YMMV / Aguirre, the Wrath of God

• Ass Pull: When Inez walks away into the jungle, she suddenly wears a beautiful white and yellow dress we have never seen before. It seems rather implausible that she had it in her luggage all the time, but it has no bearing on the plot anyway.
• Award Snub: It won several prestigious film awards, but it wasn't nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
• Awesome Music: The first collaboration between Werner Herzog and Popol Vuh.
• Crazy Is Cool: Werner Herzog, just for having the guts to do the movie from beginning to end.
• Cult Classic
• Harsher in Hindsight: At the end of the film, Aguirre rants about wanting to marry his daughter, with him even treating her almost like a lover much beforehand. Years after Klaus Kinski died, his daughter Pola revealed that he sexually abused her.
• Iron Woobie: Inez.
• Mainstream Obscurity: Although highly regarded by movie critics and cinephiles, Aguirre is not widely known among mass audiences.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: The film repeatedly twists real history to insert tropes and motifs from the Spanish Black Legend, but even if pointing this out, few Spaniards or Panhispanists will not acknowledge it as a true Cult Classic by its own merits.
• Signature Scene: Aguirre lecturing the monkeys on his plans to build a continental empire.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Although not officially an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, the film's story of an insanity-inducing boat ride through a hostile jungle borrows considerably from Joseph Conrad's novella.

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