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Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman called Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory. The film is derived from the real-life story of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald.
Brian "Fitzcarraldo" Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), a European living in a small city in Peru in the early part of the 20th century, has a great love of opera and an indomitable spirit. He is, however, a dreamer who has one major failure already behind him — the bankrupt Trans-Andean Railway company. A great fan of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso, he now dreams of building an opera house in his city of Iquitos. This will require a lot of money, and the most profitable industry in Peru at the time is rubber. The areas known to contain rubber trees have been parceled up by the Peruvian government and can be leased for exploitation.
Fitzcarraldo investigates getting into the rubber business. He is shown a map by a helpful rubber baron, who points out the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains why no one has yet claimed the parcel: while it straddles the Ucayali River, the parcel is cut off from the Amazon by a treacherous set of rapids. However, Fitzcarraldo notices that the Pachitea River, another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters to the Ucayali upstream of the parcel.
To make his dream a reality, he leases the inaccessible parcel from the government. With the selfless underwriting of his paramour, Molly (Claudia Cardinale), a successful brothel owner, he buys a steamer (which he christens the Molly Aida) from the same rubber baron, raises a crew and sets off up the Pachitea, the parallel river. This river is known to be more dangerous the further one gets from the Amazon because of the unfriendly tribes that inhabit the area. Fitzcarraldo’s plan is to reach the point where the two rivers nearly meet and then, with the manpower of enlisted natives, physically pull his three-story, 320-ton steamer over the muddy 40° hillside across an isthmus, from one river to the next.[2] Using the steamer, he will then collect rubber on the upper Ucayali and bring it down the Pachitea to market.
The story was inspired by the real life Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald; in the 1890s, Fitzcarrald did bring a steamship across an isthmus from one river into another, but it weighed only thirty tons (rather than over 300), and was carried over in pieces to be reassembled at its destination.
In his autobiographical film Portrait Werner Herzog, Herzog has stated that the film’s spectacular production was partly inspired by the engineering feats of ancient standing stones. The film production was an incredible ordeal, and famously involved moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill without the use of special effects. Herzog believed that no one had ever performed a similar feat in history, and likely never will again, calling himself "Conquistador of the Useless". Scenes were also shot aboard the ship while it crashed through rapids, injuring three of the six people involved in the filming.
Casting of the film was also quite difficult. Jason Robards was originally cast in the title role, but he became ill with dysentery during early filming and, after leaving for treatment, was forbidden by his doctors to return. Herzog then considered casting Jack Nicholson, and even playing Fitzcarraldo himself, before Klaus Kinski accepted the role. By that point, forty percent of shooting with Robards was complete, and for continuity Herzog was forced to begin a total reshoot with Kinski. Mick Jagger was originally cast as Fitzcarraldo’s assistant Wilbur, but due to the delays his shooting schedule expired and he departed to tour with the Rolling Stones. Herzog dropped Jagger’s character from the script altogether and reshot the film from the beginning.
Klaus Kinski himself was a major source of tension, as he fought with Herzog and other members of the crew and greatly upset the native extras. In his documentary My Best Fiend, Herzog says that one of the native chiefs offered to murder Kinski for him, but that he declined because he needed Kinski to complete filming.
Woman I can hardly express My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness After all I’m forever in your debt And woman I will try to express My inner feelings and thankfulness For showing me the meaning of success
Woman I know you understand The little child inside of the man Please remember my life is in your hands And woman hold me close to your heart However distant don’t keep us apart After all it is written in the stars
Woman please let me explain I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain So let me tell you again and again and again
A woman’s heart is filled with passion, A woman’s heart is filled with lust, If you don’t believe that these things happen, Could be the biggest mistake that a man can make;
A woman’s night is filled with dreaming, Of the perfect man who may not be you, If we don’t see what she’s been missing, Could be the biggest mistake that a man can make,
She wants to get near to you, Don’t turn her away, She wants to get through to you, She wants to say;
A woman’s day is filled with longing, For a little romance and company, If we don’t look or just don’t listen, Could be the biggest mistake that a man can make;
A woman’s heart is yours forever, She will be true, to the one in her life, If we don’t give her love and affection, Could be the biggest mistake, that a man can make
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