Burden of Dreams Page #3

but to no avail.

Mick Jagger plays Fitzcarraldo's sidekick...

a simpleminded actor named Wilbur.

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Ho! Ho!

- We want the opera in Iquitos!

- We want the opera in Iquitos!

We need opera here!

Don't you want...

- We need the opera in Iquitos!

- Music in your souls?

- In your ear!

- Come! Come and join us!

Jesus.

Momento. Un momento.

And therefore,

since I cannot prove a lover...

to entertain

these fair well-spoken days...

I am determined

to prove a villain...

and hate the idle pleasures

of these days.

Wilbur, you are definitely my man.

Five weeks after filming begins,

with 40% of the picture completed...

Jason Robards comes down with

a bad case of amebic dysentery.

He flies home to recover,

and his doctor forbids him to return to the set.

For Herzog,

this is an agonizing setback.

He'll have to start all over

with a new leading actor...

and his backers are pulling out.

For six weeks, Herzog puts

the entire production on hold...

while he goes looking for another star.

Then Jagger drops out too.

Commitments for a new album

and a concert tour...

make it impossible for him to stay

the extra months needed...

to reshoot the film from scratch.

And I have decided

that I would not replace his part.

You can't replace him.

So I think that's, uh, biggest loss

that I have had in my career...

as someone who makes films.

When I came back to Germany,

and I tried to hold all the investors together...

they said to me,

"Well, how can you continue?

Can you - Uh, do you have the strength

or the will or the enthusiasm or so?"

And I said,

"How can you ask this question? It is -

"If I abandon this project,

I would be a man without dreams...

and I don't want to live like that. "

I - I - I live my life,

or I end my life with this project.

In April, 1981...

Herzog's new leading man,

Klaus Kinski...

arrives at the Iquitos Airport.

And the filming of Fitzcarraldo

starts all over again.

Stop. Stop, stop, stop.

Bananas.!

- Bananas!

- Miguel Vzquez!

Come on.!

Miguel Vzquez.! Bananas.!

Cut. Okay.

Stop.

Fitzcarraldo lives

in the Belen district of Iquitos...

a collection of small houses in the shallow

floodwater at the edge of the Amazon...

that's hardly changed

in the last hundred years.

- I picture from this time -

- Klaus Kinski, the new Fitzcarraldo...

has appeared in more than 150 films.

Everything from Doctor Zhivago

to Herzog's Nosferatu.

This will be the fourth feature

he's done for Herzog.

In this scene, some of the local kids

are waiting for Fitzcarraldo to wake up...

hoping they'll get to hear

one ofhis precious Caruso records.

This is the Nario...

a boat that was built in 1902 in Glasgow.

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