The director who always comes out fighting - sometimes literally - chats with us about Postal and more… For me,Postalwas a big opportunity to go back to that dark, black humour.
So did you turn to Bryan Knight at this point to help formulate a script?
Then I wrote a full script; but Im German, right?
So I found it hard to write the English dialogue.
And, we can go way further than we could go with a normal film, in a way.
If theyd have insisted on the darker route, would you have walked away from the film?
I still like the movies, but for me Postalis the best movie I did.
These are the typical e-mails I get.
WithPostalI got exactly what I was trying to do.
They really see the synergy between game sales and DVD sales of the movie.
This is what makes me laugh aboutPostal, especially in these super-politically-correct times.
Theyre all pussies when it comes to religion, or war or peace and military concerns.
The point ofPostalis to blow it all away.
For me these people are all stupid idiots.
So its a fairly unilateral Fuck You, then?Ya!
Im absolutely still pissed about it.
This is the thing: whatever the majors come up with, theyll show.
If Foxd releasedPostal, theyd have shown it Boratgot released, or whatever.
This was one of the rare positive things where famous people, or bigger shots in the industry supportedPostal.
But there was nothing for me to work with in the game.
You seem a lot more positive the development of your new videogame adaptation, Far-Cry.
I couldnt afford another Tara Reid in this movie, okay.
These things made me believe in the project, and very happy with the end result.
He can kick ass, and hes good with weapons he was actually a German army sniper.
So, I felt very confident about working with him.
Its more a straightforward action;Die Hard, with humour, on an island!
I was happy during the shoot, and Im happy with the results.
It was a movie that was fun to make and is fun to watch.
We do work quite quickly, shooting with multiple cameras and such.
They dont want that, they want it to move.
I dont do the dictator thing on the set.
Its always open and fun.
Well, you cant read the script; you cant learn that from the lines.
And I told them, in those 10 daysyoufindyourcharacter.
I want you to really be this person.
So, theres a different brain behind it all, compared to what some people think about me.
These movies speak for themselves.
Is that going to happen?Janjaweedwill happen in February, in South Africa.
A few will go back, some will die…
In the end I think it will be a better movie if we have real method actors doing something.
That was four guys in prison, based on fact.
It happened in a German jail: four guys basically raped and tortured a guy til he hung himself.
So what happens, his tears, whatever, are true.
You have to have the right actors for this, actors who will go for it.
Do they expect something very different from you?Yeah, it is not so easy.
It takes a long while to get people on track.
We did interrogations, with the three survivors, with the three guys who did it.
It was sooo intense.
It was really good.
If you imagine, this interrogation alone would be like 200 pages of script.
Uwe Boll, thank you very much!
