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June 26, 2005
Herzog: I hated it, it just looked like kitsch
Werner Herzog tells some tales about telling 3 tales this summer to the Christian Science Monitor's David Sterritt: "It's one of the most amazing nature shots ever: a single drop of water clinging to a leaf, refracting the upside-down image of a nearby waterfall. It's also one of the most bogus nature shots ever.
The drop isn't water, it's glycerin (which refracts light better) and the image was painstakingly concocted, not spontaneously caught [by a] cinematographer working with filmmaker Werner Herzog in Guyana on "The White Diamond," one of 3 documentaries by Mr. Herzog being released in the US this summer.... It's obvious that Herzog loved the shot, fabricated or not, or he wouldn't have included it in his documentary. Right? Wrong. "I hated it... It just looked like kitsch... and I knew I didn't want it in my film. And yet I knew it had to be in the film. I knew if I created the proper context, that would [override] the kitsch and make [the shot] great."
Posted by at June 26, 2005 02:40 PM
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