While watching this film, I was reminded heavily of the Jim Jamusch film Stranger Than Paradise. Three people (two men and one women) go on a journey to "paradise" and find it very different than they expected. Both sets of characters were outcasts and didn't really fit in. The humor used through Stranger seemed similar to Stroszek. Did anyone else notice this while watching or am I just crazy? Also, has anyone heard of who influenced Jim Jamusch?
shareI get your point but I don't think there is any influence here. Stranger Than Paradise is based on folk tales. This is more a tragedy about never realising your dreams.
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Yup, STRANGER THAN PARADISE did enter my mind while watching STROSZEK. And I wondered if it had given Jarmusch a kernel of inspiration.
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I definitely thought of Stranger Than Paradise while watching Stroszek - especially the fact that the girl is named Eva in both movies. I don't know if Herzog was a huge influence on Jarmusch or what, but I feel like it's not at all unreasonable to suggest that this movie had some impact on Stranger Than Paradise, and it's worth researching. Jarmusch talks enough about his influences, I wouldn't be surprised to see him cite Herzog in an interview.
shareI have seen very few Jarmusch films, but I remembering reading that Ozu was a big influence on him.
shareI also find the tone of Jarmusch's movies is a little bit like the one in "Stroszek".
But in fact, while watching "Stroszek", I didn't think about Jarmusch but I thought about "Leningrad Cowboys Go America", a film from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki (which tells the story of an old-fashioned rock band from Finland going to rural America). It has definitely the same pacing, the same mood of strange incommunicability (by the way, Jarmusch has a short cameo in "Leningrad Cowboys Go America").
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I don't think about influence conc. this but you are totally right, the films are similar... although Stroszek reminded me rather of Trier's Dancer in the Dark
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It also reminded me a bit of Down By Law, which also shows three aimless, similarly mismatched characters trying to escape their cage. Benigni, the foreigner, views America as a land of oppotunity. Waits and Lurie are real-life musicians, like Stroszek, to a certain degree. Clearly, there are many differences, but also some connections.
sharejarmusch worked as an assistant to wim wenders in the 80s if i recall correctly. there is a definite ozu/wenders/jarmusch connection, also karusmaki is mentioned on this board who is a friend of sorts i would take it. similar in style as well.
wenders meets herzog in some tower in tokyo in his documentary tokyo-ga, which in part is an investigation of ozu's films. herzog is introduced as an old friend.
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