Dreams Can Come True With Uwe Boll

Below is a letter sent to Uwe from a once disgruntled Boll Hater:

Hello Sir,

I am not sure how to start this. I will say that this is NOT a negative letter. Maybe I should start by saying a little bit about where I am coming from? I apologize in advance if I am long winded, I imagine you are busy.

I have been a member of several internet communities and for whatever reasons they decided to target you as someone to pick on over the years. Not having even seen a movie by you, for whatever reason, I fed into it. I don’t know if it was just being part of something or what. I can only really speak for myself and I can’t give a good answer. This is probably because there isn’t a good reason. I think maybe that is the best answer.

I even signed that petition. I regret that very much. I know that signing it would never achieve anything since it is just a random petition.

I tend to sign those things because they take a brief moment to finish. Someone posts a message with a link on it; you click the link, type your name, and then try to one-up everyone else’s comments. When in reality, taking a step back, looking at what I am saying by signing it, looking at who the target is, etc takes a longer and ultimately might lead people to having to admit that maybe they are wrong.

I was wrong.

I didn’t know who you were, why was a targeting someone I did not know? It is one thing maybe to criticize a movie but to target a person behind a movie, someone I know nothing about, is wrong.

So I did a little research and learned that Hollywood is very unsupportive and you basically build each movie from the ground up on your own (with your associates). That is pretty admirable. Another thing I learned is that despite all these negative people that go to great lengths to make your life miserable, you don’t flinch and continue to create films.

Why would someone continue to make films despite all of this negativity? How could they? Well I learned that movies are your passion. I have to imagine that before you started making movies that being a director was just a dream to you. So in a sense you went after your dream. That is something many people are afraid to do. I know I am. There are a lot of risks involved and failure could mean some very bad things as far as where you end up in life. So just to pursue your dream and pursue without any help from those who could give the most (Hollywood) and with all this negativity, well it takes guts.

So I must say after taking a step back, realizing that it was ignorant of me to feed into the negativity, and realizing it was wrong for me to just accept the negativity as true, that I respect you.

I know that I am just one, but maybe it will drown out the noise of all the negativity just a bit for a little while. That makes it worth it.

I wish you the very best on your future endeavors and hope you continue following your dreams.

Maybe it will inspire me to not accept my position in life and at least give one of my dreams a shot.

Thank you for your time,

Kent H