I am the legend of the rainforest

Alexa 2022-03-23 09:02:50

Madness, paranoia, idealism are your words, I am the miracle of the rainforest. ——About Herzog's "boat on land"

Don Quixote will come again after 450 years, this time called Herzog outside the play and Ginsburg in the play. Two "nonsense obsessives" accidentally inspired a family of Indian ancestors to drag the 300-ton "Mary" through the rainforest, and the land cruise was grandly opened. "Overland Boat" is beyond the scope of a movie, when Fitzgerald climbs the church bell tower and shouts to the town: The city must have an opera before there can be a church, I want an opera, I want The Opera House, and then the bells rang out over the town, and from this moment on, it was either a fool or a legend.

The Irish descendant Fitzgerald was nicknamed "Fitzgerald" by the local South American colonists, and the local language "nonsense obsessed". When everyone was extracting rubber capital, Fitz insisted on "making ice" for a living and tried to apply for a patent. As fans of Caruso's opera, Fitz and his lover Mary once rowed 1,200 miles to the venue. Because they didn't have a ticket, they talked to the doorman: I want to build an opera house in the rainforest and invite Caruso for the premiere.

But our Fitz is not a rubber planter, not an arms dealer, just an ice maker. He failed to build the Trans-Andean Railway before, but this time he became a laughing stock again. Fitz returned to the town dejected and had to stare at the local children and a black pig. In exchange for money, Fitz insisted on going into the rainforest to harvest rubber to build his dream opera house.

It was Fitz's sincerity, unpretentiousness, and bringing dreams into reality that deeply attracted Mary. Mary supported Fitz financially and spiritually. Eventually Fitz borrowed money from Mary to buy the "Mary". Thus, a madman, a Dutch captain, and a group of sailors began their journey north along the Ukaria River.

In the opening chapter, Hersuo used a nearly still lens to describe the rainforest in front of him: the Amazon rainforest is God's unfinished work, and they believe that God will only complete its work when human beings disappear. Fitz's upstream north has been shrouded in a mysterious and terrifying mist, with ancient Shivaro cannibal legends circulating on both sides, intermittent drums and howls... Eventually the sailors all They defected, leaving only the four Fitz. In panic, the back road of the river has been blocked by the Indian ancestors. In the end, relying on the myth of the ancestors and the charisma of Fitz, people from the complete and ignorant civilization gathered in a boat and started a common journey. (Indians believe that the earth has been cursed, and the white 'Mary' is the artifact on which God came, although the ancestors did not think Fitz was God, and had to float the artifact into the Pungo River to calm the souls in the river

) What comes down is 50 minutes of film history written over the past century: To reach their common destination, the Pongo River, Fitz and the Indians had to drag the 300-ton "Mary" across the gap between the Ukalis and Pongo rivers. A forest. Using a knife to open mountains and afforestation, using only ropes and will, crushing and sacrificing, dragged the Mary through the rainforest, and completed the feat of a idiot moving a mountain. The moment the Mary swayed into the water, the gramophone played softly again, the ancient nation fell into jubilation, and Fitz and the captain smiled at each other. Modern civilization means the impossible, and these lunatics did it with both hands. At night, the Indians untied the reins for self-salvation. The Mary floated toward the Pungo Ghost Valley. Herso's camera penetrated into the most turbulent canyon in the Amazon. The ups and downs finally returned calmly. Fitzgerald, who had survived death, returned to the flat and mirror-like river in the town, and Sisyphus returned to the starting point...

During the filming, the director Herzot wanted Mario Adolph to be the captain, but Adolph did not want to participate. into the voyage across the rapids. In the end, six people except Hersuo volunteered to do so. Of the six, three were injured, one of whom had two broken ribs. The film lasted for five years. It experienced a coup by the local warlords, tribal exclusion, and three degrees of change. It was finally taken over by Ginsburg. At one point, Hersuo threatened Ginsburg, saying: If you leave the rainforest, your body will have eight bullets. The last one for myself. Ginsburg later revealed that I had a pistol, and Herzog had none.

Faced with the skepticism of the crowd upon his return, Fitz said: "I've been there, and that's the proof. In the end, Fitz sold the Mary, and the money in exchange actually invited Caruso and the band. Such an opera on the river sang melodiously, and Fitz stood on the side of the boat happily watching the happy crowd on the shore...

Here Herzo and Ginsberg completed an overflowing life in 1982. Light performance art. Herzo seems to want to convey: loyalty to dreams is the meaning of human existence. Fitz shone with the light of Dionysus, and his golden weed-like hair was the flame of a magic lamp. In Fitz, there is joy in tragedy and sadness in comedy. It is this kind of sadness and joy, a wine-song style, and a persistent spiritual pursuit that restores a fresh life. Business is prosperous, and it is life that smiles at sadness and happiness.

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Extended Reading
  • Billie 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    It's better to see how this director wrote how to make a movie than to watch this movie. Another film that has been sealed on the altar, I can't watch it at all. If you want to ask me which old directors I prefer, I can only say that it is indeed Fellini who understood it early on, watched it, and was shocked. For a movie like this that can't be watched, forget it.

  • Gwendolyn 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Herzog paranoialy expresses the spiritual world and adventures of "abnormal" human beings. This film is the secret history of South America, the legend of adventurers, the sequel to "Damn", the video text of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and the Madness and Civilization.

Fitzcarraldo quotes

  • Don Aquilino: The Indians call the rapids Chirimagua, "the angry spirits." Anyone who falls in there is lost. The bare-asses also say the water has no hair to hold on to.

  • Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Is this a rubber tree?

    Don Aquilino: Right. "Hevea brasiliensis." They call the rubber tree "caoutchou," "tree that weeps." These bare-asses love flowery language. Gold, they call "sweat of the sun." Bees, "fathers of honey." You know, it's no easy job to discipline them, believe me.