Burden of Dreams Page #8

Synopsis: A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Robards (health) and Mick Jagger (other commitments) halfway through shooting, but the crew gets caught up in a war between Peru and Ecuador, there are problems with the weather and the morale of cast and crew is falling rapidly.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Les Blank
Production: Flower Films
  4 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
1982
95 min
441 Views


a painful victory ofhis own.

After months of work, using heavier equipment

and a new engineering crew from Lima...

he pulled the ship to the top of the hill...

and in November, 1981...

almost four years

after preproduction began...

the last shot of Fitzcarraldo

was completed.

It's not only my dreams.

My belief is that

all these dreams are-

are yours as well.

And the only distinction between

me and you is that I can articulate them.

And that is what poetry or painting

or literature or filmmaking is all about.

It's as simple as that.

And I - I make films because...

I have not learned anything else.

And I know I can do it

to a certain degree.

And it is my duty...

because this, uh...

might be the- the inner chronicle

of what we are.

And we have to articulate ourselves...

otherwise we would be

cows in the field.

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Michael Goodwin

Michael Kemper Goodwin (April 28, 1939 – May 4, 2011) was an architect in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He also served two terms in the Arizona House of Representatives in the 1970s. more…

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