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What happened to the two female cooks?

posted 16 years ago by IceboxMovies
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I don't know what Blockbuster Online was thinking but they sent me a scratched DVD of this film that skips over an entire crucial scene. When Fitzcarraldo's crew visits the missionary house, the missionary tells him a story about two brothers of his that ventured out into the wilderness... and then suddenly that's when my disc froze and skipped over to the next scene. I tried to rewind it but the farthest I could get was an image of the two female cooks standing on the shore watching the ship sail away.

What happened in the scene that I missed? Did the two female cooks get kicked off the boat for some reason?
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[–] speccyboy 16 years ago

Yes, they did - along with a few other crewmembers, who felt they were unable to proceed.

[–] timlin-4 16 years ago

The women were thrown out because they were causing tension between the men. This is ironic since Herzog said that a priest told him to bring along prostitutes--who play the cook's helpers in the film--to relieve tension amongst his crew in the jungle.

[–] trey_gio 16 years ago

I think they sent me the same disc. My copy skipped over that scene also.

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[–] Devans00 16 years ago

I'm thinking the woman cooks, the crew men kicked off for fighting and the surviving crew men who deserted ship started a community near the mission.

That happened in California quite a bit. A community would grow up outside of the missions.

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