Burden of Dreams

Val and I watched "Burden of Dreams" last night. We jotted down some notes throughout the screening. Here are a few...

Mick Jagger?!!

"To act in front of a camera gives me physical pleasure." Jose Lewgoy, Brazilian film actor

Rubber trees, they really bleed rubber...can we do that on stage?

Filmmakers suffer death threats from the Peruvian natives

"There's no action, no action. I'm sitting here satisfied!"

Herzog insists on shooting at the "magic hour"

"We'll be stark naked at the end...like skyscrapers." -referencing the continued loss of natives and culture

Natives involved in the film suffer arrow attacks through the throat.
Many film assistants were lost.

"I'm running out of fantasy!" -Herzog

HUGE ARROWS! The natives are playing a game called "arrow catching", aiming them directly at each others' heads. Herzog nabs one as a keepsake. His little son will be excited that it went through a man.

"Gringos will take off your face."

"Everyday life is only an illusion behind which lies the reality of dreams."

Yuca plant makes alcohol called, masato, and it is a big food source.

Kinski breaks a native's arrow, "It doesn't matter. They'll make another one."

An engineer tells Herzog that there is a 30% chance of success at getting the boat over the hill, and that it's probable many men will die. Herzog decides to it's a go!

No alcohol + no soccer ball=tension

"Can't escape off this fucking, stinking camp." -Kinski

Peruvian priests advised Herzog to bring in prostitutes for the film crew. Keep them from sleeping with the natives.

"The people here are in misery...the birds are in misery. They screech in pain."-Herzog

"It's a land...if he exists, God created in anger."

"We in comparison...we sound and look like badly pronounced sentences out of a cheap suburban novel."

"It's not that I hate it...I love it..."

"The only difference between me and you is that I can articulate them." Herzog on dreams.

Val and I decide we want to see Adam as Herzog and Justin as Kinski.