Werner Herzog career interview: "You have to brace yourself for the bozos"
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How an infuriating encounter at an ad agency prompted Herzog to ditch a KZread series about the internet in favour of making his feature-length connected-world documentary Lo and Behold... and other personal anecdotes from the career of the great German director.
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Werner Herzog. Earth's narrator.
@justpettet3506
5 жыл бұрын
wow
@Mr_M_
4 жыл бұрын
Morgan Freeman: Werner Herzog's narrator.
@leoelliondeux
10 ай бұрын
He’s humanity’s narrator. Earth’s narrator is David Attenborough
@neuralnetwork17
7 ай бұрын
Everyone knows Herzog, Freeman and Attenborough work in eight hour shifts.
I live in Seattle. The art museum here is open and airy and full of light. Then you step into the stair well and it is like a stair well in a prison or a low budget high school, the kind of place you could get knifed by bullies after your lunch money. It is very jarring so I understand what Herzog means by, "repulsive corridors."
This is the perfect interviewer. Very charming Woman who consistently asks the precisely-correct question. The question you and I would ask. When Werner gets to his story about 400 monkeys (Werner was bitten over 30 times).? She can barely contain herself - it's almost like stand-up comedy. Everything has a rhythm with Werner - a cadence - it's a great Listen. ...
@norwegianblue2764
Жыл бұрын
Yes. Francine's great. Would have been nice to see her lovely face. Strange choice of camera angle.
Only discovered him yesterday now I'm hooked I NVR realized he did Nosferatu the 1979 with Klaus amazing film maker
@cristoburn4778
2 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Aguirre yet? Check it out.
@verginiamatevossian2406
Жыл бұрын
@@cristoburn4778 i also started a year ago. Have you watched all of the films?
@cristoburn4778
Жыл бұрын
@@verginiamatevossian2406 Nice. Not all but a lot of them.
@thekaiser4333
4 ай бұрын
Do you meditate? 45:00
hats off to francine stock; so often herzog seems paired with an interviewer who is either clueless or hideously overbearing. this is a great to-and-fro and i really appreciate how she coaxed the best out of the great man himself.
Really good interview. It's a pity the sound guys messed it up with a crappy noise gate... :(
@Freakazoid12345
10 ай бұрын
What is a, "noise gate" ?
@tizwah
10 ай бұрын
@@Freakazoid12345 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_gate
@halfadecade4770
4 ай бұрын
she needs to talk into the fucking mic
BFI: Its only Wener Herzog give him the cheap crap mic in the corner...
@38:12 I was struck with the similarity between Treadwell and Klaus Kinskey. The mercurial ups and downs, the anger toward authority, the feeling of persecution and his unshakable belief in what he was doing.
@FrictionBassIgnition
3 жыл бұрын
Both also considered themselves men of nature. They held a fantastical and idealistic view of nature and ignored its more chaotic and capricious aspects.
an added bonus at Werner's film school: You learn how-to forge documents. Pick locks. -with no apologies. Oh - and be prepared to swim across the Mekong. ...
@leoisforevercool
3 жыл бұрын
Now that's an education that doesn't disappoint
"Everyone is Royalty, but there are no stars."
The title 'Lo and Behold' is genius.
...Ein großartiger Künstler.
@Freakazoid12345
10 ай бұрын
Was ist das?
I love how he pronounces: “monkeys”
@ 18:10 "Let's do the do-able." (wanting a particular shot that would require too much time to set up) 16 shooting days did not give Werner much flexibility - but of course he's Werner so he made everything work regardless. Wow - ...
He has an awesome vibe... the dark humour makes him incredibly likeable 😅
Ian, I REALLY think you would love to listen to what Herzog has to say---he is so incredibly renegade and at the same time grounded. Check it out!!
Dropped a bollock with the sound there BFI.
Such a master
Anyone knows what happened with Herzog s film project about The Mexican Conquest?
@justpettet3506
5 жыл бұрын
that would be so great
They never did get that clip wound up
@25:56 Going to the site of Dieter Dengler's plane wreck to film would have been interesting, but not added much to the documentary. Most importantly, if you they had been caught, Dieter with them to help find the site, talk, and show them things, Dieter very well may have found himself imprisoned in Laos for a second time, with little food, etc... It would have been bad.
I love The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Heart of Glass above all of his films, but I haven’t seen one I disliked. What are your favorites?
@cosmicmauve
4 жыл бұрын
So far, Nosferatu. I just love the opening credits sequence, it sets the tone of real creepiness, and the back story that goes with that is interesting too. I think I will very much like Fitzcaraldo too when I get around to it, have seen bits and pieces. Kinski really was a great actor, even as temperamental as he was.
@huhnturr
4 жыл бұрын
Watch Stroszek!
@newsungsails3651
4 жыл бұрын
@@huhnturr Stroszek is incredible! Very haunting.
@newsungsails3651
4 жыл бұрын
@@cosmicmauve Agreed! Nosfteratu has a great mood. I love the hysteria around the plague later in the film.
He sort of has the same Idols as Adrian Veidt. Good thing he became a poet..
@TSR1776
5 жыл бұрын
If a giant alien squid detonates over NYC, I know who to blame
You'd almost think Werner could make a lyrical ... "horror-documentary." - about corridors. @ 11:15. It's just hilarious - but better to watch for self. ...
werner is the big brother that was kind and helpful and a good teacher that i never had. i miss werner herzog because i never met him.
Where? What? When?
I guess it's copyright but it's weird they don't show the clips of the movie they are talking
@TYSLYS
3 жыл бұрын
its sucks eh, and is pointlessly sterile .... its his work....
@themadplotter
3 жыл бұрын
@@TYSLYS if anybody wouldn't care about pirating his film it would be Herzog.
@thekaiser4333
4 ай бұрын
People who watch this interview know the films.
He loves to hear himself speak Great Man.
@zoezzzarko1117
2 жыл бұрын
As all poets... 💙
@frosteternal
Жыл бұрын
we all like to hear him speak!
Good interviewer! Who is she?
@LinoCoriaMendoza
7 жыл бұрын
Francine Stock
International treasure ❤
I was attacked by a spider money as a child, not once but twice, long story. :) Bottom line is, I hate monkeys! LOL! This coming from a man that has dedicated his life to saving animals! LOL!
Street smarts vs book smarts and untested theories. They often fail to make connections with social issues either they may look at a predominantly black school for instance and think their poor grade averages are related to genetics but actually the environment is the problem if they lack adequate nutrition have more stress that will hinder their studies some drop out of school they need to work to survive instead doesn't mean they are stupid but education is a luxury for many.
45:10
@thekaiser4333
4 ай бұрын
Yes.
Everything Werner sez is hilarious. Either intentionally - i.e.punchline-city. or just by complete surprise: "I wanted 100 pigs (literally) ..." (for a specific scene/movie) A friend turned me on to Werner - knows Werner personally - To me Werner is Superman - The Man Of Steel. So it's further occurred to me (that) I've become Soft. either "become" or always-was - I just don't have Werner's strength. or else I do and just don't know it. . ...
Werner Herzog hates meditation? SHOCKING.
@thekaiser4333
4 ай бұрын
Have you ever met people who meditate??
He edited movie in 9 days?????!
@thekaiser4333
4 ай бұрын
Yes, he is very slow. But quality takes time.
The older Werner Herzog gets, the more he sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger
G . O . D .
I thought it was a habit of the nouveaux riches to tell the world about 100 times a day their rags to riches story - lol Couldn't he talk about his film making without this patronizing "I made it" attitude?
To interview werner no one shouldn't ask questions, better way is to let him talk alone.
@TheSuperQuail
4 жыл бұрын
Then it wouldn't be an interview.
@bobsbigboy_
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheSuperQuail exactly
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The interviewer. I don't wish to be cruel but she's totally inappropriate. She doesn't appear to have any insight into the human condition. I think the problem is well educated, upper middle class people in cultural institutions: Oxford, Cambridge wealth and privilege whereas as Herzog is a man of the world who knows the abyss.
@garrywindshield1
5 жыл бұрын
communistic garbage
@sellingacoerwa8318
5 жыл бұрын
Oh go be a snowflake somewhere else
@DrJones20
Жыл бұрын
How is the interviewer inappropiate?
@Meidaneh_Shush
Ай бұрын
Masochistic poser.
maybe should have left it as a youtube; Lo and Behold was pretty ineffective -was quite dissapointed with the film OH HOW I WISH Into the Inferno had been playing at my local theater instead!
Bozos ?
@shoshiwas
5 жыл бұрын
it's a reference to Bozo the Clown. The character was on tv in the US for many years.
94/5000 Herzog is a genius, but like all geniuses he tells great truths, but also great stupidity.
@christophersurnname9967
4 жыл бұрын
.... what do you mean by great stupidity?
@rayiversen8051
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. What do you mean by the dichotomy of great truths and great stupidity?
"I'm not so much into the meditation and sitting in the lotus position. I've never seen anything decent come from one of those"... He's clearly not a fan of David Lynch.
@IronsteffL
3 жыл бұрын
He clearly made a movie with David Lynch. And you clearly need to drop the meme-style argumentation and learn some differentiation. A world as complex as ours and people as complex as Werner Herzog or David Lynch don't fit into a couple of words, no matter how "funny" you deem them.
@robertloader9826
3 жыл бұрын
@@IronsteffL chill out babe.
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