Operation Watch This: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
The filmmaker Werner Herzog is the kind of guy who says "talk shows are going to kill us," which is kind of an anti-populist mindset that I can't totally buy into, because at talk shows only really exist because people want them to (i.e. watch them), and while you can make lots of arguments for how society has taught people to want things that are bad for them, it's no longer true that people don't have access to an alternative. At this point, with the stratification of culture across television, radio, cinema, and the internet, you really don't have to buy into anything if you don't want to, and I think that the "shoot your television" crowd are on the losing end of philosophical relevance. THAT BEING SAID, Werner Herzog is a winner, and in the late '70s he told his friend Errol Morris that if he ever finished his film (which turned into the great Gates of Heaven), he would eat his shoe. And he did. And documentarian Les Blank made a film about it. And watch it.
"I have survived so many Kentucky Fried Chicken so it won't do harm to me," indeed.
Posted by Gabe at 12:55 PM in Operation Watch This
Tags: Errol Morris | Les Blank | Werner Herzog
God, you lemmings. this is years OLD. this is on youtube. Just cause Vulture gets to it 10 years late does that mean, you guys do the same? Apparently. Embarrassing.
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Actually, Fred, only a clip of the film is on YouTube, not the whole thing (although you can see a rough looking version on Google Video which is great for the two people who use Google Video). But more importantly, it was made in 1980, so it's 28 years old, not 10.
I just want to make sure we all have our facts straight before we got into how stupid I am for posting this.
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Ah, Vulture discovers Herzog 28 years later, so Gabe discovers Herzog 28 years later. Thanks for clarifying.
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That's how it works on the internet, right? If ONE website picks up on something, only then can another do so and rightly be ridiculed for not being the first. This is the only place I go for news, because it's a telephone line and not a series of tubes.
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Haha I like this Fred guy. "All you idiots watching baseball on television, don't you KNOW there's a five-second delay built into the broadcast? You might as well be reading newspapers from last year!"
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Ya know what, I just asked around my office, and nope, nobody has seen this. So who cares if the movie came out 28 years ago, and that's great that you know that and have seen it many times Fred, good for you, I'm sure your parents are proud. But for those poor, disparate few who haven't, thanks Gabe.
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