Just found this clip on YouTube. Could this have been the chance for Mick to raise the bar in his acting career?

fitzcarraldo

compare scene from 1:01 to this one with Kinski...

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Thank you for posting thomashanck, I can see how much more powerful the scene work Kinski on his own is. But maybe, Kinski could have brought something out in Mick and helped him to improve his acting; had he been able to return.

mick`s german isn`t up to par IMHO.

Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

Ain't impossible to tailor a role around that. I would pay to see him as the tweed-clad gospel preacher of a mafia-financed megachurch or something.

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

He has not been able to detach himself from his stage persona in the movies. His best acting was in Performance but he was portraying a rock star and he was good in Bent as well. As for the rest

Mick's in this Herzog memoir:

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Thank you for posting thomashanck, I can see how much more powerful the scene work Kinski on his own is. But maybe, Kinski could have brought something out in Mick and helped him to improve his acting; had he been able to return.

Yeah, but they haven´t been on the set together, Mick somehow had a tour to do (I always wondered how Herzog dealt with that?!?)
and Jason Robards got ill - Herzog called up his all-time weapon Kinski.

I understood they somehow mixed the 2 roles up in one, right?

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compare scene from 1:01 to this one with Kinski...

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We see the light! Mick is a singer, and Kinski an actor. As Fitzcaralta is a movie, easy to understand...

OT but a nice story :

on the set of Fitz a (local) crew member got bitten at the foot by the deadliest snake around, a "minute" snake which meant he would die within seconds when the venom would go to his heart.

Well the gentleman grabbed a chainsaw and cut his foot off... and saved his life.

Keith would have loved being on the set! That was his type of atmosphere! ><

I read somewhere ages ago that Mick found it really hard working in the jungle, but I thought that he loved adventurous travelling

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OT but a nice story

... Anyone ever tell you your idea of 'a nice story' is kinda offbeat? :E

You live in Europe or the US, right? You pampered emasculated pXXXy-whipped Westerner!

We machos from Tijuana down to Ushuia gustan this story very mucho mucho ><

Imagine what would have happened if el crew memeber had been bitten while he was taking a leak. Chainsaw against pollo y cojones! Ouch!

Whoa nelly - or whoa dcba as the case may be! Where did I say I don't like your story?
I immediately retold it to my neighbours' children, with appropriate sound effects.
I achieved what I was aiming at. :E
Oh and by the way:

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You pampered emasculated pXXXy-whipped ...

I'm a she-sssoul, dcba dear, and always have been :E

Meanwhile, back on topic: I still stay up late to see the Mick in Freejack (one Mississippi ... two Mississippi ... )
but I think he was at his best in Enigma. Actors should disappear into their roles and outside of Enigma,
the Mick just doesn't manage that. It's Hey that's Mick Jagger! all the way - which suits Freejack just fine,
and other roles not so much.

I love Nikkei's vision of casting him as a gospel preacher. Call the screenwriters! :E



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-05-10 15:53 by with sssoul.

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Thank you for posting thomashanck, I can see how much more powerful the scene work Kinski on his own is. But maybe, Kinski could have brought something out in Mick and helped him to improve his acting; had he been able to return.

Yeah, but they haven´t been on the set together, Mick somehow had a tour to do (I always wondered how Herzog dealt with that?!?)
and Jason Robards got ill - Herzog called up his all-time weapon Kinski.

I understood they somehow mixed the 2 roles up in one, right?

Mixed up the two roles like in Performance?
'Losing Mick was the greatest loss I have ever experienced as a film director' Herzog was simply devastated.

This is a classic:

Kinski against a member of Herzog´s staff






The Indians are quite shocked.
beware: rude German language

"Leck mich doch am Arsch, Mensch!"



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He's having a go at Walter Saxer there... who can be briefly seen in the beginning of Herzog's previous film (Woyzeck) having a go at Kinski...

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I read somewhere ages ago that Mick found it really hard working in the jungle, but I thought that he loved adventurous travelling

could be because of his being sent to camps back in the jungle.

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I read somewhere ages ago that Mick found it really hard working in the jungle, but I thought that he loved adventurous travelling

could be because of his being sent to camps back in the jungle.

I thought he loved camping!><

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

Ain't impossible to tailor a role around that. I would pay to see him as the tweed-clad gospel preacher of a mafia-financed megachurch or something.

whether intentional or not, you've come up with an absolutely brilliant idea Nikkei.

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

Ain't impossible to tailor a role around that. I would pay to see him as the tweed-clad gospel preacher of a mafia-financed megachurch or something.

whether intentional or not, you've come up with an absolutely brilliant idea Nikkei.

"Everyone up in the back say Oh Ye-he-heah!"

I liked Mick in the comedy "Freejack" he was funny...
and I thought he was good in "The Man from Elysian Fields"

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Mick always looks oddly displaced in the movies.

it's the finger pointing and gesticulating. there's a time and place for everything and he needs to learn that.

Ain't impossible to tailor a role around that. I would pay to see him as the tweed-clad gospel preacher of a mafia-financed megachurch or something.

whether intentional or not, you've come up with an absolutely brilliant idea Nikkei.

"Everyone up in the back say Oh Ye-he-heah!"

Brilliant, and he should wear his feather cape from SFTD><

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Brilliant, and he should wear his feather cape from SFTD><

Better put him back in his 95/95 Baron Samedi suit - best Lucifer look ever

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Brilliant, and he should wear his feather cape from SFTD><

Better put him back in his 95/95 Baron Samedi suit - best Lucifer look ever

That was absolutely fabulous