The German director Uwe Boll critics and many who are familiar with his work, called "the worst of the worst directors." The other half of admirers consider his works to be modern, unusual and even great. Someone considers his films to be mediocre, others to genius.
Biography
Uwe Boll was born in Germany in a small town in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia Wermelskirchen in June 1965. From early childhood, parents often took their children to cinemas. Film views have grown into a passion for cinema. After he was presented with a movie camera at the age of 13, he began to try to make short films. Arranged their views, showing his friends, grandparents. After graduation, he enters the directing department of the institute and immediately drops it. The reason for leaving is disappointment. He believes that the institute does not teach how to shoot modern cinema. Subsequently, successfully graduated from the University of Cologne. Moreover, he defends his doctoral dissertation in native literature.
Career and Failure
Ball begins his career with an amateur movie. Often plots of their future films are copied from famous filmmakers, which, in fact, does not hide. The first serious work of the director can be called the film "hypocrite". This tape, as well as two subsequent ones - “Heart of America” and “Dusk of Reason”, were not highly appreciated by the public and received low praise from critics. After the first setbacks, the director decided to film one of the computer games, which he gave a lot of free time to.
In 2003, Uwe shot The House of the Dead. This film was significantly different from the tapes created by other directors. It changes the idea of what a modern horror movie should be. Critics again rejected Ball's innovation. Another failure did not prevent him from realizing his idea of creating films based on computer games ("Alone in the Dark", "In the Name of the King: A Story of a Dungeon Siege"). The names of these films are well known to many gamers for their favorite games. But, having looked at them, they remain indifferent to them. It is believed that Ball does not show the plot of the game in the movie, but takes only heroes from them.
In 2007, Uwe shot the comedy "Postal", where he plays one of the main roles. Unfortunately, it turned out to be as disastrous as the previous tapes. After a series of setbacks, he decides to create his own company and calls it Boll KG. He begins to make films according to the original scripts ("Tunnel Rats 1968", "Stoic", "Max Schmilling"). One of the most popular and significant was the film "Rage".
Uwe Boll's paintings are mostly low-budget, which are difficult to pay off. According to the director himself, such films cannot break into the big screen of the film market. And he is not able to shoot high-budget films. Therefore, in 2016, Ball decided to leave the profession, which he himself announced.
