The funny duo Trey Parker & Matt
Stone who brought to life the crazy world of South Park.
Is now releasing their puppet-comedy film TEAM AMERICAN:
WORLD POLICE to dvd this week. The duo took some time to
chat with Hollywoodfyi.com.
Pingel: What was your inspiration
to do Team America?
Trey: We where sitting around bored one day! It's funny
people keep asking what are we going to do now and we keep saying
we're going to get bored, because we have been working our ass off for
the last 2½ years and we haven't been bored. It's always out
of boredom cool things come to us.
Trey: We where bored one day because
we where in-between South Parks and
we where watching TV and Thunderbirds came on. We both kind of had the
same reaction which was we kind of could remember it, we couldn't say
what it was and we really count' remember because we really weren't fans
but remember seeing it as kids. We sat there say "This is
cool, look at this this is all real." Specially from today's
perspective where everything is CG. People where
saying serious lines and walking away and we where laughing our asses
off, "Dude this is comedy gold." We kept
watching we said "this is an hour long I'm bored to
death"
Pingel: Did you use a
lot of CG in Team America?
Matt: One thing Team America is the
anti-CG. Everything
you see in the film is what we did on set. We had to time
things, we did not do allot of composting or any of that stuff, there
is a little bit on the computer and that's it. We really wanted to
be like here is what we shot. We watch CG
movies now days and like it's all fucking fake.
Pingel:
Did you get any riff from the actors that you
had in the film?
Both: Only Sean Penn.
Trey: He was dumb
enough and bitter enough to
actually put something down on paper.
But everyone else seemed to get it. Matt Damon love it, I'm
sure Clooney was cool about it. They get it, it's a puppet
movie.
The amazing thing,
people like Sean Penn and the people who
really hated the movie far and way are always on the far left. Because the people on the far left, their reactions
was 'How dare you. You had a chance to two weeks before the election, you had a chance to get George Bush out of office and you didn't
do it.'
Matt: I wish we we're that
powerful to kick out a President.
Trey: We make Puppet movies!!!! That
what really Sean Penn's letter if you read it. What he is saying
"Do you realize what you are going to do? Get George Bush
re-elected." We're just like...No we're not first of all and
second of all, that's not what we are here to do and either should you
be, but your an actor.
Pingel: I got to
ask...I hear you added on two scenes to the Puppet Sex.
Trey: The two new shots are the bodily fluids. Those we shot pacifically
to give to the MPA to give them something to cut. This is not our
invention, Quentin Tarantino does it ...everyone does it. Give them more
so you can keep that you really want. Those two shots is what we did,
but the end of the day I thought they were quite funny. That is when you go HOLLY FUCKING SHIT...I
can't believe that!
What's your favorite
part of the film?
Matt: Our favorite parts of this movie, and we laugh all the
time shooting it, was one puppet just looked at another
puppet.
Pingel: What's
next for you guys?
Both:
Vacation.
Matt: We are on vacation
until October for the South Park run. I'm getting drunk now until
October!
Team
America: World Police
is in Stores this Tuesday, May 17th
