attn: nick ooooooooo re: FITZCARRALDO

[xfer]

"How are we going to get that ship over the mountain?"

"I could even do it alone."

 

[goatschool]

yeahhh.

yeah. yeah, this depresses me.

and so good.

 

[goatschool]

and you've done it backwards. i'm not sure if you'll like aguirre better...

 

[minxnim]

dude those smiling natives are like, NUTS.

p.s. it's 5:45 am. i'm a loser.

 

[xfer]

the backwards route is interesting--i guess it's less narrative, but i can see all the proto-stuff that comes to fruition in Cobra Verde.

i'm going to watch Nosferatu tonight. Aguirre was rented by someone else, bastards.

(and you also should've told me that Fitzcarraldo is twice as good as Cobra Verde)

 

[xfer]

i also didn't finish the last 40 minutes of Fitzcarraldo, so don't spoil it for me! i'm going to watch it when i get home. it was 2am when i threw in the towel because i started being unable to comprehend what i was seeing. also someone IMed me and my computer crashed and i didn't want to start up the DVD again.

 

[goatschool]

heh.

and yeah, i guess i should have said that FITZ was heaping mounds better.

 

[avi]

the commentary of the Fitz disc is also really really good.

 

[xfer]

ok, and i'm still incredibly confused: is the movie filmed in English or German? i switched between languages several times and i couldn't tell! in some scenes, it even looked like Fitz's wife was speaking English while he was speaking German, but in others, he clearly was speaking English ("pig" looks a lot different on the lips than "schwine").

is it possible there are two fully-discrete movies on the DVD, one filmed in English, one in German?

i'm so confused.

 

[avi]

I think it was done in german, but still overdubbed, but I forget. I know exactly what you're talking about though...