Stroszek: the Dancing Chicken
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Uploaded by Ransomriggs on Feb 9, 2008
From Roger Ebert's review of Herzog's Stroszek:
Many movies end with hopeless characters turning to crime. No movie ends like "Stroszek." Bruno and Mr. Scheitz take a rifle and go to rob the bank, which is closed, so they rob the barber shop next door of $32 and, leaving their car running, walk directly across the street to a supermarket, where Bruno has time to pick up a frozen turkey before the cops arrest Mr. Scheitz. Bruno then drives to a nearby amusement arcade, where he feeds in quarters to make chickens dance and play the piano. Then he boards a ski lift to go around and around and around.
This last sequence is just about the best he has ever filmed, Herzog says on the commentary track of the DVD. His crew members hated the dancing chicken so much they refused to participate, and he shot the footage himself. The chicken is a "great metaphor," he says--for what, he's not sure. My theory: A force we cannot comprehend puts some money in the slot, and we dance until the money runs out.
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@TurinAramaiaChannel I knew it couldn't be a hot plate or electric shock, because even though it's just a chicken, there's plenty of room for it to just stand in a corner or back in its room.
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Poor Chicken the only reason its "dancing" is because its on a hot plate and its burning its feet.
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LOLWUT?
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I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.
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@ilikevines and hi has and ho's
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Where is this at?
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OMG is a dancing chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love this video even though it does have a cruel streak in it. I think the little chicken looks amazingly adorable!!! She is just doing the little dance when they scratch and dig for food. My girls do it all day long. My hens even come up and do it on my clothes, the scratch and dig dance. I just call it dancing. When they do it I tell them, "oh you dance so pretty"! Chickens are great!
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@pwnyoubitch insert chuck norris quote, gain green thumbs
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this is so funny and so sad at the same time...brilliant film.
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The dancing chicken does not dance to the music. The music dances to the dancing chicken.
pwnyoubitch 2 years ago 41
herzog does most definitely rule. in a class by himself. or more like in a dimension by himself. he's got like eleven third eyes and he never blinks. and then, besides his ability to see everything, his mental filter is so fine tuned; as if the information is being sifted so thoroughly that only the purest perceptions come through. then you add in his craft. i just got home from watching his new movie "Encounters At The End Of The World." what can you say?... herzog rules. beautiful film-maker.
thedwork 3 years ago 11