@@scottsimmons7897 I also agree Satyricon is a great work of art, but I must protest that Aguirre is more important for these very serious times. As you will recall Satyricon is a homoerotic story about Giton (played by Max Born, who was not homosexual, and still alive and married living in NZ). It was a different time, and different stories could be told in the age of sex awareness in early seventies. This is a different story but more relevant for these times of greed, malice and as Bowie, Kinski’s friend put it “failures for fathers mothers of chaos”. Now it will take men accustomed to penance, religious conviction, and austerity such as Kinski to defeat the Americans and save North Europa. Such convictions are seen even better in Jesus Christus Erlöser. That film has nothing to do with Herzog, who was nothing himself without Kinski.
Hi there Celeste, I've never watched the full f"Aguirre". JUST clips of the film and Herzog talking about it. But, wow. You won't see this type of film from modern or even old school Hollywood. It's only the kind of film which can come from Europe up to the mid to late 80s? That sense of danger could ONLY exist if it was real. Which it was. The cast were either stressed out, starving, ill, attacked by other tribes or worse? Scared of Kinski who's idea of acting was not caring what others felt like as a result. Including either nearly killing someone or angering peaceful tribe people to the point they WANTED to kill him. From a film making point of view: that will either lead to complete disaster or produce artistic gold.
"Don't forget to pray otherwise God could come to a bad end" probably the best line in the movie. Really shows madness of Aguirre who to me is a symbol of mankind's desire for conquest.
Marcus Galeano If everybody stopped praying to God, would He still exist? Even if He DOES exist, but everybody forgot about him, would he still matter somehow? Aguirre says God needs us more than we need Him. Or it's just one of Aguirre's/Kinski's sublime non sequiturs
Avarice incarnate. From our development of metallurgy to our creation of the nuclear weapon we have yearned to rule reality and subjugate the unknown. When taken to its logical conclusion and without philosophical consideration to guide us, we are all starving conquistadors, bleeding out in the middle of the Amazon.
The image at 1:50 is one of the great photos in world cinema in that decade. The helicopter shot beginning at 4:30 is one of the greatest, if not the greatest moving shot, of the seventies.
+garrison968 That was actually shot from a motorboat. The boat was expertly piloted, and the low angle does a good job of further hiding the boat's wake. You can still see the waves rocking the raft, though.
Well imagine being crushed by crazy ugly whacky Klaus Kinski and then being shouted a by that scary face.. poor monkey must have been emotionally scarred for the rest of his brief life. Mental trauma.
Few people notice this movie's end-credit disclaimer "Many many spider monkeys were harmed by Klaus in the making of this film. In fact he ate several alive.”
With this scene I believe Harzog has really captured a precious insight on the human. Circumstances may vary according to the historical moment, but the essence is the same: that of a remote folly which possesses a man, exalting and rising him above others, even in defeat.
Look no further than the state of the current world, with global masses elevating demagogic populists at the expense of knowledge and experience. We have learned nothing.
This is the pinnacle of nihilistic existentialist filmmaking. And probably my favorite movie of all time. I want to watch this masterpiece just before I die...
Kinski os beyond Brando, or any other American from your fetid fascist former colonies of the British Empire. He was a spiritual leader and a visionary. To compare Him with anyone living or dead with the possible exception of Luther or Christ is to completely misunderstand Him. The only mistake He ever made is failing to murder Herzog in his sleep. “Ich werde meine Tochter heiraten,” #KINSKILIVES
The ending of Aguirre is so fitting because it shows his delusion since all of his followers and fellow soldiers have died on their journey to find El Dorado. But Aguirre maintains his God Complex and obsessions even though he is ruler of no one except for a bunch of monkeys that raid the float.
A Masterpiece of cinema. Herzog is beyond great as is Kinski and the two together - the results speak for themselves. Remarkable how stupid and inane a lot of comments are on here. A few insightful good ones also.
They're both good movies. Why compare them? Aguirre is about a man pushed to the limits by nature and Joker is about a man pushed to his limits by society.
Horrific Fried Donut Well, if you are capable to appreciate Aguirre, it means you could be saved from alienation so, I'll try. I'm french, so I could link you some french articles/podcasts that are very pertinents in their critic of Joker, but I don't know if you can understand them. To sum up my point : I compare both movies because Aguirre is one of the most recognized author film that depicts the fall of a man into madness etc., and could be linked to films like Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, which Joker explicitly refers to. But : if Aguirre is a documentary like depiction of the rude and brutal amazonia and Taxi Driver a deep captation of the atmosphere of New York at the time it was shot, Joker is only an artificial tentative to recreate what worked before, the decor of the film is a mix of what a greyish city of the 80s would looks like, but its set up and filmed like a commercial. Here I just focus on the setting because I want to be precise, but what I want to say globally is that Herzog and Scorsese have a vision, a vision of their settings, of their characters, of their story ; and Todd Philipps has nothing to say, no idea of what to do with his camera. So he just let Joaquin Phoenix occupy the screen for 2 and half hour and hope to get an oscar. The maim, crucial difference is that Aguirre is an author film, and Joker is made to please his producers. I have been pretty affirmative here, but if you wants to make your opinion, I can advise you to : continue to watch a ton of Herzog's films ; if you like Phoenix, to watch PTA's "The Master", where he do mainly the same performance than in joker but this time there is someone behind the camera.
@@lejardinierdugoulag7883 I don't think Phoenix's character in The Master is anything like his character in Joker. And Todd Phillips definitely had a vision for the character. Read the script if you don't believe me. Is Joker derivative? Yes, but ketchup is also derivative of tomatoes, and we don't lambast ketchup for simply being derived from something else.
Love the monkeys leaping into the water as Klaus Kinski approaches. Stay on the raft with Kinski as he's being goaded by Werner Herzog or swim for it in piranha infested water? "Over the side!"
Also squares well with Donald Trump being ill of COVID in October 2020 in the White House, and claiming a non existing victory over Biden, and rigged election, and the whole shit.
0:08 "I used to be a philosopher... then I took an arrow to the knee." ROTFL That movie is insane. Just like Aguirre, Kinski, and Herzog. So much craziness in a single movie.
Probably not, but he DID improvise grabbing and tossing aside the monkey. For more about Klaus Kinski's creative process in Werner Herzog's films, watch the documentary "My Best Fiend". It's very entertaining.
My favorite part. I think this whole scene is somewhat allegorical. Where did the spider monkeys come from? Doesn't matter. Where there is a mass there will be a longing for omnipotence. Aguirre transcended himself and his El Dorado.
@@ozymandiasramesses1773 Squirrel monkeys, Herzog bought hundreds of them then couldn't sell them after. I'm sure they were delicious to what ever ate them.
Not defending Kinski or anything (he was really crazy IMO) but these "pedo" claims were made during the #metoo hype. It's always when claims are made 20 years after (Kinski died in 1991) and the fact that the victim is the only evidence we have is beyond suspicious. I hardly believe a lot of claims similar to this.
@@bal_masque There was no "metoo hype". You're confounded that when other women came forward with their stories of abuse, that others would find the courage to do so as well? Then you're a great fool. If you knew anything about Kinski you would have no doubt he did what it alleged. I don't care for anyone who says "Not defending X or anything", they use this to hide their deceit.
Anyone know the name of the music that becomes more audible around 2:50? It sounds like Popol Vuh/Florian Fricke, but it doesn't seem to be on the "official" Aguirre soundtrack album, which is a shame since it's such a beautiful plaintive melody.
Interpreto que Aguirre llego a su purgatorio al parecer siendo el único que no fue atacado y lastimado. Seguro murió poco después de empezar alucinar, sus últimas palabras ya sonaban a delirios y pocos rastros de lucidez.
I think a better ending would be to have Aguirre abandon the raft. After which, he seeks Inez in the forest where she departed. In a desperate measure to find her he apprehends her. They have an intimate scene, but is punctuated by an abrupt arrow impaling her. They share an intense moment as he holds her limp body in his arms. The symbol of lost dreams destroyed.
@@saran5263 they all got down the river in real life, but then aguirre was put to death and was chopped into four pieces, his head was meant to have been on display on a spike in valencia 60 years after his death
Yes, the music. It's like the angels singing a funeral dirge. And Aguirre's fantasy about conquering the New World. He's like Mr. Kurtz going on about "My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my..." As Marlo said, you expect the jungle to "burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places." Instead, the jungle sent a swarm of monkeys to do the laughing for it. Phil the Cat
One of the most sublime and haunting sequences in the history of cinema. I wouldn't know about the wrath of God, but this film is certainly an argument for divine inspiration.
This is an astonishingly ambitious movie and it is really about MEN, how the desire for power and wealth is a type of madness but drives US ALL. It is in our genes. We are all mad.
Lo pone a uno a pensar en el precio tan alto que pagaron los personajes de la pelicula por su codicia. Toda la miseria que tuvieron que pasar solo por el dercho de poder decir yo tengo mas.
Everyone on the raft was delirious with fever and malnutrition by that point: malaria was the implication. Everyone but Aguirre. He was basically invulnerable. The only thing that could harm him was his own madness.
A bizarre, orange-haired madman with a strange sexual attraction to his fair-haired daughter, sets off to plunder the riches of the works with a crew of questionable qualifications is undetered as his team dwindles one by one until he's left with his own madness, never considering that's is his own flaws that are dooming him.
Just finished this movie, I enjoyed it but it had a strange, wonky way of telling its story and man was this ending... disappointing, but expected. So many questions like, was the boat actually there? Was Aguirre really the last one alive? Were those actual arrows or metaphors for their fears of the natives manifesting from their fever-driven delirium like the Slave said? Excellent film showing the madness of man who still to this day attempts to conquer and subdue a chaotic, unforgiving world that ultimately, doesn't need him.
All those questions are what makes the film so powerful, transcending the idea of truth, myth, spirituality, sanity and nature. These questions are meant to be made, the answers come from the viewers own meditation on them.
4:16 Never noticed the monkey shit himself in fear of Klaus Aguirre Kinski. ROTFL. AGUIRRE "I AM THE WRATH OF GOD" MONKEY "Eat my shit" (Aguirre throws the monkey)
Sort of. Apparently Herzog would regularly let Kinski rant until he couldn’t be anymore over the top, then film him doing a more subdued kind of madness on camera.
Benjamin Britten has been quoted as saying: "I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers." I'm not sure I'm arrogant, but I can be impatient, and my jury about whose fault it is that I found nothing other than a few pretty shots in Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, which appealed to me is still out. Oddly (although German acting can be a bit.. odd..) wooden acting from everyone other than Kinski, of course, who's always over the top (which is GENIUS in Woyzeck, a FABULOUS movie adaptation!) It fizzles out at the end, as we slowly drift into dehydration and boredom.. Not for me, although as I said: that could be my fault (many would say so!). Also Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu are great movies, but Aguirre.. no.
It also depends on when and how you see it. I saw it in my early twenties, alone, in a foreign city, in a time of exploration and openness, and I was literally stunned. I remember stumbling out of the theater like a sleepwalker. This film has a purity that talks to a pure soul. Now, in my forties, I would appreciate the film's courage, but I wouldn't (and couldn't) let myself be swayed. It is a matter of luck.
BREXIT/Nov 2018. Theresa May, surrounded by dead bodies and fighting monkeys faces her now vanished cabinet about her great deal: she asks to an indifferent world. A tragedy from Schiller or Milton, still ignorant of the fact that the only way off the sinking raft is across treacherous water and into a hostile forest, she still feels that she is in charge. "Who else is with me?"
@@rabd3721 Covid hides Brexit deceit. Covid is a natural disaster. Brexit is a self inflicted one. 'Do not call the wolf from the forest' - Russian proverb.
Interesting point. Maybe that's what Werner wanted, but I prefer to see it as a bunch of dudes who venture into the wilderness and are consumed by it and the desire of gold, and the contrast of their desires (a gold city) and the truth (unending green wilderness)
he shouldn't be so CROSS all the time - if he more gentil and chilled about stuff then god and the pygmies would have been far more generous towards him, I feel...
@@michaellrakes5521 Early voting has already started! :) Let's goooo. A million have already voted early, versus 60,000 at this time in 2016. We're not going down the Trump/Aguirre path of delusion without a fight.
Starring Klaus Kinski as himself.
Bravo
That line about starting a dynasty with his daughter must’ve been deliver with such clarity in the original audio, considering that was real for him
Movie is classic but that music is so underrated. So haunting and mysterious.
Vielen dank, Popol Vuh
That soundtrack is truly otherworldly...
God bless Kraut Rock.
"We will produce history as others produce plays."
Truly epic.
One Better: “Ich werde meine Tochter heiraten.”
sometime i thinking why produce plays? really so good ending
I'm from Venezuela, I navigated the same river than Aguirre did countless times.
I am from Trinidad, Aguirre never got here.
I am from Brazil, that's where the eldorado was...deep down in Minas Gerais...but the brits got it all
@@comanchedase The eternal Anglo strikes again.
@@comanchedasethere never was a el dorado.
El Dorado exists, we just have to keep looking...
This is the most remarkable movie I've ever seen. There's a real sense of danger about it, as well as an otherworldly beauty.
Watch Fellini's Satyricon if you like strange interesting movies.
@@scottsimmons7897 I also agree Satyricon is a great work of art, but I must protest that Aguirre is more important for these very serious times. As you will recall Satyricon is a homoerotic story about Giton (played by Max Born, who was not homosexual, and still alive and married living in NZ). It was a different time, and different stories could be told in the age of sex awareness in early seventies. This is a different story but more relevant for these times of greed, malice and as Bowie, Kinski’s friend put it “failures for fathers mothers of chaos”. Now it will take men accustomed to penance, religious conviction, and austerity such as Kinski to defeat the Americans and save North Europa. Such convictions are seen even better in Jesus Christus Erlöser. That film has nothing to do with Herzog, who was nothing himself without Kinski.
@@Mrbrbusby Un año después ¿ves a esos hombres de “convicciones religiosas y austeridad”? ¿Está el norte de Europa salvada??
@@Mrbrbusbyall of your yapping and you didn't mention how Klaus was molesting his own kids along with abusing other children.
Hi there Celeste, I've never watched the full f"Aguirre". JUST clips of the film and Herzog talking about it. But, wow. You won't see this type of film from modern or even old school Hollywood.
It's only the kind of film which can come from Europe up to the mid to late 80s?
That sense of danger could ONLY exist if it was real. Which it was. The cast were either stressed out, starving, ill, attacked by other tribes or worse? Scared of Kinski who's idea of acting was not caring what others felt like as a result. Including either nearly killing someone or angering peaceful tribe people to the point they WANTED to kill him.
From a film making point of view: that will either lead to complete disaster or produce artistic gold.
That black dude has some serious chill.
I wish I could be that chill while slowly dying of heat-fever in February 😂
Ain't that right. They should have bobby mcferrin's 'don't worry be happy' playing.
To be around Klaus Klinsky so calm is a Buddha like composure
"Don't forget to pray otherwise God could come to a bad end" probably the best line in the movie. Really shows madness of Aguirre who to me is a symbol of mankind's desire for conquest.
easytopo a very natural desire
Marcus Galeano If everybody stopped praying to God, would He still exist? Even if He DOES exist, but everybody forgot about him, would he still matter somehow? Aguirre says God needs us more than we need Him.
Or it's just one of Aguirre's/Kinski's sublime non sequiturs
Avarice incarnate. From our development of metallurgy to our creation of the nuclear weapon we have yearned to rule reality and subjugate the unknown. When taken to its logical conclusion and without philosophical consideration to guide us, we are all starving conquistadors, bleeding out in the middle of the Amazon.
@@agentanaranjado The Faustian Spirit
It is a great line. When I first saw it the translation was "- Otherwise God will bring to an end that is...Uncomely".
The image at 1:50 is one of the great photos in world cinema in that decade.
The helicopter shot beginning at 4:30 is one of the greatest, if not the greatest moving shot, of the seventies.
+garrison968 That was actually shot from a motorboat. The boat was expertly piloted, and the low angle does a good job of further hiding the boat's wake. You can still see the waves rocking the raft, though.
Yep, I noticed the waves when I first watched the movie... kinda crappy. Nowadays a dron could nail that job
Blyledge ,
To low for an helico..you are 1000 pcent right. The are no movies like this today. Hi tech low quality movies
The closing shot circling around the boat... So very beautiful.
A Masterpiece! Love this FILM!!!!
I love anyone who can appreciate this film.. Beautiful minds..
That ship in the jungle gave me chills
love his stance at the end, it's amazing
in real life aguirre had been shot twice with a musket and had a limp that made him slump
Arguably no director in the history of cinema was so skilled in portraying the loss of mind as Herzog.
I like how nobody mentions how he squeezed the monkey so hard it shit itself
I think the monkey was also very scared
We all know he did that to people as well as monkeys
if the hunchback didnt shoot you he musta had a real good reason not too
Well imagine being crushed by crazy ugly whacky Klaus Kinski and then being shouted a by that scary face.. poor monkey must have been emotionally scarred for the rest of his brief life. Mental trauma.
Few people notice this movie's end-credit disclaimer "Many many spider monkeys were harmed by Klaus in the making of this film. In fact he ate several alive.”
With this scene I believe Harzog has really captured a precious insight on the human. Circumstances may vary according to the historical moment, but the essence is the same: that of a remote folly which possesses a man, exalting and rising him above others, even in defeat.
Look no further than the state of the current world, with global masses elevating demagogic populists at the expense of knowledge and experience. We have learned nothing.
2:49 - 4:21 One of the best sequences in film history. The score by Popol Vuh is haunting.
This is the pinnacle of nihilistic existentialist filmmaking. And probably my favorite movie of all time. I want to watch this masterpiece just before I die...
The shot at 1:47 is iconic. This film has to be seen on the big screen, the only way to see it.
...And then he went and conquered the rest of the Amazon all by himself, what a badass.
Amazon ran so much more efficiently under him once he conquered it.
My parcels and packages would arrive before I had even ordered them.......
Kinski channelling Kurtz here out of Hearts of Darkness. One man free and at piece with the jungle left. . Simply Epic!!!
The Horror... the Horror!
He's psychotic, not at peace with his surroundings.
Kinski os beyond Brando, or any other American from your fetid fascist former colonies of the British Empire. He was a spiritual leader and a visionary. To compare Him with anyone living or dead with the possible exception of Luther or Christ is to completely misunderstand Him. The only mistake He ever made is failing to murder Herzog in his sleep. “Ich werde meine Tochter heiraten,” #KINSKILIVES
no, if anything aguirre was the inspiration for kurtz, "el loco" was as mad (and worse) as kinski in real life
Who's channelling who here? Conrad, mmm, maybe. Apocalypse Now, came way earlier.
The ending of Aguirre is so fitting because it shows his delusion since all of his followers and fellow soldiers have died on their journey to find El Dorado. But Aguirre maintains his God Complex and obsessions even though he is ruler of no one except for a bunch of monkeys that raid the float.
A Masterpiece of cinema. Herzog is beyond great as is Kinski and the two together - the results speak for themselves. Remarkable how stupid and inane a lot of comments are on here. A few insightful good ones also.
One of the best films I've ever seen.
This changed my life
I love this song and this movie!
this movie is unreal , indéfini, intemporel.. i'll watch it again tonight.
Someone please upload a clip of just the first 10 seconds of this video. My favorite part of the movie.
Meanwhile : "JokER iS tHe BeSt MoVIe eVer mAdE"
They're both good movies. Why compare them? Aguirre is about a man pushed to the limits by nature and Joker is about a man pushed to his limits by society.
Horrific Fried Donut
Well, if you are capable to appreciate Aguirre, it means you could be saved from alienation so, I'll try.
I'm french, so I could link you some french articles/podcasts that are very pertinents in their critic of Joker, but I don't know if you can understand them.
To sum up my point : I compare both movies because Aguirre is one of the most recognized author film that depicts the fall of a man into madness etc., and could be linked to films like Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, which Joker explicitly refers to. But : if Aguirre is a documentary like depiction of the rude and brutal amazonia and Taxi Driver a deep captation of the atmosphere of New York at the time it was shot, Joker is only an artificial tentative to recreate what worked before, the decor of the film is a mix of what a greyish city of the 80s would looks like, but its set up and filmed like a commercial. Here I just focus on the setting because I want to be precise, but what I want to say globally is that Herzog and Scorsese have a vision, a vision of their settings, of their characters, of their story ; and Todd Philipps has nothing to say, no idea of what to do with his camera. So he just let Joaquin Phoenix occupy the screen for 2 and half hour and hope to get an oscar. The maim, crucial difference is that Aguirre is an author film, and Joker is made to please his producers.
I have been pretty affirmative here, but if you wants to make your opinion, I can advise you to : continue to watch a ton of Herzog's films ; if you like Phoenix, to watch PTA's "The Master", where he do mainly the same performance than in joker but this time there is someone behind the camera.
@@lejardinierdugoulag7883 I don't think Phoenix's character in The Master is anything like his character in Joker.
And Todd Phillips definitely had a vision for the character. Read the script if you don't believe me. Is Joker derivative? Yes, but ketchup is also derivative of tomatoes, and we don't lambast ketchup for simply being derived from something else.
Horrific Fried Donut
Bro I'm pretty drunk rn I'm trying to make an effort to answer you
A'iway i keep the ketchupu metaphor for later
It's fascinating at 3:01 how some of the monkeys jump to the water and start swimming towards the shore.
They were afraid of Klaus Kinski lol
@@Cyan_Nightingale And they were goddamn right to be scared ! The man was as crazy as Aguirre himself.
Love the monkeys leaping into the water as Klaus Kinski approaches. Stay on the raft with Kinski as he's being goaded by Werner Herzog or swim for it in piranha infested water? "Over the side!"
And in the UK Boris Johnson promises El Dorado... 'who else is with me?'
Also squares well with Donald Trump being ill of COVID in October 2020 in the White House, and claiming a non existing victory over Biden, and rigged election, and the whole shit.
0:08 "I used to be a philosopher... then I took an arrow to the knee." ROTFL That movie is insane. Just like Aguirre, Kinski, and Herzog. So much craziness in a single movie.
Probably not, but he DID improvise grabbing and tossing aside the monkey.
For more about Klaus Kinski's creative process in Werner Herzog's films, watch the documentary "My Best Fiend". It's very entertaining.
My favorite part. I think this whole scene is somewhat allegorical. Where did the spider monkeys come from? Doesn't matter. Where there is a mass there will be a longing for omnipotence. Aguirre transcended himself and his El Dorado.
@@ozymandiasramesses1773 Squirrel monkeys, Herzog bought hundreds of them then couldn't sell them after. I'm sure they were delicious to what ever ate them.
This is where Bethesda got their "took the arrow to the knee" part.
"I will marry my own daughter"
quite prophetic
How so?
@@kevinilango7896 cuz he was a pedo who touched (or worse) his kid (allegedly)
@@poopyloopy7236 Damn! Just reading about Pola's autobiography now. DAMN!
Not defending Kinski or anything (he was really crazy IMO) but these "pedo" claims were made during the #metoo hype. It's always when claims are made 20 years after (Kinski died in 1991) and the fact that the victim is the only evidence we have is beyond suspicious. I hardly believe a lot of claims similar to this.
@@bal_masque
There was no "metoo hype". You're confounded that when other women came forward with their stories of abuse, that others would find the courage to do so as well? Then you're a great fool. If you knew anything about Kinski you would have no doubt he did what it alleged. I don't care for anyone who says "Not defending X or anything", they use this to hide their deceit.
Herzog wrote the whole script. His lines were recorded by someone else after shooting.
This is true, but only for the German dubbing. The English dubbing is in fact Kinski's voice. It's available on youtube free btw.
So who's dubbing Klaus? It certainly sounds like him, unless they just dubbed him with the same voice in every Herzog film he's in.
Extraordinary film..
There's no Actor in the world. To do this. Movie , better than Klaus , he's the only one.
Love this movie!!!
Anyone know the name of the music that becomes more audible around 2:50? It sounds like Popol Vuh/Florian Fricke, but it doesn't seem to be on the "official" Aguirre soundtrack album, which is a shame since it's such a beautiful plaintive melody.
It is in fact Popul Vuh.
Its popol vuh - aguire IV
@@niallmunday9115 Thank you so much! Pity it's not on any of the released soundtracks and probably never will be.
@@clavicleofcernunnos bit late to this comment but the music is on UA-cam.
I think we all wished that part was on the original soundtrack.
It may be guitarist Connie Veit of Popul Vuh on electric guitar with volume pedal. This is an early example of ambient guitar. Mesmerizing.
I still fret over the fate of those simians which jumped into the river.
According to Herzog, they were amazing swimmers and made it across easy.
I feel lucky. I got to see this in 35mm in college.
and now as I learn more German, I can say with confidence:
Ich bin der Zohn Gottes
3:45 did he write that line himself? Fucking hell.
Inbreeding happen all through history to keep bloodlines "pure".
Interpreto que Aguirre llego a su purgatorio al parecer siendo el único que no fue atacado y lastimado.
Seguro murió poco después de empezar alucinar, sus últimas palabras ya sonaban a delirios y pocos rastros de lucidez.
His son killed, most of his men dead from fever and natives, his boat sinking. His dream still goes on.
I think a better ending would be to have Aguirre abandon the raft. After which, he seeks Inez in the forest where she departed. In a desperate measure to find her he apprehends her. They have an intimate scene, but is punctuated by an abrupt arrow impaling her. They share an intense moment as he holds her limp body in his arms. The symbol of lost dreams destroyed.
@@imbluz that would have been shit.
@@saran5263 they all got down the river in real life, but then aguirre was put to death and was chopped into four pieces, his head was meant to have been on display on a spike in valencia 60 years after his death
@@whitetroutchannel well the guy was trying to conquer fucking kingdoms. I wouldn't have expected anything else.
his SON?!
I would love to own the music in the minute 2:35, it is the greatest achievement to ever fit on a movie scene.
I'm searching for it. It is not on the soundtrack.
@@wulf1572Popol Vuh unreleased soundtrack. Look it up on youtube.
Yes, the music. It's like the angels singing a funeral dirge.
And Aguirre's fantasy about conquering the New World.
He's like Mr. Kurtz going on about "My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my..."
As Marlo said, you expect the jungle to "burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places."
Instead, the jungle sent a swarm of monkeys to do the laughing for it.
Phil the Cat
One of the most sublime and haunting sequences in the history of cinema. I wouldn't know about the wrath of God, but this film is certainly an argument for divine inspiration.
what is the music playing around 2:55?? can manage to find it ?
Hypnotic
Beautiful, and truly profound.
"Mönch vergiss nicht zu beten, es könnte sonst mit Gott ein böses Ende nehmen...."
This is an astonishingly ambitious movie and it is really about MEN, how the desire for power and wealth is a type of madness but drives US ALL. It is in our genes. We are all mad.
Stunning!!
what a Masterpiece
thanks for uploading
Lo pone a uno a pensar en el precio tan alto que pagaron los personajes de la pelicula por su codicia. Toda la miseria que tuvieron que pasar solo por el dercho de poder decir yo tengo mas.
"I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter, and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen!"
r/shitcrusaderkingssay
Aguirre is my maiden name, where did I come up with it this?
Excellent movie. But this is the ending, not the climax.
No parar hasta Conquistar... Lope de Aguirre.! Presenté.! Herzog..polpol vuh.
>gets shot by an arrow
>"oh okay"
Everyone on the raft was delirious with fever and malnutrition by that point: malaria was the implication.
Everyone but Aguirre. He was basically invulnerable. The only thing that could harm him was his own madness.
Esta es la unica pelicula que prefiero doblada al Español.
A bizarre, orange-haired madman with a strange sexual attraction to his fair-haired daughter, sets off to plunder the riches of the works with a crew of questionable qualifications is undetered as his team dwindles one by one until he's left with his own madness, never considering that's is his own flaws that are dooming him.
Lmao why does that sound so familiar😂🤔
Your obsession with Trump is quite disturbing If the only thing you get from this masterpiece is that.
It IS the sort of thing the movie was warning us about, though.
Comment of the decade! Haha, nail on the head prophecy
I see what you did there.
Just finished this movie, I enjoyed it but it had a strange, wonky way of telling its story and man was this ending... disappointing, but expected. So many questions like, was the boat actually there? Was Aguirre really the last one alive? Were those actual arrows or metaphors for their fears of the natives manifesting from their fever-driven delirium like the Slave said? Excellent film showing the madness of man who still to this day attempts to conquer and subdue a chaotic, unforgiving world that ultimately, doesn't need him.
All those questions are what makes the film so powerful, transcending the idea of truth, myth, spirituality, sanity and nature. These questions are meant to be made, the answers come from the viewers own meditation on them.
You got. You got it. We are ALL mad.
> tfw when your raid group gets wiped
Meanwhile the feigned hunter rises up and starts raving about his kingdom of bones.
He sure speaks a lot of German for a Spaniard
Oder was!
The Habsburg Empire included both German provinces and the Kingdom of Spain.
😂
Nice.
4:16 Never noticed the monkey shit himself in fear of Klaus Aguirre Kinski. ROTFL.
AGUIRRE "I AM THE WRATH OF GOD"
MONKEY "Eat my shit"
(Aguirre throws the monkey)
he's simply irresistible!!!🥰
Are you Johnny or Mary?
Kinski: Pure genius.
Kinski was not an actor, he was acting.
Sort of. Apparently Herzog would regularly let Kinski rant until he couldn’t be anymore over the top, then film him doing a more subdued kind of madness on camera.
Not in 1971 by her account, when this was filmed.
I feel like he is already in hell here.
That line about his daughter is a little too real. He sexually assaulted his real daughter for many years.
I’m happy my surname has a whole movie to itself but this guy was a monster
Aguirre or Kinski or both?
Auch heute werden diejenigen Männer, die Kinski folgen, begeistern und große Dinge tun. #KINSKILIVES
I like the remake better - Chris Elliott's master work Cabin Boy!
The Hara Krishnas also teach the same thing. All is illusion. This is Eastern philosophy.
Herzog ist ein guter Regisseur, aber leider auch ein ziemlich übler Tierquäler...
Benjamin Britten has been quoted as saying: "I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers." I'm not sure I'm arrogant, but I can be impatient, and my jury about whose fault it is that I found nothing other than a few pretty shots in Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, which appealed to me is still out. Oddly (although German acting can be a bit.. odd..) wooden acting from everyone other than Kinski, of course, who's always over the top (which is GENIUS in Woyzeck, a FABULOUS movie adaptation!) It fizzles out at the end, as we slowly drift into dehydration and boredom.. Not for me, although as I said: that could be my fault (many would say so!). Also Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu are great movies, but Aguirre.. no.
It also depends on when and how you see it. I saw it in my early twenties, alone, in a foreign city, in a time of exploration and openness, and I was literally stunned. I remember stumbling out of the theater like a sleepwalker. This film has a purity that talks to a pure soul. Now, in my forties, I would appreciate the film's courage, but I wouldn't (and couldn't) let myself be swayed. It is a matter of luck.
I'd say this is not "wooden acting" but a director who wants a movie to look like a theatre play. Note the quote referring to theater.
Why did blood look like that in the 70's? I feel like they definitely could've done better.
You're looking at a compressed video copy of a faded print.
@@jkorshak True, though the blood from the arrow on the priest's robe almost looks like red-coloured paper.
Wow. That's both unsurprising and disappointing.
BREXIT/Nov 2018.
Theresa May, surrounded by dead bodies and fighting monkeys faces her now vanished cabinet about her great deal: she asks to an indifferent world. A tragedy from Schiller or Milton, still ignorant of the fact that the only way off the sinking raft is across treacherous water and into a hostile forest, she still feels that she is in charge.
"Who else is with me?"
Brexit has only gotten worse since then.
@@rabd3721 Covid hides Brexit deceit. Covid is a natural disaster. Brexit is a self inflicted one. 'Do not call the wolf from the forest' - Russian proverb.
Trump on November 4th. "I will marry my own daughter...."
The perfect allegory for the end of the Trump administration.
Not a trumper but your pres is fake.
@@TheseBitchesWantNikes dont think anyone disagrees that the intentions of the media (major and alt) are not on anything other than turning a profit.
Rent free
Why politicize art? That’s pretty gross of you.
Pork (Currywurst)... CND
Aguirre are indian!
According to Herzog in his documentary _My Best Fiend_, the Indian extras offered to murder Kinsi for him, but he told them "No, I need him alive."
Nessuno può competere con l'intensità di Kinsky
Americans can’t say his name right. They pronounce it Ag-Wire
What is this? Werner Herzog's commentary of Hitler's megalomania via the medium of a historical Aguirre?
Interesting point. Maybe that's what Werner wanted, but I prefer to see it as a bunch of dudes who venture into the wilderness and are consumed by it and the desire of gold, and the contrast of their desires (a gold city) and the truth (unending green wilderness)
It is so cringe reading anti trump comments
or brexit lol
or hitler as well lmao
The delusion of grandeur in his monologue has the same aura of desperation found in Trump's campaign, in the face of unquestionable defeat.
i can't think of anything more boring than being a trump deranger. like living in a mineshaft. pick somebody more interesting to be obsessed with.
he shouldn't be so CROSS all the time - if he more gentil and chilled about stuff then god and the pygmies would have been far more generous towards him, I feel...
:-)
Aguirre wouldn't make a toe on Caesars left foot and the Italian Bonaparte's right.
did somebody besides aguirre say that he would? the point is he's a legend in his own mind.
Das scheisse !,!!!!!!!!!!
Donald Trump brought me here
Yup! Hehe
Aguirre is Donald TrumpKinski President!
You know, I hear if you signal about how you dislike Trump everywhere you possibly can, he won't be president anymore.
@@Blyledge really? Well shit! Let's get to it then!!!!
@@Blyledge Correct! November 3 is election day! But actually, early voting has started in many states. I voted yesterday - vote early!
@@michaellrakes5521 Early voting has already started! :) Let's goooo. A million have already voted early, versus 60,000 at this time in 2016. We're not going down the Trump/Aguirre path of delusion without a fight.
@@michaellrakes5521 You did it!