Encounters at the End of the World Page #5

Synopsis: 'Werner Herzog' takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them! (1954). And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making another film about penguins" -- we meet a penguin researcher who answers the
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: ThinkFilm
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
G
Year:
2007
99 min
$723,966
Website
324 Views


off-course, pulling everyone else with him

- Pull the rope, somebody

- THREE:
Hey, anybody out there?

Out here Number Three is here

- Where you at, Number Two?

- Find him?

- Did we find the guy?

- No

ONE:
Okay, I think we're gonna go this way

Follow me this way, guys This way, guys

Hold on, hold on

So part of what we want to do here

as an educational opportunity

is see if they realize what they've done,

come back to a hut

and come up with a new game plan,

or if they just keep going down

that cascading error phenomenon,

where one mistake

leads into another mistake

which leads into a third,

and it just gets really bad

Who's pulling on this line?

- Me

- Number One

Number One, don't pull on that

That's the line going back to the hut

- I got the end

- Okay, back to the hut?

- Back to the hut

- Back to the hut

Back to the hut

HERZOG But rather than

pulling everyone in,

last man first along the rope,

they drift completely off-course

- Number Two is here Is Number Three here?

- Number Three is here

Number Four?

- Towards the sun

- No, not towards the sun

- Left

- We need to go left

Left, stay left

We don't know where he's standing though,

so left might be different for him

- Correct

- Number Two

- Okay, Number One

- I'm here

HERZOG For most of our time here,

we had postcard-pretty weather conditions

This was frustrating because I loathe

the sun both on my celluloid and my skin

So it almost came as a relief when a few

days later, the weather suddenly changed

The storm soon broke and we were allowed

to venture out of McMurdo for the first time

We set out on snowmobiles, in front of us

miles and miles of frozen ocean

We were heading toward a field camp

of scientists who study seals

It was amazing to consider

that a mere six feet under us

was the expanse of the Ross Sea

These scientists here

are particularly interested

in the feeding cycle of the Weddell seal

In just a few short weeks,

pups grow rapidly, while mothers lose

some 40% of their body weight

Bagging the seal's head keeps the animal

calm as the scientists extract a milk sample

(SEAL WAILING)

OFTEDAL Well, this really is quite

a wonderful group of animals to work on

Weddell seals in particular,

you can see they're very big

They're very strong,

and yet they allow us to work with them

They're not very aggressive,

nor are they very timid

Even though they struggle somewhat

when you have them in a bag or in a net,

when you release them, they lie down

There's the mother behind us

who we just worked on,

and she's just lying quietly with her pup

We've had pups start to nurse within

a couple of minutes of releasing them

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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