The White Diamond (2004)
Directed by Werner Herzog
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.
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Rather than give up his dreams in old age and enter assisted living, Carl—an accomplished balloon salesman in his time—ties some thousands of balloons (echoes of Herzog’s The White Diamond) to his home and makes way for Paradise Falls, South America, the wish-fulfilling journey he and Ellie never made in her lifetime.
Sitting by the edge of his cave watching the sunset with his beloved by his side after snapping a dinosaur's jaw open, gruff but sensitive, played by Andy "Gollum" Serkis yet really just a mass of computer effects -- meant to be heartbreakingly majestic, but without a spec of the danger and presence of the charging primate very briefly glimpsed in Werner Herzog's The White Diamond.