Burden of Dreams
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1:30:12
Herzog's film ends with Fitzcarraldo
achieving a victory of sorts.

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He sells his battered steamship
and makes just enough money...

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to bring a small-time opera troupe
to Iquitos for a single performance.

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In the end, Herzog won
a painful victory ofhis own.

1:30:28
After months of work, using heavier equipment
and a new engineering crew from Lima...

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he pulled the ship to the top of the hill...
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and in November, 1981...
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almost four years
after preproduction began...

1:30:40
the last shot of Fitzcarraldo
was completed.

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It's not only my dreams.
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My belief is that
all these dreams are-

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are yours as well.
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And the only distinction between
me and you is that I can articulate them.

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And that is what poetry or painting
or literature or filmmaking is all about.

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It's as simple as that.
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And I - I make films because...
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I have not learned anything else.
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And I know I can do it
to a certain degree.

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And it is my duty...
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because this, uh...
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might be the- the inner chronicle
of what we are.

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And we have to articulate ourselves...
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otherwise we would be
cows in the field.


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