bags
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 03:25 PM UTC
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IIt, in fact, was not a crazed fan but Dick Cheney. The world is simply not safe.
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:
HERZOG SHOT DURING INTERVIEW
German director WERNER HERZOG was shot by a crazed fan during a recent interview with the BBC.
The 63-year-old was chatting with movie journalist MARK KERMODE about his new documentary GRIZZLY MAN, when a sniper opened fire with an air rifle.
Kermode explains, "I thought a firecracker had gone off.
"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'
"He had a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in. He just carried on with the interview while bleeding quietly in his boxer shorts."
An unrepentant Herzog insisted, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."
walkonby
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 03:53 PM UTC
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but what about the bears that ate him? were they gay?
Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 04:05 PM UTC
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Within five minutes, the viewer begins to realize that this guy is merely a selfish, effeminate head case working through his own identity crisis and not in the least concerned with the plight of the powerful, savage animals he professes to love. In truest buffoon fashion, he spends long periods ranting in front of a fixed camera, informing the world that he's "the only person on earth who can live among these bears" and that "anyone else would be killed …anyone! Nobody else knows how to live among these animals like me … no one!" … Of course, like all those sadly lacking the credentials to mock and tempt the great God, Fate, he gets ripped to shreds and devoured soon thereafter. The colossal pity is that the bear who eats him is later pointlessly killed by rangers for performing a purely natural act on his own remote turf. Even more shameful is the fact that this asshole actually had an audio recording device running as the grizzly slowly disassembled him, but the documentary's director wouldn't share his final agonized screams with the audience. My documentary would have been a tad different…it would have been entitled "Shrieks of the Disemboweled ".
Oh, don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed it, too…especially the inevitable conclusion which represents one of the few times I've seen true cosmic justice in action. ….My complaint is that Herzog, who assembled the footage, didn't let us hear the effeminate asshole's ribs being snapped and extracted like popsicle sticks and his numb skull getting crushed like a walnut in the bear's mighty jaws. The most ironic element is that the girl he coaxed into staying out there in the wild with him had reservations about it all the way down the line and was due to leave just after the bear made her pay the high price of keeping bad company.
bags
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 04:22 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:
Within five minutes, the viewer begins to realize that this guy is merely a selfish, effeminate head case working through his own identity crisis and not in the least concerned with the plight of the powerful, savage animals he professes to love.
I think this, in part, is what expands the film's story beyond the grizzlies and asks questions about the nature of men and their various weaknesses and psychological handicaps.
El Tee
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 04:26 PM UTC
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I don't know anything about this movie until this thread. Also, I thought this thread would be about:
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jdreagle
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 05:59 PM UTC
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i saw this tripe in the theater, and it sucks in every way. i was waiting the entire time for an explanation as to why he talks like a BABY half the time. that was unsettling. the movie was a great ad for psychotherapy for the mentally ill.
check out "why we fight" if you want a more compelling documentary. you will have heard a lot of it before, but it is well worth checking out. richard perle is a psychopath from way back. the film should probably be required viewing for impressionable youth along with "the fog of war." we have turned into a nation of whackos on a permanent war footing.
note to neocons/"democracy spreaders": one lil' problem with your theory for global domination is that plenty of these countries will fall all over themselves to vote for assholes. (see hamas.)
Rhett Miller
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 06:04 PM UTC
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I didn't have a problem with that.
Don't a number of people talk "baby" to their pets, or infant children? I think he regarded the bears as his children that he was attempting to protect.
Originally posted by jdr:
i saw this tripe in the theater, and it sucks in every way. i was waiting the entire time for an explanation as to why he talks like a BABY half the time. that was unsettling. the movie was a great ad for psychotherapy for the mentally ill.
thirsty moore
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 13, 2006 at 06:30 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:
"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'
After seeing how Herzog dealt with Klaus Kinski in the documentary on Kinski, I'm sure Herzog can handle most situations patiently.
ggw
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 15, 2006 at 04:28 PM UTC
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Originally posted by econo:
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:
"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'
After seeing how Herzog dealt with Klaus Kinski in the documentary on Kinski, I'm sure Herzog can handle most situations patiently.
Werner Herzog pulled Joaquin Phoenix from car wreck
pjrudolph
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Re: Grizzly Man
February 15, 2006 at 05:29 PM UTC
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I haven't seen it, but oddly enough, someone recommended this movie to me last night. I hadn't heard of it until then. The whole thing about him getting eaten at the end by a bear intrigues me enough to want to rent it.
I would think that somewhere on the internet you can find the audio of him being eaten.
Dupek???
