09.02.09 CLASSIC CLIP: WERNER HERZOG SHOT BY SNIPER
This is a clip from 2005 in which the BBC was doing an interview with Werner Herzog prior to the release of his film, Grizzly Man. In the middle of the interview, Herzog GETS SHOT IN THE BELLY BY A SNIPER. Herzog then declines medical treatment and opts not to track down the gunmen, saying of the air rifle, “It is not a significant bullet,” adding “It is not an every day thing, but it does not surprise me to be shot at. Za poet must never look away.” Would you expect anything less from a man whose wikipedia picture is him standing in front an old-timey hot air balloon?
“Oont ven I look eento za canvas uff za hot air balloon, I don’t see magic or wonder. I see za cold eendifferent lawz uff physics, oont realize zat one day, I vill die. Ees beautiful.” More fun facts about Werner Herzog after the jump.
“When he was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and he adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18 listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He later said that he would easily give 10 years from his life to be able to play an instrument.”
“Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed the movie project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris, whom Herzog perceived as incapable of following up on the projects he conceived. In 1978 when the film Gates of Heaven premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe by Les Blank.”
“Werner Herzog once challenged a man with no eyes to a staring contest and, upon losing, cut out his own eyes.”
Okay, so I made that last one up, but the dude is harsh.
(Thanks to RoboPanda for the tip)
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CLASSIC CLIP: WERNER HERZOG SHOT BY SNIPER
Ze poet must never avert hiz eyez. Not even while ze wolves tear my first wife apart while I hide in ze tree. I must vatch zis, take it all in, und remember zis moment. Zis moment ist art.
Werner Herzog makes Gary Busey look like Ryan Gosling.
Herzog once promised to eat his shoe…
What works for Errol Morris doesn’t work for Rooster and Trish.
I get shot in the stomach everytime Burnsy and I fuck face to face.
Herzog simulated the pain of childbirth within himself by eating watermelon seeds and holding it in until they were fully grown.
Wow, this post is deader than an Avatar thread.
Jack! I think our avatars should leg wrassle.
GIVE THAT CAT A CUPCAKE!
Man shot in stomach by sniper refuses to bellyache is truly master of domain.
“So how does it feel to be shot in the stomach, Mr…”
“HERZOGodammit, zat herz.”
I’m waiting for Herzog to finish his next project, I Have Discovered Just What is Wrong with the Japanese.
I prefered the reboot, Werner Herzog Eats His Hat by Mel Blanc.
Uwe Boll would have called the bullet a pussy, then offered it a role as Bill in a film about the henchman’s side of the Mushroom Kingdom.
GIVE THAT DOG A HERZDONUT!
Brett Ratner would have taken that shot in the butt.
Grizzly man died. Bearly.
Werner Herzog’s got that cool calm voice like Morgan Freeman, but with the added awesomeness of being a downer German. Hey, that gives me an idea…
Coming Fall of 2010, Werner Herzog and Jessica Tandy’s reanimated corpse in ‘Driving Miss Daisy to Kill Herself’.
I see your downer German and raise you a Downs Pakistani.
I fold (my tongue back into my mouth).
Awesome, that clears the way for our Driving A Kebab Van Packed Full of Explosives into the Indian Embassy Foyer project.
Hazzeem! Get to wardrobe, on the double!
Interviewer: If you see a lady being followed by a Jew what do you do Werner?
WH: Yes I would.
Int: Would what Werner?
WH: Precisely.
Int: I’m confused you would…
WH: Warn her.
Int: I didn’t mean to be rude, you would do what precisely Werner?
WH: Yes, Yes! I would warn her!
Int: What is a Werner, is that like a Heimlich?
WH: Are you on drugs?
Int: Yes. Yes I am.
Some jagoff taking pot shots at German autuers is not a sniper, he’s just an asshole.
Some jagoff taking pot shots at German autuers with a BB gun is not a sniper, he’s just an asshole.
[spaz fingers]
The sniper didn’t do anything worse to Werner than Zak Penn did in The Grand. I think I’d rather be shot than do improvisational comedy with Dennis Farina.
Still worth a rental.
Ze dog desserves no donut!
Bad dog!
Oh, i, er watched this when it was first shown. I suppose i should have mentioned it. I’ll go flagellate myself.
A Snider once tried to shoot me in the stomach, but I told him that I wasn’t gonna take it.
Right on, Chino. If that’s his best, his best won’t do.
Why would he try to shoot you in the stomach ? Was he not manly enough to reach yer tits?
He was TWISTED. Also, worthless and weak.
My tits are on my stomach!!
A Snaper tried to shoot a killing curse at me…
I just laughed, snapped his “wand” and then kicked him in the orbs of prophecy. And he didn’t have a Quidditch Cup!
And then a Snoper debunked the whole thing.
*shrugs*
The beef in my Menudo was killed by a Triper.
*winks at Pauly
A Scyper tried to shoot me in the stomach. Stopped by the monitor.
/phew
Ricky Martin is dead????
Obviously I was referring to your previous comment, Chino.
If I was referring to your last one, I would’ve written: “Monitor” means tits????
I just now got that….long live Ricky Martin!
(and my tits)
And then a Snoper debunked the whole thing.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
That’s not a old timey hot air baloon behind him. It’s actually a very new timey one from his 2004 film The White Diamond. He made a movie about these dudes that created a crazy hommeade air baloon so that they could sit up and observe crazy shiz in the jungle canopy.
Whatever you say, captain “facts.”
We here at FilmDrunk endeavor daily to not let the “facts” get in the way of sweeping generalizations, offensive commentary and politically incorrect comedy.
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