Werner Herzog watches WrestleMania. Discuss.

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A snippet, regarding TV, from a short but insightful piece in Variety about Herzog's role in Disney+/Star Wars' The Mandalorian.

Do you watch any television?

I do, I watch the news from different sources. Sometimes I see things that are completely against my cultural nature. I was raised with Latin and Ancient Greek and poetry from Greek antiquity, but sometimes, just to see the world I live in, I watch “WrestleMania.”

An unexpected choice.

You have to know what a good amount of the population is watching. Do not underestimate the Kardashians. As vulgar as they may be, it doesn’t matter that much, but you have to find some sort of orientation. As I always say, the poet must not close his eyes, must not avert them.

So you’ve been watching “Keeping Up With the Kardashians?”

I’m starting to discover it. I’m curious; that’s my guiding principal.

If you didn't read this in his voice, or partaking in the rest of the thread reading back what you say in said voice, you're missing many levels of fascination.

[Moppy]

Disappointed. I thought this would be a reactions video.

[Push R Truth]

It's impossible for me to read this NOT in his voice. And it makes it all that much better.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Not actually new, believe it or not


www.vice.com/en_us/article/av44xp/werner-herzog-interview-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-279

I take it you don’t consume much pop culture?

Not very much, no. Well, I look with great interest at phenomena like WrestleMania. Or I used to watch the Anna Nicole Smith Show because there was a very strange cultural shift there. I go to the football stadium; that’s a form of popular culture.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

This apparently has been going on for a while, but he just keeps bringing it up.

www.gq.com/story/werner-herzog-wrestlemania

"Why do I watch Wrestlemania? My answer is the poet must not avert his eyes from what's going on in the world. In order to understand what's going on, you have to face it.”

EDIT: shit, I was beaten to it! YOU MUST NOT AVERT YOUR EYES FROM THE REDUNDANT WERNER HERZOG THREAD, IN THE DAYS OF SOPHOCLES AND HOMER THERE WAS A BEAUTY CREATED BY THE COLLECTIVE MIND, A BEAUTY TO BE SHARED AND SPREAD THROUGH THE CULTURE, THROUGH THE AGES. BUT NOW, THIS KANYE WEST, THIS ELDERLY MAN AND HIS WRESTLING COMPANY, THEY HAVE A NEW BEAUTY AND IT IS, ON ONE HAND, GROTESQUE AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, IT IS LISSOME AND STRANGE AND IMPORTANT. WE MUST

[nickcave]

I love him so much, so an interesting individual.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

WERNER HERZOG, A MAN, WATCHES THE SUCCULENT IMAGES, THE INSATIABLE GROTESQUERY OF THE MODERN GLADIATORS. THESE CHERISHED IDOLS, BELOVED AND DESPISED, STAND AT THE MIDPOINT OF CRUELTY AND FARCE AND, IN A WAY, AS DOES THE AUDIENCE. BY 'FARCE' I DO NOT MEAN MOCKERY, BUT RATHER HEIGHTENED BEAUTY, AS RAPHAEL'S PAINTINGS COULD BE CONSIDERED 'FARCE' OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. AND, YOU SEE, VULGARITY AND PROFUNDITY ARE NOT ACTUALLY DIFFERENT. THE GREAT MAN TOWERS, HE PULLS SMALLER MEN INTO THE AIR AND BEHIND HIM INTO A JUNGLE OF TERRIBLE SUPLEXES, AS THE JUNGLE CONSUMED OUR FOREFATHERS. AND

[Bo Rida]

I thought Werner Herzog wa the company in the office.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Actually, he truth probably is that one day he asked people what the trashiest thing on TV was, and someone showed him the segment with Linda in the wheelchair, and he's been using it as an example of "shit entertainment" ever since.

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"This crap is more surreal that what I do! What the f***?"

[Wieners=$$$]

It's cool Vern, I mostly watch YouTube too.

[RI Richmark]

Wasn't he the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980's?

[ToyfareMark]

So he only watches Wrestlemania every year? Or does he use Wrestlemania as an umbrella term for wrestling in general?

[Kyn]

Beat that, Max Landis.

[Squirrel Master]

I'm just here to say that Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" was brilliant.

[avenger]

Woah. GQ have found fifteen occasions where he's talked about Wrestlemania.

www.gq.com/story/werner-herzog-wrestlemania

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'Look into the eyes of the Goobledygooker and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. It is the the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish gimmick in the world of Sports Entertainment."

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“It's fascinating because something very crude, something very raw is emerging. A very raw, primitive form of new drama is being born, as primitive and crude as it must have been in the earlier Greek times before Sophocles and before Euripides, when something like this emerged for the public eye. I do believe that what is fascinating about WrestleMania is the stories around it: the dramas between the owner of the whole show and his son, who are feuding, and his wife in the wheelchair who is blind, and he is then showing up in the ring with four girls who have huge, fake boobs, and he is fondling them. This is almost sort of an ancient Greek drama—evil uninterrupted by commercials. So, what does it say? It says that this sort of thing is more important that the fight itself (which of course is all staged and all manipulated). And that's very interesting to me because apparently the emergence of a new drama has been understood by these people who invented WrestleMania.”

Good lord......

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I don't really know who this is. I had to look him up. The only thing by him I've ever seen apparently is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans which featured Nicholas Cage ranting about iguanas only he could see and a breakdancing ghost.

[Hulkshi Tanahashi]

He is the answer to WWE's problems. Hire him and let him loose. New boom period, garanteed.