IS THIS REAL?
I was browsing the internet and came across this site...
truthaboutlochness.com
Some pretty wild claims about the movie Enigma of Loch Ness. Crazy footage. Check it out.
This looks like its going to be a cryptozoological version of "Blair Witch Project".
shareNope....IMHO, no way is this real. That website is too professionally put together, with too many 'coincidental' photos and movies of specific quality. Oh sure, he just HAPPENED to be pointign the camera here, and dude just HAPPENED to have someone send him a coyp of it....
Bah, just another hype machine in the making, like the old Blair Witch website, and the copies of the video from The Ring that circulated months before the movie actually came out.
Besides, anything CLOSE to this scientifically sound would be either swarmed by scientists, or silenced by the film crew.
Are there any clips or trailer of the flim?
shareAs others have put it, it is not about what is real and what is not. Scientists and marine biologists have been trying to prove once and for all the existence or lack thereof of a large, plesiosaur-ish [sp.] creature lurking in a lake that is by its very nature, too deep and unfathomable to search from one end to the other. While I doubt that even Werner Herzog has what it takes to film such a creature or prove its existence, the fact needs to once again be stated that Herzog's "documentaries" are often based in reality but need a little embellishment to attract wider audiences' attentions. That being said, anyone who wonders about the documentary-quality of his more non-fiction works should take a gander at La Soufrière (1977) , a "documentary" about a seemingly inevitable volcanic explosion on a small island. The first narration in the movie should tip the viewer off that it is not your typical documentary. The volcano may be active, and there more than likely was great danger involved (Herzog, a megalomaniac, would have it no other way), however, something about it doesn't "feel" documentary, and while Herzog does a great job at making the viewer empathize with the islanders, it is difficult to pinpoint the historical accuracy of the goings-on.
As far as rumors go, Herzog himself would tell you that the movie business is filled with such tomfoolery. The viewer's assignment is to wade through the bull and find what really matters. Maybe the website is a tangled confusion of truth and lies, but the very nature of the film requires it. Like any good theory, that of the location and nature of the creature in question must be researched and then the fun part begins: culling what is from what isn't and attempting to make a hypotheses about it.
I digress. Those of you who wonder about the validity of rumors about crew members being hurt and/or killed on set should seek out My Best Fiend, which explores the fragile actor-director relationship between Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Herzog narrates the film, and at several points references crew members' injuries. One member was bitten by a poisonout snake in the Amazon and without hesitation cut the offended limb off with an axe or something to keep from dying. Herzog also remarks that Kinski once threatened to walk out on him during shooting, to which Herzog said something like "I have two bullets in this gun. If you try to f... up my film I will put one in your brain and the other in mine. As I said before, Herzog is a man of many "delusions," a megalomaniac at the very least.
But aren't we at least glad that he is, so that his films are able to transcend what we normally find in the cluttered world of films?
Why do I want to see the film? Herzog's own words sum it up:
"It’s more than just the Loch Ness Monster. I’m just fascinated about some other Scottish things. It should also include landscapes, like the island of Skye and the Old Man of Storr. It’s not so much the so-called monster that’s important in this, it’s more the question why is it that we need a monster."
Additionally, Herzog's Minnesota Declaration should further clarify his position on documentary film
Taken from www.wernerherzog.com, the Official Werner Herzog Films Site
Minnesota declaration: truth and fact in documentary cinema
"LESSONS OF DARKNESS"
1. By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.
2. One well-known representative of Cinema Verité declared publicly that truth can be easily found by taking a camera and trying to be honest. He resembles the night watchman at the Supreme Court who resents the amount of written law and legal procedures. "For me," he says, "there should be only one single law: the bad guys should go to jail."
Unfortunately, he is part right, for most of the many, much of the time.
3. Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
4. Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
5. There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
6. Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.
7. Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
8. Each year at springtime scores of people on snowmobiles crash through the melting ice on the lakes of Minnesota and drown. Pressure is mounting on the new governor to pass a protective law. He, the former wrestler and bodyguard, has the only sage answer to this: "You can´t legislate stupidity."
9. The gauntlet is hereby thrown down.
10. The moon is dull. Mother Nature doesn´t call, doesn´t speak to you, although a glacier eventually farts. And don´t you listen to the Song of Life.
11. We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
12. Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species - including man - crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota April 30, 1999
Werner Herzog
Jon, that's my website. Thanks for checking it out. I have every indication from my source in Scotland that the info is real and true.
shareWell done, you've divised a marketing campaign, big woop, wanna fight about it? Just remember next time that there's such a thing as the media and the media like to take an interest in internationally renouned directors. Ooopsies!
"The Enigma of Loch Ness seems certain to be unlike any previous documentary on the subject. Herzog has often blurred the lines between drama and documentary, most notably in his epic Fitzcarraldo, for which he employed 500 Indians to haul a steamship up a mountain from one part of a drought-stricken Amazonian river to another, and which spawned a memorable documentary about the film’s creation. Many of his dramas have been true stories, while his documentaries have included dramatic re-enactments."
"This one will be no exception. Herzog, 60, intends to investigate the origins of the legend and take to the water himself to see what he might find. He has also ordered the building of the back end of a sunken boat for one sequence, and may require extras for dramatic sequences. "
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=710402003
"During filming of this scene a motorist called the police to say a boat was on fire on Loch Ness. The fire brigade and police were called out and a rescue helicopter was put on standby. During filming two sets were built near the shore showing, in one, what looked like the superstructure of the boat only showing above the water and, in the other, what looked like the wheelhouse of the boat showing above the water. It looks like that, at some stage in the film, the boat is going to sink."
http://www.thezreview.co.uk/news/news1510.htm (check this one out for on-set photos)
Get out of that, Mr Atkins.
Well, even without the excellent input above from ibentmywookie2, please allow this source in Scotland (who has a long standing and intimate knowledge of Loch Ness and the surrounding area) to tell you that the information is neither real nor true.
Who controls the present, controls the past. Who controls the past, controls the future.