A consummate showman who would happily bungee jump into Hell with a camera in his hands just for the joy of narrating that footage, Werner Herzog was a legendary filmmaker long before the breakout success of “Grizzly Man” saw him reborn as a living meme — as a morbidly hilarious mouthpiece for the savagery of a world that doesn’t think you’re special. Somewhere between pulling Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck, brushing off a bullet wound in the middle of an on-camera interview, and coming to the deadpan conclusion that Timothy Treadwell was eaten alive by his bear friends because “the common denominator of the universe is chaos, hostility, and murder,” this titan of New German Cinema became a human version of the “this is fine” dog.
Not that Herzog seemed to mind. Not only did the new cachet make it possible for him to be more prolific than ever before,...
Not that Herzog seemed to mind. Not only did the new cachet make it possible for him to be more prolific than ever before,...
- 9/10/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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