Mountain Goat

Eccentric visionary who climbs where no sane filmmaker dares.

Werner Herzog embodies the mountain-goat's radical self-sufficiency and unconventional path-finding — dragging a steamship over a real mountain in 'Fitzcarraldo,' eating his shoe on a bet, and filming inside active volcanoes. He operates entirely outside Hollywood convention, carving his own treacherous routes with calm, almost mystical certainty. His philosophical monologues about the 'obscene, murdering' indifference of nature reveal a loner who finds meaning precisely where others fear to tread.