Best line from this Werner Herzog monologue

few of these got cut off:

# It's like a curse weighing on the entire landscape; and whoever goes too deep into this has his share of that curse; so we are cursed with what we are doing here.

# Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of harmony; it is the harmony of overwhelming & collective murder.

# And we, in comparison to the articulate vileness & baseness & obscenity of all this jungle — we, in comparison to that enormous articulation... we only sound and look like badly-pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel.

# And we have to become humble in front of this... overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication... overwhelming growth... and overwhelming lack of order.

# There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it.

(btw I'm pretty sure Herzog said all of this with the I Love Metal subboard in mind)

I'm torn between "overwhelming and collective murder" (for the sentimental value of hearing it sampled in that cLOUDDEAD song before I knew who Werner Herzog was), "badly-pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel" (for obvious reasons), "Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess" (for the disgust in his voice), and "It's a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger" (short & to-the-point)

"they just screech in pain" for me.

This speech is like my personal St Crispin's Day from Henry V, by the way, a real touchstone

oh man thank you for reminding me of this

Need wav files beside each line of Werner uttering these for maximum effect.

okay, i made my pick

"they just screech in pain" is the one I always remember, but god, looking at these again it's impossible to choose

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQyQnXrLb0

Oh, it's already there. Oops

Overwhelming and collective murder!

I press-junket-interviewed him in 2009 about the comic aspects of Bad Lietutenant, and he said, "People always think of me as this dour type of person, but actually I am quite hee-larious." (Probably better with the accent.)

Going to see him talk tomorrow afternoon, looking forward to some heelarity. Will report back.

Definitely the birds screeching in pain. The way he delivers that line is pure bavarian hee-larity of the highest order.

what day is his birthday? that day should be national "talk like Herzog day".

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since I can't vote for "suburban novel," I'm going with, "It's a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger."

uhh you can totally vote for "suburban novel", did you not read the first post

I mean like, no it is not technically written there next to the button you click... but everyone will know what you mean.....

"can't click it" is what I meant, yeah

New film is ace by the way; I particularly liked how he managed to finish off a film about French cave art with...a jungle scene.

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Came on to look for a Burden of Dreams thread, so I could say how hysterical that monologue is. Saw it for the first time tonight, somewhat reluctantly--I haven't seen Fitzcarraldo. It's Herzog's delivery that makes it so funny; he's reached some point of crisis with the film, and he's clearly hating the project and his profession and his entire life.

The theatre had an original 16 mm print and a good story about how they acquired the Toronto Public Library's whole collection a few years ago. (This one was significantly better than the Martin print they showed the other night.)

you should watch fitzcarraldo now! one of the best ever

It's one that I've been holding out to see in a theatre--I'm assuming there'd be no point in watching it for the first time at home.

I think I'll put all the poll options on bristol board and post them around the classroom.

I've long intended to commit this monologue to memory. There are so many moments in a day when its spontaneous recitation would be apropos.

Lols in this interview:

In a way, “The Simpsons” is a bold intellectual design.

In what way? Let’s not analyze it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/magazine/werner-herzog-interview.html

Sometimes you just have to speak French https://t.co/N9tTVqOGq2

— Caspar Henderson (@casparhenderson) October 7, 2020

First, not dead. Second:

Absolutely losing my mind at this Herzog interview pic.twitter.com/FUk9oIYyFL

— Screamer Jim (@HeheWaitWhut) April 13, 2021

when we saw this in the mag a couple weeks ago, partner & i spent most of an evening just dying laughing at "fine, why not?"

he has a new book out called the future of truth. i enjoyed the sample. his writing is funny and snappy.

i liked flipping from the title page of the first chapter, "what is truth?" to the first page: "nobody knows what it is, truth, least of all the author."