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" Fitzcarraldo "  [陸上行舟]

歌劇狂費茲卡羅多在巴西欣賞到世界著名男高音卡羅素的演出，激動之餘，決定要在亞瑪遜河叢林 建造歌劇院，並邀請卡羅素來此演出。他決心運用人力將一艘汽船翻山越嶺，深入亞馬遜河源頭，向蠻荒挑戰，如此才能將印安人收取的橡膠原汁運往外地，換取豐富的利潤，以實現建造歌劇院的夢想。


Fitzcarraldo is a 1982  film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman called Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory. The film is derived from the real-life story of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald.

Brian "Fitzcarraldo" Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), a European living in a small city in Peru in the early part of the 20th century, has a great love of opera and an indomitable spirit. He is, however, a dreamer who has one major failure already behind him — the bankrupt Trans-Andean Railway company. A great fan of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso, he now dreams of building an opera house in his city of Iquitos. This will require a lot of money, and the most profitable industry in Peru at the time is rubber. The areas known to contain rubber trees have been parceled up by the Peruvian government and can be leased for exploitation.

Fitzcarraldo investigates getting into the rubber business. He is shown a map by a helpful rubber baron, who points out the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains why no one has yet claimed the parcel: while it straddles the Ucayali River, the parcel is cut off from the Amazon by a treacherous set of rapids. However, Fitzcarraldo notices that the Pachitea River, another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters to the Ucayali upstream of the parcel.

To make his dream a reality, he leases the inaccessible parcel from the government. With the selfless underwriting of his paramour, Molly (Claudia Cardinale), a successful brothel owner, he buys a steamer (which he christens the Molly Aida) from the same rubber baron, raises a crew and sets off up the Pachitea, the parallel river. This river is known to be more dangerous the further one gets from the Amazon because of the unfriendly tribes that inhabit the area. Fitzcarraldo's plan is to reach the point where the two rivers nearly meet and then, with the manpower of enlisted natives, physically pull his three-story, 320-ton steamer over the muddy 40° hillside across an isthmus, from one river to the next.[2] Using the steamer, he will then collect rubber on the upper Ucayali and bring it down the Pachitea to market.


The story was inspired by the real life Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald; in the 1890s, Fitzcarrald did bring a steamship across an isthmus from one river into another, but it weighed only thirty tons (rather than over 300), and was carried over in pieces to be reassembled at its destination.

In his autobiographical film Portrait Werner Herzog, Herzog has stated that the film's spectacular production was partly inspired by the engineering feats of ancient standing stones. The film production was an incredible ordeal, and famously involved moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill without the use of special effects. Herzog believed that no one had ever performed a similar feat in history, and likely never will again, calling himself "Conquistador of the Useless". Scenes were also shot aboard the ship while it crashed through rapids, injuring three of the six people involved in the filming.

Casting of the film was also quite difficult. Jason Robards was originally cast in the title role, but he became ill with dysentery during early filming and, after leaving for treatment, was forbidden by his doctors to return. Herzog then considered casting Jack Nicholson, and even playing Fitzcarraldo himself, before Klaus Kinski accepted the role. By that point, forty percent of shooting with Robards was complete, and for continuity Herzog was forced to begin a total reshoot with Kinski. Mick Jagger was originally cast as Fitzcarraldo's assistant Wilbur, but due to the delays his shooting schedule expired and he departed to tour with the Rolling Stones. Herzog dropped Jagger's character from the script altogether and reshot the film from the beginning.

Klaus Kinski himself was a major source of tension, as he fought with Herzog and other members of the crew and greatly upset the native extras. In his documentary My Best Fiend, Herzog says that one of the native chiefs offered to murder Kinski for him, but that he declined because he needed Kinski to complete filming.

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「費茲卡羅多」在當地語言的意思是「無謂事物的迷戀者」，人如其名，他經常有令人無法理解的舉動，比如計畫建造貫穿印加山脈的鐵路、在熱帶雨林裡生產冰塊等等。拍攝本片的過程也像一種費茲卡羅多式的行為，在南美的熱帶雨林中實景拍攝、四次換角風波、資金耗盡、人員傷亡，各樣異事層出不窮，荷索甚至還遭到國際特赦組織的調查。本片總共歷時四年才完成，困境中，荷索甚至對男主角克勞斯金斯基說：「你要是現在離 開，就會有八顆子彈找到你，第九顆是留給我自己用的。」影片主人翁費茲卡羅多驚世駭俗的舉止，幾乎就是荷索精神世界的真實寫照。