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Did anyone else apart from me laugh their ass off all the way through?

posted 15 years ago by fay1982
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Thought this film was feckin' hilarious!

Klaus Kinski walking around slanted with hunchback

The way he throws that monkey away at the end

Claims that he will conquer then marry his own daughter even though she is dead by that point

Says that all deserters will be chopped into 157(?) pieces and trampled on until they can be used to paint walls

The way the monk patronises the mistress when she protests her lover's innocence "don't worry my dear, we can see why you are confused"

When Kinski goes mental at the horse (unscripted?)

Kinski chops potential deserter's head off while he is counting up to ten and then shot cuts to severed head that says "ten"

At end of film voiceover says that one of the men drank ink thinking it was medicine

The elected king states that they have conquered everything to their left and right even though they are on a plank of wood drifting down the middle of the river

Oh and Kinski is just mesmerising and I cannot believe Werner Herzog was just 28 when he directed this.

[–] Anon-Ra 15 years ago

Not laugh out loud funny, but Herzog does have a very wry and dark sense of humor in his movies that isn't always easy to catch.

[–] enigmatic_man2 15 years ago

These can definitely be considered humorous, and they really add to the movie. Many of the actions and mannerisms of these men seem utterly surreal and bizarre, but that was how they acted back then. They marched into rain forests dressed as royalty, claimed land by looking at it, etc. It's absurd, but it happened, and we can look back on it today and laugh because it's so strange. The absurdity of Aguirre makes it more powerful.

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¡No hay la banda!

[–] kingspank0 14 years ago

I thought the funniest moment of all was when they bring the two natives onto their raft from the canoe and one of the explorers says "Oh look, a fish!" and sticks it in his mouth as we hear a loud dubbed in "CHOMP!" noise like something out of Looney Tunes. I was cracking up when I saw that and I'll probably be laughing about it for days.

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[–] vannaroth 14 years ago

funniest is in the English dub version, when one of the Conquistadors is shot in the chest by an arrow and says totally deadpan: "I thought it would hurt much more than this." before leaping/collapsing into the river.

[–] kkhsiivonen 14 years ago

It funny in general in Herzog's movies, that death isn't really a big deal for those who die. But that's definitely the funniest death ever.

[–] pachrick 12 years ago

And if you had the subtitles on at that point, he said 'The long arrows are getting fashionable'. WTF?

[–] r-taylor13-848-416837 12 years ago

Haha yeah that's the version I saw, I thought it was hilarious. I found a lot of parts really darkly comic, couldn't tell if some of them were even supposed to be funny, but that was definitely my favorite one haha.

Loved the movie as a whole too. *beep* great.

[–] kkhsiivonen 14 years ago

"When Kinski goes mental at the horse (unscripted?)"

That was scripted. The Horse was drugged in a way it went down precise the right time.

[–] Blahahahaha 14 years ago

kkhsiivonen

It's 1975 or 1976 and you are with Werner and Klaus on location. OK, so they drugged the horse (sorry no capital H). Any insights into what it takes to drug a horse to drop as reliably as that? Walk down your local Schmackenstrasse.

Great film and great director - I've loved pretty much anything he's touched for over 30 years. I can see why Gospodin Stipetic became Herr Herzog - it just sounds so much better.

If you get a chance, watch him get shot by a slug gun while being interviewed by a Sunday Mirror-type(where did they get that d*ckhead from?) I love it when he says "It is not significant... It's not an every day thing... It doesn't surprise me to be shot at..."

Can I order a Fassbinder with a Wenders on his side?

[–] kkhsiivonen 14 years ago

"Any insights into what it takes to drug a horse to drop as reliably as that?"

A veterinarian with enough knowledge of anesthesia and right drugs. It's not like they really just went rafting in late medieval armors and just decided to film something. They were actually making a movie. Even Herzog's movies doesn't just happen, they're made.

[–] Replicant-88 13 years ago

also when they send the black man first to scare people of village.

Movies made me laugh out loud,not just comedy movies
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[–] Equilibrium71 13 years ago

Yes very laughable indeed.
You forgot the scene in which they find one of their men killed by poisondart and one guy is wondering "who uses small arrows like this" and the other guy replies "dwarfs" or something like that. I don't know the exact words they use but it was funny.

[–] Ramuna 12 years ago

What really makes me bitterly grin was the scene when Donna Inez told the monk that he is their(Inez and Ursua) last hope, the monk told her back something like, "For the sake of our Lord, the church always go with the stronger side."

What a line!

[–] fishcorn 12 years ago

I found it funny simply because of how German Aguirre looks (and his daughter too). Seriously looks like a Nazi war criminal that escaped to South America and started a conquistador reenactment group, but they all got wasted messing around on the Amazon and ended up dying from stupidity.

[–] DaveBowman2001 8 years ago

Ha...that did cross my mind as well, particularly since Nazi's and possibly even Hitler fled to Parts of South America.