The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser by Werner Herzog, director and writer of the glorious Aguirre, The Wrath of God http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/aguirre-wrath-of-god-aka-der-zorn.html and other classics - 10 out of 10

 

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser by Werner Herzog, director and writer of the glorious Aguirre, The Wrath of God http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/aguirre-wrath-of-god-aka-der-zorn.html and other classics

10 out of 10

 

 

Werner Herzog is one of the titans of The Screen Trade – Adventures in The Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman is one of the best books for cinephiles, which argues that the ‘film author’ is a wrong concept, however popular it was when Alfred Hitchcock was at his zenith, and the success of his films was attributed solely to him

 

For Werner Herzog we could argue over the same point, that it is his immense talent that gave us Fitzcarraldo http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-short-history-of-film-by-wheeler.html the motion picture story of a man that is dedicated to opera, the adventure of a ship on the Amazon, how the vessel is transported over the hills, taken out of the tempestuous waters and carried way with huge effort

The Burden of Dreams http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/12/note-on-burden-of-dreams-director-les.html is an astounding documentary that looks at the true saga of filming Aguirre, which was interpreted by telluric, unpredictable, unstable and frankly mad Klaus Kinsky, who has had intense disputes with the director…

 

Nay, he argued with many others (most of them, if memory does not betray) and he even inflicted a serious injury on one of the native participants in the filming, albeit that might be because he used that ‘Method acting’ technique which has been debated recently, and at other times, due to the success, but also controversy surrounding it

Daniel Day Lewis http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-age-of-innocence-based-on-classic.html is probably the epitome of the Method Actor , winner of three Academy Awards, and all of them for Best Actor in a Leading role, against say Jack Nicholson, who has one for Supporting Role in About Schmidt

 

From the brilliant My Left Foot http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-left-foot-based-on-book-by-christy.html onwards, Daniel Day Lewis has awed cinephiles with extraordinary, intense, vibrant, memorable acting, but he has also been named by Brian Cox (Logan Roy in Succession, probably still available on HBO Max)

The respectable, if not so likeable Brian Cox was arguing over the exaggerations involved in Method Acting, which were the preference of the actor playing his elder son in the drama that recalls Fox News and the Murdoch reprehensible clan (albeit there is some hope there, once the patriarch is gone, maybe the more sensible of the sons will get some influence and end that outpouring of lies and vitriol, responsible for the ascension of the most dangerous man on the planet, well, alongside Putin and Xi)

 

The name of the Method Man on that set is Jeremy Something (it could easily be identified on google, but why bother, he is not a favorite, indeed, I have seen him in a collection of photos looking at Hollywood power couples, and the outfit he was in, just as well as his wife, was symbolic for what I see as his persona)

A spoiler alert, warning, disclaimer here could be futile, even irritating, why wait so long, but it is now that I realize there is nothing yet on poor Kaspar Hauser (an unfortunate human being, till he is lifted from his absolute ignorance, tortured as he had been and abused) and the way this is going, it would be just as well to say that marvelous as the motion picture is, I have another way of enjoying this here…

 

Daniel Day Lewis http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/there-will-be-blood-written-and.html has reached the peak of the mountain, unequaled success, and then retired, something Brian Cox calls ‘burn out’, actually, this step back is used to emphasize the dangers of Method Acting, that will overwhelm one

Denis Diderot http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/12/jacques-le-fataliste-by-denis-diderot.html has written a classic analysis of acting, where the differences in attitude are pondered: is it better to use your heart, get into the emotions of the character, ‘Feel His Pain’, or have a detached modus operandi?

 

In To The Hermitage http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/09/to-hermitage-by-malcolm-bradbury-author.html by Malcolm Bradbury, the author is saying that Method Acting was anticipated by Diderot, which favors using the mind, only to me, it sounded as if Method means that action whereby the thespians sink in with their heart and all…Daniel Day Lewis was using his Left Foot on and off screen, to get a better understanding of the personage, the painter who became famous and acclaimed

Point Counterpoint http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/11/point-counter-point-by-aldous-huxley.html by enchanting Aldous Huxley has a very peculiar figure in it, an actress that disappears, her friends look for her, keep coming to her flat, only to get the same answer from the maid, the only one to answer the door

 

The revelation is that the maid proves to be…the actress herself, she has had a role that she prepared for so damn well that she became the uneducated, rough, rather unappetizing person that her entourage could not recognize in a million years, and thus we can wonder, was that Method acting again…to conclude with The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, that was barely mentioned here, Werner Herzog is one of the giants, and this is more than clear in this movie that has won acclaim and trophies at the Cannes Film Festival, the best place to look for classic pictures…

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”