Herzog's delightfully strange use of language, his cast of human oddities and passion for wild nature and the strangeness of being alive is rivalled perhaps only by the stories of Bruce Chatwin, author of the brilliant In Patagonia.
The documentary My Best Fiend is about Herzog's relationship with the equally bizarre Klaus Kinski, who Herzog once pulled a pistol on to stop him leaving the set. In another incident he attempted to burn down Kindski's house. (Herzog himself has been shot at several times, and describes it calmly in interviews as "exhilarating".) Kinski, the star of Aguirre Wrath of God, entered filming having just completed a "Jesus" tour, in which audiences (who filled entire stadiums) basically paid to come and watch him rant and rave like a psychopath: "he arrived at the filming location as a derided, misunderstood Jesus. He had wholly identified with his role and continued to live on in it. Often, it was difficult to talk to him, because he answered like Jesus."
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