Burden of Dreams
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:57:01
No good. It's no good.
:57:03
Look here, kid.
This is no good.

:57:05
The Indians agree
to make a few bows and arrows for Kinski.

:57:09
They accept his payment
of $3.50 an arrow...

:57:12
the equivalent of a full day's wage.
:57:14
To the Indians, who can make
20 arrows in a day...

:57:17
this probably seems like
an extreme overpayment...

:57:20
until they have to pay the same 3.50
for a single Polaroid photo...

:57:23
taken by one of the Peruvian workers.
:57:52
They earn about twice as much here...
:57:56
as they would earn when
they work in the field somewhere.

:57:59
In- On Rio Tambo
or somewhere else.

:58:02
The tractor driver earns, uh...
:58:05
a good average wage
for a tractor driver here.

:58:09
But it is no comparison between, uh...
:58:12
the level of salaries
that we have to pay...

:58:15
to actors and technicians here
from Europe or United States...

:58:19
and those people here.
:58:21
And I think many-
many, many of the things...

:58:24
should not be counted
and calculated in - in terms of money.

:58:29
What is much more important
for the natives here...

:58:32
is that this land here
which has no land title yet...

:58:35
will belong to them
after we have finished that film.

:58:39
And, um, to struggle for them, uh...
:58:43
for the land title for-
for this whole territory-

:58:45
that no settlers or no oil companies
or no lumber people...

:58:50
can exploit it
and take it away from them...

:58:53
that - that is something decisive.
:58:58
Because Herzog wants to avoid
repeating the situation with the Aguarunas...


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