Uwe Boll On Postal

27-10-2008 10:50

German born director Uwe Boll has had a tough time with critics with his latest effort of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which starred Jason Statham, was universally panned by the critics.

However he returns with Postal, which also sees him pen the script for the first time since Heart of America, which is an adaptation of the video game of the same name.

I caught up with Uwe, who was on the set of his new movie Rampage, to talk about Postal, it's mixed critical reaction and it's political views.

Your film postal is about to be released on DVD here in the UK what’s it all about?

Postal is based on the video game Postal but at the same time I tried to make a very harsh political satire about the last eight years, so everything that happened after September 11th and what was leading to September 11th, and tried to show how absurd it is, the world we are living in, as well as looking at all the religions and political radicalism out there.

It is a comedy and the idea was to give a little nod back to the old Monty Python movies they were always dirty and funny and a bit slap stick and the Hollywood comedies were never able to pull it off like Monty Python and I tried with Postal, not only to be funny and dirty, but to be a little bit political. So from this point of view Postal is the most important film that I have made.

It’s loosely influenced by the 2003 video game what was it about the game that made you think that it would make a good feature film?

For me, when I played the video game, it was the absurdity of the game for example you can go in a bank and wait in a line for a week or you shoot everybody and immediately you can cash in your cheque it’s a bit of an anashiftic satire. It was the perfect set-up for me to do finally, after a lot of action movies, thrillers and sci-fi movies, to do something back where I started my career, my first movie was a comedy, so I tried to go back to that starting point. It was also the movie that I had wrote on my own after a long time where I didn’t write and only made movies from scripts written by other people and for me it was important to get back to the situation of earlier days.

Well that sort of leads me into my next question it’s been a while since you wrote your last screenplay to a film that you have gone on to direct why did you decide to return to screenwriting?

It was for me personally it was super important because I felt that I had been totally misinterpreted from the critics and they hated my movies and the whole hate campaign started on the internet after I made House of the Dead, and not a lot of people saw my other movies from before like Heart of America is a very good film about school violence but not a lot of people saw it and then I started getting shit for House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark and Blackrain and that was disappointing for me.