So apparently the real Fitzcarraldo disassembled the paddlesteamer and carried it over the mountain in pieces, then rebuilt it and loaded it with enough rubber to make a substantial profit when he travelled back to town down the other riverLeave it to Werner Herzog to make a clever businessman out to be a deranged lunatic.
>>223484017Should I watch that one or Aguirre?
>>223484850One of the natives offering to kill Klaus Kinski for Werner Hertzog will always be the best movie fact of this movie.https://youtu.be/MPKODzv1PD4?is=t9LUUTvmN1KIa-oH
>>223484017Twisting that story was what made it into a very captivating film. He is the deranged lunatic and needed a meta pretext for it. And it was for the better>>223484850y not both?
>>223484850Aguirre is terrible. Fitzcarraldo is significantly better. Aguirre had no script, they were just making it up as they went along. It's a complete mess.Fitz feels like an actual movie.