Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2015
- In this scene, Herzog is bored to tears talking to a penguin expert so he asks the seemingly flippant question, "Can a penguin go insane?" Yet the very next scene we see just that - out of a swarm of penguins heading to the mating grounds a lone dissenter makes make a sharp right and head towards the mountains in a full-speed waddle. It's explained that this penguin has become confused and will head for that mountain with the same vigour with which he pursued the promise of procreation, until he reaches his goal or dies. Isn't insanity a human trait? Near the end, while exploring some tunnels under the south pole, Herzog wonders what an alien race would think of the relics of our civilization and how they would imagine us to be. Who knows what an alien race would have thought of the deeply funny snow-blindness training sequence featuring people with cartoon-faced buckets on their heads leading each other around - literally the blind leading the blind.
From: Encounters at the end of the world (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog tells a joke:
"Why did the penguin cross the road? To die. Alone. Insane and unnoticed."
German humor
@menckencynic Copyright infringement and outright theft are the foundations of a healthy internet. Go for it! :)
Werner Herzog films a joke.
@menckencynic We just try to be ourselves while Werner films us and we pray it better be a joke video rather than his usual documentary...
We noticed you, little penguin soldier of fate.
We noticed you.
Scientist: "They get disorientated"
Werner Herzog: "The penguin peers into the void and sequesters what's left of his sanity and plunges head long into the abyss to never be seen again."
😂
😂😂😂😂😂
It's a better explanation than being disoriented. He can see where his flock is and where the rest are heading.
@@zeMasterRusemanbeing disorient is not always that easy. You can hit your head pretty badly and see your mates and still walk the wrong direction.
It's always strange how people apply meaning to the meaningless
He's not running off to die, he's running to find out if he's really alive.
damn it, spike
@@hiendarinenkoray Bang.
He's the Sky King of the penguin world
The Real Penguin Blues
Jurassic Park: The Lost World
Nick says: The animal (T-Rex) exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.
Roland replies: Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn't, I went up there to live.
All death is certain. This penguin didn't go to the mountains to die. He went on the journey in order to live. Rest in peace on the top of that mountain, penguin. Your frozen grave will be your place of victory over monotony
Damn dude I'm glad I came to the comments...
right in the feels...
The penguin wrote me and said fuck you, he didn’t die, he made it alive and that he cannot understand English nor can he access UA-cam.
I read that all in Herzog's voice
Ah, so the penguin equivalent of doing Everest.
One must imagine the penguin
happy
beautiful comment, lol. The myth of penuinis
- Albert Pinguin
The struggle towards the mountain is enough to fill a birds heart. One must image Mr. Penguin happy.
Incredible..
Emptied of hope, the penguin has laid his heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
give it up to werner herzog to make penguins look depressing
that shit requires sheer talent
Ehhh... it's a German talent.
@@seththomas9105 i was about to say it's called being german lol
@@lordmegatron4789 Pretty much sums it up.
How would you know? You have experience filming and narrating penguins?
I need to see that penguin on a Rammstein treadmill.
I genuinely can't tell if Werner Herzog is a comedic genius or entirely insane.
"Yes"
He’s German.
He's an empath.
@@leoelliondeux Bavarian*
He is neither. He is simply Werner Herzog.
Herzog: IS THERE SUCH THEENG AS INSANITY AMONG PENGVINZ
Guy: (pause) um, well,
To be fair if a man who sounds like Werner Herzog drags you up a cliff and tells you to sit down on the edge of it, and then IMMEDIATELY asks you a question about insanity and nihilism I too would be VERY careful with my words lol
I expected a meme and instead I ended up with an existential crisis over a penguin.
This is a meme that "got disoriented" and ended up in the far away lands of the existential YT
1:33 the penguin turned around and said: "In case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
And thanks for all the fish.
😢😢😢
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. - Franz Kakfa
In the book “Conversations with Kafka” by Gustav Janouch, the morose Kafka commented on reading Chesterton's “Orthodoxy” and “The Man who was Thursday”: "Er ist so lustig, dass man fast glauben könnte, er habe Gott gefunden." "He is so joyful, that one might almost believe that he had found God."
NO ONE else even came remotely close to getting Kafka to say anything so nearly positive.
I can’t recommend Chesterton enough.
i feel like this short clip pretty much sums up all of Herzog's films. deeply profound and totally bonkers at the same time.
It's around 60% of the runtime of the film. I actually shread a tear. Not embarrassed.
I think the penguin is on his way to pull an abandoned boat out the the central american jungle☺☺
@@NiphredylHow does one "shread" a tear? What is "shread," anyway?
@@Progger11 typo, shed
@@sunsetvista877bro going to put an opera house in the ancient city of the elder ones
This was both disturbing, depressing, hilarious, and wonderful all at once.
Werner Herzog
Sublime
Chaotic, hostile, murderous.
Life.
Well said haha.
The way the penguin turns around at 1:33 after Werner asks “But why?” is very chilling. It’s like the penguin heard the question and turned to try to answer, but went back to the mountains and said “I don’t know.”
Auda abu Tayi : [to Lawrence] There is only the desert for you.
Or said ... "I *do* know" and *then* turned back to the mountains ...
WOULD YOU GO BACK, I need a pizza bra
It's almost as if the narration was written after they got the footage, and timed with the footage for maximum emotional impact.
Well, it's not like the voiceover was played in real time to the penguin during that shot....
Imagine you escaped the matrix to discover some huge creatures standing silently still just watching you passing by.
okay but that perspective fucked me up.
😂😂😂
I never thought I would have watched a video of a penguin waddling giddily towards oblivion as many times as I have now.
It’s the voice...
In a Herzog documentary, with full spectrum anthropomorphism, that penguin is you looking back at yourself in chaos and existential hostility. As in Kubrick’s Odyssey, Dave Bowman looking in the mirror.
Herzog is a filmmaking genius that’s why
Oh come on, you saw it coming. : )
That "But *WHY* ?" basically explains the only existential question that matters..
so profound even the penguin heard him and considered the question for a moment before continuing on his way
Suicide. These penguins can't hang themselves in a rope or blow their brains out.
This comment section has some of the most unintentionally funny comments I've seen. "why is the penguin waddling off to the mountains?" is apparently the most transcendent existential question in all the universe!
I know what you were getting at, but it sounds quite funny if you take a step back and look at it. It's a penguin that's a bit thick - once you realise that, all the posts in the comments immediately appear deeply absurd.
@@Navak_ the penguin turned around when he heard the question and shouted back "EFF YOU HERZOG I JUST WANNA DIE"
At first, I thought he was going to answer his own question. But then I remembered this ain't no David Attenborough documentary. 😂
People don’t understand the abyss was the colony. Faceless, unchanging, stuck in monotony. A hideous cycle. The penguin chose, ergo he’s not looking into the abyss. He’s looking into the sun to find his fortune.
Thanks, Franz.
This penguin understands that if they reach the summit against all odds, they will triumphantly belly-slide down and become the fastest penguin that ever lived. If he hits a snow-ramp he will be truly airborne for a short time. Waddle on, little dreamer
Waddle on little dreamer just killed my heart
Belly slide on, you beautiful creature.
Bros making learn to fly in real life
Misread fastest and first and I think that’s beautiful too
@@brobruh7850 God I wish penguins were real
It's Nietzsches Überpinguin, living (or dying) alone in the mountains.
Nietzsche wasn't a nihilist.
@@mator2339 Yeah he was just an arrogant prick. He didn't say there was nothung true to say about the world he just said everybody else was wrong so far.
When you stare at the penguin; the penguin stares back at you.
He's retreating to the mountains to work on his manuscript - "Thus Clucked Zarathustra"
@@mator2339 no, but he did idolize those who made their virtue their downfall, whether it be a tight rope walker who fell, or this penguin who yearned for greatness and the unknowable to only be rewarded with death.
this penguin reminds me of the insanity of early human exploration, the fact that there were humans living on islands like new zealand or even the polynesian islands means that a group of humans had to construct and get on a boat and sail the open ocean towards absolutely nothing, no identifiable goal or destination, just to see what was out there. like them, even this penguin had to be held to the answer to the question “but why?”
I've read a lot about the Vikings. They believed in fate. That their time on earth was set before birth. They thought that you couldn't escape your destiny. So if you were to die at a certain time it didn't matter if you were at the battlefield or cowering under a table at home. And the best thing you could achieve in life was a glorious death that would make people remember you. I think that's why they were such fearless explorers.
I don't know what is going on in the penguin's mind though.
Endless try and error of the human collective
Yeah actually sea-exploring civilizations such as iberians, phoenicians, austronesians/polynesians, and vikings kinda know where to go thanks to their knowledge and skills on navigation but definitely did not know what was awaiting them in the vastness of ocean. It was mental but not that much mental.
@@kesorangutan6170 Some of them definitely did not make it. There were stories of lost Polynesians eking out a living on some random atoll, and plenty of Polynesian outliers which are weirdly isolated (and on/near already inhabited islands) with names of previous homelands that really seem like a navigation error took them there. In some cultures they sent out adolescents to navigate in a sort of trial by fire. Storms can send you off course too. Of course, some of the skilled navigators were able to follow birds and knew exactly where to go. But it was definitely not a surefire thing every time, who knows how many died lost in the ocean, observation bias is very strong here.
Iberians and Phonecians never made it beyond Gibraltar (and maaaybe the islands of Macaronesia), the Mediterranean is much more chill considering the weather is generally not quite so bad and you're bound to hit shoreline within a reasonable time. And even then they tended to follow the shorelines.
Basically, a lot of early European sailing was pretty chill, the Austronesian peoples were pretty bonkers with navigation and definitely had their fair share of failures in the quest for new islands.
@@StuffandThings_ What do you mean Phoenicians never made past gibraltar? They ruled the atlantic trade. Phoenicians went as far south as Senegal (a conservative estimate btw) and as north as Great Britain. They definitely did not just coast-hug because you can't pass cape Bojador by coast-hugging. You also can't find colonies in Sardinia, Baleares etc by coast hugging.
By "iberians" I meant portuguese and spanish.
I also never claimed all of them made it?? Do you know how many ships vikings of Greenland lost due to harsh ocean currents and icebergs? A lot. If 10 viking ships sailed to Greenland only 3 or 4 of them would make it.
Penguins bored as fuck with it all. Doesn't fancy a cuddle and doesn't feel like having his life run by an egg. He's the smartest of the group. I wish he could fly.
Sean M I'd have done the same
yup, one or two seasons of that nonsense? time to bounce
I wish he could touch the sky
He's certainly flying now
There are so many days when I feel just like this penguin.
Life is not about how many days you feel like the penguin,
Life is about how many days you dont :)
@@Markwaynesapp And that's the problem. The overall amount of days where I do feel like him is vastly greater than those where I don't. When I just fixate on the 'good' days I am simply ignoring most of my life at best and outright refusing to acknowledge it at worst.
I understand, however, don't presume your suffering within itself is proof of your authenticity.
*Nods*
@@Markwaynesapp: 51 years of penguinism for me ... really.
Jesus is waiting to help you with that.✝
Just ask...❤
Fuck man when you realize Herzog is just commenting on your life in a penguin documentary.
"But WHY?"
--because sometimes the quest for the unknown outweighs all considerations of mere life and death.
Yes, penguins on the quest for the unknown. The classic novel "Pengarrtha" immediately springs to mind.
Boom
At 1:34 when he looks back, then continues onward towards the mountains with such conviction.. I could feel that moment in the fibers of my heart. I could feel it in my blood. I relate to the little guy. I can relate so much. He's going to the big tundra in the sky.
I am with you
He's going to the bucket full of fish behind that rock that Werner showed him the previous day.
Ну проголодается и рванёт к воде этот пухляшка
@@mitenka222 The other one had already traveled 80 kilometers and was still going forward...
How does Werner make a possibly insane penguin one of the most poetic things I've ever seen on film? The dude is a legitimate genius.
He is just twlling facs. He knows whats heading infront of the penguin. After 5k kilometers he will die surely or before and this was the last moment that we sqw him
He sees poetry everywhere. All real artists do.
Some might say the penguin “is literally just vibing” but we may never know the truth of this tiny modern sisyphus’s intentions.
Scientist: So what do you want to know about? Feeding habits? Mating habits? How they interact with each other?
Werner Herzog: can a penguin go insane
😂😂
Talk about a guy that should be the moderator for all presidential debates.
Now *that* would be a show.
Actually, mental illness in animals is a facet of behavioral ecology.
Scientist: um, well...
He's single, his mate likely died, he lost his egg, He's now an explorer, maybe travel is on his bucket list. Is it deranged to not grind out an existence
Even heading to his death his waddles are still absolutely adorable
Very true. 😃🙂😊
Herzog: But why?
Penguin: Why not?
When you feel like you relate to a penguin more than most people
I'm quite sure many people are struggling with suicidal thoughts
@@Slechy_Leshmore than you think. And most people find a solution to live with that.
@@Slechy_Leshnot enough
@@MostIntelligentMan You must be a big fan of the genocide that goes on.
Including currently. And what you’re most likely unaware of, the past couple yrs.
Not to worry, plenty more will be happening.
Everywhere. Well calculated & planned.
Hope you know Jesus soon.
No One Else is going to save you, or anyone else from themselves.
*Jesus is everyone’s Only Hope.* ✝
Don’t keep ignoring Him.
@@sonneversets3530bull...shit... Pure ignorance and deniance of reality.
Lovecraft: mountain of madness
Had to scroll too far for this. He heard the recognizable, yet eerie calling: "Tekeli-li, tekeli-li..."
That penguin was the Werner Herzog of his colony - utterly unique and determined to tell his own story
I think that penguin is truly alive. We are all heading towards certain death, but not everyone realises this. He will see what few other penguins ever will.
Snow and ice?
@@otten5666 all penguins see that anyway. Likely most wouldn't be able to imagine anything else. They lack any other experience you see.
@@AbAb-th5qe That was the lame joke I made. It doesn't matter where this little adventurer goes, it's all snow and ice.
But I applaud the little guy for trying to reach for more than what the colony has to offer.
@@otten5666 Why does anyone go holiday? It's just more trees and rocks. It certainly is a lame joke. Actually rocks might be quite novel to a penguin. They're only little.
@@AbAb-th5qe I go on holiday for parties and ladies. Enjoy looking at rocks and trees.
Nihilist penguin
Defies the shackles of life
With senseless ease
was the choice to leave the last line of the haiku a syllable short deliberate?
If so, congratulations. You have shown your own defiance.
If not, this is a disrespectful treatment of a great literary tradition. Senseless indeed.
Either way, it made me think 🙂
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 haha just me being sloppy
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494😂
Both sad and beautiful, the music was a good touch.
1:34 That last glance, then turning around accepting the fate of the unknown and running towards it.
1:35 After one last look at the cameraman as if to say goodbye, the penguin marches ahead towards the mountains that will lead him to heaven.
The s-l-o-w fade to black at the end of the clip is a sign of ultimate respect to the little guy from a great filmmaker.
Maybe the reason some penguins just start walking is for the same reason humans just cross the ocean for no reason, and go into space for no reason. It's the beauty of evolution. Only an idiot knows better than the genius.
Humans usually survive when we explore, this penguin just went to certain death
The penguin doesn't know that though. The vikings didn't know what they were going into whilst sailing the seas, finding england. It was told there was only certain death and/or infinite sea rather than new lands and new people.
Actually, the "vikings" (quotation marks because the word viking means a looting/trading/colonization trip instead of the more common erroneus denomination of a people) did, seeing as the jutes and danes were directly involved in taking britain from the britonnic peoples after the romans left in the fifth century, even estabilishing a few colonies of their own before the anglo-saxons incorporated them into the newly formed kingdoms.
Basically the scandinavians were well aware of the existense of an island, hell, they were sailing there for centuries already.
So, when the first looting Viking (as in expedition) arrived in Lindisfarne it wasnt a completely unknown enemy, just an unexpected one, seeing as they had a longstanding trading relationship with the Northumbrian kingdom
@@swedish0guy No we don't! The people who come back and tell us the story of these great, undiscovered places, they survive. We never hear from the people who have gone out there and died, so we're largely unaware of their deaths.
I think it's the penguin version of going into the sea to drown, except it's into a barren wasteland, since penguins are good swimmers
Attenborough: "But why? Scientists are still unable to explain this aberrant and counterintuitive behavior."
Herzog: " "But why?" [Silence]
herzog lets the penguin go attenborough takes the penguin and puts it in a zoo with other penguins to rehabilitate it
Silence is powerful when used properly.
Penguin: "Why ask"?
@@Atlink Herzog once said it frustrated him when filmmakers didn't let the silence speak.
I cried! I really cried with this shit! When Werner Herzog said "But Why?" I couldn't hold it!
Everyone else my age is getting married and starting a family and here I am like:
like... but WHY?
And yet they will all die and all their children will bear the burden of knowing they have to die. None will find lasting meaning or happiness. Time to wake up!
@@kooroshrostami27nihilist begone.
He’s not a nihilist. He’s an artist.
Ну тут уж как пойдёт! Может исследователь территории.
He's an existentialist penguin
Are we still talking about the penguin or Werner himself?
@ShawnLevasseur
I not too familiar with nihilism or Herzog - but from what I understand, nihilism is more a focus on being good despite the lack of meaning.
And Herzog seems he could have both artistry and this hopeful nihilism.
I don't know about the penguin.
He’s a Carthusian. This penguin was simply called by God up into the mountains like great mystics and monks long ago. The music was perfect. Pray for us brother
No god in those mountains except Cthulu, the Devourer.
"Appel du Vide", The call of the void.
You ever get a strange feeling when driving, that you can suddenly turn your wheel and it'll all come to end? The French call it L'Appel du Vide.
This penguin has answered that call.
We are all heading towards certain death...
I'm sad for all brother :(
Yup, we all got one life.
Act accordingly 🍻
/snaps fingers repeatedly/
"...And yet here we are for the moment alive. Each of us knowing we are going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't"
Let's head to the mountains on the way there.
I want to be like Werner Herzog when I grow older
I hope to see you hold yourself to that.
Funniest comment.
Good luck. Whish you very best.
so you want to be a loser when you grow up
I want to be like the penguin
The Penguin march: Films the whole colony working together to countinue life.
Herzog: Films the only penguin that goes by itself to die alone.
This is either really sad or really the story of a hero who has a unique calling.
This is evolution. some day a penguin will succeed
We rise.
that penguin was like fuck routine and decided to explore the world until it dies because the world is beautiful
If that effort makes that penguin have more offspring than those who do not do this then yes - this is evolution. If not, then this behavior will likely die out. But it could also be a kind of behavior that won't be corrected, because it's such a deep rooted flaw in their DNA that all penguins have a certain likelihood of doing this.
There's also the possibility that something external is affecting them, though I doubt it.
probably Ancient Aliens
when complexity ends and entropy's on full throttle
/r/videos
Beyond the Mountains of Madness.... There are penguins.
This video once saved my live. Never brought up the courage to speak out about my, lets call them, mental difficulties and dark wishes after immersing into the void.
Myself was on the knives edge. So i simply told my parents, that my problems are feeling like this little guy. Luckily my parents understood what I was about.
By dooming his life, this penguin saved yours. I hope you're living life brother.
I write books about the feeling of not belonging anywhere. I don’t know how many people feel like but if you can touch one other person like this penguin did it’s enough.
What a great way to approach the subject with your parents. It must've been hard still. I hope you're still on the road to recovery, or at least not ending up like the penguin. Best of luck.
@@jasondashney I was afraid to answer to my own comment. but I would like to thank you for your answer. I'm doing good by now. clean and sober for almost three months and enjoying life on a different basis. I'm trying my best to accept my past and see this for a sign to get to know myself again, or in a different way.
@@gabrielgingras814 thank you unknown friend. here as well, I was afraid to answer my own comment since it came from a deep point. but I'm living life. As a new me. Getting to know myself again. I never replied but found my self more then once reading your few words. thank you brother.
Penguin suffering from existential angst
He's surfing on his belly towards certain death
Werner Herzog is the dark humorous version of David Attenborough.
This is the most beautifully tragic thing, the penguin despite its lack of intellect is expressing the human desire for the unknown willingly or not. He is a kindred spirit to our condition, a brethren of the madness that drive us further
Penguin! ;( We will not forget you! R.I.P.
bet you forgot
Legend says he lives in those mountains now
@Toto-95 I've been back 3 or 4 times to watch this over the years. I haven't.
"I'm tired of your shit, Larry"
He had his calling. Not a mere Nihilist, Mr. Penguin's a Existentialist. It's what he does that actually defines him. Moving towards the mountains, as if he has finally found something bigger than his ownself. May the force be with him.
One of the most moving scenes ever.
😥
this is pure brilliance
PGTOW
Penguins Going Their Own Way.
This King has also strayed far from home
This is lowkey heartbreaking.
😔
This is literally the best documentary I’ve ever seen
Not nihilistic, it just needed something more out of life. A new challenge, a new world. It needed to get away from the tedium. Deviation is the precursor to evolution and growth.
There is a profound sadness about knowing the direction and fate of lesser creatures as they go about their lives, and the hardships inherent in the path that this one has embarked upon. We know how it will end, but we hope that it will not regret its life that was spent simply doing what it wanted to do.
😮
Yeah it was gonna audition for the part of skipper
Imagine calling penguins lesser in 2020. Have you seen an American politician
@@Aighthandle Let’s be honest, while it can be a funny joke to call humans stupid, even people with actual mental disabilities perform at or above the level of the smartest animals.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 are you a child or a libertarian? Very difficult to tell.
Years later, the Penguin becomes a important Villian. The people and Batman will come him, Penguin.
That penguin is the philosopher of its time
He just wants to explore what is within the vast mountains. He is truly enlightened, and broke out of the system. He is not nihilist, but rather the opposite, finding adventure in the mundane life of the average penguin.
“One of these disoriented or deranged penguins”
I like to think that the little penguin was not confused nor crazy, he was just ahead of the curve. He acknowledged that he and his other penguin friends would spend their lives killing other living things for food, and trying not to be killed themselves. All while condemning themselves to years of servitude to an egg which would continue the everlasting cycle. In that moment when he looked both ways, he decided he wanted no part in it all. He went about his own path and searched for something he himself didnt know even existed. Maybe he was searching for freedom, maybe not. Regardless, he waddled off into the frozen lands, and disobeyed his instinctual coding to stay with his group, hunt, and reproduce; all while knowing inevitable death stood before him with open arms. In my eyes, this is the bravest little creature ive witnessed. I pray in time, all living things will be free of this cruel world.
Der Überpinguin.
I read this Werner’s voice lol
@@nicmainville9954 I’ll take that as a compliment.
You nihilistic hypocrites need to shut the hell up
That prayer will get answered. In time.
We’re all heading toward certain death. Respect to the penguin who follows his own path!
But our souls live on...forever.
In the place we choose for ourselves.
There’s only 2.
Choose wisely.✝
1:47 The combination of Herzog calling the penguin deranged and watching the little guy Naruto run towards certain death makes me cry with laughter 😂
when he looked back over his shoulder at the other penguins then continued on I identified with this penguin so hard
Jesus is everyone’s Only Hope.✝
I relate more to that penguin than the average person on a daily basis
But why?
People are,let's face it not nice.
@@redkop510 Especially now.
Only going to get worse.
Much...⌛
Hope you know Jesus before it does....✝
Love it, the music makes it seem like the penguin is searching for something greater.
"The struggle against the absurd is the only meaning I have" - the Penguin probably
Poor penguin, this made me cry.
😥
I love Herzog and find his ontology of structuralized anguish quite compelling
"can a penguin go insane" is a beautiful question that hardly needs an answer ; only vulgar questions need to be answered.
Its interesting that the penguin stopped and looked back.
Je suis Penguin.
hahahahahhahaxD
JE SUIS LE SOLEIL
Alors oui, c'est tragique et terrifiant, bouleversant même de voir se manchot se diriger vers une mort assurée ; parfaitement inébranlable . . .
Mais moi, bah... con comme je suis...
J'suis désolé...
Tout c'que je vois c'est le pingouin qui pars en solo dans la cambrousse pour aller rendre une quête à un PNJ derrière la p***in de montagne ! x'D
lol
LOL!
1:08 that little waddle as he brazenly walks towards his demise
Never felt more close to a penguin before 🖤
Same wow .
This is one of the most beautiful things I´ve heard and seen. Thank you, master Herzog.
Werner Herzog is one of the most fascinating and powerfully humbling filmmaker today. His images, the cognitive connections he establishes between them and the questions he ask - or doesn't - have a way of leaving a truly haunting sort of mark on one's mind.
this one penguin is my spirit animal
Werner Herzog should narrate lovecraft stories
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
I feel ya penguin
I feel you, little friend!
But WHY?
Nihilist Penguin ... you're the most "Werner Herzog" thing on UA-cam there is.
Just sayin' ...
Clearly you never saw the documentary about the plastic bag.
This isn't "March of the Penguins", this is "March of the Existential Penguin".
I'd get kicked right the fuck out of Antarctica.
The first thing I'd do there is start chasing the penguins and trying to cuddle one. Look how adorable those little shits are when they waddle! 2:00
Same. I just want to pick it up and make it look at me.
This scene has haunted me forever
He isn't a nihilist. He doesn't follow the crowd.
You know, if one penguin, just one penguin does it, they may think he's really sick and he won't make it. And if two penguins, two penguins do it, in harmony, they may think they're both crazy and they won't make it either. And if three penguins do it, three, can you imagine, three penguins walking off, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and heading for the mountain. They may think it's an Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty penguins a day, I said fifty penguins a day walking off singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking towards the mountain... friends they may think it's a movement.
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Sheeesh
Sounds like a Hunter S Thompson quote
@@liltick102 does a bit. But it's right out of Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. 😏
I occasionally pass by the road to Arlo's house. You can see it from the main drag, Rt 8. When I do, I think of that song. Does the Penguin sit on the Group W bench?
I don't know why but something in this clip tickles my soul and makes me laugh like a maniac.