The chicken won't stop, says W. The crew on Stroszek hated the scene with the dancing chicken, he says. Herzog had to operate the camera himself. They'd never seen anything as dumb as that, they said, and refused to film it. Herzog tried to tell them there was something big about it. Something important. But no one would listen.
We have to develop an adequate language for our state of civilisation, Herzog said. We have to create adequate pictures, and if we don't do that, we'll die out like dinosaurs. We have to try and do something against the wasteland of images that surround us … But no one listened to him.
The crew were off for lunch, they said. We're not going to film that shit, they said. I'm going to film that shit, Herzog said, and he did. The crew didn't see it, no one saw it. But he saw it, Herzog, says W. And he sees it, W., says W.
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