ECE-1: Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog: On Acting and Not Acting

Extract from Werner Herzog's documentary 'My Best Fiend' that charts his fractious relationship with actor Klaus Kinski. In this scene, Kinski seems rather upset by the standards of catering on the set of Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo'. A good example of how the 'drama' can continue outside of the narrative of a film itself.

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[LS R]

What an asshole. And in top of that, the aborigenes are thinking "and this is the superior race that came from Europe, beat the crap out of us and impose all that other crap? Damn, we have more civilized ways of dealing with each other"...glad Lee Van Cleef shot this sucker in "For A Few Dollars More", lol...

[jkjerome1]

That's amazing. I was also wondering what the Peruvian indians made of all that. I guess they would expect people from an apparently more advanced society than theirs to be enlightened and unperturbed; perhaps as many people perceive extraterrestrials. They must have had a hell of a shock! Offering to kill him is a hilarious reaction - he must've been like a ridiculous out-of-control spoiled brat to them.

[sirkowski]

u mad, Klaus?

[KleWdSide]

And I wonder why only one person showed up to his funeral...

[3baxcb]

And people today were shocked by the Christian Bale rant on Terminator Salvation... The word ego trip, just doesn't do this clip enough justice.

[Viktor Jamison]

Speaking of the WWII subject, it's kind of ironic that Herr Kinski once said in his Jesus speech that "Anyone who starts war or participates in it in anyway, is already dead" & he himself was a soldier/conscript in the Wehrmacht.

[TheCharacterActor]

The effects of WWII probably made him the loony that he was. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Kees Melle]

Later that evening, after Kinski's rage, the Indians involved in this scene/footage offered Herzog to kill Kinski for him. Thank fuck voor Kinsky, he and Werner were friends and Herzog declined the Indians offer. Kinski's life was on a very thin line here, which he didn't realise at that time. The Indians must of thought a demon was amongst them, a bringer of bad luck..

[DoubleTalkingJive]

This is from "My Best Fiend"? In the DVD I have (from the U.S. Herzog-Kinski boxset), Herzog narrates the entire doc (and this scene) in German. Where is this English version from?