Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Difference between revisions

* [[Camping a Crapper]]: Guzmán is murdered on a visit to the toilet.

* [[Cannibal Tribe]]: "Meat is passing by!"

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Inez warns Ursúa of Aguirre's rebellious scheme, and Aguirre of what she calls "God's punishment". Both warnings are unheeded.

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: You're half afraid he's going to ''eat'' that monkey.

* [[Incest Is Relative]]: When Aguirre finally loses it, he states what he plans to do with his daughter, {{spoiler|whom he fails to remember is already dead.}}

{{quote| '''Lope de Aguirre:''' I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I'll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.}}

* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Set up to condemn Ursúa.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Yell at the horse, toss the monkey.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When Aguirre makes his final monologue proclaiming eternal vengeance on any who would disobey him, to a raft of corpses and monkeys no less, he speaks with in a low, sedate voice. This was a case of [[Enforced Method Acting]].

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Carvajal.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Aguirre.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Herzog was travelling with a soccer team while writing the script, and one of them got drunk and vomited on the first several pages he'd done, rendering them illegible. To this day, he has no memory of what was on the lost pages.

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: The ship in the treetops calls for this. What is known by [[Word of God]] is that the ship originally was part of a subplot that was dropped in the course of filming (it was intended to be a real ship, not a hallucination). As to how it did get up there ... well ...