In the scene where the men lay the chicken on it's back, one of the men draws a chalk line from the top of the chicken's head a few inches out. The chicken doesn't move and one of the men says "He's gaping."
what on earth is going on? i don't get what they did to the chicken ... can anyone clear this up?
Voyeuristisc Altman-esque surreal post modern naturalistic mistakist cinema
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Yeah, I never thought about the films being one big film, but it does make sense. Frank Zappa considered every album, every album cover, every performance, every foot of film, every interview, every thing Zappa as one big object or project. this is now called the "Project/Object" He called the interconnections or self references "conceptual continuity". Herzog, that man among men, is doing the same thing! Damn. now we need to look into Herzog's concuptual continuity. prospects tire me out just thinking about it.
Like someone else mentioned, the chicken trick was also performed in "Signs of Life", though the character didn't turn the chicken upside-down. It was still hypnotized.
The early scenes of animals constrained (ox, chicken) or taught/babied (sparrow, human baby) are all symbolic of Kasper's infant state, and the "civilizing" process.
http://hypnoticworld.com/Experimintal/animal_hypnosis.asp
According to the above site, drawing the chalk line isn't actually neccessary, and the best way to hypnotise the chicken is to hold it firmly on its side on a flat surface for around thirty seconds. But the wikipedia site doesn't mention this however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism
What is it with Herzog and chickens? I believe he has a phobia of them actually. Anyway, the hypnotized chicken and the one from Stroszek where commendable enough to make these esteemed list:
http://www.best5everything.com/best5ListPages/performanceschickensmovies70s22382.php
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