Werner Herzog on Chickens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- During a Reddit AMA with Errol Morris and Joshua Oppenheimer, legendary film director Werner Herzog revealed that his biggest fear...is chickens.
"Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world."
Directed by Siri Bunford. Shot by Tom Streithorst.
"By the way, it's very easy to hypnotize a chicken."
-Werner Herzog
Chad Holzhuter LMAO
"And in one or two films I have shown that"
- Werner Herzog
It is the goal of all great film makers to demonstrate the ease of chicken hypnosis in at least one or two of their films.
It’s true. You just draw a line in front of them with your finger and they go into a trance
Chad Holzhuter Iggy Pop knows a thing or two about that.
I want to see Werner Herzog dissing the entire animal kingdom in various ways.
"Herzog reviews the animal kingdom"
Look up what he said about "the jungle" while filming "Fitzcarraldo". He calls it "a harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."
@@Torgo1969 When you have to spend a full movie filming with Klaus Kinski everything seems like a harmony of overwhelming and collective murder
Best comment in a while 😂
@@lillith3159 Is Kinski a difficult man to work with? Is he a kook or something?
he had me at "the *enormity* of their *stupidity* is just *overwhelming* "
yeah that was good :D
My goal is to use a version of this line as an insult to someone.
their flat brain
I raised chickens for 12 years.
10/10 can confirm
I feel like he's describing at least 40% of humans.
He and David Lynch having a conversation must be a mind blowing experience
People who observed this conversation would have to be put on suicide watch afterwards.
I thought the same thing!
I feel like that might be the only conversation I could keep up with
I want him to sit down with Zizek
Vatching zet conversation vould make you feel like ze chicken.
I want him to direct and narrate a nature documentary with commentary like this
hahaha would be super awesome
me too brother. me too
@Noonkip You are welcome: Into the Inferno g.co/kgs/KG6MQT
he narrated the life of a plastic bag
@@htf5555 you mean jeremy irons?
He wasn’t asked any questions he just showed up and started talking.
As always.
Interviewer: "Glad you could make it Mr. Herzog"
Werner: "The Enormity of their flat brain... the enormity of their stupidity it's just overwhelming"
He makes chickens sound like some kind of mind-flaying Lovecraftian entity.
He does that to everything he talks about. Maybe Herzog himself is a Elder God
Dunwich... Sandwich... Chicken Sandwich... AAAGH!
Whadda Ya mean sound "like"?
@@DesolatedChild018 LMAOOOOO true
@@DesolatedChild018 "the BE-AR. Behind his eyes you can see nothing but utter chaos and the violent madness of nature."
I can't decide if Werner Herzog is a comedic genius or if he's genuinely insane.
IKR
He just walks that thin line between genius and garbage!
Both.
I mean, as funny as I found this video, it's not like he's wrong.
@@gringochucha He is def. right. It's just the way and his intense way to portrait it
Yes
Werner Herzog. Award winning director and hypnotherapist of chickens
I didn't say he was a therapist, he probably doing for his own personal gain
More like an hypnoterrorist
Breaking news: Werner Herzog is the new spokesperson for KFC.
The immensity of this chicken's flavor, the sheer crispness of the breading, is quite incredible, and worth noting as a significant aspect of it's overall quality.
Chickens are actually fairly intelligent. People like to think they're stupid because of the idea that you can chop their head off and they'll still walk around, but it's really just a way for people to convince themselves that killing them for food is OK.
@@johnmartinez7440 That's a big assumption on your part. Chickens really aren't very intelligent, and even if they were, nobody would care.
@@johnmartinez7440 Not only are chickens not very intelligent, these creatures called humans tend to over estimate themselves as well, thinking themselves frankly, smarter than they really are.
@@tankolad Not really, I see it all the time online. People don't eat dolphins, so I don't see why they'd continue eating chickens if they were more intelligent than they assumed.
"Chickens are a complicated profession, don't you agree?"
Yeah? Good
*Chicken shows some sign if intelligence* "How uncharacteristic of one of your reputation"
The chicken! Ha, I don’t know if he wants to hang it or eat it...
"I would like to see the baby chicken."
"Or maybe this chicken will take care of you"
At some point in time, Werner Herzog was in the middle of the country for one reason or another, doubled over a fence, absolutely leering at some poor chicken like they had just weighed in against each other for a boxing match. Never change.
He's so fabulous. I have never heard anyone quite like him.
This is the funniest shit I've ever seen.
You should check out as well the video in which he gets shot during an interview
Tell me about it.
You must have never seen a chicken shit then. The humor contained in such a small packet of filth is utterly magnificent
Best part is he's probably being 100% unironic
It has been 4 years, and this remains the funniest shit I've ever seen.
I’m just fascinated by Herzog. He is the most calmly nihilistic person I’ve ever come across. Like he ENJOY gazing into the abyss and flatly recounting the horrors he saw within.
Dude is fucking hilarious and I could watch him all day.
He’s actually very optimistic and bubbly for a German
@@_LilRascal_ Indeed, he always seemed like a true frohnatur to me.
that’s the german way
I think he's more of a stoic man and a thinker, than nihilist. Like Marco Pierre White
Haha that is like the perfect description of him. We are just as bad because we enjoy him enjoying staring into the abyss.
This just proves that I will listen to Werner Herzog talk about literally anything
That accent, that chaotic neutral energy, goes with anything!
except getting shot
As a child I contemplated the egg. I held it, the orb of life, so fecund, so fragile and so ultimately delicious with tabasco.
how my parents talk about me when i’m not around:
😅
All that frustration caused by Klaus Kinski
th-cam.com/video/KdlhV_PLECg/w-d-xo.html
LMAOOOOOO
@@thothharris could be but that's not whats meant. Look him up. He was raging and screaming on film and not on film. Just. Always.
No doubt about that. In mein liebster feind he said something like "every single white hair on my head i call Kinski *lol* man that was something
Actually they were good friends. Don't take Herzog or Kinski so seriously, they joke and lie and exaggerate a lot.
He allways manages to make everything sound melancholic
He's a disgusting nazi. What do you expect?
The enormity of Werner Herzog's proclivity for finding pain and suffering in every day things is amazing! If you get a chance to meet Werner Herzog, look him in the eyes with great intensity and the intensity of pain and suffering that is looking back at you is... hilarious!!!
fucking lol'd
for this comment it is too bad that your account name is not Chicken!
Holy shit that made me laugh!!!!!
i feel like a like is not enough recognition for this comment so here is a comment as well
It's funny cause it's true
If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. Unless you're Werner Herzog. Then the abyss just sort of stares off into the distance, pretending like it hasn't seen you staring at it, and whistles absentmindedly while drumming it's fingers on a nearby table.
this always cheers me up
My father had a few chickens when I was growing up. I always thought their behavior was remarkably stupid. But when I finally shared that feeling, my father said, yeah, but I think the eggs are genius.
They have actually been proven to be intelligent animals.
@@GeorgiaGeorgettei can’t think of a single animal that wouldn’t prove to be intelligent. chickens are stupid in every single way that counts.
@@tonoornottono
No they aren't. I own a bird shelter and we specialise in poultry. Research their intelligence.
@@tonoornottonoyou seem to forget insects exsist
@@kinzer1756 bees can solve puzzles, basic math problems. they’ve been shown to play with balls in experiments. scientists know they were just having fun because when the balls were glued down the bees didn’t care about them. they just liked to play with them. that shows some intelligence.
i just today saw a video of a stickbug freaking out because a caterpillar was crawling on it. i’d say you have to be at least a little intelligent to dislike an experience.
you seem to forget that insects are very small and live very different lives than we do, and whatever intelligence is there may be very hard for us to recognize.
you can’t say a fish can’t feel pain just because it can’t scream. well, you can’t say an insect isn’t intelligent just because it can’t look you in the eye.
and sure, moths are attracted to light. but that’s not because they’re stupid! they evolved to navigate by moonlight, and our streetlamps and such have simply developed faster than they have evolved to compensate. it confuses the most basic part of their brain as they’re trying to fly. humans can be confused and hypnotized from basic instincts, too.
insects live in a different world than us. we happen to have the ability to control many aspects of their world, which in turn affects the way they react to it. i think it’s a mistake to assume we’ve done the equivalent of program some biological computer, as if just because they have exoskeletons they are machines. we’ve simply changed their conditions, and some of the conditions we change may not be changes they have evolved to cope with. that doesn’t mean they’re not intelligent.
you can imagine huge aliens abducting us, and taking us to some dark room and watching us bump into each other, and say “oh, how stupid, they can’t see in the dark,” you know, “look, they’ve all stopped moving” (because we can’t see what we’re doing) “they’re so stupid they think they’re dead!”
i’m not saying bugs are super smart, mind you. i’m just saying that having the ability to navigate 3D space is proof enough of intelligence in my book. consciousness, even, if not self-awareness.
I have no idea why this makes me so happy. I watch it when I'm sad and it cheers me up.
😂😂
because its innocent
Herzog is such a uniquely odd man. He's spectacular.
Such chaotic neutral energy!
He's just a kraut. They're like this, love em ❤️😊
@@TeddyBullardSays someone who probably never lived in Germany. Him being the way he is is just his personality, nothing to do with his nationality or place of birth.
@@kinzer1756 I did, for 10 years. I'm right. You're welcome.
@@TeddyBullard Well, I live there for 30 years now, I´m right, you´re wrong.
Plot twist: A chicken murdered his family when he was a child.
Or worse his wife ran off with a chicken
No, he had to take care of chicken in the gulag after he mutilated his fingers to avoid death, and this is what he usually says to his low-level henchmen who have failed him before killing them!
(Jack Reacher the movie refference)
So it seems.
@@MultiBOZA show me you have the will to survive. bite off your thumb. jack reacher reference.
KFC has left the chat
What’s funny is that Werner can’t recall if he’s done 1 or multiple films where he has hypnotized a chicken.
Werner is such a peculiar human being. Truly one of a kind.
I'd heard about Herzog's profound contempt of chickens.
0:20 me opening my Twitter inbox
"Try to look a chicken in the eye with great intensity, and the intensity of stupidity that is looking back at you is just amazing"
-Werner Herzog.
a lot of people are like this too
Could you imagine being really high and listening to Dr Seuss books on tape read by this guy?!?!?
From your lips to God's ear.
There's a TH-cam parody video called "Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo". It's one of the most wonderful videos I've ever seen. Check it out and you won't be disappointed.
I've properly watched this a dozen times over the years, but i always come back to it. Werner Herzog is hilarious, in his own dour way.
“Chicken hunting is a complicated profession”
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
Kinda hope there is a scene in the Mandalorian now where he's trying to do a Jedi mind trick on a chicken
Your right
Except he’s not a Jedi
kiffer85 uhhhhhhh
welp. there is
or roasting the gungans
Werner Herzog Insults Various Animals needs to be a regular series.
Greatest title in the history of TH-cam.
How the hell did this end up in my recommendations? Whatever or however, I love it
How does TH-cam know I listened to Werner Herzog in an Icesnort Snow Miser video?
walled greens....
Lyrics:
The enormity of of their flat brain the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming.
you have to do yourself a favor when you are out in the countryside and you see chicken try to look at checking
in the eye with great intensity and the intensity of stupidity that is looking back at you it's just amazing
by the way its very easy to hypnotize a chicken they are very prone to hypnosis and in one or two films I've actually shown that
You cute
This has to be part of a discussion of the dancing chicken at the end of his 1977 film “Stroszek”
Imagine clicking a video of Herzog explaining chickens and seeing a lady dancing in an ad for Ozempic.
My dad grew up on a poultry farm and he agreed with this 100%.
Chickens are considered by avian specialists to be an intelligent species.
@@GeorgiaGeorgettemore intelligent than the average republican voters
@@kinzer1756 And Biden is Great?
@@robertkarlsson1960better than a stupid chicken
@@deflategate1297 Questionable
He's spent a great deal of time thinking about this. Which is entirely unsurprising.
"chickens are very prone to hypnotism"
You can guess what my next google trip was for
Is he right?
MaLoDe1975 Nah, but you can train them pretty much like dogs and they’re even able to pick colours ob command.
@@MaLoDe1975 Yes, very easy. One way to hypnotize a chicken is to place its head under its wing, rock it gently for a while, then leave it on the ground. It will be quite knocked out; it won't do tricks. Then give it a little push up its rear end and watch it meander away. I have seen it done; it's quite amusing.
@@MaLoDe1975 I had great fun as a farm kid hypnotizing chickens. Draw a chalk line on a board and hold their head on one end for a few seconds. When they relax, put their head under their wing and see how long they would stay asleep. I was even able to do it sometimes by just scratching a line in the dirt.
Nobody:
Werner Herzog: Roasts chickens for 40 straight seconds
This guy needs to do audio textbooks for schools. I would listen to everything he had to say about world history, mathematics, or how my body is changing.
"you should see teenagers. the enormity of their stupidity is overwhelming."
Showing a Werner Herzog narrated sex ed video in middle school health class might do wonders to lower teen pregnancy rates.
The intenzity...the intenzity...
Deniz Metinoğlu T. overhelming
This is utterly reprehensible chickenist slander. - the Poultry Society
@Telios Abraxas He was actually talking about chickens you dolt
The sincerity makes it..
Werner Herzog suffers from Bird Derangement Syndrome. His first episode was during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, during which he made many outrageous assertions about the local parrots.
I'm German. But when i hear Herzog speaking english, it sounds so evil. He's great in being the bad Guy! Like in The Mandalorian!
Genau
The way he described the Empire as being the cure for all evil.... made me think of how certain past fascists must have truly believed in what they were doing. Kind of like modern liberals.
Pigumon liberals absolutely demolished
@@stefn7084LiBeRaLs AbSoLuTeLy DeMoLiShEd
He’s best in Julian donkey boy
This may be the greatest TH-cam clip of all time.
he saw Klaus in the very same light he did chickens.
Red Letter Media should randomly cut to this during their Mandolorian review
One of Herzog’s chicken hypnosis films is “Stroszek”, not sure what the other is.
There has never been anything better put on film since Chaplin and sound on film. I send this to my friends each year and will do so forever. I have cried laughing at this and if i ever try out for an acting part this will be the monologue I recite.
The chicken dance at the end of "Stroszek" is the most epic ending in film history.
"Our enemy is the chicken. We must fight them at every turn."
Lel
After 47 years of hypnotizing chickens, he decided to move to Orlando to be closer to Disney World
Herzog is the type of guy that will say "these chicken, they are not normal, they are abnormal..."
I come back to this clip every so often I just love it
WALLED GREENS
Can't even remember how many of his own films contain hypnotized chickens. He's just out there hypnotizing chickens too much to recall
I relish the fact this was in my recommended. thank you, TH-cam
*"Raising chickens is a complicated profession"*
everything he said was awesome - I love picturing him intensely staring down chicken after chicken before believing that all chickens are like this - I wish he filmed a lot of those encounters
I get the same thing when I stare into the eyes of my coworkers...
I have seen intelligence, bravery, heroism, gallantry, charm, flirtatiousness. leadership, collaboration, obedience, nobility, and spirituality, all in my chickens. If you were every creature's dream dinner, you would understand the level of alertness he saw as stupidity. Chickens can't afford depth of thought. But they do pay attention, and their inner structure has built - in virtues we might envy.
@@sebastiandiaconu1221 lmao
What a noble and eloquent defense of a supremely dumb bird 😂
I can imagine the rare occurance of an intelligent, or a brave, heroic and galant chicken, even a charming and flirtatious chicken, I can imagine the collaborative and noble chicken, but I can't for the life of me conjure up in my wildest fantasy the existence of a spiritual chicken. I utterly reject your claim.
Yeah, if Werner is seeing stupidity perhaps that is saying something about him rather than the chickens 👀
I have to see a spiritual chicken
Sometimes when you stare into the chicken, the chicken stares back.
"By the way, it's very easy to hypnotize a chicken."
-Werner Herzog
schönen plattensonntag
A “Herzog Stares At And Berates Chickens” is a reality tv show that I never knew I desperately wanted!
Herzog is clearly chickenwhistling here.
I find stupidity totally okay for animals - and even for people who are not mean or aggressive.
Chicken are good people.
Amazing
"It's very easy to hypnotize an Internet user"
He hypnotises them with love, he stares at them and they just immediately fall for him once they look in to his eyes.
When you stare into the chicken sandwich it stares back at you.
My chickens are very stupid indeed, but contrasting this they also at times show great intelligence, just in their own niche of intelligence.
For instance: they learn new food sources and remember them sometimes having been only being exposed to the source one time.
Also I find they are highly coordinated which does take a good bit of processing power I imagine.
Herzog has given me so much joy inadvertently in his life. I thank him for that.
This is a very important video.
"Werner Herzog Roasting Chickens for 40 Seconds Straight"
Edeltalk brought me here 🌚
werner Herzog Zwei is such a classic SEGA Genesis game
Herzog has it out for chickens... it came out in various interviews
I revisit the depth of stupidity in our neighborhood chickens regularly now
nobody:
Werner Herzog: chickng
It's a pretty popular trick with entertainment hypnotists in Vegas to invite a volunteer chicken from the audience come on stage, mesmerize them, and have them act like a human for a few minutes before snapping them out of it.
I've seen Aguirre two times now and I can say it's easily one of the greatest movies ever made. Chickens may be stupid but werner herzhog is not. He's a genius.
"Herzhog is the most important director" truffant
herzog
Truffaut
Aguirre made me disgusted, upset, and angry. What a wonderful movie.
Him talking about chickens sounds like my parents talking about me when I was a kid.
LOL
Well, I'm something of a chicken myself
I could listen to Werner Herzog shit-talking chickens for days.
Werner cracks me up so much, he’s honestly hilarious, and amazing... more Rick and Morty and other cameos please!
I’m just imagining myself as a chicken and having Werner Herzog squat down and stare at me intensely.
cool voice & accent,i have learned everything i need to know about chicken's in 40 second's.
Except how to season!
This guy never left his character ..
I've heard we actually breeded stupidity into the chicken.
No you are mistaking it for the breeding of people.
*bred
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He was so real for this
Catching chickens is a complicated profession.
Werner "by the way it's easy to hypnotize chickens" Herzog