Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980, that depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his alleged vow to eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.

Dec 10, 2015 · Has anyone actually eaten a real shoe? Yes, in fact: These people did. In 1980, German filmmaker Werner Herzog lost a bet to his friend Errol Morris and ate his own shoe, after cooking it with a little help from none other than chef Alice Waters, at her restaurant . The whole event was turned into a short film, appropriately titled "."

In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually made one of his films...

Nov 24, 2021 · Although the leather was tough and the rubber sole was surprisingly inedible, Werner kept his promise and began to consume parts of his shoe with a set of poultry shears. The resulting stunt later became the classic short documentary aptly titled "Werner Herzog Eats …

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe: Directed by Les Blank. With Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Michael Goodwin, Alice Waters. A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.

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The Eating Shoes trope as used in popular culture. Out of all the unusual things that someone can eat, shoes tend to be the most popular choice in fiction.

Feb 5, 2015 · Some years earlier, German filmmaker Werner Herzog had pledged to “eat my shoe” if Errol Morris — a 29-year-old protege he’d met on the UC?Berkeley campus — …

Apr 10, 2013 · In a char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly dark attempt to be encour­ag­ing, Her­zog quipped that he would eat his shoe if Mor­ris com­plet­ed the film. A man of his word, Her­zog lat­er ate the shoe in front of an audi­ence inside Berkeley’s U.C. The­ater. Food pio­neer Alice Waters cooked the shoe for five hours in gar­lic and wine.

Jun 15, 2014 · If Werner Herzog cooking and eating his own shoe sounds crazy -- it is. But so is filmmaking. This wasn't a publicity stunt either, as the video below explains (Herzog was initially going to eat it privately in a restaurant).