What was up with that butterfly at the end of the film? Did Kinski have something on his hands/body that attracted it? It seems incredible to me that that insect would have hovered around him for so long.
shareButterflies are attracted to humans in hot, humid weather.
They like the taste of the salt in their perspiration.
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First, I haven't watched this documentary yet, but I will in a few hours. If this is the scene from Aguirre, Herzog comments on it on the audio commentary track on that DVD. He says it just happened while they were shooting and that it wasn't planned.
Edit - just watched it - great piece of work! Of course, the butterfly scene was not the one from Aguirre but it seemed all the more magical to see his tender side over something so fragile.
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FWIW the butterfly sequence isn't from _Aguirre_ but an outtake from _Burden of Dreams_, the making-of film on _Fitzcarraldo_. It's mentioned in the diary that was released with the DVD edition.
shareI hate to burst the bubble of this thread but that's how butterflies behave. I was at the Butterfly Conservatory at the Museum of Natural History in NYC not long ago and that's what the butterflies did- sat on people's faces, clothes and hair and wouldn't get off for forever. Only fluttered a few inches further once or twice. The volunteers were going up and down, flicking them out of kids' hair.
My date and I tried getting them to sit on us, too, but no luck :(. I reflected that maybe I should have worn perfume that day :(.
Of course, that's in an enclosed space. In the wild, that's pretty rare.
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what i found strange was that earlier in the movie it was revealed that Kinski hated to touch animals! (like the monkey) and was afraid of wasps.. Butterflies didn't seem to bother him though ;)
shareMaybe this sheds some light. That Dog Whisperer guy said that who we are in the animal kingdom is energy. If nothing else Kinski could control his energy to suit whatever mood. Remember when Herzog said he wanted to seem like a man in tune with nature maybe he was acting like it. Or maybe there was something wrong with that butterfly?
Am I the only one that thought of how bad Nicole Kidman would freak out seeing that scene. She is deathly afraid of butterflies.
"Although I'm not a great romancer, your call I'm bound to answer, when you propose ..."
I was also puzzled by the fact that Klaus hated to touch animals, but then in almost the next scene, he's cavorting with a butterfly. It was a beautiful way to end the film, regardless.
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