2024-09-24
1 小时 13 分钟My guest today is a German filmmaker born in Velmer Scutchen.
He decided he wanted to direct films at the age of 10, after seeing Marlon Brando star in Mutiny on the Bounty.
It wasn't until he was in his mid-30s, however, that he directed his first major motion picture, Blackwoods, a psychological thriller that a critic for the New York Times described as as smart and diabolical.
It was, however, his adaptations of video games for which he made his name.
House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, and Postal, were just some of the games he adapted to film.
Not all of them lost money, but most were derided by reviewers.
And my guest did not shy away from engaging his harshest critics.
In 2006, he challenged five of them to a boxing match.
Ten years later, he announced his retirement from filmmaking.
Nevertheless, since then, he has announced several new projects, including First Shift, a police drama set in New York that released in late August.
Welcome, Uwe Boll.
Hi.
So, Uwe, you are, I think, one of the only filmmakers to challenge his critics to a fistfight.
Can you tell me the story of where that idea came from?
I think when Bloodrayne came out, I recognized that a lot of the reviews were exactly the same, like, Alone in the Dark or House of the Dead, like, without even watching the film.
And I felt I was, like, wrongly misjudged about this.
And I felt, okay, you want to destroy me, then destroy me in the ring.
Just boxed me, and we got a few applications, and we did it in Vancouver, where I boxed four critics in a row.
And it's all on YouTube, so people can watch it anytime.
It was a lot of fun, but I think that the hitting in the face changed the opinion about me, though.