:23:13
Did you sail the ship
all the way up the river from Iquitos?
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Yes. They had to come from Iquitos
all the way up here...
:23:20
which was quite hard.
:23:22
It's a very, very big distance.
Maybe 1,500 miles or 2,000 miles.
:23:26
Between Rio Urubamba
and Rio Camisea...
:23:29
we are pulling the boat now.
:23:33
After shooting in Iquitos...
:23:35
Herzog moves cast and crew
1,500 miles south...
:23:39
to his newjungle location
on the Rio Camisea.
:23:42
From Iquitos,
under the best of circumstances...
:23:44
it takes a full day
to reach the camp by air...
:23:47
with the last leg
in a small, single-engine plane...
:23:50
and over two weeks by boat
when the rivers are navigable at all.
:23:53
Since Herzog admits he could shoot
most of Fitzcarraldo right outside Iquitos...
:23:57
some people think
the remotejungle location...
:24:00
is just another example
ofhis insistence on making things tough.
:24:05
Herzog claims that the isolated location...
:24:07
will bring out special qualities
in the actors and even the film crew...
:24:11
that would be impossible
to achieve otherwise.
:24:23
The local Machiguenga Indians
are cooperative...
:24:26
but Herzog's problems
are far from over.
:24:29
The upper Amazon tributaries are too shallow
for large ships to use unless they're flooded.
:24:35
Originally, Herzog had planned to shoot
during the rainy season...
:24:38
when the rivers would have been
high enough for him to move his ships.
:24:41
But all the delays have thrown him
badly off schedule.
:24:44
By now the rainy season is over...
:24:46
and the rivers are falling fast.
:24:48
He has no choice.
Ifhe waits, the film will collapse.