Captain_Duck

ok and is there a city now where this happened. Movie version says this, but i should prolly read the irl version.

Ok and the production. Only injuries, no deaths thank fuck. Good job Werner. A production like this could have gone so horribly wrong.

So the IRL guy just dissasembled a boat and reassembled on the other side. It was werner who turned this into the filming opulence that is that movie then hah. Ah and it was worth it, this is such an amazing metaphor

Ok first question anwsered, yes its based on a real story but the guy was actually peruvian. And not a german abroad huh.

Im guessing werner made the character white because he knew so much more people would see it. Even now in 2026 the MC of the movie is white most of the time.

And yeah werner herzog, in your quest to make this insane art, did any people die during this quest?. Ok its time to open the wiki

The movie is all about chasing that dream. Someone with a crazy idea to have opera in the jungle and looking around, using his education and going for an insane idea.

But to make that art dream a reality he has to become a capitalist, and people have died for this dream.

im probably gonna read in wikis in a moment that the irl guy wasnt so nice and probably many people got killed because of him.

Ok so before i start reading wikis... wow. Wow fucking wow. The happy ending i was not expecting, and im kind of bitter over it somehow. Because the happy ending is... that he became a rubber baron himself.

Theres no credits, he just cuts to black, the music fades out, movie ends.

I doubt thats this rip, this comes from a bluray, its probably on purpose. To not have credits after a movie like this, what the fuck what a statement.

he was in frame, enjoying from the back, on this moving outside shot on a boat in the fucking jungle. Fucking its insane cinematography. The camereman who took it must have been so proud.

Ah he's not sitting in the chair, because the chair was for the pig, he promised that earlier in the movie.

And thus werner also brought the opera to a boat in some jungle to make this shot.

And thus he is making his dream come true, the opera brought to the jungle.

So yeah this scene must be months later, he got that chair.

He sold the boat, because the boat was not important, and capital was. What was important is the knowledge this could be done, that humans can exploit this region. He's about to become a rubber baron himself

The guys is BSing him and he can tell because he knows his opera.

motherfucking wagner. To a german who loves opera.

he is tempting him to walk away, so he can take it all for himself, and he is tempting him with that art that he loves so much. How does our MC respond?

Sorry, i dont really know what that's got to do with me.