Extended Reading
  • Micheal 2022-03-20 09:02:25

    great pain

    Opera lover Fitzgerald accomplished more than imagined as a visionary and doer. In order to build his favorite opera house in a small town in Peru, South America, which is a purely personal dream, he lobbied rich businessmen for support and investment, and was greatly insulted by the businessmen at...

  • Kraig 2022-03-23 09:02:50

    boat on land

    It's been a long time since I saw a movie like "Boat on Land", which made me stare at the screen for a long time after watching it, and felt that it shaped my spiritual world. "Boat on Land" obviously does not belong to this era. Unlike films from the 1990s, which are full of sensual and...

  • Jerrod 2022-03-23 09:02:50

    #HKIFF# Luckily asked two questions: I asked why there are violin-playing boys in both Landboat and Nosferatuli (and not in the Murnau version), Herzog said it was a coincidence balabalabala; I asked If I shoot the same theme again now, will I use CG? Herzoe ​​said that of course, I will use the live balabalabala. (How to improve the quality of the question, very troublesome)

  • Georgianna 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    1. Traveling on land, stubborn people who love opera turned bold and stubborn ideas into reality; 2. Jayasiuari Yaju, an Indian in the rain forest said that this place is "the uncreated territory of God" , They believe that God will return to complete his work only after human beings disappear. 3.-Do you want to tell him that the (ice) will disappear? -No, there is no word ice in their language. 4. I want to tell you a story. At that time, North America was far from being conquered. There was a French hunter walking west from Montreal. He was the first white man to see Niagara Falls. When he returned, he told people that the waterfall was so magnificent...people could not even imagine it. But no one believed him. They thought he was either crazy or lying. They asked him, "What proof do you have?" He said, "My proof is that I saw it."

Fitzcarraldo quotes

  • Don Aquilino: You know, the two of us have a bet going - how long it will take until you go bankrupt. Oh, please don't take it personally. We're all sportsmen, aren't we?

    Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': No, only one of us. I shall move a mountain.

  • Captain (Orinoco Paul): My eyesight isn't so good, but I cannot be fooled.

    Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': What do you mean?

    Captain (Orinoco Paul): The jungle plays tricks on your senses. It's full of lies, demons, illusions. I have learned to tell the difference between reality and hallucinations.