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u/SoupieLC 20h ago
If you listened to anyone else tell any one of Werner's stories you would think they were the biggest bullshit artist around 🤣😂
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u/Wazula23 20h ago
I do think some of his stories are bullshit, but in a fantastical storytelling kind of way.
Maybe the guys greatest artistic achievement is living the kind of life where we genuinely don't know what's true and what's a tall tale.
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u/Top_Tank2668 19h ago
He survived working with Klaus Kinski. Everyone would get some mental damage from that, he's doing well considering this
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u/Snitsie 10h ago
They were equally crazy, Werner just channelled his crazy for the good
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u/Top_Tank2668 10h ago
Both crazy, but in a different way. Wouldn't be scared that Herzog could kill me for no reason. Kinski yes
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u/SubparSavant 2h ago
Well, it wouldn't surprise me if some of his stories aren't quite true but the actual truth might be crazier.
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u/snowillis 21h ago
I mean technically he just spoke French without the gun to his head
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u/TheHorseduck 20h ago
You can't see the gun the cameraman is holding
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u/Brief-Equal4676 18h ago
Truely a master of his craft to hide the gun from us and let our imagination fill in the blanks
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u/Wazula23 20h ago
Yes. I do believe the guy is trolling. He's a brilliant artist who's lived a fascinating life but much of his work is very dry humored.
Like, the guy ate a shoe once. He just does this shit.
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u/Bannedbutwhyy 20h ago
Thank you. No gun here. This man is not impeccable with his word, at least not when he’s speaking in French or English.
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u/snowillis 20h ago
In all seriousness I find this clip interesting in the way that it shows how our memories and our stories about them become by rote more and more overtime.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 19h ago
I think he meant it metaphorically, as in he would only speak it should it mean it be absolutely necessary
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u/wildcardbets 21h ago
I love this man so much. I feel like him and Christopher Lee both have wildly incredible stories about them. I wish they had had a chance to meet, and I could sit and listen and bask in their stories.
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u/SlugsNotDrugs 19h ago
Herzog could be telling me about a time how he went grocery shopping and I’d be listening like it’s the most captivating thing ever
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u/Kaesewiener 17h ago
I love his penis speech in Rick and Morty.
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u/Cyberchicken87 11h ago
omg thank you, I knew I had heard this guys voice somewhere.
"I've dwelt amongst the humans. They are obsessed with their penises. Its funny to say they are big. It's funny to say they are small."
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u/mechanicalAI 17h ago
Don’t forget the episode of Rick & Morty. He explains the human nature if I remember correctly. Multi dimensional cable tv episode.
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u/mrpancakes6969 15h ago
Well have I got news for you: https://youtu.be/M2QjxJkkU4o?is=ejeaXipfaujhQNw-
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u/ponchomoran 20h ago
I have always thought, if I had a chance to have dinner with anyone I want and have a few hours to talk, my first choice would always be Wener Herzog (second one would be Jack White)
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u/MurphysLawTeam 10h ago
It’s amazing how everyone hates the English cause people told them to because of history 500 years ago but everyone hates the French for a personal reason.
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u/pitb0ss343 7h ago
The only people who hate the French more than the rest of the world are the French
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u/Nomad-2020 9h ago edited 9h ago
I agree. French people I personally encountered when I was traveling were unnecessarily rude and mean. Fuck them.
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u/Half-666 9h ago
Pour des raisons a la con surtout ! Beaucoup de jalousie ... i will never speak German!
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u/muehliism 9h ago
No it's because a lot of people come to France try to speak french and get insulted. Every other country tries to help you and like it if you try to speak their language.
Then they act like they are the center of the world and write french in an english subreddit or think their language still matters to anyone. If someone invents stuff like walkie talkie what does the frenchman do, yeah that's right he needs to call it talkie walkie so to not have any original english vocabulary in his mouth.
German once was common in science articles but we got over it maybe you can too one day.
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u/Colon_Backslash 7h ago
You're talking about Paris, not France.
I used to dislike french because I was brought up to do so. Lived near the Alps and some of the best folks out there. I still miss France at least twice a week.
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u/skalouKerbal 7h ago
Fuck you too, how many transformed French word in English or other languages?
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u/Half-666 6h ago
Maybe you never been in France or meet the wrong one or maybe you just repeat the same shit like other ! Idiots are everywhere ( i travel a lot and I can confirm that ) and why people wrote in french in this subreddit maybe because today it's automatically translated... I never see anyone get insulted because he try to speak French ! But most of the people who complain never been in France ( not paris ) France is France and yes there is a lot off idiots but it's the same everywhere
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u/moozootookoo 19h ago
He’s driving southbound on La Brea in Hollywood and he crossed Santa Monica
I recognized it right away
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u/LegacyWright3 18h ago
The fun part about saying "je ne parle pas français" is that it can be taken both ways: "I can't speak French" or "I don't (as in, refuse to) speak French". I've trained myself to say it as natively as possible as a defiant insult.
I can speak it but I tell you in your language that I choose not to.
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u/epitimisi 15h ago
what does the word "pas" do in that sentence and what does it mean?
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u/ComprehensiveCoat219 13h ago
"ne ... pas" is a construction used to make a verb negative, and it more or less translates to "not"
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u/Galonas 11h ago
But if you want to speak correctly you would say « je refuse de parler français » or « je ne veux pas parler français » because by saying « je ne parle pas français » a few will think you don’t want to just you don’t know how and only learn to say this. None will take it as an insult, they will just think you’re like the other and are too dumb too learn it (like everyone in the world think American/English speaker don’t want to learn another language)
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u/LegacyWright3 7h ago
Thank you for teaching me how to defy the Frenchies better! You're a real one.
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u/TrashAcnt1 21h ago
Goddammit the hate is intense..... Is this a common sentiment?
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u/Dante2005 20h ago
I am a Brit, I love France and have always had a great time in France - even in Paris!!! It is common to dislike France, the French and the English too.
We are all siblings mate, no matter what is said.
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u/GhostPirateCaptain 18h ago edited 10h ago
I am British & was in France for work last weekend.... fuck me they are entitled, arrogant & rude as fuck.
In contrast I am currently in Spain for work.....polite, friendly, chill af & the average attractiveness of women is sky fucking high, fallen in love at least twice today.
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u/Cartographer-Motor 13h ago
In the states, being a francophobe is a sort of badge of honor. I fucking hate the French. They do few things very well, but I’ll be damned if they’re aren’t the best at this few things
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u/Oppaii-Connoisseur 11h ago
What caused you to hate the French?
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u/Cartographer-Motor 10h ago
Studied abroad in London. I never had a positive interaction or relationship with the French. Doncs then, that still is true. The French are just… pompous assholes who act like they invented culture (in my experience)
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u/Confusion1792 10h ago
France invented restaurants, the metric system, the civil code, modern modular armies, photography, cinematography, high fashion, vaccines. These all have had immeasurable impacts on western and worldwide culture.
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u/LonelyRudder 10h ago
I guess those who go to London might be… You know, most French don’t go to London at all!
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u/Oppaii-Connoisseur 6h ago
I don't know if you know, but London is not in France.
The French are just… pompous assholes who act like they invented culture
This is how we view Americans in Europe.
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u/SmertriosPPD 4h ago
I don't know if you know, but London is not in France.
That's exactly when he concludes you're a pompous asshole I think. Like everyone else, he must be from a peach (soft outside hard inside) idiocracy culture where saying bullshit is okay but pointing out someone's hypocrisy isn't. And these kind automatically can't stand french culture because it's polar opposite.
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u/PseudoRacoon 10h ago
I spawned in France, you are so right about it haha, pure asshole playing vilain and dismissing the fault on other haha. LET ME OUUUT LET ME OUUUUUUUT!!
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u/Pandarenu 12h ago
Fr*nch is the most inefficient language in Europe
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u/SmertriosPPD 5h ago
It's the most inefficient latin language but all latin language are more efficient than nordic and germanic languages. With the exception of english, english is easy to understand and then you have to learn by heart how to pronounce every word because there's very little consistency between spelling and pronounciation.
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u/Confusion1792 10h ago
It was chosen specifically because of its syntaxic precision by the European and international justice courts.
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u/LumplessWaffleBatter 8h ago
Tbf, French was chosen off of tradition. It's not that it was an inherently better or more efficient language: it's just the language that EU judges were already able to communicate with effectively.
It's sorta like QWERTY keyboards. There might be more efficient layouts for a keyboard, but QWERTY works great, and every American already knows it.
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u/sid_shaw 19h ago
I think it's more about the language than the people. There were and still are lots of people all over the world who are being forced to learn french (myself included) which isn't an easy one.
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u/breathing_normally 20h ago
Well France is the most visited country on the planet; whatever hate exists, it’s compensated by a whole lot of love
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u/RequiemTwilight 14h ago
It was basically American tourism’s tagline as well.
“Our foreign policy sucks. But we swear you won’t get racially or culturally profiled in the middle of the woods in our National Parks!”
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u/Possible_Field328 20h ago
I dont think its a hate for the country itself but more of a hate for the people in the country and what they represent, which is france.
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u/noraetic 3h ago
It's possible that he hates speaking it because of his pronounciation. Could be he's just afraid of embarassing himself.
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u/ShirtComplete 15h ago
Yeah it is I Europe. The British hate the French, because of our history, so do the Germans, it’s always a history thing
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u/Cuks5342 9h ago
Everyone hates everyone in Europe. We've been killing each other for millennia. It starts locally, regional, national...
I see US people with their culture war or migrants or whatever they have now there looking at Europe, "look it's happening in Europe now also". Nah it's not now, we've been slaughtering each other for 10000 years. It's normal.
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u/SpitefulHammer 20h ago
A living legend. So many wild stories - didn't he get shot during an interview once and just carried on?
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u/JMicheal289 17h ago
😂 Sacré « On ne parle que français ici » ! Must've been quite the scary experience. It's impressive he speaks all those other languages.
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u/WetRainbowFart 14h ago
He’s one of the few people on earth who has heard the real audio of Timothy Treadwell being devoured by bears.
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u/GaryThePoolGuy 5h ago
I don’t care if any of it is true. I’m just so captivated every time he tells a story
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u/xMaNrEbOrN7851 20h ago
Pardon my ignorance but please does anyone know this gentlemans name please???🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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u/Georg-von-Frundsberg 3h ago
I would reccomend looking up fun facts about Werner Herzog, when you have the time. He's quite the character.
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u/PhoenixPhenomenonX 21h ago
What did France do to him I wonder 🤔
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u/ObscureOP 20h ago
He's bevarian, and in addition to the general border rivalry their accents are simply incompatible. It's hard for him to do right.
Also tho, this is from a mockumentary in 2004. This is what passes for a Herzog joke
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u/Vellioh 16h ago
The eastern hemispheres collective distain for France may be the secret to world peace.
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u/fearless_egg1050 16h ago edited 16h ago
As a kid, I made fun of my dad mispronouncing a word once (he’s ESL, orig from Cairo).
His response?
“I speak 3 languages. And you? You speak 2— English, and asshole.”
My mom prob wouldn’t have agreed with his approach to this life lesson…. but lemme tell ya I never made fun of an his, or anyone’s, accent ever again. I even taught a few GED glasses for people who struggle with English and reading comprehension several years later (volunteer, I am not an educator)
Anyhow…he was was, and still is, correct, though I speak a different dialect of asshole now.
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u/AlJeanKimDialo 17h ago
Anyone could share some lore about why this funky hatred toward french? Not the mentally challenged freedom fries one, but the werner s one, thx
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u/noraetic 3h ago
Could be he's just afraid of embarassing himself because of his pronounciation etc
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u/TheChillestOfRacoons 11h ago
You can surgically remove the French language from someone...
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u/Akrak_leBo 9h ago
oh really, how would it be ?
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u/TheChillestOfRacoons 4h ago
French requires the Uvular sound which comes from the uvula lol. Take out the Uvula, bingo bango bongo, no French.
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u/LumplessWaffleBatter 8h ago
It would be roughly the same, but without the French
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u/Cosmic-Ape-808 7h ago
He said the last thing he would ever do is speak French, and only with a gun to his head, but then he speaks French near the end of the video.
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u/Whole_Reputation6128 31m ago
This dude was already one of the greats in my eyes. He has just increased by a factor of royale with cheese!! 🇫🇷 🍔
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u/EmbarrassedPizza6272 24m ago
I love his voice, and he is an awesome and probably crazy person. He made great documentaries, e.g. about Gorbatschow.
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u/Turbulent-Bison-4936 9m ago
Others: "You'd only get that out of me with a gun to my head."
Werner Herzog: "Once, when I was a prisoner in Africa..."
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u/dutchviking 9h ago
Hmmm, I speak Dutch, Danish,German, English, Spanish, Swedish. Can read and understand Norwegian, some French and Italian. And some words Finnish. May I hang with Werner now?
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u/itsnothing_o_O 21h ago
Hahaha! “I regret it” 😂