Being a Werner Herzog movie I already give it an automatic Fresh rating. One thing Werner Herzog knows how to capture above all else is the beauty of the landscape he is filming. He does the same thing in Rescue Dawn, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Encounters at The End Of The World. Several moments in
this film, it feels like he purposely framed the sky and the earth so that it
s divided down the middle, and even if he cranes the camera up, he tilts it so that the landscape never changes this perfect division that he has made. It's really an interesting film technique.
As is the case in alot of Werner's films, it has this gritty feel to it, which can be accounted to in all of Herzog's films. Almost always, his films capture the action in his fiction stories with a very realistic feel to it. you never feel like you're watching something captured on a set, cause really...Werner Herzog doesn't believe in sets. He believes more than anything in ALWAYS filming out in the open. I don't think I have seen a herzog film yet that has a majority of interior scenes to the exterior scenes.
I guess that's one thing that gives it the herzog feel. The natural lighting, the scope of the landscape, and the documentary feel to his films. It's really an interesting style that is uniquelly his own, and I can always respect his style of filmmaking, even if i can't say that I really enjoy the storylines of his films. I will always watch a Herzog film moreso to watch his beautiful camera work and for the overall thril of knowing that most of the stunts, people and Sequences are real. There's no faking it in a Herzog film.
August 16, 2009
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