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...World - has cultivated a loyal band of admirers over the span of five decades behind the camera. Perhaps the single most striking image of his career is that of a steamboat being pushed and pulled through a dense Peruvian jungle, from his 1982 epic, Fitzcarraldo - a physical feat that was filmed on location without the aid of special effects. It was a virtuoso climax to an all-but-impossible film shoot - a two-year journey into the jungle that found Herzog drained of funds, battling the elements and stuck in the cross fire of a border war. As his personal...
...parallels between yourself and the character of Fitzcarraldo - this person with this epic dream who will not be stymied by any obstacles that are thrown...
...shooting of the film, when I lost [Jason] Robards and [Mick] Jagger out of the cast, for a while I thought the task of moving this monstrous ship over the mountain was so close to what I had to do that I could actually play the part of Fitzcarraldo. If I don't find a real fine actor, I thought, I'm going to do it myself - it was that close. But I'm glad, and thank God on my knees that it didn't come to that. And in a way, when you look at the film...
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...Echoes of Oz The movie stirs lots of cinematic echoes, some natural - Walt Disney's Dumbo was a touchstone for Docter - and some weird. The dragging of a large structure over rugged South American terrain is also a motif in the Werner Herzog epic Fitzcarraldo. A love story continued after death: Remember Ghost? Docter also cites Thomas McCarthy's The Station Agent, "the story of a solitary guy who reconnects with the world...