The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog

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The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog

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Herzog, nel ripercorrere la storia di Onoda, che ha dell'inverosimile, affronta anche il tema del disagio psichico: “Dopo che Onoda si fu arreso alle forze armate filippine, venne trasportato in elicottero a Manila. Il presidente filippino Ferdinand Marcos, che aveva iniziato da poco a governare il paese decretando lo stato d’emergenza, fece ripetere per lui la cerimonia di consegna della spada. Fu un grande spettacolo mediatico. Anche Marcos restituì immediatamente la spada a Onoda che, su richiesta, aveva indossato nuovamente la sua uniforme tutta a brandelli, anche se a Lubang gli erano stati consegnati abiti civili. ” SHAPIRO: Your book treats Onoda as sort of a mythic figure, which is how he's often regarded. But for the islanders who lived under his shadow, he was a terror, a real-life monster hiding in the jungle.

Institute, The British Film. "BFI – Sight & Sound – Film of the Month: Invincible (2001)". old.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 . Retrieved 20 August 2018. Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know ... only Herzog could have written this weird, slender classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE Werner Herzog. A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin. London: Faber & Faber, 2014. ISBN 978-0-571-25977-9.Most details are factually correct; some are not. What was important to the author was something other than accuracy, some essence he thought he glimpsed when he encountered the protagonist of this story. Filmmaker Herzogdraws on the true story of a Japanese officer who patrolled the Filipino jungle for nearly three decades after WWII, unaware the war had ended, in his fascinating debut novel . . .Onoda shares with the director’s filmic protagonists a fierce will and singular perspective. This will whet the reader’s appetite for a film version.” —Publishers Weekly Cronin, Paul (5 August 2014). Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25978-6 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive". [4] American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." [5] He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time in 2009. [6] Life [ edit ] Early life [ edit ] The entire sky [was] pulsing slowly, red and orange," Herzog says. "I knew all of a sudden there is something out there. There's a world out there. There is war out there. There's a conflagration out there, and I became curious." SHAPIRO: In the book, you write that - you say, I had worked under difficult conditions in the jungle myself and could ask him questions that no one else had asked him. Like what? What were those questions?Ideally, he would be out on a shoot right now. Until then there are books. Herzog reads voraciously; he says that all the good directors do. It doesn’t even have to be great literature. His friend, the documentary maker Errol Morris, recently recommended that he read a real piece of crap. “It was a bad book by a failed lion tamer. His arm was bitten off by a lion. He wrote with the other arm. And it’s a wonderful book to read because you have to comb the content against the texture and it gives you fabulous insights into human nature. It is the same with trash movies, trash TV. WrestleMania. The Kardashians. I’m fascinated by it. So I don’t say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See everything. The poet must not avert his eyes.” Kristoffer Hegnsvad. Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests, London 2021. ISBN 978-1-789-14410-9. Whether you're creating films or books or operas, you so often zero in on characters like Onoda, who are kind of single-minded in their pursuit of a belief. They are quixotic. They're in extreme situations. And so when you said, I want to meet Onoda, did any part of your brain think, because he is a Herzogian (ph) character; he's the kind of person who I've spent my life thinking and writing and creating about? Pero esto es poco. O, si se quiere, es tan sólo la premisa con la que el libro se le vende al lector desprevenido. Los que admiramos la obra del cineasta alemán sabemos que la vida, en su obra, se despliega con mayor fuerza en los silencios y paisajes, en los gestos y las acciones que no se explican, que deslumbran y modifican el entorno moral no más desplegadas. Acá la selva deja ver eso: la vulnerabilidad de nuestros sueños y la falta de certeza de cada uno de nuestros anhelos. Con todo, nos arriesgamos. Somos capaces de vivir con ahínco y sin titubeos, de desplegar una risa en medio de la adversidad más tremenda. Somos vulnerables; y nuestro carácter se nutre de nuestra capacidad para proyectar sentido más allá de las nefastas circunstancias en las que podamos llegar a encontrarnos. En últimas, viajamos entre pisadas, y el presente no es más que la proyección desde el pasado —el paso que acabamos de dar— hacia el futuro. Vivimos alzados sobre la tierra, a la espera de que nuestros cálculos e ideales se consoliden lo mejor posible. En medio de ello, erramos, nos equivocamos así no busquemos maltratar ni menoscabar a nadie. Werner Herzog on the Story Behind 'Rescue Dawn' ". Fresh Air. 27 October 1998 . Retrieved 21 June 2007.

Abramovitch, Seth (5 February 2015). "1979: When Werner Herzog Ate His Shoe". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 27 October 2021. Kohn, Eric (11 September 2018). "Werner Herzog Says He's Acting in 'a Big Franchise Film' and Shot a Secret Movie in Japan — Exclusive". IndieWire . Retrieved 30 August 2019. I went into this novel knowing the case of Onoda Hiroo, the Japanese guerilla soldier who kept on fighting in WWII for 30 years after the peace talks were officially done - because he never got the memo. Sin dall'inizio, Herzong precisa che non tutto è basato interamente sui fatti: lui ha a cuore l'essenza della storia. Come scrivevo prima, Herzog procede per sottrazione, andando al cuore delle cose: “Ciò che stava a cuore all’autore, infatti, come dovette riconoscere durante il suo incontro con il protagonista, era altro: l’essenza della storia.”

Cronin, Paul; Werner Herzog (2002). Herzog on Herzog. London: Faber and Faber. pp.vii–viii. ISBN 978-0-571-20708-4. truffaut. Like his films ( Fitzcarraldo, say, or Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Herzog’s memoir is a decidedly nontraditional piece of storytelling . . . The book is written in a literary voice that is outspoken and conversational . . . (The translation by Hofmann, who has also translated books by Wim Wenders and Franz Kafka, is delightful.) A fascinating portrait of an inventive and idiosyncratic filmmaker.” — Booklist O'Mahony, John (30 March 2002). "The Guardian Profile: The enigma of Werner H". theguardian.com . Retrieved 21 March 2019.



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