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Uploaded on Jan 31, 2010

German director of Bad Lieutenant, Grizzly Man, and Rescue Dawn reads and interprets the children's classic Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel.

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  • ipbalkenende

    ipbalkenende 3 years ago

    The 'joke' is a lighthearted children's story is turned into heavy depressing poetry by Werner Herzog. An underlying theme may be an intellectual's inability to refrain from over-analyzing simple things and finding depressing themes. A demonstration that ignorance is bliss.

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  • hasslefactory

    hasslefactory 3 years ago

    @RyanIverson: that's great (and even better than kleines Engel)! Now please... please please PLEASE make more of these - they are fabulous. And two are just not enough. Hmmm.... how about The Velveteen Rabbit?

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This video is a response to Werner Herzog Reads Madeline

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  • DetHanob

    DetHanob 1 month ago

    Green Eggs and Ham, puhlease! "Sam-I-am's ceaseless entreaties finally pushing our speaker beyond the realms of ze sane"

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  • Mike Lonergan

    Mike Lonergan 1 month ago

    That is freaking hilarious - especially the dark commentary editorialised by Herzog.

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  • moriya2k2

    moriya2k2 5 months ago

    Geez. Even as a kids book, this seems depressing.

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    moriya2k2 5 months ago

    "But what of the 100 men who could've used the week of work?"

    Mike ruined the economy.

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  • D Williams

    D Williams 7 months ago

    "the smell of blood is in the air...watching them work is like watching a public execution in slow motion"

    I'm glad Herzog wasn't my dad reading me bedtime stories!

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  • slthomp2

    slthomp2 8 months ago

    I love you.

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  • Yulex42

    Yulex42 10 months ago

    why is it so quiet?

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  • Jim Price

    Jim Price 1 year ago

    Genius!

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  • chunkEcheez

    chunkEcheez 1 year ago

    I loved this story as a kid. As an adult, I love Werner Herzog's version even more. The erosion of my innocence and wonderment is complete. The inexorable march towards a cynical worldview of grown-up resignation continues.

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  • WheelerWorks

    WheelerWorks 1 year ago

    I would love you forever if you could send me the scans of this (if you still have them)

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