{"id":5720,"date":"2009-05-26T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2009-05-26T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:53:49","slug":"the-klaus-kinski-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/05\/26\/the-klaus-kinski-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Klaus Kinski Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klaus_Kinski\">Klaus Kinski<\/a><\/strong> and director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werner_Herzog\">Werner Herzog<\/a><\/strong> became famous for their numerous collaborations and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yITx7txr-7M\">on-set bust ups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, this footage of Herzog playing back an audio tape from the set of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God\">Aguirre, Wrath of God<\/a><\/strong> is fascinating precisely because we <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecritic.com.au\/images\/werner-herzog-and-klaus-kinski.jpg\">manic, bulging intensity<\/a> of Kinski&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eYKLmTC20xQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eYKLmTC20xQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t seen them, Lesley Blank&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083702\/\">Burden of Dreams<\/a><\/strong> (a documentary about the making of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fitzcarraldo\">Fizcarraldo<\/a>) and Herzog&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Best_Fiend\">My Best Fiend<\/a><\/strong> are essential viewing.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; More on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klaus_Kinski\">Klaus Kinski<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werner_Herzog\">Werner Herzog<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tma26WSccqY\">Watch My Best Fiend<\/a> on YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Werner Herzog plays an audio tape of Klaus Kinski going nuts on the set of Aguirre, Wrath of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[979,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}