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Crispin Glover: Ben + extra + extra + extra
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About the ‘Crispin Glover on art, Herzog’ clip -
He [Crispin Glover] does a commentary track for Herzog’s
‘Even Dwarfs Started Small’ in which he hardly says anything at all, and he had so much to say! I think he must have been humbled, and kept a low profile out of respect for the film. He must have been just about to bust!
Because he ”gets” Herzog!
From the clip: ”When I look at the face of somebody that has Down Syndrome
Guess I hit the wrong button. I was saying – from the clip:
”When I look at the face of somebody that has Down Syndrome, I do see a history of somebody that has really lived outside the culture in many ways. There is not necessarily a learned social masking that many people – basically, all people – learn, and that can be an interesting thing in front of the camera.”
Sounds like Herzog speaking!
It’s not that Crispin Glover is merely influenced by Herzog; it’s that he understands him.
Also – from the same clip:
”I like questions to be open. I don’t like to say, ‘This is what this is,’ because I feel like that lacks something. I feel like when it’s answered then it’s not as fun, and it doesn’t let people think about things. -There’s danger in that, because a lot of people can just interpret something in the most basic, unintelligent way possible, take something that could be conceptually beautiful and turn it into an idiotic action.”
Herzog knows this danger and talks about it, recognizes that profound symbols have been created in his films, while at the same time he absolutely refuses to interpret them.
Poets are not ”masters of poetry!”
Herzog must be very proud of Crispin Glover…
I’m having a Herzog week! Last night I watched that lecture from Penn University that’s available on Cinematik. Wish I had the time to transcribe the whole thing. Herzog was militant! Addressing the students with rants like ”Abolish all film theory! These courses will never teach you how to become a filmmaker. Instead go work in a mental hospital, do extreme sports, travel on foot, and read read read.” Or something to that effect. The message is to ground yourself in something that’s fundamentally human, that transcends time. Of course most academic theory of today would laugh at such a notion. Herzog talked about his own travellings by foot and how it opened up people he met along the way; how this form of travelling surprised those he met to the extent of being able to meet them ”beyond all social masking”, that is – he was able to meet the base humanity in people.
After watching the lecture I immediately ordered Conquest of the useless (Herzogs notes from filming Fitzcarraldo) and Walking on ice (Herzogs notes from his travelling by foot. I can’t afford anything but food right now – let alone books! – but I just couldn’t help myself. As I said – I’m having a Herzog week.