The plot synopsis of the movie Dream

This documentary truly reproduces the difficult time that German film master Werner Herzog spent nearly five years in the tropical jungle of the Peruvian Amazon to complete the world-shaking business card "Land Boating". 》(Fitzcarraldo) process. This film records the process of a filmmaker searching for his dream, but it is by no means a behind-the-scenes documentary that is almost mandatory when releasing a movie on DVD today. He did not brag about the film, but only faithfully recorded the many incredible challenges faced during the filming. Difficult days and a director who is almost crazy for the movie.

"Landboat" is adapted from real events. Irishman Fitzcarraldo loved opera. He wanted to build an opera house in the tropical rainforest and invite Italian tenor Caruso to sing. With enough money, he bought a rubber field and started a rubber business. In order to transport it back and forth, he had to get a boat into the rainforest. With the help of the local Indians, he finally transported the boat across the mountain from a canal to another place. On a river. Just when he was extremely excited, he didn't know that the natives had their own plans. They abandoned the boat in the river and let him float down the river as an offering to the river god. Fitzcarraldo's dream was finally shattered. He invited a third-rate opera troupe to perform in the rainforest to complete the project. Fitzcarraldo's dream did not come true, but Herzog was moved by it. He believed that the act of persisting in his dream was a great success. It became Herzog's dream to put it on the screen, but he did not know that this was a dream that tortured him. Five years of dreams that brought him pain and joy.

At Herzog's insistence, the film was shot on location in the rainforest of Peru's interior. From the beginning of the filming, it was involved in the rights struggle of the local indigenous tribes. There were also military camps, oil and gas in the jungle. All the materials needed for filming were flown to the camp set up by various forces in the company. The film shoots slowly. Five weeks later, when the film was 40% complete, the film's star Jason Robards withdrew from the crew due to illness, and Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger, who played Fitzcarraldo's partner Wilbur, devoted himself to the release of a new album and tour. The film is stuck in a state of indefinite suspension.

Half a year later, Herzog hired Klaus Kinski to play Fitzcarraldo, and the crew entered the rainforest again. The biggest contradiction emerged during the filming of the film. In reality, Fitzcarraldo dismantled the boat and transported it across the hillside before reassembling it at the other end. Herzog, however, insisted on moving the ship, which was much larger than the real thing, over the hillside. He believed that this would visualize the theme of the film and give people a visual impact. The Brazilian engineers hired by the crew designed a complex device for the Indian extras to carry, but even the engineers did not believe that this device could carry the big guy. Herzog could no longer listen to any dissuasion and insisted on filming on location. The engineer therefore quit the film crew, leaving "only a 30% chance of success, and if it fails, someone will die." Herzog ultimately failed, and the 30-ton ship moved about half a meter before retreating into the distance. At this time, another boat used for filming ran aground on the shoal, and the film stopped again.

Facing the interview camera, Herzog began to complain about cursing this rainforest, but could not hide his love for this primitive place and his persistence in his dream. A few more months later, the most important "land boating" scene in the film was finally shot and the film was successfully completed. The film won Herzog the 1982 Cannes Best Director Award and became one of his most important works.

Les Blank, the director of this film, is full of reverence for this jungle and is saddened by the disappearance of its original state. The images in the film are often outside the camera crew, including ants, rubber trees, and indigenous people in the jungle. The process of making unique food, the thatched huts with the Coca-Cola logo, the Mickey Mouse T-shirts worn by the indigenous people, the disputes between tribes, and the quarrel between the two phoenixes were all faithfully recorded. This film has a unique commemorative value. There is a sentence in the film: "Experts calculated that these indigenous tribes would have disappeared in 2008." At the time, it seemed that there was still 26 years away, but now, it is only a short time. three years. Time makes the recorded images extremely cruel.

Herzog said in the film: "In the eyes of others, I am daydreaming, but I must achieve it. I don't want to be a person without dreams. This kind of life has no dreams." Meaning." He used his own experience and his movies to tell people that people with dreams have proud and great souls, no matter whether they succeed or not. Dreams have burdens, and we only dream because of burdens.