Many years before the shooting of "Fitcarraldo", Herzog chose the location for a certain film and came to a place called Carnac on the coast of Brittany, France. The group of prehistoric steles that stretched over the mountains for miles brought him Come shock. He has a keen interest in how prehistoric humans erected these huge steles. After two days of contemplation, he figured out how to transport a stone stele two kilometers away with a simple tool. Later, a friend who helped him raise funds to shoot "Aguirre, God's Wrath" suggested that he go back to the Amazon jungle to shoot a movie, and put the South American adventurer Aser Femin Fitzcarald’s true story. The story told him. In Herzog's view, Asai Femming Fitzcaraldo was just a dark-hearted businessman who lived at the turn of the century, but a detail in the story aroused Herzog's interest: Fitzcaraldo had A ship is disassembled on the river bank, and then transported by land to the adjacent parallel river channel before being assembled. Herzog got inspiration from this detail, combined with the stone stele of Karnak, and came up with the story of Fitzcarald’s use of indigenous power to pull a large ship over a hill in order to build an opera house in the jungle.
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Fitzcarraldo Source of inspiration
2022-01-11 08:02
Extended Reading
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Hannah 2022-03-27 09:01:15
If only I could be an idealistic paranoid dreamer like Herzog and Fitzcarrador. The right time, place and people will follow~ There is a question, Herzog really let the big ship pass through the mountains, but is it really okay to cut down so many trees? - -
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Osvaldo 2022-03-24 09:03:03
Just want to say, I also want to be like Fitzcarado, when will I go out and do my best for the ideal, with all my heart and mind, even if I am a loser in the end
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': How can anyone learn patriotism from a school book?
Young Missionary: The Government requires it.
Old Missionary: The natives get used to it. Like vaccination.
Young Missionary: The children already feel like little Peruvians. The other day I asked them, "Are you Indians?" "No," they said, "not we, the ones up the river, they are Indians." And then I asked. "What are Indians?" "They said to me "Indians are people who can't read and who don't know how to wash their clothes."
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': And what about the older people?
Old Missionary: Well, we can't seem to cure them of the idea that our everyday life is only an illusion, behind which lies the reality of dreams.
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Actually, I'm very interested in these ideas. I specialise in opera myself.
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Come on, we are late!
Molly: As long as we're doing it, let's do it in style. A few in minutes more.
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': We're going to miss Caruso!