Scenarios: Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo

Description

Werner Herzog doesn't write traditional screenplays; he writes fever dreams brimming with madness, greed, humor, and dark isolation that can shift dramatically during production-and have materialized into extraordinary masterpieces unlike anything in film today. Harnessing his vision and transcendent reality, these four pieces of long-form prose earmark a renowned filmmaker at the dawn of his career.

Werner Herzog has produced, written, and directed more than seventy films. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is author of Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 (Minnesota, 2015) and Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo.

"A compulsively readable, probing collection. It's equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening."-Publishers Weekly "Herzog seems to peer nonstop into the abyss combining vainglory, cruelty, and madness. Those are the coordinates at which Herzog geolocates humanity."-BookForum "Scenarios contains more than merely dialogue in cold type. Herzog's screenplays read like novellas-the characters are fully thought-out and the settings are vividly described, albeit in long, medium and close shots."-Shepherd Express "Herzog doesn't write traditional scripts. Instead, Herzog writes scenarios which are like a hybrid of film, fiction, and prose poetry."-Film International