correction: every *modern* Disney production or more accurately most of the modern productions
The greatest thing about Fitzcarraldo is that the movie production parallels the plot of the movie itself. Herzog becomes Fitzcarraldo. I can't think of a more perfect symmetry.
Method direction.
Make a movie about making the movie. Profit.
They could make a TV show about this.
@@malcolmapplet4313 That was actually done once. Building on the weird antics* of Max Schreck during shooting _Nosferatu_ in 1922, _The Shadow of the Vampire_ (2000) directed by E.E. Merhige portrays Schreck as being a real vampire and slaughtering members of the crew during production. There is a tangent with Herzog & Kinski, since they made a remake of Nosferatu in 1979 - and a very good one at that.
* He had a habit of appearing at the set in full makeup and not conversing much at all with the other members of the crew. His mysterious posthumous aura so created was enhanced by him being somewhat of a loner and dying rather young at age of 56. After filming _Nosferatu_ there were even rumours going on that Max Schreck doesn't even exist and he's rather a pseudonym for a well-known actor Alfred Abel! In truth Schreck did have an extensive theater and film career.
One day someone will make a movie about Herzog's project, increasing the recursive nature of the greater story.
It is the paradox of Werner Hertzog films that they aim for greatness, always fall short, and yet there is something in the attempt that is admirable, daring, noble, even in its failure, which makes it classic.
It is the bane and yet the fuel of the tortured genius.
I remember going to work on the London Underground one day and the lady opposite me had a shoulder bag with the text "Every man should drag a boat over a mountain once in his life".That really , profoundly, touched me as a metaphor and it has been something I have turned to very many times since to keep me going.
The full saying is "Every man should drag a boat over a mountain once in his life with Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog"
Or die trying ?
"It's not a boat - It's a ship." (Titanic)
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"The birds don't sing, they screech in pain"..😮...
I was laughing at that 🤣
Hahahaha
I was impressed with this line. It sounds like it belongs in the opening chapters of a horror novel.
Yeah that was quite poignant.
Good one...
The weirdest thing is that ten years earlier Herzog and Kinski had cooperated on a film about an insane project in the Amazon. That too became a Production HELL worthy project, due to the difficulties of shooting on location in the Amazon rain forest. Kinsky and Herzog almost killed each other. And the final product is a nightmarish vision of obsession and slow disaster.
That movie is Aguirre - the Wrath of God.
And then they decided to do it again.
Cheers
"Aguirre - the Wrath of God" - amazing film.
In fairness, Herzog tried to avoid the reunion.
A brilliant movie.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a masterpiece.
And to get Kinski to act like he wanted, Herzog intentionally caused him to go off on a tantrum until he was too exhausted to keep going, then shooting the scene where the character needed to convey exactly that exhaustion and wearyness.
Those two were insane together, but it worked.
one of the things that always made me smile was when Kinski was screaming at Wherzog and the German-English translator just gave up.
Naa dann mach doch deinen scheeeiiißß
@@trooper-talk Nein, bruder!
@@trooper-talk This quote is actually used very often between me and a friend of mine...
Werner Herzog once got shot in the belly during an interview, still insisting to finish it while bleeding into his shirt: "It's not the first time I got shot and it's not a significant wound".
Wow, kind of like President Teddy Roosevelt who got shot by a wannabe assassin and finished his speech before accepting medical attention.
Badass
My comment got deleted. It was about President Teddy Roosevelt finishing his speech after getting shot. I hate youtube.
@@RCAvhstape this happens to random comments of mine aswell
wtf is going on with youtube
Fun Fact: in South America at the time, it was probably one of the worst times to shoot a movie in. Not only every government was a military dictatorship, every single one of them was trying to start a war with the other to distract the people.
By 1979, Perú was almost dragged into a war with Chile and Brazil cause Argentina wanted a quick victory invading Chile to distract its population. It didn’t happened cause Argentina and Peru realised that there was no way they could beat Chile, adding the possibility that Brazil would aid Chile and invade Peru through the Amazon (coincidentally, the same place this movie was filming). The tensions continued until 1982, where Argentina thought that would be better to get Brazil off his back and invade Chile is they took a quick detour and invade the Falklands Islands quickly. That didn’t went well
They went up against the nation that practically invented the idea of Special Forces and Commandos both of which they ended up losing against.
@@schizoidboyArgentina will survive. The other nation won't.
@@schizoidboy is not smart in all the ways:
- UK: the country with the largest Empire in human history, with the most experience in fighting all across the World and the one that defeated the Nazis, and the Royal Navy
- Chile: the country that won every single war that it fought, with one of the strongest navies and armies in the Americas, has one of the most easily defensive landscape
- Argentina: a country that the only war it hss won was against smaller and weaker countries when other countries were the backbone, and lost when it was in equal footing cause its strategy was and still is “they are gonna surrender immediately cause we are awsome (it has never worked).
- Peru: a country that has lost every war they ever fought, 3 times against Chile, with the most hostile environment towards logistics in the world
Lol Brazil can crush Argentina anytime, anyday. And i'm not saying this just because i'm brazilian, it's just that no other country in South America can stand up against Brazil, just look at the size of our country and military compared to any other South American country. Plus, Chile is South America's second place.
@@vlada Argentina has a weaker army than Peru, the hell are you talking about.
Klaus Kinski died over 30 years ago, but he is still so well known in germany that stand-up comedians do parodies of him and everyone knows instantly who is meant. That is some legacy there.
and he also managed to bang Deborah Caprioglio when she was at her hottest
Germany has stand-up comedians? I did not know that...
@@ch3nz3n Germans know what comedy is?
@@ch3nz3n Well, a few . lol. Her is an example for the Klaus Kinski parody : ua-cam.com/video/7O96B4cij10/v-deo.html
@@immikeurnot it takes a german to understand german comedy ;)
fun fact: kinskis rants were endlessly quotable. he was hands-down insane, but when he got riled up his mind got focused and sharp.
I wish that was me
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If you want see how far Kinski slid down the tubes in his career, check out the movie Crawlspace. Caution: the time you spend watching it is time you'll never get back.
The man, the myth, the legend
I've heard the same of Norman Wisdom...
Well, the one they showed in this clip certainly was.
I recently did a presentation on Klaus Kinski for my German class at college. The entire class was full of people who thought that Tom Cruise and John Trevolta were the craziest actors of all time. The looks on their faces were hilarious.
Randy Quaid
I hope you took a picture of their faces.
Wasn't it Kinski in another film, to do with the Spanish conquistadors (forgotten its name) who had and M1 Garrand in his tent? The story had it he regularly gunned up the set when he was in a bad mood/thought he heard a noise/scared/happy/day in the week, or am I remembering it all wrong?
Saw an interview with Klaus Kinski a very long time ago on local television where he stated that he chose his roles by checking what offer made him the most money in the shortest time possible, no matter the quality of the production. So he'd have time and the means to go after what really was his passion: women.
@@laurencemoore2105 The Movie is called "Aguirre The Wrath of God" and according to Herzog the only reason why Kinski didnt leave production is that Herzog threatend to literally kill him with a Shotgun if he didnt finish the Film.
"Was it worth it?" Fitzcarraldo is one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history. It's one of my favorite films and the accompanying documentary is a must-watch.
Whenever Kinski was announced as a guest for a talk show in Germany, half the country gathered in front of the TV, knowing this lunatic would open up burning hell...thanks for the video, Mr.Drinker!
Cutting your own foot off after a deadly snakebite is genuinely a chad move tbh
Reminds me of Cannibal Holocaust.
"genuinely a chad move" 🤓🤓🤓
Absolutely idiotic is what it is 🥴🤣🤣🤣
Strong contender for "Understatement Of The Century" 😂
Amputating limb: Chad move
Amputating limb with a chainsaw: Giga-chad flex
Imagine having a set that is so PLAGUED with disaster that you get the bright idea to bring in Klaus Kinski.
He probably thought they're already in hell so it couldn't get any worse.
He didit for the lolz. For real, maybe he thought that either it somehow workout or be an absolute disaster.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"The birds don't sing, they screech in pain."
That might be the most 'Werner Herzog' thing that Werner Herzog has ever said.
Quite. Even without having heard the line you could read it and immediately know exactly how he said it.
Werner Herzog is literally just the typical South Eastern Bavarian. We all speak like this here, in fact in my Area we all sound like him when we speak English
It feels good to see how People abroad love his Sayings and Dialect
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
@@chartreux1532 I, of course, read all of that in his voice. Simultaneously spooky and endearing.
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Now you know what it feels like to be Bavarian and why we consider Beer to be "Liquid Bread" to be consumed every Day in whatever amounts haha
For Klaus Kinski Fans btw.
UA-cam "Max Giermann Klaus Kinski" He is a German Comedia who not only looks like Klaus Kinski but has the same Voice and does the Perfect Impression. He did host whole German Award Shows acting like Klaus Kinski would. Its glorious, even if you don't understand German. Enjoy!
Happened upon this film one night on Film4, had no idea what I was getting into, but from the moment I saw Kinski on screen I was hypnotised. One of the most electrifying actors I've ever seen in cinema.
Insane people have that effect
Dude. What the hell did I just watch. A boat in the middle of the jungle? What a bonkers video. Well done, Drinker.
Boat? More like a ship.
Me and my family traveled to Iquitos in Peru for an Amazon cruise. Iquitos is the largest city in the world to which there are no roads. You can fly or you can take a boat but it's in the middle of the Amazon jungle. One of the crew, Walter Saxer, the production manager, returned there, having married a local girl. He bought a hotel, which he renamed La Casa Fitzcarraldo, that was used previously by the crew during the shoot. We stayed there and it had lots of memorabilia from the film and Walter had some crazy stories of the shoot. Indeed we stayed in the Mick Jagger suite, where he also stayed (but had to leave to go on tour so was edited out of the film!).
Does this hotel still exist?
@@ZorexZockt It's on all the hotel websites like Expedia, Trip Advisor etc, so I'm guessing yes.
I hiked Madre de Dios as part of my honeymoon and came across a steamboat inexplicably abandoned in the middle of a jungle tributary and it suddenlg occured to me that I was staring at a leftover from the fleet of the real Fitzcarrald.
@@chor-danpiotyrsohn3730 Whoa. I would love to check that out!
Filming in the tropics is already asking for disaster. Filming in the tropics with Klaus Kinski is guaranteeing it.
Filming in tropics with Klaus Kinski almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter........
you forgot the bit about dragging a 300 tonne boat over a mountain...
Holy hell, a like from The Critical Drinker? That means more to me than the 1.5k upvotes I got for "I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a samurai" on the Assassin's Creed: Shadows video.
Bru!! :))
Filming anywhere with Klaus Kinski means you should stop, sit down and think about how it had come to this.
I reality, the guy took his boat apart, and carried it over the hill. Herzog didn't think that was dramatic enough.
People mention often how insane Kinski is and sure, of course, but they neglect to note that Herzog is quite mad himself, the child of actual Nazis, a man whose life story could fill books of multiple genres. In the case of both men that eccentricity, that madness, was the flipside to genius and the resultant work is immaculate.
@@D4n1t0o have you ever heard him reading Francoise Villon? He hat talent in spades. For the art he left as enduring his crazy was a small price to pay.
Every German his age is a child of "actual Nazis" because membership in the Nazi party was mandatory. It's nothing special.
Good choice to cover this one, Drinker. I saw "Fitzcaraldo," but the documentary "Burden of Dreams" about the making of this nightmare project was more fascinating. It still blows my mind that Herzog's crew actually hauled the ship overland. Now, they would just create the whole thing with CGI and be done with it.
>create the whole thing with CGI
and it would look like steaming pile of sith
Another example of the story of the movie’s hellish production being more interesting than the movie itself.
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I love the movie, it’s a favorite of mine, but yeah the behind the scenes stories are legendary
Watch Aguierre: The Wrath of God. Pretty much the same story but Kinski is a batshit Conquistador.
Boooooooo! ;)
Killing Klaus Kinski 20 minute fun doc on this.
Herzog makes a statement like “Klaus Kinski sees the jungle as erotic. I don’t see that at all. To me, the jungle is overwhelming and collective murder. But in spite of this, I still love the jungle “.
Hahahaha! “But in spite of this, I still love the jungle!” 😂😂😂 that’s my Herzog!
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@@AmbraMedling Stop spamming your stupid video no one wants to watch.
Partying with Herzog must be an experience.
"To me, the jungle is overwhelming and collective murder." And that's why Kinski thought it was so erotic.
It makes me smile so wide every time I hear "naaah it'll be fine" 😅
Werner Herzog's audio commentaries are more entertaining and fascinating than most films! So many crazy stuff happened ... and he always has something interesting to say.
You left out the best part. Werner Herzog produced a documentary about his relation with Kinski "(Mein liebster Feind (Ennemis Intimes)" Some parts are also on UA-cam, and I tried to translate one part of what Herzog said:
"And then he suddenly packed his things and was dead serious that he was going to leave the set. And he packed everything into a speedboat and I knew that he had already broken contracts 30, 40, 50 times. Shortly before that he had canceled a tour, before that he had canceled theater engagements, and I knew that he was leaving now. And then I went to him, I was completely calm, I was unarmed... and said to him: That's not possible, the film is more important than our personal feelings and is more important than our characters. And that's not allowed. THAT'S. NOT. POSSIBLE! And he said: No, I'm going now.
And I told him that I had a gun. Not here, though, he would only reach the next bend in the river at most, and then he would have eight bullets in his head. And the ninth would be for me. And he had enough instinct to know: This was no longer fun."
Crazy that despite all that Production Hell, they went through it and finished making the Fitzcarraldo movie anyway.
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Very similar to Apocalypse Now
@@bencarlson4300Apocalypse?
He made that other movie in the amazon with the same guy, c'mon we know herzog loves this shit.
And they beat George RR Martin for time as well
Fitzcarraldo is a cult classic movie of its own right.
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@@AmbraMedling SPAM
This movie is a classic if not a masterpiece. The last shot is magnificent.
You missed the part where Kinski allegedly had a major tantrum because the worker who cut off his own foot got all the attention.
Kinski actually wanted to quit during the shoot. Apparently, Herzog told him that Kinski would only manage to make it around the first bent of the river by which Herzog would have shot him.
Basically a shotgun film.
Funfact: he told him he’s going to shoot Kinski first and then himself. Knowing herzog, he meant that shit at that point
That was on the set of Aguirre, also set in the rain forest.
@@caesarjergens my bad
@@UrsusPolaris01 No problem, they both involved Kinski, were set in the rain forest and shot a few years apart so a mistake is easily made. I even double checked to make clear I was not wrong. :-)
That was on Aguirre, the Wrath of God, also set in the Peruvian jungle...the fact that Herzog lived through that experience and said "well, lets run that back shall we" says....something,...
Kinski was a complete psychopath and nutjob in real life. He only played psychopaths in movies because he did not have to act that much. But he was also great in these roles.
He didn't only played psychopath... In Il grande silenzio f.e. he played a very reasonable bounty hunter.
Not acting if it's just who you are.
In Roger Ebert's review of the movie, he noted that Kinski was a better choice than Jason Robards, since Robards would have been playing a madman, while one could actually believe Kinski was one, heh.
I remember he played the easily insulted gunman "Wild" in the film "For A Few Dollars More".
He matter of factly was insane@@marychocolatefairy
Fitzcarraldo's the only film I've watched on DVD with the complete commentary from start to finish, Herzog tells so much, so well. Mesmerizing.
He's like David Lynch crazy but passionate about their work.
Finally, a Herzog + Kinski Production Hell Video.
When we talk about crazy directors, there is Copolla, Friedkin, Kubrick and there is Herzog.
His whole persona is just amazing and my god, his voice and accent. 👍
You have to be a crazy director, when you work 5x times with Klaus Kinski, voluntarily.
Pure madness. 🤣😁🤣😁
Kudos for featuring a film that isn't mainstream fast food. It's refreshing to see obscure gems like this getting exposure.
If I had a nickel for every Werner Herzog directed movie featuring Klaus Kinski as an eccentric in the Amazon I would have 2 nickels
More specifically: Klaus Kinski in the amazon forcing natives to help him move a boat.
Which is not a lot but it’s still weird it happened twice.
One thing I love about the German language is how scatological the insults are. If there is any way to involve shite or the hole that dispenses it, it will be worked into a German curse. Too funny.
But it's where insults in German practically end. Insulting in Spanish, for example, is a more rewarding experience. I am fluent in both languages and always opt for cursing in Spanish. 😅
@@Rondo2ooofascinating 😆
Balkan languages say hi.
Here in the Netherlands it's diseases. (Besides the usual stuff involving excrement or reproductive organs and the like.) Either deadly infectious diseases like typhoid fever, cholera and tuberculosis ("tyfus", "kolere" and "tering" respectively) or cancer. Exclaimed in anger or wished upon the poor soul who has incurred the wrath of the speaker.
@@neuralnetwork17 Haha, yeah my Dutch bro was telling me how many Dutch insults were diseased based (catch the plague, catch AIDS etc) or 'cancer-dick' (chancre-lul) cancer-scrotum etc. Also alot of farmer-based insults too! (Boeren-lul!) Dutch is right up there with fantastic curse words. French-Canadian is great too with all the religious-based cursing. (Calise Tabernac!) That's my ancestral groove. ;-)
I've read about the production in Roger Ebert's books, but I'd never seen actual video of it- thanks, Drinker! Herzog was one of Ebert's favorite directors, and he gave 4 stars (out of 4) to both the movie and the behind the scenes doc "Burden of Dreams". He'd seen clips of the then unfinished doc when the filming was still ongoing, and he said that if Herzog survived and completed the film, it would be one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of movies.
What? Herzog is still alive.
A Wonderful documentary, Drinker
My thanks,
Dave from Aberdeenshire
i have absolute respect for Herzog for somehow completing this film, the film itself and the documentary of its making are both worth watching
@@Endymion766 aguiire was filmed under similar conditions also our beloved dui
@@Endymion766 they did 5 films together all great. Rhey had a total love heat relationship
7.25 : "they could NOT kill him YET" had me dying for a minute😂,🤣
When the plane crashed the movie crew was obviously talking a lot about the accident. It drove Kinski even more crazy because for a while he wasnt the center of attention anymore
Oh man. That's funny.
Every german kid that grew up on the internetz in the early 2000s knows the Klaus Kinski rant
And max gierman has keeps it alive ever since with his Kinski impressions😂
@@chheinrich8486 Kool Savas then made a rap track out of this tirade to ensure its immortality
@@AiasMaiorneed to listen to that!
"Nein, der hat nicht gesagt, halt die Schnauze - der hat eine Peitsche genommen, und hat ihm in die Fresse gehauen! DAS HAT DER GEMACHT! DU DUMME SAU!!!!" :-D
The whole movie was allegorical for the production itself. It makes it one of the best movies of all time.
I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned. The production of this film was far crazier than the story of the event it was based on.
The work I admire most of Klaus Kinski is the poetry he recorded. Poetry by many famous writers.
He locked himself into a room for days, learnd every word intrinsically, passionately like only an insane could do, demolished the whole room and then recorded the poems.
Beautiful.
The string of movies Werner Herzog made with Kinski has proved to be some my all time favorites. Especially Aguirre: The Wrath of God.
I watched Aguire: The wrath of god when it was on TV. I caught it at the point when they were carrying all the equipment through the rainforest. I could not stop watching and often think about that movie a lot.
I will never able unsee Aguirre: The Wrath of God! Amazing but disturbing film.
Werner Herzog's documentaries are on another level. They are so legendary that there are even documentaries about his documentaries.
This is on Prime right now if anyone hasn't seen it yet.
Thanks 🙂
Yy
Thanks a ton!
Awesome!
Nice, I wouldn't pay to see it, but I'll put it on while I make a dinner of steak and bourbon lol..
Love that you are covering cinema classics, love herzog one of my favorite directors.
Yo drinker this is by far your best series. Keep these Production Hell videos coming!
Kinski x Herzog always resulted in some spectacular fireworks.
Woyzeck film
There's a great little documentary about the making of the film and how it almost drove the director (Werner Herzog) insane. The documentary is called "Burden of Dreams" by Les Blank. It would make a great double feature with "Hearts of Darkness" which chronicles Frances Ford Coppola's decent into hell making "Apocalypse Now."
Les Blank also filmed `Werner Herzog eating his shoe`. Herzog made a bet that he would his shoe if Errol Morris would complete his documentary Gates of heaven (about pet cemeteries) , as the title indicates the film was made and Herzog was true to his word.
This is a dream come true! As a german I know every word of Kinskis meltdown by heart. Probably my most watched UA-cam video
Yeah, the german comedian Max Giermann makes perfect imitations of Kinski.
I don't even speak German and the brief portion of Kinski's rant shown here still had me laughing so hard. I might learn German just so I can get the full experience of Klaus Kinski
Pure eargasms listening to Hertzog talk about anything......i particularly enjoy listening to him talk about the insanity of this film.
This has gotta be one of my favorite series on youtube
I want Werner Herzog to narrate the entire Bible, then narrate his personal commentary on the entire Bible. Then I want to fall asleep listening to it.
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And then make a movie of it and let Klaus Kinski play Noah...
The opposite of Klaus Kinski's Jezus Christus Erloeser.
I second this. Let's make it happen.
@@_Curanes_Rex Kinski would probably make a better Satan.
This is one of my very very very favorite films. INSANE!!! That - and Aguirre: Wrath of God - made Werner Herzog one of my favorite directors of all time!❤❤❤❤
Klaus Kinski was gold ... psychopathic gold
The level of chaos and real-life drama that went into making this film is truly incredible. It's amazing that they completed the film despite everything.
This video put me on to "My Best Fiend"--
Drinker, _this_ is the content I want from you, not spoiling current release movies through the same tired lens.
*This* is the filmic content I come to UA-cam for.
This mirrors much of what they had already gone through with ‘Aguirre: Wrath of God’ which is a stone-cold classic if you have not yet seen it.
I live in South America, thus watched this movie at school. The grandiose scenes in real rainforest blew our minds, but to me what made me crazy was: Those germans had balls of steel to film in Amazônia! People from North tend to underestimate how big, distant, wild, hostile, and overall dangerous rainforests are, and Amazon is their queen. It´s a good movie.
I have thought and studied a bit about the Amazon. There's a very interesting book I read, an autobiographical account about man who was searching for El Dorado in the far reaches of the Amazonian Basin right after WWII. It is "The Rivers Ran East" by Leonard Clark. For the uninitiated or even a well seasoned explore, it is a book not to be missed.
I have the DVD of this nightmare-ish movie. This movie actually transports you the the scene, and the sense of deadly urgency comes thru on screen. It is an anxiety producing movie that carries the stench of obsession, insanity, and imminent death with it. I've never seen anything remotely like it before.
I’ve heard this story before and it’s fascinating. The original inspiration was crazy enough. But the addition of Herzog and, for a final push over the top, Kinski firmly place it in the realm of batshit crazy. Great video!
The movie was a masterpiece that angles off into the zone of movies that define obsolescent cultist brilliance. A movie that stands alone in its grandiose forte. Movies of this caliber are ones such as “ Sorcerer”, “Das Boot”, Eraser Head”, Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “A Boy and his Dog”, “A Clockwork Orange”, and so many more.
How Werner Herzog had the mental fortitude to deal with Klaus Klinski on multiple films is beyond crazy to me.
Apparently his trick was to just get Klaus to scream himself out of his tantrums until all the fight and his energy was gone and then he finally could be managed.
He used to live in the same house as Kinski when he (Herzog) was a teenager and Kinski an aspiring actor. He already threw tantrums then but the landlady had a soft spot for him.
@@caesarjergens I listened to Herzog's autobiography: Every Man for Himself and God against All where he relays this story. The whole book was fascinating.
@@billwhitteaker2722 I read the book, but I should listen to the audio version as well as Herzog narrates it himself.
They need each other like Batman needs the Joker.
I wonder if Herzog felt some kind of responsibility or compassion for Kinski.
But I never dug deeper to satisfy that curiosity.
Been listening to you for year Drinker and never would have thought you’d make a video about Fitzcarraldo. I’m so grateful you did because this movie needs to be brought up more for how incredible of a story the whole thing is. From the Kinski blow-ups, to the insanity levels of production riding on Herzog’s back, it all makes this movie an absolute classic.
I remember vividly watching an excerpt from this movie on TV, back when I was like 10 or something, the part where the tribe cuts the ropes and lets the ship roll down, and I thought it was the most insane thing I'd seen on screen up until that point. That one scene stayed with me for a long while, and seeing the thumbnail, watching the video and learning about the film, its troubled production *and* finally learning its name, I can safely say that it still is the most insane thing I'd seen on screen, ever.
The episode of Documentary Now satirizing this film is so good.
I remember seeing this when i was about 9 and it stuck with me as one of the most fascinating, depressing, otherworldly stories of all time.
Excellent stuff.
These clips were from the documentary, "My best fiend". It describes Klaus Kinski in vast detail through his interactions with others. Hertzog was his roomate at the time when he locked himself in the bathroom for 3 days, and smashed everything into thumbnail sized fragments, including the toilet and sink. Hunter Thompson should have wrote about him.
Kinski and Herzog worked together before on films like Aguirre, wrath of God, where had to shoot in the jungle as well. Herzog once told that one time Kinski threatened to leave the set and abandon his role in the movie. Then Herzog, who had invested his whole money in the film went to Kinskis tent with a shotgun. After that Kinski didn't want to leave anymore.
every German knows Kinski, he was so insane and aggressive as a person he basically became famous because of it.
He was pretty much the first German meme in history.
I know a German Professor that we secretly call, Klaus. He's a prima-donna, a PhD, and after more than 10 years in the dept, has yet to publish a book. Bet if Kinski were alive, the two would be best buds.
Well... There was that one guy...
@@glasstuna Haha, I was just thinking the same thing... Though, Kinski is the one "passionate" German they're still allowed to talk about, Mustache man will always be my favorite German.
@@joeblow229Except mustache man wasn't German. 😂
@@glasstunaNope, that one guy was Austrian.
I just discovered this movie recently and liked it so much I had to look up more about how it was made and that was just as interesting!
It was made so as to create future interest - a sort of creative long term investment.
Such an engrossing yet horrifying story behind Fitzcarraldo. It really makes one question the extremes people are willing to go for their passion project.
You should do a Production Hell on the 1981 film Roar. The making of that film was a nightmare.
Dozens of lions running around on set attacking people? What could go wrong?
Or Cool World, assuming he could find something to say about it that hasn't already been said and didn't just come from iMDb.
@@SirBlackReeds I already knew everything about Fitzccarraldo and I was still entertained.
Oh, the movie magic of 70's and 80's. They don't make them like they use to.
And no CGI. Let that be a lesson.
"Nah, you can't kill him.... yet" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You haven't seen a thin-skinned actor unless you have witnessed the glory (and terror) of Klaus Kinski throwing a temper tantrum at the slightest provocation.
Klaus Kinski was mental, but he was a great actor. R.I.P.
BURDEN OF DREAMS, the documentary about the making of FITZCARRALDO, is the best filmmaking documentary of all time.
Yeah, I was going to mention that. Wasn't it made by Herzog's wife?
@@TeddyRumble Documentary filmmaker Les Blank
Like watching a boxing match. Then the round ends, they go back to respective corners. Trash talk each other. Bells rings and they come for the next round.
Burden of Dreams is a much better film than the movie they are filming.
@@Lockbar maybe, but I liked the film. Kinski is an amazing actor.
Herzog is an absolute legend. So is Klaus Kinski. Both also certified madlads.
We need that village elder now more than ever, standing by in certain Disney writing rooms.
The one time a diversity hire would actually help a production
Hahahaha, imagine there is a high-level meeting, and there is the one guy with a Peruvian villager with a blow-gun at the ready standing behind him.
Right, because paying someone to essentially be a prop is going to fix everything. 🙄
One of my Herzog favorites, even though I can't rewatch it for some reason.
I know your bread is buttered by the rage bait brigade these days, but this was really good.
You should do what successful directors do: one for you, one for them
Also, this movie is prime for a real life Tropic Thunder. Make a mocumentary about the making of this movie, you'd have gold.
Thanks for covering this, it's a brilliant film with a fraught production. BURDEN OF DREAMS is one of the great behind-the-scenes films.
Some similar documentaries about tough prods:
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- Lost Soul
- Lost in La Mancha
- Jodorowsky's Dune
- Empire of Dreams
My dad worked as a fixer for the production company and by his accounts all the crazy stories are true. The natives were either scared to death by Kinskis demeanor or felt truly repulsed by him. Either way they did wanted him dead.
you know it's good when it's more insane than _Dr. Moreau_
Oh god that film was a trainwreck.
It was even worse than Apocalypse Now.
Brandos shenanigans are nothing compared to Kinskis. Trust me on that one.
Seems like jungle shoots are a common theme with these disasters. And it's appropriate that a film about an insane hellish jungle ordeal would itself become an insane, hellish jungle ordeal. You could say that adds a flavor of authenticity to the film.
I want to know more about the making of _The African Queen_ now. I saw that as kid and i still think that's one of the best films I ever saw. Even though i found out later the book had a very different ending, a lot more depressing.
I saw this movie when I was way too young; definitely too young to know much of anything about its production, etc. It was my first Herzog film, that's for sure. The film made me obsessed with his work, at a time when it was much harder to track down - DVDs were still a good 10 years away. Seeing BURDEN OF DREAMS and MY BEST FIEND, reading his book about its making (CONQUEST OF THE USELESS), and just learning more and more about the man brought the film higher and higher in my estimation. As it stands, FITZCARRALDO still sits comfortably in my top 10 films, in a spot its held for around 35 years.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Part 2: Fitzcarraldo
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