{"id":15157,"date":"2022-08-17T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:23:22","slug":"stroszek-1977-werner-herzog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15157","title":{"rendered":"Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange to see space alien Bruno S. playing someone besides <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11824\">Kaspar Hauser<\/a>.  Here he&#8217;s playing a version of himself, as are many of the actors, who autobiographically collaborated with Herzog on his hastily-written Germany-to-USA adventure.  Reformed criminal\/music lover Bruno helps Eva Mattes (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14993\">Petra von Kant<\/a>&#8216;s daughter) while she&#8217;s on the run from her thug pimps (one of whom would later play Vigo in <em>Ghostbusters II<\/em>).  The thugs barge in, assault Bruno and break his accordion.  The neighbor who looks after Bruno (<em>Kaspar Hauser<\/em> fan-favorite Clemens) is leaving for Wisconsin, so Bruno and Eva join him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/stroszek2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Bad luck right off the bat as customs confiscates Bruno&#8217;s mynah bird (using its real voice, which is a big deal for birds in cinema).  Werner discovers Weird Wisconsin immediately, filming two neighboring farmers on tractors with rifles.  Bruno&#8217;s house is taken away for non-payment&#8230; not making enough cash as a waitress, Eva returns to prostitution and runs off with some truckers&#8230; and Clemens is arrested for robbery (the bank was closed so he robs the barber next door).  Everything around him going to hell, poor Bruno wanders a live-bird amusement park then kills himself on a ski lift.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/stroszek1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The credits thank Errol Morris, Les Blank and the documentarian who discovered Bruno in West Berlin.  Supposedly Ian Curtis killed himself right after watching this movie, and yeah it&#8217;s a downer, but one night earlier I&#8217;d coincidentally watched New Order&#8217;s live set from Coachella 2013, and after seeing what a crank Bernard Sumner can be, I wouldn&#8217;t be so quick to blame the film.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/stroszek3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange to see space alien Bruno S. playing someone besides Kaspar Hauser. Here he&#8217;s playing a version of himself, as are many of the actors, who autobiographically collaborated with Herzog on his hastily-written Germany-to-USA adventure. Reformed criminal\/music lover Bruno helps Eva Mattes (Petra von Kant&#8216;s daughter) while she&#8217;s on the run from her thug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,239,122,191,607,201,2922],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-birds","tag-germany","tag-prostitution","tag-suicide","tag-werner-herzog","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15180,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions\/15180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}