"Go For It, Losers"
"It does not bespeak great wisdom to call the film The Bad Lieutenant, and I only agreed to make the film after William (Billy) Finkelstein, the screenwriter, who had seen a film of the same name from the early nineties, had given me a solemn oath that this was not a remake at all. But the film industry has its own rationale, which in this case was the speculation of some sort of franchise.
"I have no problem with this. Nevertheless, the pedantic branch of academia, the so called 'film studies,' in its attempt to do damage to cinema, will be ecstatic to find a small reference to that earlier film here and there, though it will fail to do the same damage that academia -- in the name of literary theory -- has done to poetry, which it has pushed to the brink of extinction.
"Cinema, so far, is more robust. I call upon the theoreticians of cinema to go after this one. Go for it, losers." -- an excerpt of Werner Herzog's statement in the Bad Lieutenant press notes, as passed along by The Wrap's Eric Kohn.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM
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BurmaShave
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I love this man.
Posted by BurmaShave
at September 16, 2009 3:51 PM
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Brian H
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Go tell 'em, brother.
Also, for Herzog fans:
http://www.mondotees.com/pl/Herzog-Black/35
Posted by Brian H
at September 16, 2009 4:07 PM
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chris7crows
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What the hell is he talking about?
Posted by chris7crows
at September 16, 2009 4:21 PM
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malibugigolo
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One way to gain the approval of people is to single out a minority most people cannot relate to, or will never know deeply on a personal level and denounce them with passion!
Another famous guy from Germany did this same maneuver in the past....guess it's a German thing.
Posted by malibugigolo
at September 17, 2009 12:26 AM
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Bilge
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Um, is this the same Werner Herzog who WALKED from Munich to Paris to visit the ailing film academic Lotte Eisner, in a desperate attempt to make her better?
Oh yeah, never mind, that Werner Herzog made fiction films like AGUIRRE, NOSFERATU, and FITZCARRALDO. This one makes BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS.
Posted by Bilge
at September 17, 2009 3:19 AM
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Apemantus
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I could never imagine an American director saying anything remotely like that in their press notes. I love it.
Posted by Apemantus
at September 18, 2009 6:05 PM
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