Werner Herzog Narrates #PokémonGo [#geekgirl]

When Werner was interviewed by The Verge’s Emily Yoshida about his online MasterClass in filmmaking and Lo and Behold, his new documentary about the technological revolution.

Yoshida explained the Pokémon Go phenomenon to him thusly:

It’s basically the first mainstream augmented reality program. It’s a game where the entire world is mapped and you walk around with the GPS on your phone. You walk around in the real world and can catch these little monsters and collect them. And everybody is playing it.

Herzog was most interested in what happens when the Pokémon appear in the virtual crosshairs:

When two persons in search of a Pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?… Do they bite each other’s hands? Do they punch each other?

He declined Yoshida’s offer to borrow her cell phone in order to try the game out, at which point Slate’s Daniel Hubbard and Forrest Wickman stepped in, cutting together footage of the game and the animated series with some of the most memorable narration from Herzog’s oevure.

Source: Open Culture