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- I'm Uwe Boll, shut the fuck
up during the movie.
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See, this happens
when you don't shut up.
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- Insulting, irreverent,
politically incorrect.
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He may be the most honest
and most badass director
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in Hollywood.
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- There is a movie director, uh,
who gets hammered by the critics
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all the time.
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- Why somebody with such
a lack of talent,
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would even enter this field?
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He's fascinating really.
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- Probably one of the most
prolific filmmakers
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there are right now.
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- Terrible movie after
terrible movie.
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Yet, he keeps making millions.
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- Yes, this is true; he's
considered by many to be
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the worst director
working today.
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- The worst of the worst all
have one thing in common,
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they were made by one man.
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- The biggest hack filmmaker
on the planet.
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- He is so reviled and so
hated and notorious.
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- He is just a lunatic.
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- He is one of the most original
and hardworking
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filmmakers around.
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- He's become, I think,
a real force
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to be reckoned with
outside of Hollywood.
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- Ah, basically my message is
"fuck yourself".
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You know what that is, that is
the Hollywood reporter, right?
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Look at them.
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They're all laughing and
smiling, all your idols.
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You wanna be like them, right?
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And you know what
they are doing?
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They are laughing about you.
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That is the film business, it's
like a dirty pieces of shit
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and I never played that game.
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I made movies and focus
on the movies, right?
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that is, uh, uh, how
I operate, you know.
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It is so pissing me off how
fake that business is, but also
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how the young people of today
falling in the fucking trap
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because they're all stupid, you
know, like, wake the fuck up.
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Ironman is not existing,
the Avengers are not existing!
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These are fucking retarded
idiots and Robert Downey Jr.
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and all that people, yeah,
they are idiots, uh, you know
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idiots, not idiots, they just
grab the money and they're
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laughing their asses off.
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That is the most bullshit
business with bullshit idiots,
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one after the other, lined up
behind each other, you know.
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They are all fucking each other
in the asses and nobody
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makes any decisions.
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All the actors ever worked with,
Ben Kingsley or whatever
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are fucking pussies,
nothing else.
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They are in the assholes of
the managers of the agents,
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and publicists, and attorneys
that protect them,
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that, it's so fake and absurd
that I really, really wish that
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they would get fucking
wiped out.
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And I have enough money
to play golf till I'm dead.
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So, goodbye and
goodbye Hollywood.
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- I suppose I may have
tampered with the king's food.
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- You've poisoned me,
you've killed me.
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- Don't be so melodramatic.
- No!
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- It's nothing that
can't be fixed.
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- You guys, check this out.
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It's a warning.
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- What's the warning?
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- It says once you make
it down here alive,
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you're already dead.
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- I was never really into
creating an image for myself.
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It just happened, you know,
I made, like, movies
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then I got first nobody cared,
then I got really bad reviews
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and everybody cared about
the really bad reviews
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and then you get all that
press because you're the worst
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director of all times.
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That, I mean,
it's more important, uh,
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I think, to do stuff as long as
you can, you know.
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And not really to worry about
what the people think about you.
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I think that is, uh...
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It's just a waste of time.
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- Honestly, we just liked making
movies and, you know,
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the crew loved him.
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But I'm sure people see those
movies and look down on them
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but, at the same time, there's
a lot of bad movies made.
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- I've done 20 movies with Uwe
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and everyone was fun.
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He's funny and he's smart.
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He's just a really good person.
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- I know I've done over 10.
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Uwe and I got along right away.
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On Sanctimony, it was the
first time I worked with Uwe,
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and we became friends.
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I think it was Uwe's first
American film
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and when I found out that he was
a doctor of German literature
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and had his masters in economics
I knew he was a brilliant guy.
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And he was into food and movies,
so we had a lot in common.
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- I found him an efficient
director and a clear director,
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and that, to me,
is the best combination.
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- If he called me today and had
scale money, just bottom of the-
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you know, I gotta work union,
but if there's some sort of way,
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I would, anything,
I would work for Uwe.
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- He's a bit of a wild man.
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I've known him for
almost 20 years.
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I've done nine movies with him
and I've seen different
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incarnations of him.
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I've seen him evolve
over the years.
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- I fell in love with him
on the first movie.
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He's just a character who
knows what he wants
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and doesn't really care
what it takes to get there.
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He gives you the tools to
do it and just expects it.
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- Anybody that says they
hate Uwe Boll
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doesn't know Uwe Boll.
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If they know Uwe Boll,
they would love him.
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He's a lovable guy;
he's a really nice guy.
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He's no bullshit,
he tells you like it is.
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- When I first met Uwe,
I had no idea of his reputation.
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My mom actually was like, oh,
I'm going to search him up.
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And then I had like 25
missed calls.
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Then I call her and I'm like
what's going on, what happened?
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And she's like, I Googled Uwe
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and did you know he's
called the Raging Boll?
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Oh my God, what if he has a
temper or something?
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And I was like, mom, like
he's the most like chill guy.
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I just found that his family
values and his family in Germany
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is really wonderful, like, his
brother and his mother and um...
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- It was the sex.
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You should have to say the
truth, and what was really the--
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- This is why I sensor him
all the time.
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- Yeah, I growed up in a
small town, Burscheid,
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'65 born, there was
no private TV.
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There was no cable TV,
no internet.
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So, you grow up outside, mostly,
playing soccer,
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going in a forest,
playing with other kids.
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There was no concerns at
that point from parents, like,
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you know, when you were six
years old, you could like just
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get out of the house and play
for five hours and nobody cared.
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But there was a lot of times
also alone with myself
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playing with my toys,
creating my own little world.
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My grandparents lived in the
same house, like my parents.
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My mother was a housewife
and father was working.
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When he was young he was an
extremely good handball player
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and a German champion with
his team, Leverkusen.
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I played handball,
I played soccer,
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and so he was always yelling
around and giving my brother
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and me shit, what losers we
are, basically.
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And uh...
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So, there is...
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Yeah, he was more like this,
kind of, aggressive person.
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He never hit me or something,
but he yelled at us, daily.
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Where the fuck is this?
Where the fuck is this!
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It was the whole time like this.
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And my mother is very sweet,
we always had dogs.
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So she was the good soul
of the family.
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And, yeah, it was like more,
on a distance, you know,
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like when I see, now, me
with my kids interacting,
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you know like, whatever, we, we,
we play together, I read books
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for them, we go to bubble bath
together, like, stuff like this,
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my father, I don't
think he ever read a book to me
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or ever in a way, uh,
played with us.
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You know, like, with lego
or something.
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That never really happened.
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And that was my mother's
turn to do stuff like this.
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So my brother and I discussed
a lot of things when my father
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died last year and it was this,
kind of, that is the reason
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we don't need this kind of
"I missed you" or something.
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It's just we meet each other
and we say whatever like...
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"Hi, fuck-face", and then
we start talking, but it's not,
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it's not in me to be
like really,
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um close to people in a way.
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As other people would say,
I'm like, yelling around but,
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but that is not yelling around;
that is for me to totally normal
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normal behavior, how I
always growed up and talk.
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There was no please and
thank you and you're welcome
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in my family, it was just not in
our, in our language.
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There was, like, for a
single dollar or whatever,
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a German market, at that point,
you could watch a matinee shows
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Sunday mornings and I, and
my parents let me go there.
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I was like eight, nine or 10
years old and I watched
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Dr. Zhivago, Sparticus,
all that classics.
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There, I started loving movies
and the other kids were not
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allowed to go there and so,
I watched all that movies
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and told the stories, elaborated
like, big speeches about
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the movies to my friends
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and turned, really,
into a story teller, right?
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And I think that was
the beginning.
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And then I told my mother I
really want to make movies later
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but nobody took it serious,
of course.
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And then I kept going,
basically, right?
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So then when you had a chance
with super eight millimeter
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to film something.
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That digital world from today
was not existing.
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So it was harder to get
something filmed,
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to do something, and it
was more expensive, you know.
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So, I think what was a big
help at that point was that
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I met, I was like 11 years old,
I met Frank Lustig in my school.
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He wanted to make films and
his parents had more money
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as my parents, and he always
got the new stuff,
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Beta, Beta Max.
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And then when we started
having some video equipment,
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we started filming all
kinds of stuff.
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I think it was gold to have
somebody who wanted to
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make movies too, because
then you fire yourself up.
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You discuss about movies,
you discuss directors,
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you discuss everything and
you're also more motivated
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as you would be all alone
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to actually proceed
with filmmaking.
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Very adventurous,
at that point.
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We basically said let's make a
real movie with real equipment
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like 16 millimeter or 35
millimeter, if possible.
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Then we have something we
can actually try to sell or
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we can show and movie
theaters and stuff like this.
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So,1991, I did
"German Fried Movie".
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That was the first real
feature film I did.
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We coming from Leverkusen
and Burscheid, by Cologne,
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you didn't had a big film
community or something.
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It was like basically you had to
go to schools, theater schools,
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to get actors.
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You try to convince him to
play for free or to do it
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for 50 bucks or something
like this.
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So that was all learning by
doing, in a way, and uh,
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yeah, that was the early,
the early film making times
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and it was very, maybe it was,
in the beginning,
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not professional, you know,
like, because you have so much
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in your mind that to really
focus on, okay, now I calm down
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and I direct that scene and
I don't think about
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something else.
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That, definitely, in
"German Fried movie",
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was not the case.
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So the directing was,
a lot of times, a side effect
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of a scene after you...
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You were able to pull it off.
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So "German Fried movie"
was finally finished,
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we got some good reviews,
ut the video company, UFA,
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is a huge one in Germany an
they bought the video rights
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and they gave us 150,000
for the next movie.
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So, an advance for
a political thriller,
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Barschel: Murder in Geneva,
about the real German prime
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minister who was found dead
1987 in a, in a hotel room
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in Switzerland.
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So, but that movie failed.
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We had 50,000 bucks left
and Frank Lustig said
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you can do whatever you want
with the money, and I said shoot
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another movie, "Run Amok"
but was a very harsh
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serial murder movie.
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And then, I saw that as
the end of my career
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and that is the way I made
the movie too.
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It's very, let's say, slow
motion, big bombastic score.
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It's my farewell,
basically, already.
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But I felt, as a director,
my career is basically over
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and I saw the, the German
film funds
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raising money,
going to Hollywood.
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Like basically, that is what
I want always wanted to do.
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I wanted to do English-speaking,
genre movies, Hollywood movies,
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the movies I growed up with.
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- Uwe came to make a
movie in Vancouver,
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I guess, coming on 20 years ago
called Sanctimony.
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So he came to Vancouver,
he said back then to, he said,
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I came to Canada to make
American movies.
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From a producing perspective,
I was moderately new, maybe.
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I might've produced five
or 10 movies at that point.
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And he directed a number
of films and so he'd been
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in the industry in
Germany for a while.
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So both of us we're mildly
experienced, but it was his
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first film and sort of the
North American market
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and working with North American
distributors and producers
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and partners that
were non-German.
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- He was just some crazy German,
none of us had heard of him so,
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it was a crazy show.
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I mean, the script was bizarre.
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I think it was translated from
German and maybe not
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the best translation so,
lot of it didn't make sense.
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But everyone liked his style
and he was definitely into
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trying new things and, you know,
it was a good experience.
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- He showed up three days
before filming.
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He didn't go to any of the tech
surveys and didn't do any
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of the preps, so we
prepped remotely by email.
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And the script was, I didn't
know what to expect because
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the script was a bunch of,
that he wrote himself.
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It was a bunch of lines from
dialogue from Lethal Weapon
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and dialogue from Terminator
and dialogue from all these
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English movies because he
didn't speak English,
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so when he got here, I didn't
know how he was gonna...
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Gonna react.
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- He had his own way of,
I mean making films in Europe
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is different.
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So he came in with different
expectations than
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than many
of the people we work with.
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And he has a different way
of working.
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- And one is, for example,
you wait very long
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till you offer money to the
actors, so you wait like
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three weeks before you
start shooting.
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You go the agencies and you
say, look who has a job now
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and who not and then you
will make an offer to somebody
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who knows he will not get
a better offer for a movie
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starting in three weeks.
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And this is a good strategy if
you basically don't give a shit
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who's in your movies.
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- You know, shouting at the
makeup girls for taking too long.
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He just, he was used to a
smaller guerrilla style, I think
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and things moving faster
and you know, he had to
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adjust to that but once he saw
the product, I think he
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calmed down a little.
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- He came around and it
was a bit challenging for him
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because he expected a crew
of 40 or so and not a crew
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of 80 to 100.
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So that was different.
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Once he sort of embraced
that and got into the,
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you know the efficiencies that
we have in making films
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in North America, he fully
embraced it
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and became quite
successful with it.
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- He is a great producer,
he's great at getting money,
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he's getting people to invest
in him, it's easy for him.
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He can just get millions and
millions of dollars,
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and he's done it,
to make movies.
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Directing?
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He likes being the director,
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not so much doing
the directing job.
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- And party time!
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The way she will cut this
into the movie,
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I'm sure I can use it for my
private but...
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- Okay, cut.
- Cut!
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- Oh boy, I worked with
Uwe Boll on Blackwoods.
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I went up to Vancouver
and worked and had
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a really good time.
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I was in Blackwoods,
I was in Home Room.
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House to the Dead was
the first time I saw Uwe
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in full Uwe Boll form and it
was an amazing experience
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to watch him.
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- Ah, so did you get a good
peek there, Kirk?
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- I'm wanna give this to ya.
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- Uwe is , he's larger
than life, you know.
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I mean, a lot of directors,
I think, don't have as much
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personality as Uwe does.
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Like Uwe almost should
have been an actor,
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you know like a star.
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He's really loud and very
opinionated and he says
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whatever he's thinking,
like there's just no filter.
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- Don't ask what your
country can do for you,
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and don't ask what you can
do for your country,
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ask what you can do for me.
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- You like, love him and hate
him all at the same time.
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You're like, you hear him talk
and I would be like,
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"I fucking hate you".
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And then like the next,
you know, night
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we're drinking beers and talking
about something stupid.
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- Love him or hate him,
I think, he definitely, like,
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leaves an impression.
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So, I mean, I love the guy.
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I've also just like fucking
hated him, but like...
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- There's still a weirdo in
there that like, you know,
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I understood and got along with.
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- You know there are some
directors will show up on
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the set and they want to work
with the actors and bring out
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the performance;
he's not like that.
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And a lot of that is bullshit,
you know, he's not one of
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these you guys who say:
Are you okay, are you alright?
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Do you want another one,
can I get another one?
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He's not like that, he goes:
"Okay, we got it, moving on.
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"Okay we're moving on. Move
your fucking camera, come on,
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"get inside the cave.
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"I don't want, no, we
have enough of this."
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You know, he's not one
of these gentle guys.
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- No, no, no!
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Now, keep it in your hand
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like this, hold it up;
both hands hold it up.
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So, he moves back, you go
here, you move forward.
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He moves back because he
has the advantage now.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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You stop here, boom,
he pulls out the knife.
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The guy comes from behind, boom!
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Yeah, wait, so it sprays in
his face distracts him quick.
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She turns back with,
hits the guy, right?
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So, the guy is knocked out
on the ground now he attacks
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with a knife, wham!
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He goes on his knees,
whack, impaling.
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Yeah.
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So work on the timing, Larry,
but this is the work.
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- He's upfront, I mean,
you're never wondering
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what he's thinking because
it just comes out of his mouth
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whether he wants it or not.
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And, you know, if he does
something you don't like,
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you can say "Fuck you, Uwe!"
and he's okay with that.
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You know, you don't have to
tiptoe around the guy.
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So, you know, there's a
transparency that isn't there
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a lot in this business.
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And I think people
appreciate that.
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- I love that Uwe is
opinionated
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and I love that Uwe
speaks his mind.
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- Cut!
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What are you doing;
that's not scary.
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Action!
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Oh god, that sucks.
- Sorry.
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- Action!
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Cut; really Shiza?
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Shiza, Shiza, Shiza.
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- When something doesn't work,
he'll go: "This is shit!"
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Or if somebody is taking a long
time trying to do their craft
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to get the shot right, he'll
notice "Why aren't we shooting?
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"We shoot now".
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That's one of the reasons
why I like him.
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I liked the fact that he is
candid and I liked the fact that
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at the drop of a hat,
he'll call a spade a spade.
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- I don't have a lot of respect.
in general, to other people.
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That means not I
disrespect people, right?
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But I also never see
somebody above me.
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You know, I can, I will not say,
you're Will Smith,
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you're above me, or if I meet
Tom Cruise, I would tell him
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00:23:02,864 --> 00:23:05,453
like how stupid Scientology is
and what a fucking retard he is.
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00:23:05,487 --> 00:23:08,801
So, you know, so like I insulted
a lot of people in my career
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because I didn't respect
their authority.
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00:23:14,876 --> 00:23:16,912
- A lot of people he has
no respect for.
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There's a small amount of people
that he was doing these movies
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for and the other people can...
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Who gives a shit?
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- I was never really an outgoing
person, a person who wanted
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to live in Hollywood and go
to all the parties or something.
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00:23:30,926 --> 00:23:34,033
This was like, the opposite to
what I always wanted.
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So I did it the way
I wanted it, yeah!
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And I think, a lot of chances to
be more in that studio system,
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I left.
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- It's unclear to me, even
knowing Uwe as well as I have
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for the last 20 years, that when
he's, when it's honest and true
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and when it's a bit of a game
for him to get some press.
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So it's hard to know when
he's playing the villain card
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and when he's being
sincere in his tirades.
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00:24:24,808 --> 00:24:28,501
Eli Roth making the same shitty
movies over and over again.
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If you really look at my movies,
you will see my real genius.
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I'm the only genius in the
whole fucking business.
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00:24:34,024 --> 00:24:36,854
You use your fucking brain to
what makes sense or not?
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00:24:36,889 --> 00:24:39,167
You could omit the whole
fucking Bible.
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00:24:39,201 --> 00:24:42,550
Michael Bay, the new
Transformers movies showed
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00:24:42,584 --> 00:24:44,897
again that you have no
fucking talent at all.
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00:24:44,931 --> 00:24:47,071
All the dialogue is retarded.
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00:24:47,106 --> 00:24:50,627
You lead your actors like
fucking stupid idiots.
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00:24:50,661 --> 00:24:53,284
I will make that movie
10 times better as you.
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00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:56,633
- Uwe, if this is were Michael
Bay, and who says it's not,
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what would you do to him?
- Yeah, let's see.
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00:24:58,704 --> 00:24:59,946
Hello, Mike.
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No, I would--
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00:25:01,327 --> 00:25:02,811
- Oh!
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00:25:02,846 --> 00:25:05,262
- Tony Scott, for example,
I think, is a guy who made
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totally crappy movie because
people get sloppy, he's a loser.
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00:25:08,852 --> 00:25:10,716
I had an agent for three weeks
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and then, I said like,
fuck yourself.
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00:25:13,304 --> 00:25:18,309
I cannot believe that not more
people agree with my opinion.
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00:25:21,416 --> 00:25:23,211
- Well, he's this tough
belligerent guy,
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but he's likable because
he's so blunt.
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And, you know, this is a
town full of phonies, L.A., so
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a guy like Uwe who is so blunt
and tells you what he thinks,
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is refreshing.
447
00:25:35,810 --> 00:25:39,572
- Action!
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00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:43,369
- Sir, sir...
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00:25:43,403 --> 00:25:45,129
- Oh no, no, no, no!
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What the fuck are you doing?
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You have to wait for him till
he says the lines,
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then you pull out the key
and you show it to him.
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And then you keep
going with it.
454
00:25:52,999 --> 00:25:54,691
- You know, I cannot let
things go.
455
00:25:54,725 --> 00:25:59,143
Like, if people are pissing me
off or betray me or whatever,
456
00:25:59,178 --> 00:26:01,767
I try to go after them.
457
00:26:01,801 --> 00:26:04,597
I don't forget things.
458
00:26:04,632 --> 00:26:09,637
And I am, as a filmmaker,
focused on moving the story along,
459
00:26:10,948 --> 00:26:14,711
moving the shoot long, getting
like, being efficient too,
460
00:26:14,745 --> 00:26:19,129
like using things, what setups
to the maximum point,
461
00:26:19,163 --> 00:26:22,857
you can use it.
462
00:26:22,891 --> 00:26:27,896
So, in a way, I'm a producer-
friendly filmmaker.
463
00:26:29,070 --> 00:26:31,900
That has to do with
I am my own producer.
464
00:26:31,935 --> 00:26:36,940
So, there is no personal message
in Alone in The Dark,
465
00:26:38,389 --> 00:26:41,323
BloodRayne, In the Name of
the King, Far Cry, you know.
466
00:26:43,429 --> 00:26:44,844
That is the thing.
467
00:26:46,259 --> 00:26:49,849
It's like, I think I did, as a
filmmaker, maybe 10 movies
468
00:26:51,299 --> 00:26:54,820
that are really close to me
and really like my message
469
00:26:54,854 --> 00:26:57,926
to the world and I did 22
movies, I just did because
470
00:26:57,961 --> 00:27:02,966
I had the opportunity to do
them and was able to do them.
471
00:27:04,277 --> 00:27:06,176
- I think there was a period
of time where he was making
472
00:27:06,210 --> 00:27:11,250
those kinds of movies and
that just became his identity
473
00:27:12,803 --> 00:27:16,324
and what people knew him for
or these sort of big, rambling,
474
00:27:17,946 --> 00:27:22,088
sort of huge set piece movies
that like, really sort of were
475
00:27:22,917 --> 00:27:24,815
a hard follow in their plot.
476
00:27:24,850 --> 00:27:28,370
- He didn't navigate Hollywood
in the normal way and you know,
477
00:27:28,405 --> 00:27:33,203
I tried and tried but Uwe
was challenging for me
478
00:27:33,237 --> 00:27:36,102
in that he's got such a strong
vision in such a unique way
479
00:27:36,137 --> 00:27:40,520
of working that it meant that
things wouldn't always work
480
00:27:40,555 --> 00:27:43,178
within the normal Hollywood
system and I think he
481
00:27:43,213 --> 00:27:46,354
embraced that, he didn't like
the normal Hollywood system.
482
00:27:46,388 --> 00:27:48,977
He didn't like the normal sales
and distribution systems.
483
00:27:49,012 --> 00:27:51,842
So he created his own.
484
00:27:51,877 --> 00:27:54,086
- I mean, listen,
he delivered.
485
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,399
He was borrowing money
from, you know, film funds
486
00:27:57,434 --> 00:28:01,127
and borrowing money from
people that invested in movies.
487
00:28:01,162 --> 00:28:03,509
But hey, Uwe will say, you know,
his movies grossed around
488
00:28:03,543 --> 00:28:06,236
the world X amount of dollars
and that's really what
489
00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:08,134
the game is about.
490
00:28:08,169 --> 00:28:12,863
- I was always basically full
responsible for my movies
491
00:28:12,898 --> 00:28:17,799
from A to Zed and they never
had anybody who could actually
492
00:28:17,834 --> 00:28:20,768
veto something, what I said.
493
00:28:20,802 --> 00:28:23,736
So, that sounds like great.
494
00:28:23,771 --> 00:28:26,359
You have all the responsibility,
you get all the blame,
495
00:28:26,394 --> 00:28:30,260
you have all the financial risk
and financial responsibility.
496
00:28:30,294 --> 00:28:34,574
And that is, of course,
troubling, right?
497
00:28:34,609 --> 00:28:38,268
So it's like nerve-wracking
and it's different to
498
00:28:38,302 --> 00:28:43,307
your hired director, you don't
pay the bills and this kind of,
499
00:28:44,964 --> 00:28:47,518
it's a different world,
basically.
500
00:28:47,553 --> 00:28:51,902
- He is a, he's a guy that is,
thinks way ahead of
501
00:28:51,937 --> 00:28:55,906
what he's doing at the time
always, he's always planning
502
00:28:55,941 --> 00:28:59,358
his next day, his next movie,
his next decade.
503
00:28:59,392 --> 00:29:01,878
He's always got something
on the go.
504
00:29:01,912 --> 00:29:04,121
- The actual shoots,
I never had a problem.
505
00:29:04,156 --> 00:29:06,468
You know, like, I mean,
every daily problems
506
00:29:06,503 --> 00:29:10,231
we solve and, for me, shooting
a movie was never this kind of
507
00:29:10,265 --> 00:29:14,822
nerve-wracking experience
what most of the people had
508
00:29:14,856 --> 00:29:19,171
because I felt the hard part
to raise the money or whatever,
509
00:29:19,205 --> 00:29:21,932
I did that.
510
00:29:21,967 --> 00:29:24,901
Yeah, so I went through hell
to make it happen
511
00:29:24,935 --> 00:29:29,112
and then, when I finally
made it happen,
512
00:29:29,146 --> 00:29:32,598
I felt good.
513
00:29:32,632 --> 00:29:36,809
- He's an amazing businessman
and I think, producing-wise,
514
00:29:36,844 --> 00:29:38,535
that's where his talents lie.
515
00:29:38,569 --> 00:29:41,262
So he was always thinking, like,
how am I going to fund
516
00:29:41,296 --> 00:29:44,265
my next film, how am I
going to get money?
517
00:29:44,299 --> 00:29:48,131
And that's where,
you know, he's brilliant.
518
00:29:48,165 --> 00:29:52,583
- That main goal I had in
life, making movies,
519
00:29:52,618 --> 00:29:54,240
I totally achieved it.
520
00:29:54,275 --> 00:29:57,623
I just focused on it and went...
521
00:29:57,657 --> 00:30:02,455
Went for it and made it happen.
522
00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:08,392
And that is a lot of times,
not really the...yeah.
523
00:30:10,187 --> 00:30:12,914
A lot of people cannot do this.
524
00:30:12,949 --> 00:30:14,951
We started with
House of the Dead and
525
00:30:14,985 --> 00:30:18,195
House of the Dead actually
worked and made money,
526
00:30:18,230 --> 00:30:22,959
so that made us making more
of them, you know, so more
527
00:30:22,993 --> 00:30:26,341
video game based movies,
trying to get bigger licenses
528
00:30:26,376 --> 00:30:29,241
from games that were more
successful, you know.
529
00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:34,280
And um...but it not always,
as we know, it doesn't really
530
00:30:34,729 --> 00:30:36,696
translate a lot.
531
00:30:36,731 --> 00:30:38,146
- Cut him loose.
532
00:30:38,181 --> 00:30:40,873
- No, I cannot do that
without sedating him.
533
00:30:40,908 --> 00:30:44,152
He would kill everyone in this
room including me.
534
00:30:44,187 --> 00:30:46,430
- You're making brainless
monsters--
535
00:30:51,711 --> 00:30:53,644
- They're very much their
own medium.
536
00:30:53,679 --> 00:30:55,715
Their own narrative structures,
how they're structure,
537
00:30:55,750 --> 00:30:57,890
character development,
and playing games,
538
00:30:57,925 --> 00:31:00,962
working in games you get to
see like it's a very different
539
00:31:00,997 --> 00:31:03,137
rhythm which means you have
to come at them at a little bit
540
00:31:03,171 --> 00:31:05,656
differently when you want
to translate into anything.
541
00:31:05,691 --> 00:31:10,661
- He felt he had a kind of an in
with video gamers and there
542
00:31:12,180 --> 00:31:13,112
was really nobody that's going
to be able to do a good movie
543
00:31:13,147 --> 00:31:14,562
about a video game.
544
00:31:14,596 --> 00:31:18,186
Video gamers are very passionate
and they'll eat you alive,
545
00:31:18,221 --> 00:31:21,362
and they did.
546
00:31:21,396 --> 00:31:24,744
- Again, you know
how opinions are.
547
00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:27,126
Everybody's got one.
548
00:31:27,161 --> 00:31:31,061
Especially the guy who
ain't doing it.
549
00:31:31,096 --> 00:31:33,961
- If bad films were crimes,
Uwe Boll would be
550
00:31:33,995 --> 00:31:35,928
public enemy number one.
551
00:31:35,963 --> 00:31:37,723
- This is it; this is the
apex of shitty movies
552
00:31:37,757 --> 00:31:39,207
that we've seen.
553
00:31:39,242 --> 00:31:40,760
I've tried every week I come in
here and try to find
554
00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:43,211
a silver lining, there just
isn't one and I hate being this
555
00:31:43,246 --> 00:31:47,940
unmitigated cynicism around
a film, but this is unwatchable.
556
00:31:47,975 --> 00:31:51,288
- Like, the movie starts
and I'm like, I hate it.
557
00:31:51,323 --> 00:31:53,256
I hate it already.
558
00:31:53,290 --> 00:31:57,639
- Why don't you try, in the
future, making a movie
559
00:31:57,674 --> 00:31:59,987
that's worth a fuck!
560
00:32:00,021 --> 00:32:04,992
I hope you are laughed straight
into your fucking grave,
561
00:32:05,716 --> 00:32:08,685
you miserable piece of garbage.
562
00:32:08,719 --> 00:32:10,756
You're trash, Uwe.
563
00:32:10,790 --> 00:32:15,692
- Dude, your movies fucking
suck and you are a horrible,
564
00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:20,317
horrible, if not the worst,
director of this era.
565
00:32:20,352 --> 00:32:23,527
- Why the fuck is this guy
a director, seriously?
566
00:32:23,562 --> 00:32:27,704
I mean, whatever he touches
fucking falls down.
567
00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:32,398
This guy's a fucking hack,
he is a piece of dog shit.
568
00:32:32,433 --> 00:32:35,298
Somebody should knock
you the fuck out.
569
00:32:35,332 --> 00:32:36,747
- Fuck.
570
00:32:36,782 --> 00:32:39,164
Fuck.
571
00:32:39,198 --> 00:32:43,064
Oh, fuck that movie, man,
fuck that movie.
572
00:32:43,099 --> 00:32:46,688
This was literally one of the
worst, no, is the worst fucking
573
00:32:46,723 --> 00:32:49,312
comedy I've ever seen in
my fucking life.
574
00:32:49,346 --> 00:32:53,074
Fuck you, Uwe,
suck on my dick.
575
00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:03,050
- You know there's guys that are
out there that have petitions
576
00:33:03,084 --> 00:33:04,741
against you making video
game movies.
577
00:33:04,775 --> 00:33:07,675
Is that, do just say okay, well,
I don't care, I'm sorry?
578
00:33:07,709 --> 00:33:10,781
- Look, I've come from nowhere,
I make independent movies
579
00:33:10,816 --> 00:33:14,820
since 1991 without money, I'm
not a part of the Hollywood
580
00:33:14,854 --> 00:33:18,720
system and so I'm basically
a lot like a film geek
581
00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:22,276
and I look into the message
boards, I look into the critics
582
00:33:22,310 --> 00:33:25,244
and I want to convince
the game fans.
583
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:28,247
But if you play a game, week
after week, whatever you built
584
00:33:28,282 --> 00:33:31,457
your own movie in your head,
it's tough to convince this
585
00:33:31,492 --> 00:33:36,497
special fan of that video game,
that it's a great movie.
586
00:33:37,808 --> 00:33:39,776
- And one night we were all
just sitting around drinking
587
00:33:41,364 --> 00:33:42,710
and a couple of the guys I was
with had actually worked on
588
00:33:42,744 --> 00:33:46,058
some of the IPs that had
been turned into movies.
589
00:33:46,093 --> 00:33:48,371
So I thought, well hell, I'll
just jump on and I'll just write
590
00:33:48,405 --> 00:33:50,373
a quick petition and I'll send
them to send over to these guys.
591
00:33:50,407 --> 00:33:54,584
So nothing else I can see like,
hey, you know, a written
592
00:33:54,618 --> 00:33:57,552
middle finger to this guy who
had kind of just taken an IP
593
00:33:57,587 --> 00:34:01,073
they'd worked on and just
run it through the mud.
594
00:34:01,108 --> 00:34:02,764
And, all of a sudden, I get a
phone call from a reporter
595
00:34:02,799 --> 00:34:05,560
from New York Times and so,
this reporter had to
596
00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:08,598
walk me through, he's like
"Oh yeah, this horror film site
597
00:34:08,632 --> 00:34:11,601
"was interviewing him and
mentioned it and he offered
598
00:34:11,635 --> 00:34:16,364
"challenges that if it hit a
million signatures, he'd quit."
599
00:34:16,399 --> 00:34:19,678
The last I looked at the
petition, he'd maybe had
600
00:34:19,712 --> 00:34:22,474
a couple hundred signatures
and here, all of a sudden,
601
00:34:22,508 --> 00:34:27,513
I'm pulling the petition up
and it's got 100,000 signatures.
602
00:34:28,790 --> 00:34:32,346
And that was just, it was
surreal, in the moment.
603
00:34:32,380 --> 00:34:35,280
And at that point, I talked to
New York Times,
604
00:34:35,314 --> 00:34:38,593
Harper's magazine called,
various independent blogs
605
00:34:38,628 --> 00:34:41,665
and like horror movie sites
try to get ahold of me
606
00:34:41,700 --> 00:34:44,392
and I had no idea what was
really going on with this
607
00:34:44,427 --> 00:34:48,707
and here it was causing
this chaos.
608
00:34:48,741 --> 00:34:53,229
- Yes, there was an online
petition to stop,
609
00:34:53,263 --> 00:34:56,542
I should stop making movies
and it got so many people
610
00:34:56,577 --> 00:34:59,235
signing because you got free
chewing gum.
611
00:34:59,269 --> 00:35:01,685
There was a chewing gum
company sponsoring it.
612
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,688
So you've got a free pack of
gum if you signed the petition.
613
00:35:04,723 --> 00:35:09,521
When I did the pro ball
petition, we got way less votes
614
00:35:09,555 --> 00:35:12,696
but we also had nothing to
offer, so
615
00:35:12,731 --> 00:35:14,664
you know, so yeah.
616
00:35:14,698 --> 00:35:17,736
But it was also another PR
campaign saying basically
617
00:35:17,770 --> 00:35:20,118
for the Boll haters.
618
00:35:25,847 --> 00:35:30,197
No, I think I was not under
the radar of critics till
619
00:35:30,231 --> 00:35:31,991
House of the Dead.
620
00:35:32,026 --> 00:35:34,615
They really didn't care about
me, didn't write about me
621
00:35:34,649 --> 00:35:37,963
that they didn't recognize
me in America.
622
00:35:37,997 --> 00:35:40,862
And then House of the Dead was
the first real release,
623
00:35:40,897 --> 00:35:43,693
a theatrical, and then they
hated the movie
624
00:35:43,727 --> 00:35:45,626
and then they looked out for
the next movie what I am doing
625
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,767
and that was Alone in the Dark
and they hated that too.
626
00:35:48,801 --> 00:35:51,804
And then it started.
627
00:35:51,839 --> 00:35:55,877
And yeah, I mean, in the
beginning, you laugh about it
628
00:35:55,912 --> 00:35:57,845
and you're saying it's idiotic.
629
00:35:57,879 --> 00:36:00,710
I still think it's idiotic but
what happens then is,
630
00:36:00,744 --> 00:36:02,850
that was the trademark.
631
00:36:02,884 --> 00:36:06,957
I mean, I make the worst movie
possible so that the next movie
632
00:36:08,304 --> 00:36:09,650
can be only better;
it's a the strategy.
633
00:36:09,684 --> 00:36:11,410
That was the reason I got better
and better and better
634
00:36:11,445 --> 00:36:13,688
because I started so low.
635
00:36:13,723 --> 00:36:16,864
- His movies are shit; he'll
admit that the quality is,
636
00:36:16,898 --> 00:36:21,903
you know, maybe not quite up to
speed but so is his competition.
637
00:36:23,319 --> 00:36:26,736
He doesn't understand that,
why the studios can make shit
638
00:36:26,770 --> 00:36:28,979
and get away with it and he
makes shit and everybody
639
00:36:29,014 --> 00:36:30,981
jumps on it.
640
00:36:31,016 --> 00:36:34,882
- He's an enigma because
he's a great student of film.
641
00:36:34,916 --> 00:36:37,367
He loves movies, he can
critique any movie,
642
00:36:37,402 --> 00:36:38,817
he knows what's good about
movie, what's great about
643
00:36:38,851 --> 00:36:42,269
a movie and what's bad
about a movie.
644
00:36:42,303 --> 00:36:44,271
And his problem is he doesn't
seem to be able to implement it
645
00:36:44,305 --> 00:36:47,308
in his movies.
646
00:36:47,343 --> 00:36:52,279
And I just, there's a disconnect
there from what his knowledge is
647
00:36:52,313 --> 00:36:54,729
and what he can do.
648
00:36:54,764 --> 00:36:56,731
- Now, in a town where everyone
wants a nomination,
649
00:36:56,766 --> 00:36:58,423
here's one no one knows.
650
00:36:58,457 --> 00:37:00,942
- The award show dedicated to
movies as wasted two hours
651
00:37:00,977 --> 00:37:02,323
of our lives.
652
00:37:02,358 --> 00:37:03,876
- I have gotten a lot of
awards but I've never
653
00:37:03,911 --> 00:37:07,984
been selected the worst anything
and I got worst supporting actor
654
00:37:08,018 --> 00:37:09,641
in a motion picture.
655
00:37:09,675 --> 00:37:11,919
- So what do I get this for?
- For Daredevil and Gigli.
656
00:37:11,953 --> 00:37:14,956
- You took an ad out in
the Trades, yes.
657
00:37:16,786 --> 00:37:20,583
- The Razzie Awards are the
opposite of, I like to say,
658
00:37:20,617 --> 00:37:23,965
the 357 other awards that
happen every year.
659
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,796
We're at the other end
of the scale.
660
00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:29,833
It's the worst achievements
in film and, I must say,
661
00:37:29,868 --> 00:37:34,597
we have a lot more choices
than the other guys, most years.
662
00:37:35,839 --> 00:37:39,360
The first time that Uwe was
nominated was
663
00:37:39,395 --> 00:37:41,051
Alone in the Dark.
664
00:37:41,086 --> 00:37:44,883
- Edward!
- God, I missed you.
665
00:37:48,542 --> 00:37:51,545
- I thought you were dead,
you asshole.
666
00:37:51,579 --> 00:37:54,375
- I believe he was nominated for
worst director four
667
00:37:54,410 --> 00:37:56,308
or five times.
668
00:37:56,343 --> 00:37:59,794
And then he did also win a worst
career achievement award,
669
00:37:59,829 --> 00:38:01,796
which he very humorously
accepted.
670
00:38:01,831 --> 00:38:04,834
He did a video that he sent us
from some film location
671
00:38:04,868 --> 00:38:06,767
in Africa.
672
00:38:18,882 --> 00:38:21,747
- Ah fuck, you found me.
673
00:38:21,782 --> 00:38:26,787
Yeah, dear Razzie assholes,
you see, I moved actually
674
00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:32,310
to Darfur, Sudan because you
finished me up, you destroyed
675
00:38:33,690 --> 00:38:35,485
my life, my business,
everything, with your shitty
676
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,798
Razzie nominations.
677
00:38:37,832 --> 00:38:41,802
Go back to your fucking stupid
Starbucks in West Hollywood,
678
00:38:41,836 --> 00:38:44,080
you prick.
679
00:38:44,114 --> 00:38:47,808
- I have to say, of all the
people who's films we have
680
00:38:47,842 --> 00:38:52,847
nominated and awarded over
the years, I think he's just,
681
00:38:54,228 --> 00:38:57,127
he does not display a talent
for camera placement,
682
00:38:57,162 --> 00:39:01,373
for directing actors, for
script, for plot, for dialogue,
683
00:39:01,408 --> 00:39:04,790
for casting, for any of the
things that directors should
684
00:39:04,825 --> 00:39:06,896
know how to do.
685
00:39:06,930 --> 00:39:10,693
- All my movies always were
technical well made.
686
00:39:10,727 --> 00:39:13,627
That is the same when they're
always said like amateurish,
687
00:39:13,661 --> 00:39:17,907
BC movies, Ed wood blah, blah,
blah...it's just not true.
688
00:39:17,941 --> 00:39:20,496
Everybody who worked on my
movies in the technical crew,
689
00:39:20,530 --> 00:39:23,464
they're all from Vancouver,
top block people.
690
00:39:23,499 --> 00:39:28,055
So, you know, it's completely
absurd to say, they do X-Men
691
00:39:28,089 --> 00:39:30,954
and then they do BloodRayne
and now they're turning into
692
00:39:30,989 --> 00:39:34,441
a total idiots who doesn't know
how to put a light up or to edit
693
00:39:34,475 --> 00:39:36,443
a movie or whatsoever.
694
00:39:36,477 --> 00:39:41,482
The fact is that all Uwe Boll
movies are shown, basically,
695
00:39:42,932 --> 00:39:46,004
on every country in the world
and not a lot of movies are
696
00:39:46,038 --> 00:39:49,732
getting sold to Japan, Korea,
Thailand, Argentina, Brazil,
697
00:39:49,766 --> 00:39:51,112
Poland, whatever, right?
698
00:39:51,147 --> 00:39:54,530
And I sold all my movies
basically everywhere.
699
00:39:54,564 --> 00:39:55,703
Why?
700
00:39:55,738 --> 00:39:57,981
Because they're so shitty
from the worst director ever?
701
00:39:58,016 --> 00:40:00,639
I mean like that is the thing
there are thousands of movies,
702
00:40:00,674 --> 00:40:04,229
they stay unsold in any
territory and getting posted
703
00:40:04,263 --> 00:40:07,163
on YouTube instead.
704
00:40:07,197 --> 00:40:11,995
Yeah, so, it's of course
completely absurd to think
705
00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:15,067
I'm the worst director ever.
706
00:40:15,102 --> 00:40:17,863
- I would say my reviews of his
stuff were all over the place.
707
00:40:17,898 --> 00:40:20,038
I mean House of the Dead
is just terrible and I think
708
00:40:20,072 --> 00:40:23,662
that's the first one everyone
saw and I think he has ambition
709
00:40:23,697 --> 00:40:26,872
and he has a point of view in
mind, which makes him a better
710
00:40:26,907 --> 00:40:29,081
filmmaker than some other
bad ones.
711
00:40:29,116 --> 00:40:31,877
He just, genuinely,
isn't very good.
712
00:40:31,912 --> 00:40:33,500
- Game over, fucker.
713
00:40:33,534 --> 00:40:37,469
And I think, like a lot of
student filmmakers,
714
00:40:37,504 --> 00:40:40,714
he convinces himself that
it's good enough and that
715
00:40:40,748 --> 00:40:44,890
he's done the best he could,
but there are still some
716
00:40:44,925 --> 00:40:47,030
glaring problems a lot of times.
717
00:40:47,065 --> 00:40:49,136
- Usually, on a movie set,
there's an argument that
718
00:40:49,170 --> 00:40:51,966
goes on between the
producer and the director.
719
00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:55,867
The director wants more time
for more quality.
720
00:40:55,901 --> 00:40:58,525
He wants to be able to look
for the nuances and find
721
00:40:58,559 --> 00:40:59,905
the little nuggets.
722
00:40:59,940 --> 00:41:02,011
The producer is saying, "We
don't have time, we don't
723
00:41:02,045 --> 00:41:05,808
"have money, you gotta
shoot quicker."
724
00:41:05,842 --> 00:41:08,811
Well, that conversation
happens inside of Uwe's head
725
00:41:08,845 --> 00:41:11,848
and the producer wins.
726
00:41:11,883 --> 00:41:15,714
So when in doubt shoot it,
and when in doubt,
727
00:41:15,749 --> 00:41:20,305
do it as cheaply as possible,
it doesn't really matter.
728
00:41:21,893 --> 00:41:25,621
Uwe doesn't screw things
up himself on purpose.
729
00:41:25,655 --> 00:41:29,556
I mean I think it's Uwe's...that
fight with the producer/director
730
00:41:29,590 --> 00:41:33,560
and trying to do it for the
dollar and then he realizes that
731
00:41:33,594 --> 00:41:36,735
a lot of movies aren't that good
and there's a quality issue.
732
00:41:36,770 --> 00:41:40,774
It's better to make one
that's just okay
733
00:41:40,808 --> 00:41:42,845
then wait around, wait around
and wait around and to try to
734
00:41:42,879 --> 00:41:46,020
do something brilliant.
735
00:41:46,055 --> 00:41:49,783
- You know, I'm always about
the script and I think the ones
736
00:41:49,817 --> 00:41:54,270
where we had the better scripts
are the more solid projects.
737
00:41:54,304 --> 00:41:56,306
The ones that were, some of
them didn't even have scripts,
738
00:41:56,341 --> 00:41:58,239
they just had a treatment.
739
00:41:58,274 --> 00:42:01,035
Which is a nice experiment but
the outcome is not always
740
00:42:01,070 --> 00:42:03,555
that satisfying.
741
00:42:03,590 --> 00:42:07,732
- My uncle, he's a sailor and
he once told me of a place
742
00:42:07,766 --> 00:42:11,252
where people play all day
and the trees grow fruits
743
00:42:11,287 --> 00:42:14,393
in every color of the rainbow
and the sunsets
744
00:42:14,428 --> 00:42:17,293
set the whole sky on fire.
745
00:42:17,327 --> 00:42:20,192
Doesn't it sound wonderful,
Rain.
746
00:42:20,227 --> 00:42:23,851
He'll send for us soon,
I know it!
747
00:42:23,886 --> 00:42:28,891
- I got a call from my manager
saying there's a guy who wants
748
00:42:30,202 --> 00:42:34,897
to make a movie based on a
video game about vampires.
749
00:42:34,931 --> 00:42:39,177
So I, literally, wrote something
in a day, just a treatment.
750
00:42:39,211 --> 00:42:42,352
And he liked it.
751
00:42:42,387 --> 00:42:45,355
So I'm like, okay, now I'm
going to write this movie.
752
00:42:45,390 --> 00:42:49,601
I was about two weeks late
delivering my draft and
753
00:42:49,636 --> 00:42:54,641
that meant that Mr. Boll called
me and just screamed at me,
754
00:42:55,849 --> 00:42:59,197
"You lied to me, this is
disgusting, I'll never believe
755
00:42:59,231 --> 00:43:00,854
anything you say!"
756
00:43:00,888 --> 00:43:03,891
I was like "Uh, wow, that is
the last conversation
757
00:43:03,926 --> 00:43:05,686
"I'm ever going to have
with this man".
758
00:43:05,721 --> 00:43:08,862
Writers deliver screenplays
like a year late.
759
00:43:08,896 --> 00:43:11,312
Two weeks is nothing.
760
00:43:11,347 --> 00:43:14,005
But, I did deliver it
but what I didn't know
761
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:15,800
was that he had an entire
crew in Romania just waiting
762
00:43:15,834 --> 00:43:17,940
for my first draft.
763
00:43:17,974 --> 00:43:19,804
I was just like, it's what,
you're going into...
764
00:43:19,838 --> 00:43:21,357
It's a first draft!
765
00:43:21,391 --> 00:43:24,912
Like that's, like that's sort
of like the naked onstage
766
00:43:24,947 --> 00:43:27,432
in your high school kind
of dream that you have.
767
00:43:27,466 --> 00:43:29,676
Like somebody actually takes
your first draft and makes it
768
00:43:29,710 --> 00:43:31,919
into a movie.
769
00:43:31,954 --> 00:43:34,853
And then, the day before the
premier, the producer called me
770
00:43:34,888 --> 00:43:37,718
and he said, "I just want to
warn you that
771
00:43:37,753 --> 00:43:39,824
"there's been some rewrites.
772
00:43:39,858 --> 00:43:44,932
"Uwe took a crack at it, no,
Uwe did a rewrite,
773
00:43:44,967 --> 00:43:49,696
"and then he let the actors
take a crack at it."
774
00:43:49,730 --> 00:43:53,838
Which is like saying "And then,
the Dolly grip was like, hey,
775
00:43:53,872 --> 00:43:55,149
I got an idea".
776
00:43:55,184 --> 00:44:00,085
Like, it's not like a communal
process, writing a screenplay.
777
00:44:01,397 --> 00:44:03,986
So he just warned, he warned
me, like, you know,
778
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:06,229
just be prepared it might,
you might not, there might be
779
00:44:06,264 --> 00:44:08,715
some things in there that
you didn't write.
780
00:44:08,749 --> 00:44:09,923
What?
781
00:44:09,957 --> 00:44:14,893
Really about 20% of what I
wrote ended up on the screen.
782
00:44:15,998 --> 00:44:19,415
And hey, Billy Zane, what the
fuck are you doing
783
00:44:19,449 --> 00:44:20,658
in this movie?
784
00:44:20,692 --> 00:44:22,936
That's a character that I did
not write and did not exist.
785
00:44:22,970 --> 00:44:25,386
It's like Billy Zane was in a bar
in Romania and they were just like,
786
00:44:25,421 --> 00:44:28,320
hey Billy Zane, wanna be in this
movie; here, put on this wig,
787
00:44:28,355 --> 00:44:29,632
say some random shit.
788
00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:33,187
But it actually makes the entire
plot of the movie make no sense.
789
00:44:33,222 --> 00:44:35,500
It was hanging on by a thread
anyway but there was
790
00:44:35,534 --> 00:44:36,881
a logic to it.
791
00:44:36,915 --> 00:44:38,365
Gone!
792
00:44:39,953 --> 00:44:41,023
People did not like it, people
did not think it made sense.
793
00:44:41,057 --> 00:44:45,544
People continually speculated
about me as a writer.
794
00:44:45,579 --> 00:44:48,513
I don't know if you know this,
but I won a Razzie.
795
00:44:48,547 --> 00:44:50,101
And I'm like, you know what,
if I'm going to do something,
796
00:44:50,135 --> 00:44:51,033
I'm gonna go all the way.
797
00:44:51,067 --> 00:44:53,276
I got an award for that shit.
798
00:44:53,311 --> 00:44:57,833
But I got paid all of it, all at
once, wired into my bank,
799
00:44:57,867 --> 00:45:00,145
which, I have to say,
was also a deciding factor.
800
00:45:01,837 --> 00:45:03,770
He should care more about
the script and the story
801
00:45:03,804 --> 00:45:05,047
and he doesn't.
802
00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:07,843
He just, he gets the idea,
he gets the property
803
00:45:07,877 --> 00:45:10,880
and gets the money and
just starts right away.
804
00:45:10,915 --> 00:45:13,193
So I don't, I haven't worked
on a Uwe Boll movie yet
805
00:45:13,227 --> 00:45:16,265
that the script's been ready,
even Postal.
806
00:45:16,299 --> 00:45:19,958
I did that, was my first draft
and we shot the first draft.
807
00:45:19,993 --> 00:45:24,998
- The structure of the German
investments was very limited,
808
00:45:26,206 --> 00:45:27,414
in a way, you had to raise the
money and spend the money
809
00:45:27,448 --> 00:45:28,691
in the same year.
810
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:33,523
So you just don't have the time
to prep and write 18 different
811
00:45:33,558 --> 00:45:35,525
versions of a script.
812
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,597
So you were kind of stranded
in, okay, you have a script,
813
00:45:38,632 --> 00:45:41,842
you'll maybe revise it within
a week or two, but then
814
00:45:41,877 --> 00:45:43,810
you have to go and prep,
you have to start shooting.
815
00:45:43,844 --> 00:45:46,882
Otherwise that the investors
would never get the tax loss
816
00:45:46,916 --> 00:45:50,506
on it, and then the whole
investment would totally
817
00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:51,956
fall apart.
818
00:45:51,990 --> 00:45:54,613
- Uwe Boll would just set up
a couple of cameras and
819
00:45:54,648 --> 00:45:58,445
he would shoot it in one
and the idea being, well,
820
00:45:58,479 --> 00:46:00,378
we'll keep it fresh,
and keep it alive.
821
00:46:00,412 --> 00:46:03,036
Well, what he's really doing
is just shooting fast.
822
00:46:03,070 --> 00:46:06,591
A couple of things I've worked
on, you know, just if they would
823
00:46:06,625 --> 00:46:09,628
have just been a little more
nuanced or maybe just had
824
00:46:09,663 --> 00:46:13,322
a little more care taken to
them, they would have been
825
00:46:13,356 --> 00:46:15,358
quite a bit better.
826
00:46:15,393 --> 00:46:20,156
- The cinematography, he calls
it combat documentary style
827
00:46:20,191 --> 00:46:24,574
which is okay, but there's no,
like, beauty shots and you know,
828
00:46:24,609 --> 00:46:27,888
camera angle, and lens size,
and camera movement,
829
00:46:27,923 --> 00:46:32,928
can sometimes impact the story
and impact the audience.
830
00:46:34,412 --> 00:46:35,965
Uwe doesn't believe in any of
that because he believes that
831
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,176
the material is of enough
weight.
832
00:46:40,211 --> 00:46:44,836
- Whether a sequence or a movie
needed handheld,
833
00:46:44,871 --> 00:46:46,838
everything was handheld.
834
00:46:46,873 --> 00:46:49,668
And I just felt, actually,
that's kind of genius
835
00:46:49,703 --> 00:46:53,293
because, you know,
if it doesn't really matter.
836
00:46:53,327 --> 00:46:55,674
I mean, I don't think that
because it was handheld
837
00:46:55,709 --> 00:46:59,057
that alone keeps a movie
from elevating.
838
00:46:59,092 --> 00:47:00,852
You have a little more
resources, if you have a little
839
00:47:00,887 --> 00:47:04,476
more money, you can fix a few
problems as you're manufacturing
840
00:47:04,511 --> 00:47:07,307
and Uwe doesn't really go
that way.
841
00:47:07,341 --> 00:47:10,482
You know, Uwe, in fact,
one time Shawn Williamson,
842
00:47:10,517 --> 00:47:13,244
it was on House of the Dead,
Shawn Williamson went up to Uwe
843
00:47:13,278 --> 00:47:16,419
and said, "Boll we're a little
ahead of schedule and this is
844
00:47:16,454 --> 00:47:18,870
"in preproduction and we're doing
great, we're doing great with
845
00:47:18,905 --> 00:47:22,253
"the budget; how about we have
a writer, we bring a writer in
846
00:47:22,287 --> 00:47:24,358
"and do some rewrites, maybe
punch it up a little bit because
847
00:47:24,393 --> 00:47:26,429
"I think some of the actors
were kind of complaining that
848
00:47:26,464 --> 00:47:28,707
"maybe the material needed
some work."
849
00:47:28,742 --> 00:47:32,263
And Uwe said
"No, the script is fine."
850
00:47:32,297 --> 00:47:34,886
And...
851
00:47:34,921 --> 00:47:37,026
You know, it was
House of the Dead.
852
00:47:38,476 --> 00:47:40,547
- When we were shooting
House of the Dead, at one point,
853
00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:43,136
he threw the script out
and said, we're shooting
854
00:47:43,170 --> 00:47:44,620
the video game, we're not
shooting the movie.
855
00:47:44,654 --> 00:47:47,519
It became a very unique
situation that you don't see
856
00:47:47,554 --> 00:47:50,971
very frequently in independent,
in any cinema, really.
857
00:48:06,745 --> 00:48:09,265
- Some of these maybe aren't
as close to his heart,
858
00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:11,129
you know what I mean?
859
00:48:11,164 --> 00:48:15,962
There's, like, less, he has
less stock in them to be good.
860
00:48:15,996 --> 00:48:18,723
In a lobby once after
work, he yelled at me.
861
00:48:18,757 --> 00:48:21,588
He was like "You're ruining
my movie!"
862
00:48:23,107 --> 00:48:26,248
And I was like, "Uwe you're
ruining your movie, man."
863
00:48:26,282 --> 00:48:30,355
Like, I can't direct this for
you; like, you know what I mean?
864
00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:34,463
We're all out here, we don't
know what the fuck we're doing.
865
00:48:39,709 --> 00:48:41,953
- Who are you; I'll fucking--
866
00:48:41,988 --> 00:48:44,542
This is what I do, tell me
who you are!
867
00:48:44,576 --> 00:48:46,958
- Say it!
- Eagles Nest.
868
00:48:46,993 --> 00:48:47,752
- Eagles Nest,
869
00:48:47,786 --> 00:48:50,789
- Oh, the safe word.
870
00:48:50,824 --> 00:48:55,070
That have could have been bad.
- Yeah.
871
00:48:55,104 --> 00:48:59,143
- Uwe was doing a shot in
Blubberella, you know,
872
00:48:59,177 --> 00:49:01,421
he's got video village, he's
standing there he's got
873
00:49:01,455 --> 00:49:06,460
a monitor, he yells action,
he's reading a boxing magazine.
874
00:49:08,014 --> 00:49:10,188
He's reading like the European
version of Ring magazine.
875
00:49:10,223 --> 00:49:13,536
And I'm watching him because
I'm not in the shot.
876
00:49:13,571 --> 00:49:16,367
He reads the boxing magazine,
he calls action.
877
00:49:16,401 --> 00:49:20,681
His eyes do not lift up from the
magazine; the scene plays out
878
00:49:20,716 --> 00:49:22,545
now, he can hear it.
879
00:49:22,580 --> 00:49:26,825
He's maybe 20 feet away from the
actors, so he doesn't look up
880
00:49:26,860 --> 00:49:30,381
and see the image, he doesn't
see the scene.
881
00:49:30,415 --> 00:49:33,798
He yells cut when the dialogue
finishes, he asks Mathias,
882
00:49:33,832 --> 00:49:35,765
"Was it good?"
883
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,353
And he yells print.
884
00:49:37,388 --> 00:49:40,701
And the man did not look up
once from his boxing magazine.
885
00:49:40,736 --> 00:49:44,498
So, whether that's confidence
or absurdity, I don't know what,
886
00:49:44,533 --> 00:49:47,570
but Uwe's full of it.
887
00:49:47,605 --> 00:49:49,434
- It's hard to point to one
thing at any of his movies.
888
00:49:49,469 --> 00:49:51,712
It's a death by a thousand cuts.
889
00:49:51,747 --> 00:49:56,165
There's pieces here and there
that are just shy of where
890
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,238
it ought to be, and a madman's
trying to assemble the puzzle.
891
00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:02,344
And it just doesn't play out.
892
00:50:02,378 --> 00:50:06,555
There's very little redeeming
or actually entertaining
893
00:50:06,589 --> 00:50:07,797
in his films.
894
00:50:07,832 --> 00:50:12,250
Most other bad filmmakers,
at least you can have some fun
895
00:50:12,285 --> 00:50:17,290
laughing at their shortcomings,
their ineptitude.
896
00:50:18,222 --> 00:50:21,397
American audiences adore
Ed Wood.
897
00:50:21,432 --> 00:50:24,124
And in part, it's because
of the sincerity
898
00:50:24,159 --> 00:50:26,437
of his oafish filmmaking.
899
00:50:26,471 --> 00:50:30,648
Uwe Boll was kind of like
somebody who walks into a room,
900
00:50:30,682 --> 00:50:32,719
punches you in the face
and then says,
901
00:50:32,753 --> 00:50:34,376
"What'd you think of that?"
902
00:50:34,410 --> 00:50:36,792
- Trying to navigate Hollywood
with him proved challenging
903
00:50:36,826 --> 00:50:38,483
at times, yeah.
904
00:50:38,518 --> 00:50:41,900
Uwe's got a very, very strong
sense of who he is and where
905
00:50:41,935 --> 00:50:44,351
he thinks the world is,
and he's not shy at all
906
00:50:44,386 --> 00:50:45,697
about expressing that.
907
00:50:45,732 --> 00:50:50,495
And 99% of what Uwe's views,
I completely share it.
908
00:50:50,530 --> 00:50:54,672
Ninety-nine percent of how he
gets it across, I disagree with.
909
00:50:54,706 --> 00:50:57,468
So I'm very Canadian; I always
used to say I was the U.N. guy
910
00:50:57,502 --> 00:50:59,746
with him, so I'd be wearing a
blue hat trying to navigate
911
00:50:59,780 --> 00:51:03,819
the war zone and he was creating
the war zone for me often.
912
00:51:03,853 --> 00:51:05,752
So when you're trying to deal
with agents and convince them
913
00:51:05,786 --> 00:51:08,755
to put actors into movies and
they've recently read
914
00:51:08,789 --> 00:51:13,104
an email thread or watched
a video of his,
915
00:51:13,139 --> 00:51:16,383
it presented some
challenges in casting,
916
00:51:16,418 --> 00:51:19,697
or in packaging or finding money
or distributors and things.
917
00:51:19,731 --> 00:51:22,941
I had to be a bit more delicate
in what I did when we're trying
918
00:51:22,976 --> 00:51:25,496
to attach cast.
919
00:51:26,773 --> 00:51:31,502
- Today we have,
the bordello steam room scene,
920
00:51:32,227 --> 00:51:34,746
very erotic scene.
921
00:51:34,781 --> 00:51:39,786
The actresses doesn't want to
be naked in front of everybody.
922
00:51:41,374 --> 00:51:45,102
It's always very hard to
convince female actresses
923
00:51:45,723 --> 00:51:47,587
to get naked.
924
00:51:47,621 --> 00:51:50,866
They are all super prude; it was
funny with Tara Reid on
925
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:55,181
Alone in the Dark like, she goes
almost naked to every party.
926
00:51:55,215 --> 00:51:59,771
She goes to,
with dresses on where like
927
00:51:59,806 --> 00:52:03,810
her tits hanging out but, in the
movie, a bad scene was where
928
00:52:03,844 --> 00:52:07,296
she loses her bra,
like impossible,
929
00:52:07,331 --> 00:52:08,780
but she doesn't want to do it.
930
00:52:08,815 --> 00:52:13,716
So, this is absurdity of a lot
of, especially American woman.
931
00:52:13,751 --> 00:52:15,684
- Why are you not naked,
we are on set?
932
00:52:15,718 --> 00:52:18,721
You were not in one fucking
movie completely naked.
933
00:52:18,756 --> 00:52:21,655
- That's wrong, I have.
- Where, in what movie?
934
00:52:21,690 --> 00:52:26,350
- Um, I have done a nude scene
in millennium, the TV show.
935
00:52:26,384 --> 00:52:29,456
- In what?
- In millennium, my first job.
936
00:52:30,768 --> 00:52:32,287
- But that's TV.
- Yeah, it's TV but still.
937
00:52:32,321 --> 00:52:35,324
- I was like...
938
00:52:35,359 --> 00:52:39,363
And then this Indie film that
I did in Spain.
939
00:52:39,397 --> 00:52:41,813
- Spanish, Indian--
940
00:52:44,782 --> 00:52:48,613
- This is what,
I represent the majority.
941
00:52:48,648 --> 00:52:51,271
I did a lot of research the last
10 years, I know what
942
00:52:51,306 --> 00:52:56,311
the majority wants to see,
at least on DVD.
943
00:53:01,868 --> 00:53:04,319
We show tits and violence
because this counts,
944
00:53:04,353 --> 00:53:06,010
this is what the fans
want to see.
945
00:53:06,044 --> 00:53:07,701
- I agree.
946
00:53:07,736 --> 00:53:12,189
- And look, more dialogue is not
good for the movie franchise.
947
00:53:13,707 --> 00:53:18,712
- He approaches his art
in a way that he would like
948
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,647
to make everyone the
most uncomfortable.
949
00:53:22,682 --> 00:53:25,926
I don't know where half
of these ideas come from,
950
00:53:25,961 --> 00:53:29,482
but I know half of them are
specifically designed
951
00:53:29,516 --> 00:53:32,312
to piss people off.
952
00:53:32,347 --> 00:53:37,283
- I think because, the money,
for the movie comes from
953
00:53:37,317 --> 00:53:41,287
Uwe's film fund, he has no boss.
954
00:53:41,321 --> 00:53:44,773
You know, so he doesn't have
that alternate point of view.
955
00:53:44,807 --> 00:53:47,776
- We had that BloodRayne
scene where in the middle
956
00:53:47,810 --> 00:53:51,020
of scene where we needed
basically girl's playing topless,
957
00:53:51,055 --> 00:53:53,022
like hookers, basically.
958
00:53:53,057 --> 00:53:55,887
So and in Romania are
really everywhere hookers
959
00:53:55,922 --> 00:53:57,406
on the streets, right?
960
00:53:57,441 --> 00:53:59,960
So they're like 10 bucks
basically, you know,
961
00:53:59,995 --> 00:54:03,447
so I felt like, why not hiring
them and saying here are
962
00:54:03,481 --> 00:54:07,865
20 bucks and you just lays there
on the bed with meatloaf?
963
00:54:07,899 --> 00:54:11,386
Yeah, I said you just go
and get hookers.
964
00:54:11,420 --> 00:54:12,973
You know, and that we did,
and then of course Hollywood
965
00:54:13,008 --> 00:54:15,459
flipped completely, everybody
wrote about it because
966
00:54:15,493 --> 00:54:17,978
it's unthinkable for them
because prostitution is not
967
00:54:18,013 --> 00:54:20,912
allowed in L.A.
968
00:54:20,947 --> 00:54:24,088
I am totally against censorship,
they're saying that if you are
969
00:54:24,122 --> 00:54:27,781
18 or older, you should decide
what you want to see
970
00:54:27,816 --> 00:54:29,749
or what you want to play.
971
00:54:29,783 --> 00:54:33,028
And that, I think it's totally
absurd that the some five
972
00:54:33,062 --> 00:54:35,858
older people or whatever,
whoever is in the rating
973
00:54:35,893 --> 00:54:39,448
commissions make a decision
what can get sold or
974
00:54:39,483 --> 00:54:42,727
what you can distribute.
975
00:54:42,762 --> 00:54:45,765
I know, it's like you cannot
do this; who says this is?
976
00:54:45,799 --> 00:54:48,630
Then, it's
already...you're wrong!
977
00:54:48,664 --> 00:54:50,321
You can't say whatever
you want, right?
978
00:54:50,356 --> 00:54:53,773
So that is the thing,
you have to break the taboos.
979
00:54:53,807 --> 00:54:55,568
And I was always like this,
right?
980
00:54:55,602 --> 00:54:59,813
So that is the thing, it's like,
but I don't retreat,
981
00:54:59,848 --> 00:55:01,159
that is the difference, right?
982
00:55:01,194 --> 00:55:06,337
So, I am not sorry if I make a
joke on the costs of
983
00:55:07,442 --> 00:55:09,651
a retarded person,
of a handicapped person,
984
00:55:09,685 --> 00:55:12,101
of a black, white, Chinese
I give a shit.
985
00:55:12,136 --> 00:55:13,827
You can say n--
, I give a fuck.
986
00:55:13,862 --> 00:55:16,140
You know, that that is the
thing that people have to
987
00:55:16,174 --> 00:55:19,557
get it in their brains, that
is language, that are words.
988
00:55:19,592 --> 00:55:22,802
And that, that is what,
basically, my whole life,
989
00:55:22,836 --> 00:55:27,669
I didn't accepted this.
990
00:55:27,703 --> 00:55:29,843
- Uwe says fuck you,
I have my own money.
991
00:55:29,878 --> 00:55:31,776
You can't tell me; what, you're
not going to let me
992
00:55:31,811 --> 00:55:33,640
spend my money?
993
00:55:33,675 --> 00:55:36,436
You know, and that might've
been the biggest problem is that
994
00:55:36,471 --> 00:55:38,921
it was his money and he
answered to no other authority
995
00:55:38,956 --> 00:55:40,613
than his own.
996
00:55:40,647 --> 00:55:44,202
- There was no one telling Uwe,
you can't make a joke about
997
00:55:44,237 --> 00:55:47,689
the gold teeth pulled from,
you know people in Auschwitz.
998
00:55:47,723 --> 00:55:49,207
It's not funny.
999
00:55:49,242 --> 00:55:51,175
You know, but Uwe would say
"I can put it into a movie
1000
00:55:51,209 --> 00:55:53,764
"because I am the boss!"
1001
00:55:53,798 --> 00:55:57,664
But yeah, he offended some
people and he thought that
1002
00:55:57,699 --> 00:55:59,701
they were offended, was funny.
1003
00:55:59,735 --> 00:56:02,151
- And I want to explain a little
about the financing of my movies
1004
00:56:02,186 --> 00:56:05,189
and also from Germany was
where money comes from
1005
00:56:06,811 --> 00:56:07,709
because you know, they're all
the rumors out that my movies
1006
00:56:07,743 --> 00:56:09,711
are financed with Nazi gold.
1007
00:56:09,745 --> 00:56:12,092
And what should I say;
it's true.
1008
00:56:12,127 --> 00:56:14,992
But somebody must do
something with the money.
1009
00:56:15,026 --> 00:56:18,616
I get a little horny here on
stage sometimes.
1010
00:56:18,651 --> 00:56:21,550
If there is a crowd and all
the children.
1011
00:56:22,275 --> 00:56:24,415
- Are, you fucking kidding me?
1012
00:56:24,450 --> 00:56:28,971
- I don't have like any lines
in a way that I feel,
1013
00:56:29,006 --> 00:56:32,561
I cannot say that word,
I cannot do that in insult.
1014
00:56:32,596 --> 00:56:36,876
I don't, I'm not scared
to offend people.
1015
00:56:36,910 --> 00:56:41,915
- Moving into Africa and
controlling it and the six means
1016
00:56:42,606 --> 00:56:45,919
I can do it again.
1017
00:56:45,954 --> 00:56:47,611
- Off the board,
that shouldn't count.
1018
00:56:47,645 --> 00:56:49,267
- Doesn't matter, it's flat.
1019
00:56:49,302 --> 00:56:51,891
- I think in a satire,
1020
00:56:51,925 --> 00:56:55,550
you can do everything and
you should do everything.
1021
00:56:55,584 --> 00:56:58,242
- That was a tough one, I
didn't want to be black-face
1022
00:56:58,276 --> 00:56:59,761
in that movie.
1023
00:56:59,795 --> 00:57:01,901
He wrapped me at the end of
the day, I was actually done
1024
00:57:01,935 --> 00:57:06,250
the movie and I was changing
my thing, I thought I was done.
1025
00:57:07,838 --> 00:57:10,841
And like, he kind of pulled me
in, he came into my trailer
1026
00:57:10,875 --> 00:57:11,980
and he's like, I've got one more
thing, I want you
1027
00:57:12,014 --> 00:57:15,708
to do black-face.
1028
00:57:15,742 --> 00:57:17,848
No, Uwe, like, no.
1029
00:57:18,814 --> 00:57:20,851
I don't know what to do
with that.
1030
00:57:20,885 --> 00:57:22,922
And like, why, you know?
1031
00:57:22,956 --> 00:57:24,855
It's not going to be funny.
1032
00:57:24,889 --> 00:57:27,961
I mean, I'm just not prepared
for it, you know what I mean?
1033
00:57:27,996 --> 00:57:32,863
Um, and I don't know, he's
just got, kind of, a really
1034
00:57:32,897 --> 00:57:34,830
convincing way about him.
1035
00:57:34,865 --> 00:57:37,902
Somehow I ended up being
in black-face.
1036
00:57:37,937 --> 00:57:40,940
- Uwe Boll doesn't seem to
have a clear sense
1037
00:57:40,974 --> 00:57:43,839
of what's funny.
1038
00:57:43,874 --> 00:57:46,497
Um, every five or six minutes,
there was something that you
1039
00:57:46,532 --> 00:57:49,811
just went, oh wow, did he really
just say that, did he do that,
1040
00:57:49,845 --> 00:57:54,850
did he insult that person,
was he that tasteless?
1041
00:57:55,989 --> 00:57:57,646
- I passed on Postal and I think
Uwe held it against me
1042
00:57:57,681 --> 00:57:59,579
for a little while because I
just felt like I read it and
1043
00:57:59,614 --> 00:58:02,789
went, "Ooh, I don't know,
I don't want to have to go
1044
00:58:02,824 --> 00:58:05,551
"into government hiding
or something."
1045
00:58:07,035 --> 00:58:09,900
I felt that one maybe crossed
the line a little bit.
1046
00:58:09,934 --> 00:58:13,213
Uwe has a unique sense of humor.
1047
00:58:13,248 --> 00:58:15,802
- Cut!
1048
00:58:16,665 --> 00:58:18,115
Wonderful, just wonderful!
1049
00:58:18,149 --> 00:58:19,944
- The children being shot
in the big shoot-out
1050
00:58:19,979 --> 00:58:22,775
in the middle of the show is
horrific when you tell people
1051
00:58:22,809 --> 00:58:25,191
the story, but when you see it,
it's hilarious.
1052
00:58:25,225 --> 00:58:28,850
So there's something about
that, even when you hear
1053
00:58:28,884 --> 00:58:31,059
of a plane crashing into the
World Trade Center,
1054
00:58:31,093 --> 00:58:34,787
it tasteless when you talk about
it but really when you see it,
1055
00:58:34,821 --> 00:58:37,790
it's quite funny.
1056
00:58:37,824 --> 00:58:40,206
- But he was trying to push
buttons in that one
1057
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:41,759
and he succeeded.
1058
00:58:41,794 --> 00:58:45,832
And, it's not necessarily
funny to me.
1059
00:58:45,867 --> 00:58:49,871
It's funny in some cases how
ham-handed it is,
1060
00:58:49,905 --> 00:58:51,838
so that's not what he
intended but
1061
00:58:51,873 --> 00:58:56,878
he's not, he's not like Howard
Stern where he's saying
1062
00:58:58,258 --> 00:59:01,261
offensive things in the
service of a larger point and,
1063
00:59:01,296 --> 00:59:04,333
you know, he's the fool that
has some classic fool
1064
00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:06,266
that tells the truth.
1065
00:59:06,301 --> 00:59:07,854
He's not that guy.
1066
00:59:07,889 --> 00:59:11,720
He's a guy who thinks he is
and can't quite get there
1067
00:59:11,755 --> 00:59:14,240
but you can feel him trying.
1068
00:59:14,274 --> 00:59:16,173
And his idea of comedy
and my idea of comedy
1069
00:59:16,207 --> 00:59:17,864
didn't always mesh.
1070
00:59:17,899 --> 00:59:20,695
So, Postal was a film that we
both found challenging,
1071
00:59:20,729 --> 00:59:24,871
you know, together on in that,
his vision of what he thought
1072
00:59:24,906 --> 00:59:27,253
was awesome and funny,
wasn't my style.
1073
00:59:27,287 --> 00:59:32,292
And so, as we collaborated
on that film, it became
1074
00:59:33,846 --> 00:59:35,744
one of the more difficult ones
for us to work together on
1075
00:59:36,918 --> 00:59:39,092
because it was recent,
it wasn't too long after 9/11
1076
00:59:39,127 --> 00:59:41,923
and I thought that we should
be somewhat more sensitive
1077
00:59:41,957 --> 00:59:45,685
to situations and he felt it was
exactly the right time
1078
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,791
to put all that in
everybody's face.
1079
00:59:47,825 --> 00:59:51,173
- Uwe definitely has his own
idea of what's funny
1080
00:59:51,208 --> 00:59:53,037
and what isn't.
1081
00:59:53,072 --> 00:59:55,281
And, uh, you know,
a lot of it, I think,
1082
00:59:55,315 --> 00:59:58,284
he likes to provoke and
sometimes,
1083
00:59:58,318 --> 01:00:00,355
misses the mark.
1084
01:00:00,389 --> 01:00:03,807
- You know, no matter what,
film has to be entertaining.
1085
01:00:03,841 --> 01:00:05,809
I think that is the saying,
whatever you is show,
1086
01:00:05,843 --> 01:00:08,328
it cannot be boring.
1087
01:00:08,363 --> 01:00:11,159
That is the main point,
it can be shocking,
1088
01:00:11,193 --> 01:00:16,198
can be funny, can be horrific,
but it shouldn't be boring.
1089
01:00:17,717 --> 01:00:18,960
- I think that there were times
when he should've focused
1090
01:00:18,994 --> 01:00:22,170
on directing and less on writing
perhaps, and less on producing
1091
01:00:22,204 --> 01:00:26,001
and just go and direct,
or go produce
1092
01:00:26,036 --> 01:00:27,727
and let somebody else direct.
1093
01:00:27,762 --> 01:00:30,488
But Uwe, he liked to do it all.
1094
01:00:44,226 --> 01:00:47,954
- Three movies in one because
I had the second world war
1095
01:00:47,989 --> 01:00:50,025
setting in Croatia.
1096
01:00:50,060 --> 01:00:53,304
I had the trains, I have the
tanks, I have like the army
1097
01:00:53,339 --> 01:00:58,309
stuff from the second World War
and and so to combine it
1098
01:00:58,344 --> 01:01:03,314
to make three movies in a
longer shoot and save more
1099
01:01:04,971 --> 01:01:05,972
as half of the production
budget of every single one
1100
01:01:06,007 --> 01:01:07,974
of that movies.
1101
01:01:08,009 --> 01:01:10,701
I think that was very clever.
1102
01:01:10,736 --> 01:01:12,945
- What's up brothas?
1103
01:01:12,979 --> 01:01:17,846
For Blubberella, I didn't know
until, literally, weeks before
1104
01:01:17,881 --> 01:01:22,195
we got to Croatia that we were
filming two movies at one time.
1105
01:01:22,230 --> 01:01:26,199
And then, two weeks into
filming, he added a third film.
1106
01:01:26,234 --> 01:01:29,858
- It's amazing, like, so we did
three movies and I think
1107
01:01:29,893 --> 01:01:32,136
they were in like 16 days.
1108
01:01:32,171 --> 01:01:37,141
Auschwitz, I didn't even know
about until like the day of.
1109
01:01:37,176 --> 01:01:39,937
I think he was like, Brendan,
like do you want to come and
1110
01:01:39,972 --> 01:01:44,942
like play, like, a Jewish
captive or something?
1111
01:01:44,977 --> 01:01:47,255
I was like, "What are you
talking about?"
1112
01:01:47,289 --> 01:01:50,189
In what, like, I had my plate
where I was doing BloodRayne
1113
01:01:50,223 --> 01:01:53,399
and doing Blubberella and even
Blubberella, we didn't even know
1114
01:01:53,433 --> 01:01:56,264
what that movie was
necessarily, either.
1115
01:01:56,298 --> 01:01:59,198
So, I'm just trying to wrap
my head around doing those
1116
01:01:59,232 --> 01:02:01,856
two movies.
1117
01:02:01,890 --> 01:02:05,135
I mean, I was just like, no,
Uwe, I don't want to be
1118
01:02:05,169 --> 01:02:08,586
in Auschwitz,
it just seems like
1119
01:02:08,621 --> 01:02:12,798
the most irresponsible, like,
you know what I mean?
1120
01:02:12,832 --> 01:02:16,836
How are you going to do
BloodRayne and Blubberella,
1121
01:02:16,871 --> 01:02:21,876
this spoof movie, and then
also be so serious and tackle
1122
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,915
such a hard subject as Auschwitz
in the same vein and have us all
1123
01:02:28,123 --> 01:02:31,886
switch in between those
tones and those movies?
1124
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:36,925
But that kind of shows
you kind of how Uwe thinks.
1125
01:02:38,202 --> 01:02:40,032
- The first night we got to
Croatia, we went out to dinner
1126
01:02:40,066 --> 01:02:43,138
and he said he didn't get
BloodRayne 3 funded without
1127
01:02:43,173 --> 01:02:46,417
telling them that he could do
Blubberella and deliver
1128
01:02:46,452 --> 01:02:48,834
two movies for the price of one.
1129
01:02:48,868 --> 01:02:52,492
- I think BloodRayne 3,
actually, turned out very good.
1130
01:02:52,527 --> 01:02:56,186
I'm very happy how the movie
turned out in the end
1131
01:02:56,220 --> 01:03:01,122
but Blubberella, the comedy
on BloodRayne has 25 minutes
1132
01:03:01,156 --> 01:03:05,402
hilarious scenes and 60 minutes
1133
01:03:05,436 --> 01:03:09,855
like things what we had
to shoot in half an hour.
1134
01:03:13,030 --> 01:03:14,376
- This is an honor.
1135
01:03:14,411 --> 01:03:18,898
- Your camp is too dark.
1136
01:03:18,933 --> 01:03:20,520
- I trust you've received
my communiqué.
1137
01:03:20,555 --> 01:03:23,903
- The doctor is in his lab!
1138
01:03:28,390 --> 01:03:33,188
- But that never worked
because we were, in a way,
1139
01:03:33,223 --> 01:03:38,090
behind and they couldn't
had BloodRayne 3 suck.
1140
01:03:38,124 --> 01:03:42,301
So I could not have like,
not enough shots.
1141
01:03:42,335 --> 01:03:44,579
- So, first our primary
purpose was to do
1142
01:03:44,613 --> 01:03:47,547
BloodRayne Third Reich,
so we would do a scene
1143
01:03:47,582 --> 01:03:51,931
with a vampire, a zombie
and I'm like, you know,
1144
01:03:51,966 --> 01:03:54,106
operating on it.
1145
01:03:54,140 --> 01:03:58,524
- I believe it was a gypsy at
one time, but who's to say?
1146
01:03:58,558 --> 01:04:01,872
- I've never seen one.
- Which is why you're alive.
1147
01:04:03,287 --> 01:04:05,876
- And then when it was time
to do Blubberella, it was,
1148
01:04:05,911 --> 01:04:07,671
Uwe said "Okay, roll cameras!"
1149
01:04:07,705 --> 01:04:10,916
There was no rehearsal,
there was no, I had written
1150
01:04:10,950 --> 01:04:13,297
something down
but it was fake it, you know.
1151
01:04:13,332 --> 01:04:17,129
- I believe it was a movie
critic at one time but
1152
01:04:17,163 --> 01:04:18,682
they don't get out much.
1153
01:04:18,716 --> 01:04:23,238
- Yeah, I've never met
a movie critic, hmm.
1154
01:04:24,550 --> 01:04:26,966
- Which is why you're alive.
1155
01:04:27,001 --> 01:04:32,006
- Every single shot in that
movie is pre-visualized.
1156
01:04:33,214 --> 01:04:35,147
We have mood movies from
everything, storyboards
1157
01:04:35,181 --> 01:04:38,012
but we just don't show it
to anybody, you know.
1158
01:04:38,046 --> 01:04:41,912
- He sends me BloodRayne 3,
I made, I'm not joking,
1159
01:04:41,947 --> 01:04:46,952
like written notes in the,
whatever, columns of the script.
1160
01:04:48,401 --> 01:04:50,748
Not on every line, just like,
oh, here is something funny
1161
01:04:50,783 --> 01:04:52,992
we could do, here's something
funny we could do.
1162
01:04:53,027 --> 01:04:54,752
Send it back to him.
1163
01:04:54,787 --> 01:04:57,721
So I assumed that the writer
of BloodRayne 3 was going
1164
01:04:57,755 --> 01:05:00,517
to write this untitled, he
started calling it
1165
01:05:00,551 --> 01:05:02,933
the untitled superhero movie.
1166
01:05:02,968 --> 01:05:07,973
So we all sit down and
they pass out the scripts
1167
01:05:09,146 --> 01:05:13,219
and it says "Untitled Superhero
Comedy" and I open it up
1168
01:05:14,393 --> 01:05:17,914
and it's literally BloodRayne 3
with my notes.
1169
01:05:19,777 --> 01:05:24,921
Basically, I told Uwe,
90% of the way through filming,
1170
01:05:26,129 --> 01:05:28,303
I'm like, you're not going
to get an entire film.
1171
01:05:28,338 --> 01:05:31,341
They would film BloodRayne 3
and then, I would,
1172
01:05:31,375 --> 01:05:33,999
they would call me to set, once,
because we're obviously using
1173
01:05:34,033 --> 01:05:38,589
the same location, the same set,
the same set up and I would
1174
01:05:38,624 --> 01:05:43,042
get there, I would get maybe
one time to block it through,
1175
01:05:43,077 --> 01:05:46,183
and then we would shoot it,
and then that was it.
1176
01:05:46,218 --> 01:05:50,015
So we never, I mean,
I know we never had more than
1177
01:05:50,049 --> 01:05:51,775
two takes.
1178
01:05:51,809 --> 01:05:54,260
And so what happened though,
was we started running out
1179
01:05:54,295 --> 01:05:58,126
of time, so they would, bring
us a set, and bring me the set,
1180
01:05:58,161 --> 01:06:01,336
and um not being able to film
my part, my version.
1181
01:06:01,371 --> 01:06:04,615
I will go back to the hotel
and they would just cut it.
1182
01:06:04,650 --> 01:06:06,686
So the film, you know,
was running short
1183
01:06:06,721 --> 01:06:09,620
and it didn't make sense because
there were chunks of it
1184
01:06:09,655 --> 01:06:11,726
that were missing, right?
1185
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,557
So, I told Uwe, you're not
going to get a separate movie
1186
01:06:15,592 --> 01:06:17,835
out of this,
there's just no way.
1187
01:06:17,870 --> 01:06:20,528
And he was like, I just have to
get to 77 minutes
1188
01:06:20,562 --> 01:06:22,150
or something like that.
1189
01:06:22,185 --> 01:06:24,049
- Yeah, you know, it's like,
it didn't, didn't,
1190
01:06:24,083 --> 01:06:28,605
the concept of Blubberella
was not really like to be
1191
01:06:28,639 --> 01:06:30,365
a high-end comedy.
1192
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,023
It was really like being trashy
and I said that,
1193
01:06:33,058 --> 01:06:35,577
we definitely fulfilled.
1194
01:06:35,612 --> 01:06:38,546
- Like to work on an Uwe Boll
movie means you really have
1195
01:06:39,409 --> 01:06:41,411
to be on your toes, a lot.
1196
01:06:41,445 --> 01:06:45,173
Like especially with the Rampage
movies because they were based
1197
01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:50,213
on six page treatments, not a
lot of the dialogue was written.
1198
01:06:51,283 --> 01:06:54,389
We shot those movies
in six days.
1199
01:06:54,424 --> 01:06:56,736
So some, and it was all one set.
1200
01:06:56,771 --> 01:07:00,223
So like some days, I'm just
like, run through like
1201
01:07:00,257 --> 01:07:03,433
the entire movie, you know
what I mean?
1202
01:07:03,467 --> 01:07:06,643
Knowing that like, fits good
and it'll be in the movie,
1203
01:07:06,677 --> 01:07:09,197
if it's bad, it might still be
in the movie.
1204
01:07:10,923 --> 01:07:14,478
Probably will be because we
were shooting it in six days
1205
01:07:14,513 --> 01:07:17,240
and we just need the material.
1206
01:07:17,274 --> 01:07:19,828
- And it got to a point where he
was, he just wanted to tell
1207
01:07:19,863 --> 01:07:21,554
a story and move on.
1208
01:07:21,589 --> 01:07:26,594
And directing is, it's about
directing what's going on
1209
01:07:27,802 --> 01:07:30,149
and he lost sight of that,
for sure.
1210
01:07:40,918 --> 01:07:43,783
- He's not the only person who
would have made a bad movie
1211
01:07:43,818 --> 01:07:45,716
out of those video games;
there are plenty of other people
1212
01:07:45,751 --> 01:07:47,580
who could've done the same.
1213
01:07:47,615 --> 01:07:51,205
It's just the incompetence
combined with the belligerence.
1214
01:07:51,239 --> 01:07:56,244
It's kind of like, oh yeah.
1215
01:07:56,969 --> 01:07:59,730
Bad reviews or a bad comment,
1216
01:07:59,765 --> 01:08:02,733
usually it's a "fuck you" and I
carry on, you know,
1217
01:08:02,768 --> 01:08:04,010
I just move on.
1218
01:08:04,045 --> 01:08:06,703
And I never say it to their face
because that is just throwing
1219
01:08:06,737 --> 01:08:08,429
fuel on the fire.
1220
01:08:08,463 --> 01:08:10,603
In my mind, I'm saying it.
1221
01:08:10,638 --> 01:08:14,780
The best way to, to sort of
distance yourself
1222
01:08:14,814 --> 01:08:18,266
from a conflict is
just don't respond
1223
01:08:18,301 --> 01:08:20,958
You know, that's Uwe's problem.
1224
01:08:20,993 --> 01:08:24,548
Sometimes people will take a
shot and Uwe responds.
1225
01:08:24,583 --> 01:08:28,311
And...that's his card.
1226
01:08:28,345 --> 01:08:32,625
- What like, Internet nerds
and jealous wanna-be-filmmakers
1227
01:08:32,660 --> 01:08:35,835
are signing the competition
and I was able to track
1228
01:08:35,870 --> 01:08:38,838
a movie down, what they
actually did.
1229
01:08:38,873 --> 01:08:40,702
And here we are.
1230
01:08:40,737 --> 01:08:45,742
It looks like they shot it in
the public toilet in the school.
1231
01:08:46,950 --> 01:08:48,710
The whole light is completely
off and, but, whatever.
1232
01:08:48,745 --> 01:08:50,816
What I say, I cannot imagine
that somebody from that
1233
01:08:50,850 --> 01:08:55,855
anti-Boll petition signers
have any clue what light is.
1234
01:08:57,202 --> 01:09:01,930
This is the kind of quality the
people are doing
1235
01:09:03,380 --> 01:09:05,348
and they have like, let's say,
under the nicknames
1236
01:09:06,659 --> 01:09:09,421
of the internet, have the balls
to criticize my movies
1237
01:09:09,455 --> 01:09:12,631
or to write like how
stupid my movies are.
1238
01:09:12,665 --> 01:09:16,876
You know, when they don't
like what you do, it hurts.
1239
01:09:16,911 --> 01:09:20,190
You know, and even if in
your heart of hearts
1240
01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:23,193
you think that you've done
something great,
1241
01:09:23,228 --> 01:09:25,644
if they don't like it, it hurts.
1242
01:09:25,678 --> 01:09:29,337
- Uh, if you get like from lot
of people almost the same
1243
01:09:29,372 --> 01:09:32,927
response for it, then it's not
about the movies,
1244
01:09:32,961 --> 01:09:36,241
then it's about me as a person.
1245
01:09:36,275 --> 01:09:41,280
And I don't think that people,
they know me as a person,
1246
01:09:41,867 --> 01:09:43,593
dislike me.
1247
01:09:43,627 --> 01:09:45,767
I didn't have a lot of fans,
let's say this way,
1248
01:09:45,802 --> 01:09:50,634
I didn't have a lot of people
supporting my movies.
1249
01:09:50,669 --> 01:09:53,913
I think it's hard for him to
find somebody whose critique
1250
01:09:53,948 --> 01:09:57,054
he respects because he says,
you're not so smart.
1251
01:09:57,089 --> 01:09:58,746
He's not a schmoozer.
1252
01:09:58,780 --> 01:10:00,023
He says, you don't like my
fucking movies
1253
01:10:00,057 --> 01:10:02,888
then don't watch my
fucking movies!
1254
01:10:02,922 --> 01:10:06,374
- When I think I triggered
this kind of bashing
1255
01:10:06,409 --> 01:10:10,447
because I bash back,
the whole time.
1256
01:10:10,482 --> 01:10:13,243
- He could make a really
amazing film and people
1257
01:10:13,278 --> 01:10:16,281
would completely bash it, just
'cause it has his name on it.
1258
01:10:16,315 --> 01:10:18,731
Like, he would almost have to
make a film, I actually pitched
1259
01:10:18,766 --> 01:10:21,941
this to him, I was like, you
should make a movie that
1260
01:10:21,976 --> 01:10:24,427
you're passionate about and
release it under like a,
1261
01:10:24,461 --> 01:10:27,533
you know, like a pen name
because they see Uwe Boll
1262
01:10:27,568 --> 01:10:31,606
and they immediately go,
"this is going to be bad."
1263
01:10:31,641 --> 01:10:34,368
You know, he'll never
have a shot as long,
1264
01:10:34,402 --> 01:10:36,749
his name is so tainted,
you know.
1265
01:10:36,784 --> 01:10:40,753
- Well he, you know, he traded
on the notoriety.
1266
01:10:40,788 --> 01:10:45,793
He, in a sort of schizophrenic
way, he embraced it but,
1267
01:10:47,312 --> 01:10:50,487
at the same, time he professed
that it pissed him off
1268
01:10:50,522 --> 01:10:54,008
but he kept coming back to that
circle of people who were saying
1269
01:10:54,042 --> 01:10:56,631
fuck you.
1270
01:10:56,666 --> 01:10:58,771
Um, if it really bothers you,
you're not going to keep
1271
01:10:58,806 --> 01:11:00,980
coming back to the place
where they gave you
1272
01:11:01,015 --> 01:11:02,844
the exploding cigar.
1273
01:11:02,879 --> 01:11:04,363
But is that an act?
1274
01:11:04,398 --> 01:11:07,124
And that, I guess, is the core
question of Uwe Boll:
1275
01:11:07,159 --> 01:11:08,747
Is it an act?
1276
01:11:08,781 --> 01:11:11,059
Is he really as angry, is he
really as incompetent?
1277
01:11:11,094 --> 01:11:15,512
Is he really as obnoxious
as he comes across?
1278
01:11:15,547 --> 01:11:19,689
And I would think, only
Uwe Boll could answer that.
1279
01:11:19,723 --> 01:11:23,831
- Yeah, he probably does
take it personally, you know.
1280
01:11:23,865 --> 01:11:28,042
And, but he'll say so
himself, he's like,
1281
01:11:28,076 --> 01:11:30,493
"Well, fuck you man!"
1282
01:11:31,597 --> 01:11:32,909
Like yeah, so what, this
movie didn't work,
1283
01:11:32,943 --> 01:11:34,117
you didn't like this movie
but like, look at all these
1284
01:11:34,151 --> 01:11:37,362
other movies I'm making,
like, look at this.
1285
01:11:37,396 --> 01:11:40,054
Like, this is good, don't tell
me that this isn't good.
1286
01:11:40,088 --> 01:11:43,747
Like, forget Dungeon Siege,
I'm tackling, you know,
1287
01:11:43,782 --> 01:11:46,336
issues that Hollywood
won't even touch.
1288
01:11:46,371 --> 01:11:49,891
- I think that, really,
obviously it doesn't help, it just
1289
01:11:49,926 --> 01:11:54,448
fans the flames of his insanity
and his craziness but,
1290
01:11:54,482 --> 01:11:56,381
like I said, Uwe is a little
off, you know.
1291
01:11:56,415 --> 01:12:00,488
I mean, he's really aggressive
and really opinionated and
1292
01:12:00,523 --> 01:12:03,664
you know, I don't think
he's quite all there.
1293
01:12:03,698 --> 01:12:08,151
- I can reach people, if I'm the
Uwe Boll they think I am,
1294
01:12:08,185 --> 01:12:11,430
right, this kind of bashing,
1295
01:12:11,465 --> 01:12:15,123
a crazy person who is
the worst director ever
1296
01:12:15,158 --> 01:12:18,506
and then if I do something
what fulfills that expectation,
1297
01:12:18,541 --> 01:12:20,853
they are more willingly
to listen to it.
1298
01:12:20,888 --> 01:12:23,028
- Being the guy who is just
known for throwing people
1299
01:12:23,062 --> 01:12:26,756
the bird and being that asshole,
had its own kind of cache.
1300
01:12:26,790 --> 01:12:30,553
And he really seemed to know
how to work that really well
1301
01:12:30,587 --> 01:12:33,418
because, yeah, he'd make a bad
movie but a lot of people
1302
01:12:33,452 --> 01:12:36,938
made bad movies but he would
make a bad movie then go on
1303
01:12:36,973 --> 01:12:39,941
a press junket, throw the middle
finger at huge swaths
1304
01:12:39,976 --> 01:12:42,081
of the audience that he,
are kind of hoping would
1305
01:12:42,116 --> 01:12:44,498
come see this movie.
1306
01:12:44,532 --> 01:12:47,811
And they would just, you know,
the Internet would blow up.
1307
01:12:47,846 --> 01:12:50,607
Like, well, eff this guy, oh,
what an asshole.
1308
01:12:50,642 --> 01:12:53,023
But then they'll all go
see the movie.
1309
01:12:53,058 --> 01:12:54,818
- Yeah, in this business you
really have to grow
1310
01:12:54,853 --> 01:12:57,407
a thick skin.
1311
01:12:57,442 --> 01:13:00,479
You really can't engage with
critics or the press to,
1312
01:13:00,514 --> 01:13:02,861
especially nowadays on Twitter
because then it just blows up
1313
01:13:02,895 --> 01:13:06,899
into a huge thing but, back then
it wasn't really like that and,
1314
01:13:06,934 --> 01:13:10,040
frankly, I respected Uwe
that he actually genuinely
1315
01:13:10,075 --> 01:13:13,768
thought that he had made good
movies and was ready to put
1316
01:13:13,803 --> 01:13:16,771
his fist where his mouth was.
1317
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:38,103
- Are you ready?
1318
01:13:39,622 --> 01:13:41,209
The event you've been waiting
for has finally arrived.
1319
01:13:41,244 --> 01:13:44,178
Legendary German director,
Uwe Boll, will be putting on
1320
01:13:44,212 --> 01:13:47,112
his gloves and stepping
into the ring.
1321
01:13:47,146 --> 01:13:50,529
He's challenged critics
worldwide to stop grumblin'
1322
01:13:50,564 --> 01:13:53,083
and start rumblin'.
1323
01:13:53,118 --> 01:13:56,259
- Look guys, if you're right,
you want to kick me in the balls
1324
01:13:56,293 --> 01:13:58,641
and you want to hit me
and you want to kill me,
1325
01:13:58,675 --> 01:14:00,815
let's do it in a spot somewhere,
let's do it in a ring,
1326
01:14:00,850 --> 01:14:04,578
let's do a boxing match.
1327
01:14:04,612 --> 01:14:08,513
I saw myself branded now,
as the worst director ever.
1328
01:14:08,547 --> 01:14:12,102
So I was very mad about it
and I felt like, okay,
1329
01:14:12,137 --> 01:14:16,003
let's invite some reviewers
who were like hating me
1330
01:14:16,037 --> 01:14:21,042
or whatever and let's challenge
them to a boxing match.
1331
01:14:22,216 --> 01:14:23,873
- I was the announcer,
I was the guy who said,
1332
01:14:23,907 --> 01:14:25,909
"Ladies and gentlemen,
the Teutonic Terror,
1333
01:14:25,944 --> 01:14:28,118
"the German, you know, machine."
1334
01:14:28,153 --> 01:14:30,189
I've brought out Uwe.
1335
01:14:30,224 --> 01:14:34,918
The Raging Boll,
the Deutschland Destroyer,
1336
01:14:34,953 --> 01:14:39,958
the Teutonic Terror,
Dr. Uwe Boll!
1337
01:14:41,373 --> 01:14:42,857
- It was funny because these
critics thought they were
1338
01:14:42,892 --> 01:14:46,896
very cute and going to tease
Uwe but once they stepped
1339
01:14:46,930 --> 01:14:51,556
in the ring, you know,
Uwe beat them up.
1340
01:15:04,776 --> 01:15:07,364
I don't know, when he boxed
this critics, I don't know
1341
01:15:07,399 --> 01:15:11,990
if that's as much about him,
like fighting back against
1342
01:15:12,024 --> 01:15:16,166
his critics that don't like his
movies and more just wanting
1343
01:15:16,201 --> 01:15:20,101
to like, beat someone up.
1344
01:15:20,136 --> 01:15:23,553
Like, for fun.
1345
01:15:23,588 --> 01:15:25,659
- You know, it's amazing that
he boxed the critics,
1346
01:15:25,693 --> 01:15:29,732
it's also really amazingly
stupid that the critics decided
1347
01:15:29,766 --> 01:15:31,630
they were going to take
him up on it.
1348
01:15:31,665 --> 01:15:35,841
I mean, come on dude, if
somebody challenges you to box,
1349
01:15:35,876 --> 01:15:40,052
that's an indication the
guy knows how to box.
1350
01:15:40,087 --> 01:15:42,883
I don't know what he was
trying to prove because
1351
01:15:42,917 --> 01:15:45,679
beating up a couple of nerdy
critics doesn't mean that your
1352
01:15:45,713 --> 01:15:47,888
movies are good.
1353
01:15:47,922 --> 01:15:51,788
I was shocked when I got
selected but when I did,
1354
01:15:51,823 --> 01:15:53,825
it was like, okay, this may
be dangerous, this may be
1355
01:15:53,859 --> 01:15:56,655
bad for my health, but it's a
free trip to Vancouver,
1356
01:15:56,690 --> 01:15:58,588
so how do you say no?
1357
01:16:00,625 --> 01:16:04,249
- Well, all I can say is that
I'm sure that, that there were
1358
01:16:04,283 --> 01:16:09,116
a bunch of fans who could
appreciate that.
1359
01:16:09,150 --> 01:16:12,637
It's a way of handling
things and it's a lesson
1360
01:16:12,671 --> 01:16:15,743
in be careful of what
you get yourself into.
1361
01:16:15,778 --> 01:16:19,885
I mean, if you don't know
what you're agreeing to,
1362
01:16:22,819 --> 01:16:25,373
you better ask somebody,
you know?
1363
01:16:28,204 --> 01:16:31,069
- Yeah, this German movie
director who said he was gonna
1364
01:16:31,103 --> 01:16:34,935
fight any critic of his movie,
was that, is that right?
1365
01:16:34,969 --> 01:16:36,937
And you said, okay,
I'll fight you.
1366
01:16:36,971 --> 01:16:39,733
- And me being naive,
you know, I thought it was
1367
01:16:39,767 --> 01:16:42,770
just going to be a PR stunt
because who in their right mind,
1368
01:16:42,805 --> 01:16:45,842
you know what movie director
would actually say, yeah,
1369
01:16:47,119 --> 01:16:48,258
I'm going to beat up my critics,
saying, I thought it was just
1370
01:16:48,293 --> 01:16:50,847
going to be a goofy kind
of thing until I--
1371
01:16:50,882 --> 01:16:53,954
- Oh, you thought the fight was
just gonna be like a PR stunt,
1372
01:16:53,988 --> 01:16:56,646
like a comedy funny, stunt.
1373
01:16:56,681 --> 01:16:59,235
Boll is like an amateur boxer.
1374
01:16:59,269 --> 01:17:02,652
- Yeah, they didn't tell me that
until the day of the box.
1375
01:17:02,687 --> 01:17:05,724
No, it was after the match--
- So they flew you out.
1376
01:17:05,759 --> 01:17:07,761
- He had been boxing
for 16 years.
1377
01:17:07,795 --> 01:17:10,211
- So they flew you out there
just to kick your ass.
1378
01:17:10,246 --> 01:17:12,938
- Yeah.
1379
01:17:12,973 --> 01:17:15,251
- That sucks.
1380
01:17:16,873 --> 01:17:18,323
- Uwe would train every day.
1381
01:17:18,357 --> 01:17:21,775
- At lunchtime, he'd go for
a 5K jog with his dogs
1382
01:17:21,809 --> 01:17:24,467
and come back and then
we'd just work again.
1383
01:17:24,501 --> 01:17:26,918
Yeah, it was really, it was
great because we knew
1384
01:17:26,952 --> 01:17:28,920
he was going to kill everyone,
yeah.
1385
01:17:28,954 --> 01:17:31,923
We knew how good he was,
right, so.
1386
01:17:31,957 --> 01:17:36,237
- When you're not used to it,
you cannot handle the violence.
1387
01:17:36,272 --> 01:17:39,344
Like, everybody has a plan till
you get hit in the face.
1388
01:17:39,378 --> 01:17:42,934
- I spent the whole day in
the Amsterdam cafe
1389
01:17:42,968 --> 01:17:44,867
in Vancouver, smoking weed.
1390
01:17:44,901 --> 01:17:47,524
I was so high when I got
into that ring,
1391
01:17:47,559 --> 01:17:49,906
I barely felt any of the blows.
1392
01:17:53,185 --> 01:17:58,052
- Jeff Schneider, he actually,
before, he said,
1393
01:17:58,087 --> 01:18:01,746
he'd never watched a Boll movie,
but he doesn't have to
1394
01:18:01,780 --> 01:18:03,092
because they're very bad.
1395
01:18:03,126 --> 01:18:05,163
I think that he said that in
an interview or whatever.
1396
01:18:05,197 --> 01:18:06,889
I mean, now that is the worst.
1397
01:18:06,923 --> 01:18:08,925
I mean, it is like basically
the most absurd thing, really,
1398
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,859
you know, to have this kind
of opinion.
1399
01:18:11,894 --> 01:18:15,898
As a reviewer, at least you
should do your job and then,
1400
01:18:15,932 --> 01:18:18,797
he got actually pummeled
worst in the fights.
1401
01:18:18,832 --> 01:18:20,523
I think he had the biggest
damage, he had to go
1402
01:18:20,557 --> 01:18:23,940
to the hospital, he was
throwing up, pissing blood.
1403
01:18:23,975 --> 01:18:25,908
- I collapsed on the ground
about 50 yards
1404
01:18:25,942 --> 01:18:29,981
from the locker room,
I vomited everywhere.
1405
01:18:30,015 --> 01:18:33,950
Sure enough, I'm in Wired
magazine there's a photo of me
1406
01:18:33,985 --> 01:18:36,504
surrounded in a pool of my
own vomit with my "Hi mom"
1407
01:18:36,539 --> 01:18:38,230
wife beater on, yeah.
1408
01:18:38,265 --> 01:18:41,958
Not, how you imagine you're
going to be in Wired magazine,
1409
01:18:41,993 --> 01:18:45,030
but hey, I'm in it.
1410
01:18:47,136 --> 01:18:51,002
- I think when your reputation
is so far down
1411
01:18:51,036 --> 01:18:52,866
that there's nothing else you
can do, a publicity stunt
1412
01:18:52,900 --> 01:18:54,764
like that is great.
1413
01:18:55,869 --> 01:18:57,215
If you have any kind of good
reputation, no.
1414
01:18:57,249 --> 01:18:58,561
I mean if Spielberg challenged
someone to a fight,
1415
01:18:58,595 --> 01:19:00,080
it would hurt him.
1416
01:19:00,114 --> 01:19:02,461
It would be very bad for him.
1417
01:19:02,496 --> 01:19:04,187
- I think it's silly.
1418
01:19:04,222 --> 01:19:07,535
You know, it was amusing
but I don't know,
1419
01:19:07,570 --> 01:19:11,091
I mean, it's just another
provocation, I think.
1420
01:19:11,125 --> 01:19:13,818
It's kind of a deal with the
devil, if you want to be famous,
1421
01:19:13,852 --> 01:19:17,269
you're going to get shit thrown
at you, no matter who even,
1422
01:19:17,304 --> 01:19:20,272
I'm sure there are people who
hate Tom Hanks, for God's sake.
1423
01:19:20,307 --> 01:19:23,862
He seems to have an attitude
at a certain point in his career
1424
01:19:23,897 --> 01:19:27,279
as though he could bully people
into liking him and that just,
1425
01:19:27,314 --> 01:19:30,386
that's not going to happen,
that just makes it worse.
1426
01:19:30,420 --> 01:19:32,837
You look like even more of a
buffoon when you get mad
1427
01:19:32,871 --> 01:19:35,563
and throw a temper tantrum
or punch a critic in the face.
1428
01:19:35,598 --> 01:19:37,807
You know, I think he took it too
far with the critics and,
1429
01:19:37,842 --> 01:19:40,499
like I said, it didn't do
anything to help him, you know,
1430
01:19:40,534 --> 01:19:42,916
don't challenge people to a
fight, you know, kind of thing.
1431
01:19:42,950 --> 01:19:46,126
I think, at the end of the day,
don't cry about not being
1432
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:49,129
taken seriously and then
challenge your critics
1433
01:19:49,163 --> 01:19:50,993
to a boxing match.
1434
01:19:51,027 --> 01:19:53,927
- That whole event that he
created almost just like this
1435
01:19:53,961 --> 01:19:57,309
PT Barnum Circus, you now,
selling the sideshow,
1436
01:19:57,344 --> 01:20:00,209
I mean, he's a good showman
and that is what has sort of
1437
01:20:00,243 --> 01:20:03,971
endured as far as his
cinematic legacy.
1438
01:20:05,697 --> 01:20:10,633
- And to put so much effort,
so much work in making movies,
1439
01:20:10,667 --> 01:20:13,567
I think you have to take it
serious, you have to be
1440
01:20:13,601 --> 01:20:16,673
emotionally involved to go
through this endless,
1441
01:20:16,708 --> 01:20:21,851
no sleep, shooting night times,
like physically hard situations,
1442
01:20:24,612 --> 01:20:27,961
risky situation, whatever, like,
I think you need to be
1443
01:20:27,995 --> 01:20:31,309
emotionally involved.
1444
01:20:31,343 --> 01:20:35,244
- You know, I think Uwe does
have passion as a filmmaker.
1445
01:20:35,278 --> 01:20:38,247
Uwe does.
1446
01:20:38,281 --> 01:20:41,077
He is creative.
1447
01:20:41,112 --> 01:20:44,943
It's just, he doesn't quite
have a handle on
1448
01:20:44,978 --> 01:20:49,983
the western film making process.
1449
01:20:50,742 --> 01:20:53,055
He's not lacking passion.
1450
01:20:53,089 --> 01:20:55,885
You know, after the fact,
people can pick on his movies
1451
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:59,164
or they can see that maybe
the quality is not quite as
1452
01:20:59,199 --> 01:21:04,169
up to par you know as other
projects but goddammit,
1453
01:21:04,963 --> 01:21:06,240
he's made 'em.
1454
01:21:06,275 --> 01:21:08,898
- I don't think that he makes
movies and that sort of
1455
01:21:08,933 --> 01:21:13,558
middle ground, you know,
they're extreme movies.
1456
01:21:13,592 --> 01:21:16,388
- He's one of the hardest
working men that I have ever met
1457
01:21:16,423 --> 01:21:17,907
or worked with.
1458
01:21:17,942 --> 01:21:20,392
Whether it's campy like Postal
or House of the Dead
1459
01:21:20,427 --> 01:21:24,224
or BloodRayne or Political
like Rampage
1460
01:21:24,258 --> 01:21:27,952
or Assault on Wall Street,
he does have a cinematic vision
1461
01:21:27,986 --> 01:21:30,609
for where he wants to
go with the story.
1462
01:21:30,644 --> 01:21:34,510
It's just his process is
quite unique.
1463
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:38,652
I don't think Uwe went into
the movie business
1464
01:21:38,686 --> 01:21:40,205
to just make money.
1465
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:44,140
Part of where Uwe was torn
is the movies he wanted to make
1466
01:21:44,175 --> 01:21:47,972
were too controversial to
be profitable.
1467
01:21:48,006 --> 01:21:50,215
So he's always been trying
to balance, okay, I made
1468
01:21:50,250 --> 01:21:53,425
the video movie for the money
and make everyone happy
1469
01:21:53,460 --> 01:21:56,325
and then I make my political
movie and I'll make some kind
1470
01:21:56,359 --> 01:21:58,637
of social observation.
1471
01:22:03,021 --> 01:22:05,230
- I found an article about me
but bigger magazine,
1472
01:22:05,265 --> 01:22:08,371
and he wrote, like about the
last movies that I got
1473
01:22:08,406 --> 01:22:13,376
more and more vigilant,
bitter and cynical
1474
01:22:14,791 --> 01:22:17,725
and all my heroes killing
people, like Rampage,
1475
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:20,245
Assault on Wall Street,
whatsoever right?
1476
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,765
And he said, it's so sad, right?
1477
01:22:22,799 --> 01:22:26,700
And, but that is the thing,
it's like, no, it's not so sad,
1478
01:22:26,734 --> 01:22:29,427
that is a good thing.
1479
01:22:29,461 --> 01:22:32,568
I actually make movies or
may try to make movies
1480
01:22:32,602 --> 01:22:37,607
or talk now on my podcast about
the only things that matter.
1481
01:22:38,781 --> 01:22:40,748
And that is what the
people don't get.
1482
01:22:40,783 --> 01:22:42,819
And that is the thing, like,
most of the movies out there
1483
01:22:42,854 --> 01:22:47,100
getting featured for Oscar
nominations are actually
1484
01:22:47,134 --> 01:22:50,655
unimportant, boring, and have
nothing to do with the reality
1485
01:22:50,689 --> 01:22:52,208
we are living in.
1486
01:22:52,243 --> 01:22:53,451
- Please.
- Are you going to do that?
1487
01:22:53,485 --> 01:22:55,211
- Are you just going to
do that to me?
1488
01:22:55,246 --> 01:22:57,144
- Please, just take it easy.
1489
01:22:57,179 --> 01:22:58,732
- Are you going to let that
happen right now?
1490
01:22:58,766 --> 01:23:00,492
What happens if that was you?
1491
01:23:00,527 --> 01:23:04,600
What happens if it was your wife
and your kids!
1492
01:23:04,634 --> 01:23:06,360
- I have orders.
- You have orders!
1493
01:23:06,395 --> 01:23:08,707
- If that was you your wife
and kids and you're going
1494
01:23:08,742 --> 01:23:12,194
to let them be!
1495
01:23:12,228 --> 01:23:14,023
Shoot me.
1496
01:23:14,058 --> 01:23:16,784
Shoot me!
1497
01:23:18,579 --> 01:23:22,342
- We cannot ignore what's
going on on the planet.
1498
01:23:22,376 --> 01:23:26,242
Everybody's on the same page
like cheating over
1499
01:23:26,277 --> 01:23:28,831
the population.
1500
01:23:28,865 --> 01:23:31,696
You know, nobody wants to
say the bad news, basically,
1501
01:23:31,730 --> 01:23:36,735
and then we have to drastically
change the way we live together.
1502
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:41,568
You know, so, and I will
also not change it
1503
01:23:41,602 --> 01:23:45,054
but I also don't just want
to be just a bystander.
1504
01:23:45,089 --> 01:23:48,264
- I mean, I spent five weeks
in Croatia in the middle
1505
01:23:48,299 --> 01:23:51,060
of the winter with the man,
so I can, I got to see like
1506
01:23:51,095 --> 01:23:53,856
what his passion was and his
passion isn't doing
1507
01:23:53,890 --> 01:23:56,790
BloodRayne movies, you know,
like his passion was doing,
1508
01:23:56,824 --> 01:24:01,829
like, Darfur, the Auschwitz
movies, like, I think he's this
1509
01:24:03,107 --> 01:24:05,764
this serious filmmaker that
got trapped in this
1510
01:24:05,799 --> 01:24:07,870
video game world.
1511
01:24:10,804 --> 01:24:12,875
- He's got very strong views
about these things
1512
01:24:12,909 --> 01:24:16,258
and he had a voice with his
films and whether you like it
1513
01:24:16,292 --> 01:24:19,778
or not, people watch them
and people do enjoy them
1514
01:24:19,813 --> 01:24:22,367
and the people that
enjoy them, get it.
1515
01:24:22,402 --> 01:24:25,784
The people that don't,
don't get it.
1516
01:24:25,819 --> 01:24:30,444
Uwe was a visionary who,
you know, was very very strong
1517
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:33,861
about what he was trying to
achieve, cinematically,
1518
01:24:33,896 --> 01:24:37,865
and his process was so outside
the box that he upset people.
1519
01:24:37,900 --> 01:24:41,800
Critics, the industry, agents,
the studios,
1520
01:24:41,835 --> 01:24:44,217
so that doesn't help.
1521
01:24:44,251 --> 01:24:45,942
He didn't make a lot of friends
in that world while he went
1522
01:24:45,977 --> 01:24:49,739
about his sort of renegade
process.
1523
01:24:49,774 --> 01:24:52,777
- One of the things people don't
realize in this business is that
1524
01:24:52,811 --> 01:24:55,711
likability is a big factor.
1525
01:24:55,745 --> 01:24:59,232
I think, even though he did
get better, no one was willing
1526
01:24:59,266 --> 01:25:01,648
to give them a shot 'cause
there's only so many movies
1527
01:25:01,682 --> 01:25:06,342
by a guy you watch, after which,
you say, no, I'm giving up.
1528
01:25:06,377 --> 01:25:09,932
- As a society we've become
1529
01:25:11,692 --> 01:25:16,663
less mindful of each other
and each other's efforts.
1530
01:25:17,974 --> 01:25:22,427
Then, whether or not we can dog
somebody and put somebody down.
1531
01:25:24,257 --> 01:25:28,847
You know, and ultimately,
who does that make feel good?
1532
01:25:28,882 --> 01:25:32,541
And especially because most
of those people, frankly,
1533
01:25:32,575 --> 01:25:35,268
don't know their ass from
a hole in the ground.
1534
01:25:35,302 --> 01:25:36,993
You know, they wouldn't know
how to make a film,
1535
01:25:37,028 --> 01:25:39,755
they don't know what it
takes to make a film.
1536
01:25:39,789 --> 01:25:42,585
And so, you're dogging
somebody for making a bad film,
1537
01:25:42,620 --> 01:25:46,831
but you can't even make
a home movie.
1538
01:25:46,865 --> 01:25:51,870
- Filmmaking, to a degree,
is part of what the Razzies are,
1539
01:25:55,391 --> 01:26:00,396
but I don't, I'm not sure how
to address your question
1540
01:26:01,570 --> 01:26:02,881
about whether I'm a
filmmaker, I don't.
1541
01:26:02,916 --> 01:26:06,851
I would certainly expect
Mr. Boll would argue I'm not.
1542
01:26:06,885 --> 01:26:09,888
- I don't know if they're
that clever.
1543
01:26:09,923 --> 01:26:13,340
You know, certainly none of
them have ever experienced
1544
01:26:13,375 --> 01:26:16,032
what it is to actually make a
movie from development
1545
01:26:16,067 --> 01:26:20,865
to distribution and understood
the number of moving parts,
1546
01:26:20,899 --> 01:26:25,904
and the number of people that
you have to work with
1547
01:26:26,629 --> 01:26:28,907
to get that movie done.
1548
01:26:28,942 --> 01:26:33,947
That's the old thing against
critics, it's like, you know,
1549
01:26:35,569 --> 01:26:38,054
when have you ever risked
anything to make anything?
1550
01:26:38,089 --> 01:26:42,714
Like, how can you sit here
and judge other people,
1551
01:26:42,749 --> 01:26:46,787
when you're not making steps
to do it yourself?
1552
01:26:48,064 --> 01:26:50,826
So, Uwe has put himself out
there, you know.
1553
01:26:50,860 --> 01:26:52,862
You could definitely say that.
1554
01:26:52,897 --> 01:26:56,418
You know, if Uwe found the
right material
1555
01:26:56,452 --> 01:26:59,973
or if the right material fell
into his lap and it was a story
1556
01:27:00,007 --> 01:27:04,667
that resonated with an audience
and it was a story that,
1557
01:27:04,702 --> 01:27:08,257
you know, Uwe could tell,
I think Uwe could be
1558
01:27:08,292 --> 01:27:10,052
a really good director.
1559
01:27:10,086 --> 01:27:13,331
Uwe has got a lot of good ideas
and a lot of good instincts
1560
01:27:13,366 --> 01:27:17,749
and also too, pace, pace, pace,
I mean movies are about doing it
1561
01:27:17,784 --> 01:27:19,268
for the dollar.
1562
01:27:19,303 --> 01:27:23,721
- You know, he's making
tremendous effort
1563
01:27:23,755 --> 01:27:26,102
to express his point of view.
1564
01:27:26,137 --> 01:27:28,760
And, you know, you may
not like every painting
1565
01:27:28,795 --> 01:27:33,627
in the gallery but a lot
of is not haphazard.
1566
01:27:33,662 --> 01:27:35,595
Is Uwe Boll the worst
filmmaker of all time?
1567
01:27:35,629 --> 01:27:37,459
- Absolutely not.
1568
01:27:37,493 --> 01:27:39,737
Uwe is far from the
worst filmmaker.
1569
01:27:39,771 --> 01:27:42,326
He may be the most
unappreciated filmmaker
1570
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:44,742
and the most controversial
filmmaker,
1571
01:27:44,776 --> 01:27:48,124
and he might be very offensive
but he's not the worst.
1572
01:27:48,159 --> 01:27:49,850
Is Uwe Boll the worst director
of all time?
1573
01:27:49,885 --> 01:27:51,438
No, not at all.
1574
01:27:51,473 --> 01:27:55,304
And I've made much worse
films with other people
1575
01:27:55,339 --> 01:27:57,824
than I have with just Uwe.
1576
01:27:57,858 --> 01:28:00,999
- I don't think that you can
classify Uwe Boll into one
1577
01:28:01,034 --> 01:28:06,039
type of movie that he has made
or, you know, judge him by
1578
01:28:07,627 --> 01:28:11,320
some of his failures because of
all the success that he's had.
1579
01:28:13,564 --> 01:28:17,361
- He also somehow who manages
to raise all that money.
1580
01:28:17,395 --> 01:28:19,984
So, there's people who are
shitty filmmakers who also
1581
01:28:20,018 --> 01:28:22,400
can't get any money because
nobody will give them money.
1582
01:28:22,435 --> 01:28:24,022
So he's doing something right,
he's talking people into
1583
01:28:24,057 --> 01:28:26,715
being in his movies,
he's raising all this money,
1584
01:28:26,749 --> 01:28:31,754
he has done it over and over and
over, he gets points for that.
1585
01:28:34,861 --> 01:28:38,865
- It's art, ultimately.
1586
01:28:38,899 --> 01:28:43,904
And we're so busy looking for,
you know, perfection in all
1587
01:28:44,767 --> 01:28:47,080
the wrong places.
1588
01:28:47,114 --> 01:28:49,979
You know, you can say a guy's
a bad film maker because,
1589
01:28:50,014 --> 01:28:55,019
you know, it didn't make $150
million in the first weekend.
1590
01:28:56,434 --> 01:29:00,162
Is that a bad filmmaker;
is that a bad film?
1591
01:29:14,245 --> 01:29:17,973
- So when a young filmmaker
now coming to me and say,
1592
01:29:18,007 --> 01:29:21,528
you did so much, you have
great tips for us or whatever,
1593
01:29:21,563 --> 01:29:25,049
I, look, the first thing I say
I'm out of the business because
1594
01:29:25,083 --> 01:29:29,502
the business is over, because
movies are shitty investments,
1595
01:29:29,536 --> 01:29:30,744
they are super risky.
1596
01:29:30,779 --> 01:29:34,783
I would say going into a casino
and gambling a million bucks
1597
01:29:34,817 --> 01:29:39,822
on red is a higher chance to
make money as to make a movie.
1598
01:29:41,997 --> 01:29:45,449
Japan paid you a million bucks
for a movie 10 years ago,
1599
01:29:45,483 --> 01:29:48,797
they pay you now $10,000;
I mean, that is the market.
1600
01:29:48,831 --> 01:29:52,214
And I cannot be clearer, right,
so that is the reason I'm not
1601
01:29:52,248 --> 01:29:56,874
the good inspirational speaker
to film students because I just
1602
01:29:56,908 --> 01:30:01,879
don't know how, otherwise,
I would keep making movies.
1603
01:30:01,913 --> 01:30:06,849
With the dissolve of DVD
revenues in rental, Blockbuster,
1604
01:30:06,884 --> 01:30:11,889
Rogers, was my refinance
possibility over.
1605
01:30:13,166 --> 01:30:16,825
I'm just like, it's impossible
for me to get the money back
1606
01:30:17,860 --> 01:30:20,656
if I make a movie and sell it.
1607
01:30:20,691 --> 01:30:25,523
For me as a producer,
all this, is very bad.
1608
01:30:32,116 --> 01:30:34,774
- He's been a foodie for
as long as I've known him.
1609
01:30:34,808 --> 01:30:37,777
And so, for me it seems like
it's such a natural transition
1610
01:30:37,811 --> 01:30:41,125
for him to become a restaurateur
from filmmaking because
1611
01:30:41,159 --> 01:30:43,748
he has great passion for it.
1612
01:30:55,311 --> 01:31:00,282
- I was 50, I saw my movie
career goes to an end
1613
01:31:01,559 --> 01:31:02,733
and I needed something
else too, right?
1614
01:31:02,767 --> 01:31:06,840
So, it's like I cannot expect,
I can live from the movie
1615
01:31:06,875 --> 01:31:11,673
royalties or revenues from my
old movies until I'm 80.
1616
01:31:11,707 --> 01:31:16,712
So, I felt like I need to create
another income.
1617
01:31:17,989 --> 01:31:20,647
So it was eight months of
renovations and, I mean,
1618
01:31:20,682 --> 01:31:23,892
we had to put new floors in,
new, I mean, there was an empty
1619
01:31:23,926 --> 01:31:26,757
gutted hole here.
1620
01:31:26,791 --> 01:31:29,173
You can break it down like here
behind me, I like around
1621
01:31:29,207 --> 01:31:31,244
100,000 dollars, the wine.
1622
01:31:31,278 --> 01:31:36,283
Then you have around $600,000
to $700,000 is the kitchen.
1623
01:31:37,768 --> 01:31:38,700
We're not only going to be the
best food in Gastown,
1624
01:31:38,734 --> 01:31:40,287
we're going to be the
best food in Canada.
1625
01:31:40,322 --> 01:31:44,809
So we're really going for do
what is complicated.
1626
01:31:44,844 --> 01:31:49,849
If a dish takes three days to do
and to prep, do it!
1627
01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:52,852
So it wasn't really a big
decision to say,
1628
01:31:52,886 --> 01:31:56,131
let's do it for real
and not like
1629
01:31:58,961 --> 01:32:01,930
an ultra-low budget movie.
1630
01:32:03,379 --> 01:32:07,936
- He loves food, he loves wine
and so, I think he cut his teeth
1631
01:32:09,316 --> 01:32:14,080
filmmaking to allow himself to
realize, if I'm going to start
1632
01:32:14,114 --> 01:32:18,084
something new, I'm going to put
my best foot forward.
1633
01:32:18,118 --> 01:32:19,810
I'd say he's living his
best life.
1634
01:32:19,844 --> 01:32:22,916
He just does whatever the fuck
he wants to do.
1635
01:32:22,951 --> 01:32:25,678
And he doesn't apologize for it.
1636
01:32:25,712 --> 01:32:30,165
- I think that is one of my
positive aspect but it's not
1637
01:32:30,199 --> 01:32:33,858
really, a lot of times it's not
really helpful, that I'm able
1638
01:32:33,893 --> 01:32:38,898
to basically retreat myself and
see like ice cold, the truth.
1639
01:32:40,175 --> 01:32:43,799
You know, even if it's totally
in my disadvantage, you know,
1640
01:32:43,834 --> 01:32:47,216
and you reevaluate what
happened in the last 25,
1641
01:32:47,251 --> 01:32:51,911
30 years or 50 years, if you
start from scratch and I think
1642
01:32:51,945 --> 01:32:55,121
the main point is that you
don't start lying to yourself.
1643
01:32:55,155 --> 01:32:57,917
You know, I'm not this guy
who said I will do everything
1644
01:32:57,951 --> 01:33:00,436
the same way like, you know,
a lot of people they say that,
1645
01:33:00,471 --> 01:33:01,921
"I don't regret anything".
1646
01:33:01,955 --> 01:33:05,787
I regret tons of stuff and I
know exactly where I made
1647
01:33:05,821 --> 01:33:09,756
huge mistakes and what you
want to do, cannot rewind
1648
01:33:09,791 --> 01:33:12,932
the time and do the Groundhog
Day or whatever,
1649
01:33:12,966 --> 01:33:14,865
like it is what it is.
1650
01:33:14,899 --> 01:33:19,904
So you have to, at least for
yourself, be honest and explain
1651
01:33:21,112 --> 01:33:24,150
why some things happened
the way that happened or why
1652
01:33:25,669 --> 01:33:30,156
some mistakes happened,
you know.
1653
01:33:31,019 --> 01:33:32,676
I destroyed so many bridges.
1654
01:33:32,710 --> 01:33:35,851
I think it was a big mistake
when I was like on the peak
1655
01:33:35,886 --> 01:33:38,992
with theatrical releases in
U.S., wide releases,
1656
01:33:39,027 --> 01:33:42,064
why I didn't get a manager,
an agent in L.A. who could
1657
01:33:42,099 --> 01:33:44,791
now bring me jobs, right,
because it would build
1658
01:33:44,826 --> 01:33:49,451
that relationship over 10 years,
now, nobody will take me.
1659
01:33:50,832 --> 01:33:53,110
- Yeah, no, the retirement
thing.
1660
01:33:53,144 --> 01:33:55,146
Listen, Uwe likes to make films.
1661
01:33:55,181 --> 01:33:58,011
And, first of all, when I heard
he retired, I thought that was
1662
01:33:58,046 --> 01:34:01,877
pretty silly because, come on,
he's going to make movies,
1663
01:34:01,912 --> 01:34:03,845
you know?
1664
01:34:03,879 --> 01:34:06,226
He's just a little frustrated
right now.
1665
01:34:06,261 --> 01:34:08,781
You know, I'd love to see him
come back out of retirement.
1666
01:34:08,815 --> 01:34:11,093
I can't believe that he's
retired, I think he's just
1667
01:34:11,128 --> 01:34:14,372
waiting until he can raise money
for his next picture.
1668
01:34:16,374 --> 01:34:18,135
- I think he's just hibernating.
1669
01:34:18,169 --> 01:34:20,171
I don't think we've seen
the last of him yet.
1670
01:34:20,206 --> 01:34:23,865
Yeah, like I stated before,
I'm waiting for his return.
1671
01:34:23,899 --> 01:34:25,901
I would like to be a part of it.
1672
01:34:25,936 --> 01:34:29,871
He's still got a filmmaker deep
inside and he's still going to
1673
01:34:29,905 --> 01:34:32,149
have that drive to be creative,
so, we haven't seen
1674
01:34:32,183 --> 01:34:34,013
the last of him yet.
1675
01:34:34,047 --> 01:34:36,981
- It's really hard for me to
imagine that he's going to
1676
01:34:37,016 --> 01:34:41,365
put a cap on all of these ideas.
1677
01:34:41,399 --> 01:34:43,332
He's too much of a maniac.
1678
01:34:43,367 --> 01:34:47,095
He's got too much to give,
you know what I mean.
1679
01:34:47,129 --> 01:34:52,134
And, and at the end of the day,
he just loves to stir the pot.
1680
01:34:53,411 --> 01:34:57,450
So, I don't think that he's
just going to be
1681
01:34:57,484 --> 01:35:01,178
a quiet restauranteur.
1682
01:35:01,212 --> 01:35:03,939
I don't see that for him at all.
1683
01:35:03,974 --> 01:35:06,562
- I went through it all,
so I mean,
1684
01:35:06,597 --> 01:35:11,775
I'm used to, you can have
a really bad year, you can
1685
01:35:13,086 --> 01:35:15,502
have a really good year, you
know, you can have something
1686
01:35:15,537 --> 01:35:17,919
what looks good and then,
a month later it turns into
1687
01:35:17,953 --> 01:35:20,887
a total nightmare.
1688
01:35:20,922 --> 01:35:25,927
So, for me, it's sad but
it's also, in a way I cannot
1689
01:35:26,272 --> 01:35:28,930
be whiny; I made a lot of
movies, you know,
1690
01:35:28,964 --> 01:35:32,934
and that is the thing, I have
to just accept it, how it is.
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