bear mauling victim (face was all messed up)
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
his name is Barrie Gilberthttp://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/53264168.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DIWSAsset%26k%3D2%26d%3D77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FD2808D2857B1B4F596AED59CB9FAFE9D86B1E7F8C830B462BF06BF04B24B4128C
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
meh, here:http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/53264168.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FD2808D2857B1B4F596AED59CB9FAFE9D86B1E7F8C830B462BF06BF04B24B4128C
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
here's the story:http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story/When-Bears-Attack-What-to-do-if-you-meet-bear-in/HSu19ZwN70WPfmIAEM-XkQ.cspx
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm quite convinced if i had collapsed and become neutral then I would have no longer been a threat to that bear. He might have grabbed me by the back and thrown me twenty feet or something, but it would give up pretty quickly because its fear would subside. It would say this is something that stumbled on to me and I'm gonna get outta here, which the bear eventually did. A surprised bear is an angry bear, and an angry bear is a dangerous bear. So don't surprise them. Don't start the chain you know?""
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Good advice in just about any situation
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I now believe the key to a successful WH impersonation is pronouncing "go-ink"
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Don't start the chain you know?"
i am hearing this in the voice of ice-t for some reason. ice-t being a well-known expert on bear safety.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw land of silence and darkness is one of the most powerful and unsettling films i've ever seen.
Yes, totally underrated film of his. As far as the humour qualities of his films, I can't imagine that 'is it supposed to be funny?' would get a straight answer from him, nor should it.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
there's actually a video of him out there where he says he's funnier than eddie murphy
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:40 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark
he is terribly difficult to impersonate, for me anyway - which seems weird since he has such a distinct way of speaking that i can easily imagine in my head
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
whenever I try I usu get Arnold
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
nothing funnier than cute animals dying a sad and lonely death.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, June 16, 2011 5:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
comedy in herzog's poker-faced narrative analysis, not in penguin death (jeez)
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
i bet that penguin shit was staged.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
It was totally heading south.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
penguin was clearly a paid actor.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Herzog dressed up as a leopard seal and chased it towards the poll.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Someone should stop this man.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
saw grizzly man's US premiere at the Museum of Natural History and Werner, Treadwell's ex girlfriend ("you must never listen to this") and a bear expert who happened to be a bear mauling victim (face was all messed up) were on a post show panel. During the Q&A after the show, some plucky kid asked werner "What's the point of this movie?" and Werner, with no pause and totally deadpan, replies "What's the point of children."
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:48 PM Bookmark
Ha, a former roommate was there and related this story. It stuck with me.
― mike and the quantum mechanics (Hurting 2), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a thread for that kids' book, btw?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
two of my friends on Facebook are now FB friends with Werner Herzog.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
one thing I have noticed about Herzog is that nearly every film he does features a bear or bears.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/388586/june-06-2011/werner-herzog
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Friday, 17 June 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
"He's sort of a fallen romantic -- he doesn't believe in things but he is still reluctantly excited by other people who believe in things"
For what's worth, I think he's more like some kind of Middle Age man (his interest in tradition is never nostalgic), also it seems to me that considering his maniacal attention to notions like truth and human nature he's definitely a "believer", albeit a rather paradoxical one (see also his hatred for postmodernism).
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 17 June 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
i think of him as deeply humanist and ultimately optimistic in his pessimism; "little dieter needs to fly" is pivotal
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 June 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly - he's always somewhere between images of utter cruelty and desperation (the dancing chicken in Stroszek, the smoking chimpanzee of Echos aus einem düstern Reich) and the stark humaneness, totally devoid of any sentimentalism, of Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit. Probably because of some personal reasons, his early TV documentary Behinderte Zukunft about a group of young disabled always struck me for its almost unbearable intensity.
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
he seems a little too ready to dominate the proceedings in his recent films. in his earlier ones you get a strong sense of his personality without him being all up in your grill.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
i saw "cave.." in 2 dimensions and loved it. great soundtrack.
― lol waggoner (am0n), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Saw this last night, for me his best since at least The White Diamond.
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/into-the-abyss
(No bears, and he just interviews, doesn't narrate.)
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
excited
― truth fact and correct (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow, that's high praise; weren't people sceptical about this one, idk why
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
New reality show starts march 9http://www.mediaite.com/tv/on-death-row-what-werner-herzogs-prison-series-can-teach-us-about-journalism/
― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
first ep of "On Death Row" is quality Herzog filmmaking but wrapped in odd cognitive Court TV/ID TV/Whatever the fuck they're calling it TV dissonance: each ten minute section is bookended by Paula Zahn intros and ads for Glade and fabric softener.the show itself is Werner speaking one on one with people on death row in Grizzly Man tones and also interviewing family and painting a broader picture of the crime and the criminal. it's actively anti-death penalty rhetoric but as he puts it at the start of the first ep "that doesn't mean i like them"
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
this is on in the UK starting on thursday at 10 on ch4
― koogs, Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man Tones
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Sunday, 18 March 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Cosmic Herzog Grizzly Man Tones For Mental Therapy
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Sunday, 18 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
His next, Queen of the Desert (about Gertrude Bell, of whom I've never heard) will feature Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/15/robert-pattinson-lawrence-arabia
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
A bunch of auteurs are clearly seeing something in pattinson that I don't, but okay.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
i think they're mostly seeing that he can get their movies financed
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
even one w/ Naomi Watts? seems like that was taken care of, tho I don't doubt it makes the producers happier.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
also the RP solo vehicles thus far haven't set the b.o. on fire.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
canks otm
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still curious about how this will turn out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/05/werner-herzog-one-shot-lee-child
Casting on One Shot, the first adaptation of a Lee Child novel, has already met with a mixed reaction. Many were up in arms at the announcement that Tom Cruise would star as saturnine bruiser Jack Reacher (6ft 5in, 250lb), a former Army man who travels the world with just a toothbrush and a formidable sense of justice.But the project's credibility took a dramatic rise with the announcement that the director Werner Herzog is to appear in the film as chief baddie The Zec, a former prisoner of war who arranges a conspiracy which frames a sniper for the murders of five people – a conspiracy which Reacher investigates.Many news organisations quote a source who describes The Zec as an "ageless and shadowy figure". In the book his age (80) is, in fact, fairly precise, likewise his mobility (he's wheelchair-bound) and the number of fingers he has left (not a lot). He's a silent puppetmaster who commands such power over his subordinates that when he tells one of them to shoot themselves, they do so without question.
But the project's credibility took a dramatic rise with the announcement that the director Werner Herzog is to appear in the film as chief baddie The Zec, a former prisoner of war who arranges a conspiracy which frames a sniper for the murders of five people – a conspiracy which Reacher investigates.
Many news organisations quote a source who describes The Zec as an "ageless and shadowy figure". In the book his age (80) is, in fact, fairly precise, likewise his mobility (he's wheelchair-bound) and the number of fingers he has left (not a lot). He's a silent puppetmaster who commands such power over his subordinates that when he tells one of them to shoot themselves, they do so without question.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
bel ami was terrible not just because of robert pattinson but he is a very very bad and rubbish actor haven't seen anything else he's been in
― conrad, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Wd love to see Pattinson give Bel Ami another crack.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Which Bel Ami?
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Reacher
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
To adapt D.B.C. Pierre's novel Vernon God Little, "a coming-of-age story set in Texas about a teenager caught up in the aftermath of a high-school shooting committed by his best friend":
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061066
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Hope he casts Tilda Swinton!
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
grrrrrrrrr
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Let us now discuss "The Sopranos of the Mesozoic": DINOTASIA - the mega-violent, animated dinosaur film with narration by Werner Herzog
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link