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I decided to explore the inner world of the man I like through the world of language.

"There is nothing wrong with being rebellious. What is wrong is not being more rebellious."

This is the sentence that I remember the most among Herzog's remarks.

See what others have to say.

"I am not deliberately pursuing rebellion. In fact, I just want to figure out why things can only be solved in one way instead of several other ways?" "Punk Godmother" Vivienne Westwood said this.

"Our purpose is not to be sensational, we are just creating something new." Rei Kawakubo, the master who completely subverted the Western fashion tradition, said.

They are also fierce and persistent on the road of opposing tradition and authority, and they are also called master-level rebels. When these people talk about rebellion, they still have a more or less modest and defensive tone. Only the film director Herzog is so sharp-edged, straightforward, frank and unscrupulous, with no room for maneuver. He seems to be on the road to rebellion. He is like the heroine Yi who walks into the jungle silently and without hesitation in his movie "Curse". Like Nez, he marched forward without anyone else, heading towards an unknown situation with no way out.

"Film is not the art of scholars, but the art of illiterates."

There are some incomprehensible remarks that are equally shocking to the world. If others say them, they will probably be regarded as stupid or stupid. Pretend to be X, but he can’t. He had his works standing behind him when he said this. Maybe he just said this to stimulate people's thinking, just like his videos did. This is his personal position and that of his films.

"Good reviews don't make a film better, and bad reviews don't make it worse."

He's so rude to critics. It seems that not only does he have a bad opinion of the civilized world in the movie, but in the real world as well.

"I saw things that people didn't see and didn't know yet."

This is my favorite sentence. Think about it, I can say it so lightly at an old age. In a word, what a blessing it is. There seems to be a childlike innocence and happiness.

"Only if something is a movie, I will treat it as real."

Ah, dear paranoid and fantasist.

"If I had to go to hell and fight the devil himself for my movie, I would."

"Every movie is like a child -- a stubborn child." , has its own way of looking at and dealing with things, and you have to be willing to take any risks to protect it like a parent. I love my videos as much as I love my children, and I will for those children who have asthma or squints or lameness. Doubly loved and cared for. All my films have some kind of flaw. ”

Love your movies like your own children, as if they were your own lives. I don’t know what the relationship between Herzog and his children is, whether his love for movies transcends parental love, whether movies are closer to him than anything else.

"A grown man should eat his own shoe once in a while, or do something similar."

He really did. Maybe he really was a barbarian from the Middle Ages. But in fact, he is very clear-headed. What he said was not simply grandstanding, but just teasing and irritating those civilized people. This is his consistent style. In order to inspire young people to make their own films, he promised to eat his own shoes after making his first film. When the movie was released, Herzog kept his promise and ate the shoes that had been boiled for three hours in public. And it was made into a documentary "Herzog Eats Shoes".

"If there is no self-expression, what is the difference between a human being and a salted fish?"

He has been obsessed with this kind of expression throughout his life. Expression not only has eternal charm for him, but is also his conscious way of existence throughout his life. Even Hong Kong director Stephen Chow loved this sentence and adapted it and used it in his own movies.

"I am my movie."

After all this was over, he finally said this sentence to the reporter's camera in an understatement. Simple yet powerful, no one can refute him. He has already become one with his films.

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Each Herzog film is shot as if it were a legend. While filming "Signs of Life", he clashed with the Greek military and political groups. He shouted that he would shoot anyone who tried to arrest him; while filming "New Genesis" in Africa, he was arrested and imprisoned, and also contracted the disease. Parasitic disease; when filming "Dwarfs Grow Up Too", he actually jumped into a cactus to please the dwarf actors; when filming "The Wrath" in South America, due to financial constraints and worsening weather, he had to fight with the bad-tempered star Crow S. Kinski threatened to kill each other with pistols; when filming "The Glass Spirit", he hypnotized all the actors to obtain hallucination effects... Because working with this lunatic *** often faced life-threatening danger, some people He teased Herzog that he "maybe nail the actor to a tree in his next film."

If you have read the above remarks, I think it is not difficult to understand these madman-like behaviors. This barbarian from a closed mountain village in Germany obviously has more decisive qualities than all civilized and decent people. Madness became a respectable word for him, a positive word full of power and constructiveness, rather than the chaos and perversion brought about by insanity in the general sense.

Herzog commented on the characters in his film in an interview: They come from a world of pure darkness and are controlled by intuition, but their psychology is not dark, but the light of the world often hurts them. , keeping them away from the human world and entering a world unknown to others.

These are some groups that are incompatible with modern society, some people who are different from ordinary people. They include: lunatics, dwarfs, disabled people, abandoned children, as well as adventurers and dreamers.

This is his theme. The perspective of his films is always far away from the civilized world, focusing on these weird characters in isolation. Therefore, he is also known as an "authentic solitary" in the film industry.

I am reminded of a famous saying in the history of photography: You are not taking the photos, but the photos are taking you. Herzog's films seem to focus on weird or maverick protagonists, but in fact, his camera has always been stubbornly focused on himself. All films have only one path, to touch the soul in his heart. Traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers, we only reach the bottom of our hearts. Rather than saying that he has extraordinary artistic pursuits, it is better to say that he is just indulging himself.

Therefore, I wrote a poem called "Self" and gave it to him:

"Self"

In a dripping heavy rain

A madman in a deserted square

and his dance

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