When I felt like I was crazy, watching the movie between Herzog and Kinsky, I found that being crazy is also small and huge.
This is an unstoppable madness.
When the commander Ursua faced a difficult situation, he planned to retreat. Aguirre incited the soldiers to rebel. His view was that "the world has found Mexico without following orders, and so will we".
As a result, they marched madly, the food gradually ran out, and the Indian arrows and spears flying from the shore took the lives of many people. People are panicking.
Aguirre chopped off the head of the fleeing soldier and said: I am the biggest traitor, no one can surpass me. If anyone of you wants to spoil this expedition, I will chop him into 198 slices... No matter who you take an extra corn and drink an extra drop of water, I will shut him down for 155 years... I am the wrath of God , The land I pass by will tremble when I see me...
I am the wrath of God...I am the wrath of God...I will marry my daughter and establish the purest dynasty on earth.
Kinsky is mentally ill, with a pair of cold blue eyes, two strands of yellow hair attached to his cheeks, thick lips, and sculptural facial lines. His role of Aguirre is full of desire for gold and cruel. And crazy. Aguirre's resentment is constantly growing along the river, which can be reflected in his appearance. In the beginning, Aguirre showed only purple clothes on the hem---purple was the color of God, and the posture in which he stood was not much different from that of ordinary people. When he got to the back, the purple on his body was already more than half, while he was standing, he leaned his body, and then tilted his head, looking proudly high down.
Director Herzog is called "the will of the new film" in the four new German films, most of which are reflected in the characters expressed in his films, and there is always an almost blind pursuit. Growing up in a small mountain village in Bavaria, Herzog didn't even know phone calls before he moved to the city at the age of 13, let alone watched a movie. However, Herzog soon determined to be a director, which has something to do with Kinsky. At that time, Kinsky was living in the same apartment with Herzog. He was mentally ill and became a strange uncle in the eyes of the kid next door, terrifying but attractive. Herzog recalled that when I saw Kinsky throw a potato fiercely at a film critic who had just praised him in a magazine, I wanted him to be my actor.
Years later, there was crazy cooperation in and out of the film. Eight years before Coppola was trapped in the Heart of Darkness in Vietnam, Herzog and Kinsky were trapped in the rainforests of South America. Needless to say all kinds of troubles and quarrels, the disputes between the two principals have been surprisingly mixed. Kinsky was dissatisfied with a sound effects assistant and urged him to be removed. When Herzog quit, Kinsky yelled not to do it. Herzog took out a snatch and said to Jinsky, "If you don't act, I will kill you first and then commit suicide." Regarding this rumor, Kinsky said in his memoirs that there was no such thing, and only I had a gun at that time!
However, it is this real dilemma that made a great work. When Roger Ebert commented on its vision, he compared Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" with Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". >. "Aguirre, God's Wrath" set the overall tone at the beginning, and a line of long snakes walked through the misty valley. When it comes to rafting, the rotating camera becomes smoother. In the end, Aguirre was isolated on the raft under the scorching sun, the camera was still moving, but the line of sight was inseparable.
David Lynch regards Herzog as the greatest director, and people compare him with Mornau in Germany. In my eyes, his movies are the craziest. This is not about form, but about will. "Aguirre, God's Wrath" is my favorite Herzog movie, on "Everyone For Oneself, God Against Everyone" and "Land Rowing Boat". Herzog now only shoots documentaries, although the quality is very good, it leaves fans with more regrets.
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