Sometimes a director can become obsessed with a film. Coppola decided to transfer Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" to Cambodia. But bad weather and a variety of difficulties extended the shoot from a predicted three months to fourteen. Copolla's wife, Eleanor, made a documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse
In Werner Herzog's case his determination to shoot Fitzcarraldo and actually drag a 320 ton ship over a Peruvian mountain caused a mountain of troubles and when Klaus Kinski said he would leave the film Herzog threatened to shoot him. Again this lead to a documentary, Les Bank's "Burden of dreams"
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