The Boll keeps on rolling

By Leslie Simmons

Uwe Boll takes his criticism in stride.

Introducing his latest release "Postal" to members of a Los Angeles screenwriting group, the frequently lampooned director of video-game adaptations told the audience, “I’m surprised you’re here and not signing the anti-Boll petition,” which, he added, is now being sponsored by a gum company that promises a free pack to all signees. (It's true.) “I will get Budweiser to sponsor a pro-Boll petition for free beer,” Boll retorted in his thick German accent. "It's not like I’m so happily received for my movies.”

As for "Postal," based on yet another video game -- this time a controversial one in which a character named "The Postal Dude" runs amok, shooting whoever gets in his way -- Boll said he decided to "write a movie about what I wanted to see, what I would enjoy" and that he didn't "give a shit about the ratings." He used the theme of going postal to express "everything that was pissing me off and what is going on politically."

Apparently, what Boll wanted to see on the screen was a stuffed children's toy with phallic overtines and a full-frontal Dave Foley smoking a joint in the bathroom “I didn’t ask him to that. He decided to do that on his own," Boll proudly whispered into our ear during the screening when the Foley scene rolled.

Later, when a black police officer, riding with his German speaking partner, shoots point-blank at an old Asian woman, Boll again whispered, “That was my homage to ‘Crash.’” (Funny, we don't recall a similar scene in the Paul Haggis film.)

Boll also told the audience that since Sept. 11, there have been no movies that really push buttons in the vein of "The Life of Brian" and "The Blues Brothers." "It was time to take out the hammer and not make a nice comedy," he said. "I really wanted to offend everybody."

Comments

[Karen]

Thanks for posting this. The "Crash" "sendup" is priceless.