Burden of Dreams
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1:10:03
if it was for my pleasure.
1:10:06
But it's not that.
I do it out of necessity.

1:10:09
When you would ask me, uh...
1:10:11
to have a prostitute in my, uh-
1:10:14
on my shooting location in the United States
or in Germany, it would be ridiculous...

1:10:19
but here, uh...
1:10:21
it is standard expectation
and standard behavior...

1:10:24
and somehow the -
1:10:27
I don't know.
The -The jungle sweats it out.

1:10:29
It's not even ob-obscene.
1:10:32
It is, uh...
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probably some fertility
or whatever...

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that's going on here in thejungle.
1:11:15
Estebán.
1:11:17
Be careful when we hit
so you don't fall off.

1:11:23
Boom.
1:11:25
Well, the boat that Fitzcarraldo
actually pulled across was only 30 tons.

1:11:29
- Yes.
- And how big is your boat?

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Besides, they, uh, disassembled it
in about 14 or 15 parts...

1:11:37
and carried these parts individually
across a mountain.

1:11:41
And, um...
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I find it much better to -
to leave it intact as it is.

1:11:47
Like this here.
And you can tell the difference -

1:11:50
that this is not a plastic boat
and that this -

1:11:53
that this slope here is no -
no joke at all.

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The central metaphor of my film...
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is that they haul a ship over
what's essentially an impossibly steep hill.


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