Herzog always believed that scenery occupies a very important proportion and position in the film, it has become an indispensable role in the film, and has its unique function and expression. The use of color, the creation of atmosphere, the scheduling of scenes, and the voiceovers, dialogues, and music in this film are mysterious, weird, and surreal, a symbol of brutal power.
The film is full of mystery at the beginning, the sky is filled with smoke, the camera slowly rolls down from the sky, and vaguely sees the moving crowd on the small intestine path in the jungle, and then it is shot from above to let the audience see clearly. The young man was wrapped in red cloth, and suddenly a bamboo basket fell from the cliff and shattered... Only then did the title of the film "Achill, God's Wrath" appear. The entire film that follows is inseparable from the Amazon River, a turbulent river at one moment, and the pounding sound of the river at another moment. Sometimes the waves of the river are surging, the water is turbulent and the waves are big, and the raft is going upstream in the river. It describes an adventurer and a careerist who dares to collide with the turbulent rapids. The Madness of Middle Achill. But sometimes the waters of the river were calm, and the surrounding silence was terrifying, except for the sound of a single bird chirping or crows flying around, and from time to time people were shot to death by arrows by invisible Indians, making people shudder and horrified.
Herzog used the Amazon River to make his films an unstoppable river, sometimes violent, sometimes calm as a mirror, allowing the audience to move in this big river and connecting the screen with the audience.
The ending of the film is also memorable. In the endless river, under the dazzling sun, only a raft floated, and only Aguir was left on the raft. The camera rotates around the solitary raft in the river, like another vortex. The audience can realize that Aguirre has already fallen into this vortex and cannot extricate himself.
The main feature of "Aguirre, God's Wrath" is that the scenery of the whole film is very beautiful, and the mercury-like river gradually disappears in the vastness of nature. The film's photographer Thomas Mauch won the 1973 Best Photographer Award by the Federal Government of Germany in 2008.
In addition to photography, the film's dialogue and voice-over are also very distinctive, often playing the role of finishing touch. For example, when the team had made a difficult journey, Pizaroma called the troops for a meeting. At this time, the priest's voiceover was first: "On the last day of the year, we are exhausted", and then the leader began to speak: "We will not be able to reach the El Dorado... Decided to make the following plan..." This series of The tone and flavor of the speech are not like speech, like reading a will. When Ursua was injured and Aguir succeeded in usurping power, it was the priest's voice-over again: "The crowd yearned for there, as unstoppable as the rapids in the water, and Aguir took advantage of this. Success..." After that, the casualties of the troops became more and more serious, and it was the priest's voiceover: "They had to use ink to cure the disease, they saw some phantoms, because they had a fever..." This implies that Aguirre's fever has reached a fever. And to the point of no cure.
The director of the film, Herzog, is an eccentric and accomplished director of the new German cinema. While most of the films made by young German directors after 1965 aimed to explore history or reality, society or politics in one way or another, Herzog's work had a very different intention. It is easy to fit these intentions into a pattern, preferring to express them in a creative way. He once said: "My films are born out of a very strong fascination, and I know that I have seen things that people have not seen and have not known." Therefore, his films contain rich philosophy, which makes the audience unforgettable. .
Herzog said: "I make films that are different from other directors and have a very strong appeal. I express what I see in the film, and other people have never seen it or know it. , my characters are surreal, literary, and grotesque." One can see this in Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
"Achill, the Wrath of God" is based on the diary of a priest who was on a European expedition to South America in search of El Dorado in 1560. This is a well thought out film. The protagonist Aguirre is a titan-style rebel character who tries to conquer nature in an extremely harsh environment in a strange world and find the legendary El Dorado. The film reflects Aguirre's crazy pursuit and romantic fantasy similar to utopianism, which ended in failure after being ruthlessly frustrated in the face of reality. The film aims to show the disintegration of a certain social order and the failure of the fantasy of reality. Aguirre came to the fore through assassinations and power grabs. People can see the shadow of Hitler in modern German history from Aguirre.
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