The Romantic Cinema of Werner Herzog: approaches between German Romanticism and the Concept of Ecstatic Truth
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German Romanticism. Ecstatic Truth. Werner Herzog. Cinema.Abstract
This article explores the similarities between the intellectual movement German Romanticism and Werner Herzog’s concept of Ecstatic Truth. We seek to single out, in the filmmaker’s cinema, propositions of a romantic-influenced aesthetics. As methodology, we use direct sources related to the approach of “Theory of Filmmakers”. In other words, besides film fragments, we also turned to interviews and declarations by Werner Herzog about the making of his films as a creation process. The main similarities found from this comparison were: (1) an inherently romantic tendency towards escapism, present among Herzog’s characters; (2) nature seen as the only option left, and (3) moments filled with the sensation of fear, shiver and paralysis.
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