{"id":16823,"date":"2024-10-06T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16823"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:13:14","slug":"cobra-verde-1987-werner-herzog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16823","title":{"rendered":"Cobra Verde (1987, Werner Herzog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intro with a storyteller and a poem sets this up as a fable or legend, then some great storytelling economy as Klaus Kinski going from mourning his dead mother, leaving home, to penniless gold digger, to merciless bandit in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cverde1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cverde2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Kinski is hired as slavedriver of a sugarcane plantation.  There among macaws and storks, bats and crabs, he knocks up all three of the owner&#8217;s daughters so they decide to send him to certain death in the deadly kingdom of Dahomey within Benin.  He&#8217;s rescued from the insane king by an insane prince, and trains a woman army, but is he happy?  He is not.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cverde3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Werner Herzog&#8217;s Black Panther:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cverde4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Entire movie was worth making for the scene of a goat taking communion:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cverde5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro with a storyteller and a poem sets this up as a fable or legend, then some great storytelling economy as Klaus Kinski going from mourning his dead mother, leaving home, to penniless gold digger, to merciless bandit in a few minutes. Kinski is hired as slavedriver of a sugarcane plantation. There among macaws and [&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":[357,42,239,582,1673,201],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-africa","tag-birds","tag-klaus-kinski","tag-slavery","tag-werner-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","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=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16839,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions\/16839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}