quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
Yeah, Jacobs Ladder.
It's not all that breathtaking while you're actually watching it, but it scared the shit out of me once I turned the light off and went to bed.. it works on kind of a different level.. the ideas it hints at float around your head for days getting more and more scary.
Read the script sometime - I checked it out of the library once. Excellent stuff - everything is really filled in, in a way.
Saw Mulholland Drive, the new Lynch, in a sneak preview. It was... well, it was Lynch doing what he does. There's one bit where people actually screamed. The bad man by the dumpsters....
Anyway, you want fucking disturbing? Your fictions are weak, and as nothing compared to the horrific might of
Stroszek.
Werner Herzog killed Ian Curtis with it.
Features live chickens being tortured on electrified plates. An "attraction" he found in a roadside amusement park.
Which is used to pretty much sum up the lives of the main characters. Who aren't really actors.
Bruno S. is, I believe, a certified schizophrenic. He's certainly not right.
Here, the imdb's "trivia" page:
quote:* Director Werner Herzog was originally going to film the story of Woyzeck (1979) with his star Bruno S.. However, a few days before production, he decided that story required Klaus Kinski in the starring role. He told Bruno, who responded that he had already taken vacation and a leave of absence from his job in a steel mill. As a result, Herzog wrote this film in 3 1/2 days, deliberately choosing a similar sounding title.
* The scenes of Stroszek's apartment were shot in Bruno S.'s apartment. The piano, which Bruno really does call his "black friend", was bought with his salary from Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974), and the concern over its future is real.
* The story about the sheets really happened to Bruno; like much of the film, it was shot in a single take (though a section had to be edited out when Bruno passed gas loudly).
* The scene of the man pulling his own tooth is based on a similar scene in Spend It All (1971), adapted with the permission of Les Blank (misspelled in the credits as "Les Blanc").
A lot of German cinema can be similarly distressing.
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Sort of a Natural Born Killers for people with glacial attention spans, wherein no one actually dies until the last five minutes. Except, of course, for the main character's all-too-ordinary soul. |
