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"On January 26, 2006, while driving down a winding canyon road in Hollywood, [Joaquin] Phoenix veered off the road and flipped his car. The crash was reportedly caused by brake failure. Shaken and confused, Phoenix heard a tapping on his window and a voice say, "Just relax." Unable to see the man, Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." The man replied, "No, you're not," and stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gasoline was leaking into the car cabin. Phoenix then realized that the man was famed German film director Werner Herzog. While Herzog helped Phoenix out of the wreckage by breaking the back window of the car, bystanders phoned for an ambulance. Phoenix approached Herzog to express gratitude, but Herzog downplayed his heroism and returned to his home nearby."



...TIL Werner Herzog once saved Joaquin Phoenix's life and I literally have no idea what to do with this information. Who even is this man? Will we ever ever understand him? Does the world even deserve have to someone like Werner Herzog in it?