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January 13, 2006
'Grizzly Bear Man': The Best Film Herzog Never Made
While I really liked about 80 percent of Grizzly Man, it is the other 20 percent--particularly director Werner Herzog's own narrative and historical liberties ("Destroy this tape," for example)--that first leap to mind when I think about the film. Evidently, I am not the only one: Spoof geniuses Travis and Jonathan have detonated their classic parody Grizzly Bear Man on the Web like a dirty bomb, showcasing the fundamental lunacy of Herzog's transgressions and daring to look under the only rock the great filmmaker left unturned. To wit: Treadwell, another batshit adventurer in thrall to his dreams, actually out-Herzogs Herzog by dying for his art. And in Grizzly Man, Herzog shows up to collect.
But damn if Grizzly Bear Man does not do the best job yet of exposing the whole thing as not some complex, man-versus-nature riddle, but a full-on cosmic joke--and a very absurd, funny one at that. Check it out here.
Posted by stvanairsdale at January 13, 2006 09:53 AM
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