When Monkeys Herald Death

We’re gone for the day’s remainder, crashing on a Wired deadline. So we’ll leave you with the clip above from Werner Herzog’s classic Aguirre, The Wrath of God, which recently re-blew our collective mind. The final shot, in which the camera circles around the megalomaniacal conquistador’s monkey-infested raft? Beyond brilliant.

Read about the real Lope de Aguirre here. Turns out he was a bit more successful than Herzog gave him credit for.