Werner Herzog
speaker
545 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Werner Herzog’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Today, the males that reach me are males by 15-year-olds in Missoula, Montana, in South Korea, in Brazil, 15, 16, 17 years old.
What is it about your work that moves them?
I do not know something that comes across a great vision and something really authentic.
Films like no one else ever has done.
I cannot really judge here, but people normally know about it.
Well, there's no real story.
It's basically all invented.
A real rubber baron, a billionaire at his time, 120 years ago or so,
uninteresting as it gets, but he moved once a small ship, 30 tons or so, I mean, ridiculously small for me, and disassembled it and moved it over flat terrain into another river.
with almost everyone that I know, something that is very human, a deep metaphor like the metaphor of Sisyphus who rolls up a big boulder of rock up the mountain and it rolls back on him and he has to do it over and over again.
Sisyphus, of course, dates back two and a half thousand years at least into ancient Greek mythology.
But I knew there was something of that nature, a very deep
metaphor, a little bit like, let's say, the quest for Moby Dick, the white whale, something that we share, we have it in us.
It's some sort of human knowledge, but undiscovered yet, unarticulated yet.
The ancient Greek articulated with a myth of Sisyphus.
Melville articulated it in his book Moby Dick.
And I articulated something in Fitzcarraldo.
What exactly I uncovered, I can't tell you, but I know it's big.
I hardly see anyone.
Visual artists?
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