Most Herzog fans will have seen his jungle rant already, because it is utterly priceless.

Whatever happens in the jungle doesn’t stay in the jungle, it stays with you!

Burden of Dreams by Les Blank can be agonizing to watch, because of the immensity of the problems encountered deep in the jungle – one feels the anxiety and tension viscerally, as if we are about to witness a real stabbing or decapitation captured on film.

Fitzcarraldo is then, equally as insane viewing. I watched the following night, and seeing Kinski’s eyes nearly pop out of his skull is magnetic, over-the-top, delightful, at times uproarious.

Iquitos, Peru, thus becomes the character looming over the other larger-than-life characters. The jungle defeats the technology of western civilization. The people who belong to this place, look on in knowing smiles or weary tolerance of the folly of the white man.

I won’t even write too much more about these films, they’ve both been written about more interestingly than I could. I had fun watching them. Watching them both is a good date night idea. It’s interesting, tense, unbelievable. Plus yung Herzog is a fuckin hottie, for real.

Has watching Herzog pull a ship over a mountain inspired you to do anything you thought impossible?

Bonus question: What’s your favorite Herzog quote?