Over the past decade or so, Werner Herzog has evolved from a cult filmmaker beloved by cinephiles to a walking in-joke on Parks And Recreation. Not that that’s a bad thing, or that Herzog’s larger-than-life mythos is baseless—he really did pull Joaquin Phoenix from a burning car crash in L.A. in 2006, and in Les Blank‘s documentary Burden Of Dreams, Herzog describes the so-called “beauty” of the Brazilian jungle as “the harmony of…overwhelming and collective murder”—but one does wonder how many of the people sharing Werner Herzog motivational posters on Facebook have seen Fitzcarraldo all the way through.