1:12:05
If I lose that by using a level terrain...
1:12:08
like the Panama Canal...
1:12:11
I lose the central metaphor
of my film.
1:12:16
For this reason, we don't agree.
1:12:20
As I've said,
I'd like to take a bit greater risk...
1:12:24
than what you advise.
1:12:26
Laplace Martins, a Brazilian engineer...
1:12:29
has worked out a complicated system
to pull Herzog's ship over the hill...
1:12:32
with cables, pulleys and the bulldozer.
1:12:35
But the system is designed
for a 20-degree slope.
1:12:38
Herzog insists on 40 degrees.
1:12:40
The system has already failed once.
1:12:43
Martins is afraid people will die
if it tears apart again.
1:12:49
About 60 men will work on this big capstan.
1:12:54
This is one of the places
of greatest potential danger.
1:12:57
If the tractor pulls loose
from the pulley system...
1:13:00
one of the cables could break...
1:13:04
and the pulley could wind up here.
1:13:06
And if the ship begins
to slide backwards...
1:13:09
it will drag all this with it.
1:13:16
And if there are people here...
1:13:17
and if for some unfortunate reason
they can't jump clear...
1:13:21
or jump from here to there,
which is lower ground...
1:13:25
they'll run the risk of getting hit.
1:13:28
This winch could hit this one...
1:13:31
this one could hit this one, and so forth.
1:13:34
It would be a real catastrophe.