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** While filming ''Series/TheMandalorian'', he found out the producers were thinking of switching out the Baby Yoda puppet for a CGI. Having - [[OneOfUs like the rest of the planet]] - fallen in love with how precious the child puppet was, he shamed them with a "You are cowards, leave it" retort that convinced them to stick with puppet.
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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film. Most recently, he's been cast as an Imperial remnant leader in ''Series/TheMandalorian''.
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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film. Most recently, he's been cast in ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film. Most recently, he's been cast as an Imperial remnant leader in ''Series/TheMandalorian''.
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* CrazyAwesome: Creator/KlausKinski's antics on his movies' sets. And that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the other things he has done.
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* CrazyAwesome: And that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the things he has done.

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* CrazyAwesome: Creator/KlausKinski's antics on his movies' sets. And that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the other things he has done.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most of his scores.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German electronic avant-garde band Popol Vuh provided most of his scores.
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** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity make more people]] aware he has a new one coming out.

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** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity make more people]] aware people aware]] he has a new one coming out.
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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn and often TroubledProduction, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.

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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn and often TroubledProduction, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.much.
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** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just make more people aware he has a new one coming out.
* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film.

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** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity make more people people]] aware he has a new one coming out.
* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film. Most recently, he's been cast in ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most of his scores.



* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most of his scores.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** In his videos on Masterclass.com, he shares that
while German band Popol Vuh provided most making ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'', he visited another film set nearby and was outraged to see a studio suit having an angry phone conversation right in the middle of Forest Whitaker's eyeline in the middle of shooting. After the scene finished, he asked Whitaker "How did you resist grabbing a shovel and murdering him from behind like a coward?"
** His response to anyone who takes issue with
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occasionally bending the truth in his documentaries: "You're all losers. Happy New Year!"
** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just make more people aware he has a new one coming out.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film.
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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn and often TroubledProduction, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** In his videos on Masterclass.com, he shares that while making ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'', he visited another film set nearby and was outraged to see a studio suit having an angry phone conversation right in the middle of Forest Whitaker's eyeline in the middle of shooting. After the scene finished, he asked Whitaker "How did you resist grabbing a shovel and murdering him from behind like a coward?"
** His response to anyone who takes issue with his occasionally bending the truth in his documentaries: "You're all losers. Happy New Year!"
** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just make more people aware he has a new one coming out.
* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film.

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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn and often TroubledProduction, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** In his videos on Masterclass.com, he shares that while making ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'', he visited another film set nearby and was outraged to see a studio suit having an angry phone conversation right in the middle of Forest Whitaker's eyeline in the middle of shooting. After the scene finished, he asked Whitaker "How did you resist grabbing a shovel and murdering him from behind like a coward?"
** His response to anyone who takes issue with his occasionally bending the truth in his documentaries: "You're all losers. Happy New Year!"
** Calling the people who keep trying to drum up hate for his films "unpaid stooges" thanks to how they inevitably just make more people aware he has a new one coming out.
* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In his videos on Masterclass.com, he shares that while making ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'', he visited another film set nearby and was outraged to see a studio suit having an angry phone conversation right in the middle of Forest Whitaker's eyeline in the middle of shooting. After the scene finished, he asked Whitaker "How did you resist grabbing a shovel and murdering him from behind like a coward?"

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** His response to anyone who takes issue with his occasionally bending the truth in his documentaries: "You're all losers. Happy New Year!"

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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.

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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn, SceneryPorn and often TroubledProduction, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.much.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In his videos on Masterclass.com, he shares that while making ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'', he visited another film set nearby and was outraged to see a studio suit having an angry phone conversation right in the middle of Forest Whitaker's eyeline in the middle of shooting. After the scene finished, he asked Whitaker "How did you resist grabbing a shovel and murdering him from behind like a coward?"
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** He prides himself greatly in how throughout his long career filled with SceneryPorn, he's ''never once'' gone over-budget, crediting it to doing an overview of where the budget is going at the start of each day and quickly putting a stop to anything using too much.
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Bunny Ears Lawyer is not YMMV.


* BunnyEarsLawyer: Arguably one of the most famous and influential documentarians of the past forty years. Also once ate his own shoe [[note]] on a bet[[/note]].
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** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.

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** Herzog [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w com/watch?v=HrRNM9cMBDk got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Arguably one of the most famous and influential documentarians of the past forty years. Also once ate his own shoe [[note]] on a bet[[/note]].
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most his scores.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most of his scores.
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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher''.

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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher''.''Film/JackReacher'', fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing a Bond villain-like character on film.
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*** Creator/LesBlank's documentary ''[[http://www.hulu.com/watch/166742 Burden of Dreams]]'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.

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*** Creator/LesBlank's Les Blank's documentary ''[[http://www.hulu.com/watch/166742 Burden of Dreams]]'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.
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** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just [[{{Badass}} brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.]]

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** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just [[{{Badass}} brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.]]
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* HeAlsoDid: He acted in protegé Creator/HarmonyKorine's ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'' and ''Film/MisterLonely'', and played the BigBad in ''Film/JackReacher''.
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-->''"It's not a significant bullet."''

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** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just [[{{BadAss}} brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.]]

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** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just [[{{BadAss}} [[{{Badass}} brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.]]
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*** Creator/LesBlank's documentary ''Burden of Dreams'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.

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*** Creator/LesBlank's documentary ''Burden ''[[http://www.hulu.com/watch/166742 Burden of Dreams'' Dreams]]'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.
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*** Les Blanc's documentary ''Burden of Dreams'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.

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*** Les Blanc's Creator/LesBlank's documentary ''Burden of Dreams'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.
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** *** Les Blanc's documentary ''Burden of Dreams'' really impresses the sheer magnitude of this task upon its viewers.
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* CrazyAwesome: And that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the things he has done.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nearly every film features at least one example. For a while German band Popol Vuh provided most his scores.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Most famously in ''Film/{{Fitzcarraldo}}'': The characters in the film drag a 320 ton (290 metric ton) steamboat over the land. This was done using methods that were actually ''more difficult'' than the [[{{Biopic}} actual event]]. Mocked in his film ''Incident at Loch Ness''.
** Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w got shot in the stomach with an air rifle in LA during an interview]] and just [[{{BadAss}} brushed it off to continue the interview in a sound studio with no medical aid.]]
-->''"It's not a significant bullet."''

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