  Critics
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Interviews
Audiences will be challenged by the complex moral issues that it raises.
"We're all kind of directly responsible for you know, most of the pain that goes on in this world."
Reviews
One thing critics agree on about Steven Spielberg's Munich: it will give audiences something more than popcorn to chew on.
A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity, Munich defies easy labeling.
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 Daniel Craig InterviewDaniel Craig talks: "We're all kind of directly responsible for you know, most of the pain and suffering that goes on in this world. And we have to take responsibility for that."
Interviewer: Ok, let's get generic. First of all Daniel, could you explain to me the plot of Munich?
Daniel Craig: Munich basically follows the events after the '72 Munich Olympics - where eleven Israeli athletes were killed by a Palestine organisation called Black September. It's erm... I mean, nobody knows what really happened, nobody really knows exactly the truth of the situation but in the movie, Golda Mier puts out an order saying that she wants an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth - and that she wants eleven Palestinians killed in reprisals - basically anyone that was involved, anybody that might have been involved. Again, I say - this is a piece of fiction, it's a movie. We don't know.
And it follows the events of five Mossad agents who are sent in to the field, into Europe, to find these men and assassinate them, and the effect that is has on them personally and the effect that it has on the rest of the world.
Can you just introduce us to your character in the movie?
His name's Steve, he's a South African Jew, who I created. I mean, there is someone apparently that is similar to him that was involved, but I kind of created a character to fit into the plot and his background I kind of created. He's hot-headed, he's more of a soldier than the other members of the group, he wants to just, he wants to carry the mission out. He wants to complete the mission - which is kill the eleven Palestinians. But he and the rest of the group, he maybe a little slower, find the whole thing rather more harrowing than they thought they might, because actually, thankfully they're human beings. They do manage to succeed and do it rather well. Sadly. Maybe.
But it's about the relationships of the five men and the huge impact that it had on world politics and on the way that terrorism grew and grew - because in fact, one of the things we find that happens in the movie is they kill one man, they then kill his replacement, but he's replaced by a man called Carlos the Jackal who goes on to cause more death and destruction than any probably one single man until Osama Bin Laden maybe. So you know, it's questioning all the events since, including Munich.
How does the subject matter impact on you personally?
Well I think it impacts on us all incredibly personally. I do think it's a, I think that you can directly go back towards the '72 Olympics to the situation we are in - in the world today. I think that sort of, Middle East relations were sort of blown apart probably a lot earlier than that, but were really blown apart around that time. And I think that we are all suffering from it now.
Aside from the politics that the movie obviously contains, it seems to be to be very similar to a lot of seventies kind of paranoid thrillers. As well as setting, but also mood and that sort of stuff.
Yeah yeah.
Is that something that obviously you enjoy - those sort of movies?
Oh no - they're some of my favourite movies. And I think there's definitely a deliberately done by Stephen to you know, to set the movie of that time, but also in their sort of wonderful political, psychological thrillers that were coming out. Whether it's All the President's Men, or the French Connection, or you know, movies that are seminal. But what's fantastic about those movies, and hopefully this movie is that they are highly entertaining, but they are deeply political. And it's possible to do both. And you know, this is a movie and first and foremost a movie in that if you can entertain and inform, then we're in a good place.
Tell me something glowing about your director.
Glowing? The end of his cigar.
Ok. Tell me what's like to work with Stephen Spielberg.
(Laughs)
I was just trying to get it round cleverly, but still, never mind
Stephen's just, he's, I mean I'm a huge fan, and I have been since I can remember - so, and I've wanted to work with him since I can remember. He's a very, his knowledge huge. His sort of movie knowledge, his capacity is incredible. And what's amazing about him is, a lot of directors you find, go through sort of dips in their career. Or just go in one big dip - which is just where they sort of have this peak where they're fantastic and then, their ideas sort of run out - and maybe they get too comfortable.
And his ideas just keep brimming and brimming. He keeps on going and he keeps on trying to find new material to work with and keeps on trying to find new stories to tell. And you have to just stand back and admire that, because you know, as an artist, he's constantly looking to recreate himself and recreate where he stands in the world. And that's the job of an artist.
How did you feel on first viewing the film, and how do you think an audience will feel when they see the movie for the first time.
Well we had a lot of fun, believe it or not, making the movie. But then you have to with a subject like this, because it's very tricky stuff. When I first saw the movie, it was like a kick in the nuts. Or a kick in the belly or whatever you want to call it. Get that one out. It's going to be, it's tough. I can't apologise for it.
It's a tough movie, it's a tough subject, but it's got a erm, it will shake you and hopefully it will get you thinking very hard about this particular subject and also about what's happening in the world. I mean, what's going on, and how we're all kind of directly responsible for you know, most of the pain and suffering that goes on in this world. And we have to take responsibility for that.
Fantastic. Thank you so much for your time. Cheers.
Thank you.
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