The bloke who designs those underpant bombs, was also responsible for the following madness.
(Chris Morris interview excerpt from Atomic Popcorn, interviewer in bold.)
Yeah, and when you watch the film, it seems like, “Oh, these are the outliers. These are terrorists, but they’re bumbling fools.” But in reality, that’s probably closer to the truth than these suave super-spies from action movies.
“Yeah, they don’t work like they do in action movies but they aren’t all sort of running around falling over. It’s somewhere in between. There was a guy recently whose job it was to assassinate a Saudi prince by blowing himself up with a suppository bomb. He duly stuffed the bomb up his orifice and went to see the Saudi prince, and he said, ‘Hello, Prince,’ and pulled out his detonator and hit the button, firing himself straight through the ceiling of the tent, without harming the prince at all. So, he kind of turned into a human bottle rocket. And that, to me, is every bit as stupid as Faisal jumping over a wall and blowing up a sheep. I mean, it’s like something out of the bloody Marx brothers. So it just seems to be a good side of this process to show. Much as you get films like Dog Day Afternoon, showing a kind of plotsy siege, and what happens when that goes wrong. You do sometimes get films about soldiers getting things wrong, so right across the board you will have people not doing things perfectly. That’s all it is.”
