Expand the sub menu What To Watch. Expand the sub menu Music. Expand the sub menu Awards. Expand the sub menu Video. Expand the sub menu What to Hear. Expand the sub menu Digital. Expand the sub menu Theater. Expand the sub menu VIP. Political pundits: 0. I want to point things out about things that matter now. There were no trailers or dressing rooms for the actors. Meghji got changed in the snack room. The scenes mainly involved stunt guys repeatedly leaping out of the way of explosions. He was wearing a gray wool sweater and a Dungeon Siege baseball cap.
As widely detested as he is, Boll seems pretty well-liked by his casts and crews, many of whom have worked with him several times over the years. Behind the scenes on Rampage 3, there was some chatter about The Revenant, which was generating awards buzz at the time. Boll was appalled to learn that director Alejandro G.
Uwe Boll in his restaurant, Bauhaus. Boll is 51, with the rounded cranium of a Cro-Magnon and a Ludwig von Drake accent.
For someone known for his trolling and vituperative outbursts, Boll is also an instantly likeable and convivial host. We meet at Bauhaus, in the Gastown district of Vancouver, the restaurant he opened just before he decided to quit filmmaking.
They have a child each from previous marriages, plus an infant son of their own—named Walter, after Walter White from Breaking Bad. There have been times, Boll admits, when he ought to have kept his mouth shut. The writer, Chris Kohler, denies ever meeting Boll. His father, a German national handball champion, was his first and fiercest critic. I was brought up like this.
Or calm down, you know. Erni Boll. Boll has directed and self-produced 30 films in total—14 of these released in five years, between and —qualifying him as one of the most prolific living directors this century. Growing up in Burscheid, Germany, Boll first fell in love with film as a six-year-old, walking every Sunday to the local movie palace to see titles like Doctor Zhivago and the original Japanese Godzilla. Uwe Boll—Boll wrote around 15 screenplays by his early 20s. At the Film Academy Vienna, he had been frustrated by the emphasis on film theory without a practical component, or even a camera to loan.
I want to create something. His first film was a loose collection of spoofs and skits called German Fried Movie; his mother helped with the catering during the shoot. For his second, Barschel: A Murder in Geneva, he drove the cast and crew more than miles to Geneva, shot for 10 hours, and drove back, in order to avoid covering accommodation costs. Night Shyamalan. A few years after the Columbine High School massacre, he directed Heart of America, a drama revolving around a Columbine-scale school shooting and starring pre-fame Elisabeth Moss.
Early on, the film features the most graceful sequence that Boll ever dreamed up, possibly with the inquisitive camerawork of his hero Orson Welles in mind: a three-minute-plus Steadicam shot, accomplished with two cranes and a golf cart, that begins at a bedroom window, winds its way down a suburban street on the trail of a paper boy on a bicycle, enters a home as a family prepares for the day, then performs a balletic about-face to pursue the postman to another home.
The scene is underscored with genuinely stirring orchestral music. Heart of America seemed to announce the arrival of an indie-film director worth keeping an eye on. For example, Eyes Wide Shut was based on a novel by Arthur Schnitzler who I studied at university and who is never boring.
His novels are always driving forward emotionally. I think in the film, Kubrick casted badly and lost that drive — it was too slow to really grab you. I think if Eyes Wide Shut had had the same sense of urgency as say A Clockwork Orange , it would have been a much better movie. I loved Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog. I thought it was absolutely great the way they transported the ship over the mountain.
Unlike Wim Wenders, with Werner Herzog you can really feel his energy in his movies. I was thinking, there are almost three generations of German film-makers. Would you say you are one of the new generation of German directors in that vein? Well I think that I went away from Germany in the year and I think that now I do more, in a way, American-type movies.
Like Tom Tykwer for example, great director, and he has that connection to Germany. His films now are in English, but his earlier work was all German language films. He brings a lot of his own ideas and so I think he is definitely the most interesting German director right now. For a lot of people, myself included, it seems strange that people have a lot of attachment to the videogames you make film about. I think that this is the only explanation.
These responses, these threats I receive, can only be explained by the fantasies that these people have about their games. So no matter what you do, they will be flipping out on you.
Also the internet, with its millions of people and vast traffic, allows people to trash movies in anonymity, often before they are even released. That said, for people who are prone to live these kinds of fantasies, the bible would always have been Lord of the Rings. Many people love the book and Tolkien was never too specific in his descriptions of the characters, so in their minds people personalised it.
The point being that many people were very worried about the movies being made of the books, yet the response to the LOTR films has been hugely, massively praiseworthy, whereas the response to some of your films has been quite the opposite.
Personally, I think the Lord of the Rings movies were masterpieces almost to the same level as the original books and they will stay, deservedly, as three of the biggest movies ever made for a long while. You have to admire something that is really, really rare in this industry, where a fantastic property is remade with such heart and dedication.
I cannot compare a movie like BloodRayne or whatever to the Lord of the Rings. The thing is that if I had made a movie like BloodRayne that was not based on a game and people had not liked it, then you get a negative review or whatever. But if you fuck up a videogame just by not giving the fans what they were expecting then they write that you are a piece of dirt and they want to stamp on your head till your brains come out laughs. Well I suppose there is a positive element in that these people are at least being literate about something, even if it is just trashing your film laughs.
This is right laughs. It was something that I never thought would happen. I made movies during university, and some little arty movies in Germany. But you do one movie like House of the Dead and you get attention, finally, as a filmmaker. But then it turned into this whole anti feeling. It was really not my wish to suddenly get his huge vehement backlash.
Even small interviews I did with barely-known websites were trying to show how evil I was. So you start to get all this bad feedback about films that you thought the fans you talked to were appreciating. Thank you very much for you time, enjoy the rest of you Saturday.
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How is the shoot going? Do you think this is a strong departure from your previous work, which is mainly horror films? It certainly seems that things might not have changed that much. Apparently they said that they never got the chance to train or something. Which festival was this?
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