Scenarios III: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde (1)

By: Werner Herzog

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Synopsis: For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog&’s early works &“Herzog doesn&’t write traditional scripts,&” Film International remarked of the master filmmaker&’s Scenarios I and II. &“Instead, he writes scenarios which are like a hybrid of film, fiction, and prose poetry.&”Continuing a series that Publishers Weekly pronounced &“compulsively readable . . . equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening,&” Scenarios III presents, for the first time in English, the shape-shifting scripts for four of Werner Herzog&’s early films: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; and Cobra Verde. We can observe Herzog&’s working vision as each of these scenarios unfolds in a form often dramatically different from the film&’s final version—as, in his own words, Herzog works himself up into &“this kind of frenzy of high-caliber language and concepts and beauty.&”With Scenarios I and II, this volume completes the picture of Herzog&’s earliest work, affording a view of the filmmaker mastering his craft, well on his way to becoming one of the most original, and most celebrated, artists in his field.