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Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog. It’s based on the life of real rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald.Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, known as Fitzcarraldo, wants to build an opera house in Iquitos, Peru. To gather the money he decides to become a rubber magnate and leases a parcel from the government. The problem is that the river leading to his terrain is full of deadly rapids. However, he sees in a map there is another river that runs very close to it, but at the other side of the rapids. Determined to reach his goal no matter what, Fitzcarraldo decides to take advantage of the closeness of the river to make his boat cross from one river to the other.The movie is famous for its Troubled Production, lasting more than four years, where Herzog really dragged a 320-ton boat over the land (with an inclination of 40 degrees) using methods even more difficult than the ones used by the real man. Also, the raving personality of Klaus Kinski got loose because of the isolation and the technical difficulties. It was so epic that a documentary of the making of the film was made, Burden of Dreams.Claudia Cardinale plays Fitzcarraldo's lover Molly.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Cholo's dynamite which he showcases earlier.
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Line in the Sand
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Line in the Sand: Fitzcarraldo asking his crew to step forward if they wanted to turn back. Nobody does but the next day they are off anyway.
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The Edwardian Era
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The Edwardian Era: The setting of the film is the beginning of the 1900s with this era and its fashion in full swing.
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Do Not Go Gentle
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Do Not Go Gentle: Cholo tells the captain to wake him when the Indians attack, as he wants to "brighten up my last hour with a little fireworks."
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Fitzcarraldo's plan fails, but he earns the respect of the whole town and the Indian tribes for his unflinching determination, and returns home with the whole opera cast aboard his ship to a cheering crowd on shore, looking as happy as we've ever seen him before.
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God Guise
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God Guise: Subverted. In order to get the manpower to drag the boat up the mountain, Fitzcarraldo and his crew try convincing a bunch of natives who conveniently have a legend about a divine power with a white vessel that Fitzcarraldo is a God. The natives inform them that they weren't born yesterday, but decide to help out anyway for reasons only revealed later.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn
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Bookends
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Book Ends: Fitzcarraldo's first scene is paddling in a small motor boat. His last scene is standing atop a 300-ton cargo ship.
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Too Important to Walk
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Too Important to Walk: Don Aquilino the arrogant rubber baron is borne around the jungle in a litter, as he explains to Fitzcarraldo about the situation in the jungle and the unclaimed parcel.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: The real Carlos Fermin Fitzcarrald disassembled the boat into several smaller pieces before carrying them up the hill, a solution which the film's Fitzcarrald - and the director - clearly didn't act on.
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10-Minute Retirement
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10-Minute Retirement: The Indians abandon the project after one of their men gets killed, but decide to return the next day to finish what they have started.
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Exposition Diagram
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Exposition Diagram: Fitzcarraldo draws up a map to explain his big plan to the captain.
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The Drunken Sailor
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The Drunken Sailor: Huerequeque.
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Shrunken Head
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Shrunken Head: Don Aquilino seems certain the indigenous people plan to do this to Fitz and himself, as he brings it up several times.
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Author Avatar
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Author Avatar: Herzog has made it quite clear that the character of Fitzcarraldo is based on him.
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At the Opera Tonight
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At the Opera Tonight: The first scene has Fitzcarraldo and Molly arriving at an opera performance featuring Enrico Caruso, after a long and arduous river journey.
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Molly, the madam of the high-class brothel, gets Fitzcarraldo out of prison and supports him to the hilt.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: The cook, who is drunk when he signs on as part of the crew, drunk during the mutiny where most of the rest of the crew leaves, and drunk most of the time when everyone else is hauling the ship over the ridge.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: The first time we see Fitzcarraldo, he's rushing with his lover to get to an opera premiere. All of Fitzcarraldo's love for opera along with his insane devotion to it come out in this moment. In essence, all of his magnificent character.
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River of Insanity
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River of Insanity: More off-camera than on screen. Just listen to Herzog after more than half a year in the jungle:
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet: The captain mentions that he doesn't like the silence after the Jungle Drums stopped playing.
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Ship Out of Water
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Ship Out of Water: The third act revolves around a huge undertaking of dragging a boat over a mountain situated between two rivers to circumvent some rapids. Made more notable that the film was made by actually dragging the boat over a mountain.
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Ominous Fog
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Ominous Fog: Combined with Ominous Latin Chanting, to set a generally foreboding mood, over the opening credits.
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Mundane Object Amazement
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Mundane Object Amazement: The Indians stare in awe at a block of ice that Fitzcarraldo presents to them.
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Stunned Silence
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Stunned Silence: Fitzcarraldo decides to impress a native chieftain by giving him a hunk of ice—ice being something that the natives of the Amazon delta have never seen and can't even conceive of. The chief takes possession of a big hunk of ice and shows it to the rest of the natives, who are all over the hillside, chattering and banging about as they're hacking out a path for the ship. All work stops and all the natives go silent as they stare at the hunk of ice.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Fitzcarraldo being able to produce ice via a chemical reaction proves helpful later when he uses this skill to impress the Indians.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Fitzcarraldo's dream of becoming a rubber baron (and in extension, to open up an opera in the city) is over when the Indians sent his boat into the rapids in order to appease their river god.
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No OSHA Compliance
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No OSHA Compliance: The natives work with the pulleys in horrible conditions. They seriously ran the risk of losing their lives if something went wrong. In-universe, a couple of them die; in real life, at least one actor did.
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Klaus Kinski doesn't hold a candle to Claudia Cardinale. note That said, the director's first choice for the role, Jason Robards, was a much better fit visually but sickness forced him to abandon the project.
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Messy Pig
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Messy Pig: Piggy - he's not porcine, really, but he did get the name for a reason.
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SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism
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Sliding Scale of Cynicism Versus Idealism: In spite of what the film's infamous production would have one believe, Fitzcarraldo is the embodiment of idealism.
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Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship
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Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Don Aquilino sees his friendship for Fitzcarraldo in that way.
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Spiritual Antithesis
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Spiritual Antithesis: To Aguirre, the Wrath of God, another River of Insanity film set in South America by Werner Herzog. Whereas this film is highly idealistic, Wrath Of God is deeply cynical.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Most of the crew abandon Fitzcarraldo the second it becomes clear that he's heading deep into Indian territory and won't be dissuaded.
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The true Carlos Fermin Fitzcarrald was a Peruvian rubber baron, the son of an Irish-American father and a Peruvian mother, who developed the Madre de Dios basin by portaging a ship overland. Unlike his film counterpart the real Fitzgerald very sensibly decided to disassemble the boat into several pieces before attempting to pull it up the slope. Also, he did bring an opera troupe to the area... and half of them promptly died of yellow fever.
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Determinator: Fitzcarraldo. He won’t stop to reach his goal of building an opera house in Iquitos, even though he already failed with a previous enterprise (a trans-Andean railway) and he definitely won’t stop his journey just because the river he wants to reach is several hundreds of miles apart from where his boat is.
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Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
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Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: A gender-flipped example with Molly tongue-in-cheek asking her servants to bath and bring Fitzcarraldo to her room.
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Jungle Drums
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Jungle Drums: The drums of the tribes can be heard as the boat floats through dangerous territory.
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Victorious Loser
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Victorious Loser: Fitzcarraldo's plan fails, but he earns the respect of the whole town and the Indian tribes for his unflinching determination.
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Practical Effects
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Practical Effects: Herzog's crew actually pulled a real 320-ton ship over a 40 degree inclining hill for this movie; and it was a complete nightmare to pull off.
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