"The jungle plays tricks on your senses, it's full of lies, demon, illusions. I have learned to tell the difference between reality and hallucinations" - Scary Expedition Leader
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"I told you I need men, not milquetoasts who will shit their pants" - Don Fitzcarraldo.
- Herzog Ranked: boxd.it/3MAT6
- 5x5 Director's Challenge (Herzog 2/5): boxd.it/3IUJC
Feeding money to a fish is as baller as it gets. Seriously, that is some first class douchebaggery.
I love this film because it's batshit crazy that they went through the process to do all of this in real life. In Fitzcarraldo, a man hustles his way into the rubber industry in order to fund an opera house in the middle of the Amazon…