With nom de guerre's such as the following there is no under-rating... Baby Faced Assassin Beltin' Celt Dublin Dynamiter Dublin Destroyer Murderous Mick The Belfast Spider The Jew Killer The Jew Beater Hebrew Scourge The Irish Lullaby
Yeah, they produced lots of good stuff when they did solo-work but together they produced greatness. Two fascinating and very opposite characters too. Bigger fan of Kinski though. Never seen such an obsessed person, with his work and himself, ever. And he got away with it. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITx7txr-7M[/ame]
I love this. He (Kinski) is up there with Brando, Olivier and whoever else IMO. One of the greatest actors to ever draw breath, even if he did make a lot of bad films. Herzog just brought it out of him, the madness and everything. I like the probably apocryphal story of when they were filming Aguirre - Kinski wanted him (Aguirre) to be a raving nutter whereas Herzog wanted something more restrained and menacing. So Herzog would take the **** out of him, wind him up til he threw a fit and burnt himself out, then he'd set the camera rolling when Kinski was knackered from shouting . Anthony Lane in the New Yorker in his review of Rescue Dawn called Herzog 'cinema's last and greatest hallucinator'. It's a fine description of a man who is probably my favourite ever director. Cool as a cucumber - who else could get shot with an air-rifle in the middle of an interview and then say what he did? 'Never mind, it was not a significant bullet....' With Mickey Mouse boxer shorts on too.