Burden of Dreams

[Anima10pontonet]

Okay wow, so the jungle's not in harmony according to him, and his solution is showing up there, having natives haul a giant boat over dirt, talk trash about the place, kill the animals, and make money from that. Yes, truly a work of art.

[jamesaellis]

What bird is singing in the background? Sounds awesome?

[jigsaw99]

This guy is as ignorant as a Nazi.

[G3V3S]

The only thing he said that made any sense: "I should go to a lunatic asylum right away".  The rest: bat shit insane.

[devinithaca]

What a distressingly colonial mindset.

[msilverthorpe]

The loud bird throughout the video is the screaming piha. It's not screaming in pain. That's the male's mating call. Herzog cracks me up.

[fenix9885]

What a happy guy. "Everything is in misery". He's not the guy hauling the boat. I take it he doesn't have too many close friends.

[MM55SILK]

Bulls*it. WTF did he expected to find in the jungle? Bremem? Frankfurt?

[apetrowsky1]

It takes a person of higher awareness to see what he is seeing.

[utube321go]

Prehistorical? unfinished!!?? Chaos? LOL Another white man thinking so high above from everything... ridiculous cynicism to even say admiration at the end. He seems spiteful and angry in this clip. Would probably have done better quiet.

[apocalypse123]

@utube321go Don't be racist. It's his film, and what he's saying is immensely profound. The jungle is chaotic, that's why we don't live there. There is no unity within nature, it's kill or be killed. And that's where most people get there love for it. It's in that natural chaos, untapped by man, formed from the bowels of this planet we assigned unity to, it contradicts us at every turn. It makes fools in love out of us all.

[poppinkino]

the birds they just screatch in pain...



[leptoceratops]

WTF is he on about when he talks about the jungle? Does he realise he's saying nothing about the jungle and a whole lot about himself?

[agentsmith11]

Herzog is certifiably (and this is a medical term specifically designated for a Herzog level of insanity) BAT-SHIT-FUCKING CRAZY

[spetsnaz5]

Is this the entire documentary?

[diva4life616]

he is just the peak of absolute ass-ed-ness.

[SylviaRose93]

cracked!

[knoose]

Overwhelming misery?

He should have been slapped for not being humble and appreciating he is lucky to even be alive in this current world to see it.

[dcsd204]

came from cracked!

[doobiesmoke15]

How did Werner Herzog treat the Indians he worked with on this film? Did he treat them well?

[mrkillersson]

You don't need CGI if you have crazy German people.

[jinpayne]

@mrkillersson lol cracked huh?

[imfromtambunan]

@mrkillersson congrats on plagiarizing cracked

[CaptainCocaine]

@mrkillersson very original... that was sarcasm.

[goback3spaces]

He is amazingly eloquent. The trouble is that FITZCARRALDO isn't a particularly good or absorbing movie. I saw it when it came out, and my memory of it is that there didn't seem to be any articulated need to get that damn boat over the mountain.

[jglover9911]

any one no what kind of music or song, cause i like the music

[Evergreen6991]

"Filmmaking is the ability to articulate dreams..." That is the most beautiful description of a difficult and often misunderstood art.

[nettuno5]

@Evergreen6991 Have you read "Hollywood" by Bukowski? another great description about the process of making a movie against overwhelming obstacles.

[BallawdeQuincewold]

@Evergreen6991 How is filmmaking misunderstood? It has the entire world's approval and interest.

[Evergreen6991]

@BallawdeQuincewold

That makes it a popular art form sure, but it doesn't mean that film is alway understood and "approved." Plenty of people will walk out of a movie like Eraserhead, a nightmare committed to film, and bemoan, "That wasn't even a REAL movie." Simply because it chose to not have a few elements that are preprogrammed into people's expectations and used all it could to make an experience, not just another viewing.

[CrippledRetardo]

I like niggers.

[boogiebuddy01]

overwhelming and collective murder

[kkstar1976]

He can talk a lot can't he?!?!!

[EntropyHaptens]

It's clear, at least in his telling, the jungle and life is a mistress he cannot find strength in himself to love. The need for order and control is so crushing in Europeans. Maybe that's the real lesson, we'll never get over the isthmus. Isn't that what he is saying, no pleasure, no accolade will have the boat top the hill. It's tragic but it must have been his comported view, the statement, to have it this way. He's an artist, an actor. The documentary points us to that conclusion.

[IrreducibleParadox]

@EntropyHaptens

It is strange. I used to think that dreams were something to live for, I was miserable. Today I am convinced that dreaming is our minds way to point our attention at internal conflicts, confusion. They show us the things we find absurd or out of reach and beg us to reconcile with reality. It is no wonder that there was a saying of how a real Buddhist monk would need no more than four hours of sleep each night. Where there is harmony, restless dreams are put quietly to sleep.

[spetsnaz5]

@IrreducibleParadox Are you speaking of dreams as aspirations or sleeping dreams or some mix?

[hrklauzen]

He is life. He is talking about life. He is the first one i have heard, got a true clue about life.

[IrreducibleParadox]

He's talking about the burden of dreams, which can be your life if you elect it. That's the thing with life, it can take any form. To me, he makes sense only as someone confused, someone obsessed. He believes that he loves what he hates, and he hates because what he perceives is not what he would have preferred for it to be. The jungle has no structure to him, it is chaos, but he sees a vision in it, a challenge which he believes is enough to break him.

[lidsvillebrown]

Absolutely. I'm not sure what these city dwellers here are talking about. He neither needs nor wants to control it, but is looking at nature far more accurately, honestly and truthfully than these judgmental, clueless, sentimental moderns commenting here do. His honesty is what is so compelling about him. Nature is not about murder? Think again. Relentless murder. Every minute.

[rumputuski]

It's interesting how this opening sequence resembles the opening sequence of Triumph des Willens, starting up in the clouds and decending to earth. Even the lettering is the same way, gothic. Loved this movie and I've liked all of of Herzog's films that I've seen.

[bloodonthesnow]

ahhhh!!! i knew something felt familiar. great observation!

[irkedd]

Werner Herzog is something else.

a real individual.

im in the middle of the book "Herzog on Herzog"

which is a informal interview with him about his life, almost an autobiography.

great stuff.

i highly recomend it.

[brokendrew]

Erotical is a word. I will now use it all the time.

[willrogers711]

At one point in the full-length film, Herzog mentions that the natives believed that the physical world is an illusion, and that the actual world is the world that exists in our dreams... I'll never forget about that

[wolfgangle]

A true German in the old, good sense