Schnitt Again
Posted by Chris S.
Incidentally, Mike (and others):
"Schnitt" apparently means "editor" in German, as Herzog notes in the commentary to Even Dwarfs Started Small that Beate Junglinghaus (or something similar...forgot her last name already) was his editor for many years. And a harsh editor she was! Some very good stories in there....she threw out five hundred feet worth of footage that he shot on Signs of Life because "it was so bad, I do not wish to touch it or be associated with it ever again!" She HATED all of his movies, apart from Dwarfs, and thought his cinematography was awful. The reason he kept her on for more than a decade (she's credited through Fitzcarraldo!)? "I do not like to associate with yes-men, or even yes-women!"
Only Werner Herzog would consciously hire a NO-woman to be his editor. Schnitt on, Beate...Schnitt on.
Incidentally, Mike (and others):
"Schnitt" apparently means "editor" in German, as Herzog notes in the commentary to Even Dwarfs Started Small that Beate Junglinghaus (or something similar...forgot her last name already) was his editor for many years. And a harsh editor she was! Some very good stories in there....she threw out five hundred feet worth of footage that he shot on Signs of Life because "it was so bad, I do not wish to touch it or be associated with it ever again!" She HATED all of his movies, apart from Dwarfs, and thought his cinematography was awful. The reason he kept her on for more than a decade (she's credited through Fitzcarraldo!)? "I do not like to associate with yes-men, or even yes-women!"
Only Werner Herzog would consciously hire a NO-woman to be his editor. Schnitt on, Beate...Schnitt on.
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