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Does anyone else think herzog is hilarious?

posted 15 years ago by magunga
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I thought this movie, while really good, was hysterical. The 3 guys in a crater, one talking about plants, one cracking up while playing a ukulele, one trying to figure out a camera. The weird band. Starting off the movie with several nearly identical shots. The black kids saying "the blitzkreig is insane!" in german, a long shot of a boy holding a cat (or something) up to the camera, a guy in a zoo talking about turtles. Then you have films like heart of glass, whose hypnotized cast you can't help but laugh at. It seems like most of the forum discussion on imdb is about him being a beautiful, deep, enigmatic genius. While i agree that he's an incredible filmmaker (my favorite one after all), i think one of the most important things about him and his style is how funny he is.

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[–] cinbud 15 years ago

He has a brilliant eye for the absurd, but it's all mixed up with other things. He seems to see the absurdity, and nobility, and endearingness, and all sorts of other things in the people and creatures and situations he presents, all at the same time. Like the guy descended from Aztec royalty in Encounters at the End of the World, with his demonstrations of finger length... but his fictitious characters always seem to have a subtle and ambigous sense of humour too. Bruno S. as Kaspar Hauser - you could never really tell if he was delicately making fun of the world, or just a victim of it.

I think the scene where Aguirre punches the horse was very funny and alarming and all sorts of things at once - pure Herzog.

[–] polysicsarebest 15 years ago

I think people just take his films way too seriously, in general.

[–] balthazar_bee 15 years ago

I'm sure Herzog would agree with you.

[–] polysicsarebest 15 years ago

He definitely would.

Herzog rules, just for that reason -- he's probably the least pretentious director alive, though he SEEMS like he'd be one of the most pretentious...

[–] balthazar_bee 15 years ago

Very well said.

[–] pjbrubak 14 years ago

I just completed his Rogue Film School. I was scribbling like crazy trying to write down all this hilarious quotes. He is completely unpretentious in person. The impression I got from the seminar is that he is a very generous, brilliant and happy man.

Too crazy for boys town. Too much of a boy for crazy town!

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[–] Mr_McLaurel 14 years ago

The scene with the tourists scrambling about in those holes is no joke one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie.

What's the Spanish for drunken bum?

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 13 years ago

Right . . . as others have mentioned, he loves the absurd, which is understandably easy to see as funny (and is often intended as such). I love the absurd, too, which is one of the reasons I love Herzog.

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[–] trymyproduct11 13 years ago

I think you really hit the nail on the head. Absurdist humor is one of the hallmarks of his best work, and it really does tend to be overlooked. I'd make the same argument for Lynch, as well.

[–] Bloodfordracula 13 years ago

I agree. Herzog is the funniest man alive that I know of. Every film Herzog has made thus far has been a comedy. In fact all films, all modes of entertainment are/is comedy with varying degrees of success. Herzog has mastered the comedic with the poetic.

[–] don-lope-de-aguirre 13 years ago

I agree. Herzog is the funniest man alive that I know of. Every film Herzog has made thus far has been a comedy. In fact all films, all modes of entertainment are/is comedy with varying degrees of success. Herzog has mastered the comedic with the poetic.

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Love your post! :)

[–] ArmitageShanks01 13 years ago

Totally agree, I laughed hysterically for about 5 mins during the third chapter. Hilarious.

Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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