Burden of Dreams

In relation to that, I don't want to overburden us with references to other films, but something else I thought of that might be useful to bring in is the making of documentary.

Just so people know what I'm talking about, there are these movies like Burden of Dreams.

about the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo or Heart of Darkness, which depicts the making of Armageddon.

Sorry, Apocalypse Now.

fitzcarraldo yeah that's that's the real deal right there same more specifically

i i actually enjoy the documentary burden of dreams about the making of fitzcarraldo more than fitzcarraldo

I fully agree with that statement.

I just rewatched, I just rewatched- The movie's a long watch.

I don't even remember.

Why? Oh, we must have been doing a movie that was connected to Klaus Kinski or something.

So I watched Burden of Dreams and I watched Best Fiend, which is the other Werner Herzog documentary about his relationship with Klaus Kinski.

So I don't remember in what context it was, but I rewatched both of those documentaries semi-recently.

Yes.

I have seen Burden of Dreams.

Okay.

I have seen-

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Grizzly Man.

He didn't do Burden of Dreams, but that's the one I'm gonna talk about-

Oh, yeah

Behind the scenes, he made it happen with no effects and literally did that.

So there's also a documentary called Burden of Dreams that is like a companion piece to Fitzcarraldo.

Oh, I love a director doing some insane feat.

I mean, like every story about like James Cameron, like going down to the Titanic.

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... uh, Burden of Dreams.

No, called-

Yeah

So it's one of those things where sometimes if you can't rise to the occasion of a difficult star or a difficult circumstance, like, you know, one of the m- you've already mentioned Apocalypse Now.

I think Apocalypse Now, um, Hearts of Darkness, and Burden of Dreams are probably the two, the alpha and the omega of the on-set, everything is going wrong crisis documentary.

Yeah.

And those two, th- two, two great films.

So Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now, and there's a documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now that his wife, Eleanor Coppola, made called Hearts of Darkness.

And Werner Herzog made the movie Fitzcarraldo, and there's a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo called, uh-

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