Aguirre, The Wrath of God Review - Off The Shelf Reviews
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- This week Gary and Iain review and discuss Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) by Director, Werner Herzog. Starring, Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra and Helena Rojo.
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Aguirre is a cinematic masterpiece. You can watch it at any age and it has a hypnotic feel about it from start to finish.
When it first came out I was mesmerized and totally hooked , 'till this very day .. The music , the atmosphere and , as you say , is a cinematic masterpiece . I can see it again and again . Totally brilliant .
@@shvicat I love this film! It came out same year as Deliverance which was based on the Novel which came out in 1970. I believe Aguirre was inspired by Deliverance but it somehow upstaged the movie as it's a much more grand version of the River Adventure genre. Crazy Herzog made this much grander film for 1/6 of the Budget of Deliverance!
The scary thing is, the movie was made by essentially just doing it.
The making of this movie would make a great movie itself. They were really roughing it on those little rafts, and when the monkeys stole their food they just rolled the cameras and added it to the story. At one point someone caught malaria or got some kind of infection; and Herzog asked him, "If you die, could I put it in the movie?" There's only one Werner Herzog, and that's probably a good thing...
And the grim humor was definitely intentional.
If they can make a movie about the making of "The Room", they sure as hell can and should make a movie about the making of Aguirre
That lady the priest is condescending to was a fucking badass. She just didn't put up with Aguirre's shit. Favorite character.
This movie is on my top ten of all time fav movies , I did watch it many times , the main character was amazing but the movie it self is extremely well done , great review guys
Aguirre wasn't Herzog's first theatrical feature film. He did 3 before: Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life, 1967), Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Even Dwarfs Starterd Small, 1969) and Fata Morgana (1970).
I love Aguirre but I love "Lebesnzeichen", "Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht" (Nosferatu - The Vampyre, 1979) and "Herz aus Glas" (Heart of Glass, 1976) even more.
Also "The Wild Blue Yonder" (2005) and "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?" (2009) are great.
The bible scene is taken directly from history. Pizzaro's cleric offered the bible to Atahuelpa who asked what it is. When told it is the word of God he held it up to his ear.
"The bible scene is taken directly from history. Pizzaro's cleric offered the bible to Atahuelpa who asked what it is. When told it is the word of God he held it up to his ear."
That's quite a story when you think about it. The native, Amerindian spirituality had a different relationship to nature compared to Christianity. Theirs was a spirituality felt in the wind, elements of the sky like the heavenly fog that clung to the steep Andean mountains, the flowing spirit of the waters that could be as sacred as the river Ganges.
They talk about feeling and being filled with the spirit of God in Christianity but so many of those phrases are empty phrases, at least to me, but when you are closer to nature you fell it and sense it even as you approach the flowing waters. Your "hear" the spirit first. The same way you don't SEE God - ever - but if you stop and LISTEN, you can hear his word in nature. You even FEEL its presence in the coolness in the air. That coolness provides relief and refreshes the spirit. What starts as a whisper of the spirit keeps increasing until that moment when you are the divine roar of the power of God.
The moment when you actually see the waters of the river you are WITNESSING the divine spirit at work, The waters that hit the rocks joyfully bound over them and blissfully rejoins the other waters
on a espiritual journey to be reunited with a vast bountiful ocean. There's not "Lake of Fire" the way Christianity teaches us is the fate the damned and even those who "refuse" to accept the written word of God.
This is how many people who didn't have books and couldn't read experience the Creator in a profoundly different way than in Christianity. The Indian was trying to use his highly sensitized and well developed sense of hearing that was attuned to listening to God. To the Christian way of experiencing he was literally using the wrong and incorrect sense. Did Christians SEEM to be tone deaf to the spirit of God when the Amerindians first encountered them.
You even experience it in a different part of your brain. The WRITTEN word of God - I think you hear the word "logos" sometimes in Christianity is a more CEREBRAL kind of Creator. Cerebral but also kind of RIGID in emphasis on its unbending and absolute divine law. Just putting it in terms of God's word AS LAW, continually driving home that point.
"Nature-ally," the Indian puts the Bible close to his ear, kind of the way kids put a seashell close to their ears so they can hear and sense the spirit of God.
People write a lot in discussions about God in church history talks on TH-cam, continually chiming in that Jesus is the only way. You have to accept divine law this way. The waters of the river only flow one way. If you diverge or get stranded, like the men on the raft who got caught in those inescapable whirlpools at the other side of the river, they are doomed. When they get caught that way they are already dead.
Just watched this movie and it is absolutely great. Like you said, i was totally into this world and the characters. Thanks for this review :)
One of the greatest movies of all time, with the magnificent Popul Vuh soundtrack still as haunting today as it was in 1972.
Its also many peoples first introduction to the New German Culture movement outside of Germany, that came out of the 60's. Until this point German culture (in West Germany at least) was felt to be still tainted by Nazism, and a younger generation, who looked to the US and UK, began to reinvent there own alternative vision of a future Germany's in the arts and popular culture.
Not only did they transform Germany into a modern European country, but went on to powerfully influence both film making and music.
'Krautrock' bands like Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, Harmonia, Tangerine Dream went on to directly influence artists like David Bowie and Brian Eno, usher in the post punk sound of Joy Divison, PiL, Bauhaus, with Kraftwerk became the lead influence in techno and modern electronica, and Can directly influencing bands like Radiohead,Tool, and 1001 alternative rock bands.
Germany of course continued making fine movies, Werner Herzog back catalogue features in most media studies courses worthy of the name, as well as laying the foundation for future great German classic's like the Lives of Others, Downfall, Das Boot and Goodbye Lenin.
Great review of one of my favorite films! I’m glad to have found you guys and I have subscribed!
Its funny how they mention Apocalypse Now 1979. That is personally my fav movie of all time. I didnt know until recently its probably why i love the movie so much. But Coppola has said Aguirre was the biggest influence in making Apocalypse Now.
I watched this movie quite recently having last seen it as a ten year old. Last millenium in fact. Thanks to Google and Wikipedia (search El Dorado) I was able to identify the movie that had quite the effect on me as a child, especially the final scene. Really enjoyed the review and their take on Aquirre and how subtle and devious he is at obtaining power. Arguably he is successful but obviously not in the bigger scheme of things, as confirmed by the haunting final scene which starts with the camera going up the river from afar and then circling the raft. H'es a loooooooooong way from Trinidad
it seems that the movie, like "apocalypse now", is influenced by "the heart of darkness"
This movie was inspired by HoD, while Apocalypse Now was an adaptation of it
I was so excited to see this review, even all these years later! I recommend this movie so much, and I’m never sure who listens to me 👉🏻 but this IS a must watch masterpiece! It’s stuck with me from the very first viewing! I’m so glad to see you both feel the same, even if it’s 8 years after the fact 😅👍🏻!
I've come to enjoy this film a lot. Watched it twice. It has some great cinematography
The film is very raw with the on-location filming and hard work. in the jungle.
Everyone makes the comparison of Apocalypse Now to Aguirre which is fair since AN was inspired by Aguirre. However when this film was made 1972 same year as "Deliverance" and I can see quite a bit of Deliverance in Aguirre. So if Deliverance inspired Aguirre and Aguirre inspired Apocalypse Now than it follows that Deliverance inspired Apocalypse Now as well. I LOVE all 3 Movies and would love to see another River adventure film come out today!
Kinski has a daughter who is also an actor
Movie is based the real Lope de Aguirre, who indeed was batshit crazy, they called him "El Loco"
To the point of the Native saying he use to be a prince. To me i saw it as now someone more powerful came along, and he is now in the position of his former subjects
Lope de Aguirre was even worse than Herzog handled him in the film, and Klaus Kinski, being bipolar, was even crazier than you see him in this film, short of being the butcher that the actual historical figure was.
Excellent review
You always meet your high standards
The humour is deliberate and intrinsic. It’s essentially a satire of colonialism, the humour emphasizes how absurdly destructive and dehumanizing the colonial project is.
The 'Raft Of God?'🤣
I love this film and have seen it many times, thanks for the review fellas (I also agree it has pure Monty Python moments,,,,Aguirre is not a conquistador, hes a very naughty boy!🤣
FINALLY watched this. Loved it. Thanks for the recommendation!
WRITTEN and directed by Herzog. Written in 2.5 days.
The epitomy of this film - "Get out of my way!!!"
I didn't it find it funny, more like mysteriously eerie..like the jungle of a new world is...so those odds moments works perfectly...nice review though....
That you are reviewing this, is simply incredible, i have never expected it to be here, it's pure agony. If you liked it you might have fun watching 'Fitzcarraldo', same director, same main actor, same jungle, but the whole movie far more professional and more positive.
About 1890s rubber boom in Manaús in the Amazon jungle.
Oh, this should be good, I've heard the legend of Klaus kinski 😂
I love how you pronounce the Spanish words. :-)
"the Curtains?" lol nice one.
Want more Herzog? Check out these videos to further luxuriate in Werner's madness:
*The 10 Most Insane Director Directions of Werner Herzog* (includes more Kinski-Herzog spats, & the times his entire crew nearly died on location) th-cam.com/video/H-WT0w-kIbI/w-d-xo.html
*Werner Herzog Narrates Pokemon Go*
th-cam.com/video/ZLKzhmFujhQ/w-d-xo.html
*My Best Fiend* Trailer (Herzog on Kinski)
th-cam.com/video/4hG8dd5Vsnc/w-d-xo.html
*Tragedy of the Nihilist Penguin*
th-cam.com/video/mnTU_hJoByA/w-d-xo.html
*Laughing Midget, Reclining Dromedary* th-cam.com/video/aJuaZKBABO0/w-d-xo.html
*Four Midgets (actually dwarves) Relay Race Against Camel* (not by Herzog, but in his spirit, for sure)
th-cam.com/video/MFCNVvvmxNw/w-d-xo.html
but what was in his hand?
I really enjoyed this movie, but i also would totally understand if someone watched it and thought "this movie is shit" lol
The speech is a bit too fast, for the commentary is rich, well developed and there is a lot to take in
Klaus Kinski is the German version of Crispin Glover. 2 Batshit crazy actors that put on incredible performances. Both actors coincidently had crazy appearances on The David Letterman Show. Sadly IRL Klaus Kinski after his passing has been accused by his daughter of the most heinous of sexual crimes reportedly for 17 years. If Kinski was still alive I'd like to imagine he'd be in prison for his crimes.
Crispin Glover couldn’t lay a glove on Kinski imho
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You hide a predator:-) This is funny:-)
I like Werner Herzog, but I didn't like the animal cruelty in this film, could have done without it.
It was necessary.
No it wasn't. IMO.
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Why the hell would you need to hurt an animal for a film? That's fucked up. It's not necessary. It's never
It's kinda funny tho that Herzog stole these monkeys. I believe the animal abuse was more in his movie "nosferatu" with the rats
Those people weren't Christians they are savages using God's word as an excuse to destroy others.
Funny movie.
Long arrows are gaining in fashion.
@@ShadowJax04 Famous last words.
A review just isn't complete without a swipe a Christianity it seems.
It's a tradition all reviewers use the same pool of jokes about Christianity and when the christian fans get annoyed they think we were offended when in reality we just want new material cause we have heard all these jokes before.
michaelkeha So true. I've heard them all so come up with some new matierals guys!
If anything has it coming, the world's most evil fairy tale certainly does...
Well, the movie itself is hitting at christianity, what does one expect. And rightfully so, as christianity to this day kinda ignores christ for the most part ... just look at USA...full of christians, full of gun and Trump lovin evangelical hypocrites ...
Sorry,I think this film would have been better served if shot in Spanish.Also,I just don't buy Klaus Kinski as a Spanish conquistador 😜
A real Spaniard same as a real Italian were originally Blonde haired and blue eyed
Lope de Aguirre (1510-61) was Basque.