Have You Ever Seen30 Mai 2022

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Invite all your monkey friends out for a day of river rafting as the 444th Ellises' Analysis dives into the goings on in "Apocalypse Before". Werner Herzog was still fairly new to making movies that are filled with verisimilitude when he made this incredibly authentic cult favourite deep in the Peruvian wilderness with his "best fiend" Klaus Kinski. The two of them had famous battles during this and other projects, but this first collaboration just might be their finest. Despite all of Kinski's dangerous unpredictability, he was a powerful and committed actor who deserved to be more of a movie star than he was. As for Aguirre's story, Herzog's Spanish Conquistadors (and *cough cough* all their slaves) float down a raging river to find the fabled city of gold in El Dorado, but that's a fools' journey that results in many deaths. Yeah, this is a bleak flick, but that doesn't stop it from being a great one. So don't let yourself be stalked by savages. Be a savage yourself as you seek out our thoughts about Aguirre: The Wrath Of God. Oh, and an insane trip like that would be helped by bringing along lots of Sparkplug Coffee. A 20% discount is golden and you'll get that by applying our "top100project" promo code. You can Twitter at us (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) and you can also follow Ryan's sports movie podcast in all the downloadable places ("Scoring At The Movies").

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