| | Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene'
| NeoFistOfTheGolgoNinja
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11/5/2009 1:06 PM
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Roland Emmerich, the director of the 'end of days' disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam's holiest site, but was persuaded not to.
He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go - the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam's holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
2012
Production year: 2009
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 157 mins
Directors: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Amanda Peet, Chin Han, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Jimi Mistry, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson
More on this film
For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage.
But after some consideration, he decided it might not be such a smart idea, after all.
"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.
"We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.
"So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."
But Emmerich acolytes need not fear that the film-maker is pulling his punches on 2012, which arrives in UK cinemas on 13 November. The movie depicts a global doomsday event supposedly predicted by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago – in order to highlight his opposition to organised religion, the director decided to use CGI to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro instead. For good measure, he also blew up the Sistine chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, plus, on a secular note, the White House (again).
[link to www.guardian.co.uk]
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| Guns n' God (redux)
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11/5/2009 1:08 PM | | Re: Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene' | Quote |
What a coward. |
| NeoFistOfTheGolgoNinja
User ID: 811017
11/5/2009 1:13 PM
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What a coward. Quoting: Guns n' God (redux)
You are one tough hombre. I would not call him a "coward", that is pretty brutal. It is however disheartening to see this. But not surprising.
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| mr...bojangles
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11/5/2009 1:22 PM | | Re: Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene' | Quote |
What a coward. Quoting: Guns n' God (redux)
money is only good if you are alive to spend it..... |
| Anonymous Coward
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11/5/2009 1:24 PM | | Re: Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene' | Quote |
they'll still fatwa his ass just for considering it. |
| NeoFistOfTheGolgoNinja
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11/5/2009 1:25 PM
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What a coward.
money is only good if you are alive to spend it..... Quoting: mr...bojangles
Good point.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.-- Thomas Jefferson |
| lillie8
User ID: 757721
11/6/2009 5:26 PM
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Roland Emmerich, the director of the 'end of days' disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam's holiest site, but was persuaded not to.
He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go - the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam's holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
2012
Production year: 2009
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 157 mins
Directors: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Amanda Peet, Chin Han, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Jimi Mistry, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson
More on this film
For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage.
But after some consideration, he decided it might not be such a smart idea, after all.
"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.
"We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.
"So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."
But Emmerich acolytes need not fear that the film-maker is pulling his punches on 2012, which arrives in UK cinemas on 13 November. The movie depicts a global doomsday event supposedly predicted by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago – in order to highlight his opposition to organised religion, the director decided to use CGI to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro instead. For good measure, he also blew up the Sistine chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, plus, on a secular note, the White House (again).
[ link to www.guardian.co.uk]
Then it's only right that he should be paid in "In Allah We Trust" dollars.
When I read this article I think from the Daily Gut, I was not surprised. Nothing Hollywood does anymore is surprising.
They have no qualms about disrespecting our American men and women in uniform , throwing their money behind , in my opinion, many dubious causes, but hey, to each his own.
From the looks of the 2012 trailer, the movie looked kind of cheesy anyway, and I had no intention of seeing yet another phoned-in production from the left coast, that would set my family and I back 100.00 dollars, and that's sneaking in our own scoobey snacks.
But when I read Mr. Emmerich's qualms about not raining down a Fatwa on his head, I decided that life is too short and so is money. Therefore, Mr. Emmerich, you can take, your CGI machine, that hack one dimensional actor Cusak, who by the way is wearing the same damn suit he has worn in every freaking movie he's ever been it, and your racist, anti-religion , coward self and cram it all including your own over-inflated opinion of yourself and stick it all up your own ass.
Their are many reasons to boycott Hollywood. They have provided us with yet another.
Big girls need BIG guns. |
| NeoFistOfTheGolgoNinja
User ID: 811610
11/7/2009 1:43 AM
| | Re: Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene' | Quote |
Roland Emmerich, the director of the 'end of days' disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam's holiest site, but was persuaded not to.
He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go - the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam's holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
2012
Production year: 2009
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 157 mins
Directors: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Amanda Peet, Chin Han, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Jimi Mistry, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson
More on this film
For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage.
But after some consideration, he decided it might not be such a smart idea, after all.
"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.
"We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.
"So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."
But Emmerich acolytes need not fear that the film-maker is pulling his punches on 2012, which arrives in UK cinemas on 13 November. The movie depicts a global doomsday event supposedly predicted by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago – in order to highlight his opposition to organised religion, the director decided to use CGI to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro instead. For good measure, he also blew up the Sistine chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, plus, on a secular note, the White House (again).
[ link to www.guardian.co.uk]
Then it's only right that he should be paid in "In Allah We Trust" dollars.
When I read this article I think from the Daily Gut, I was not surprised. Nothing Hollywood does anymore is surprising.
They have no qualms about disrespecting our American men and women in uniform , throwing their money behind , in my opinion, many dubious causes, but hey, to each his own.
From the looks of the 2012 trailer, the movie looked kind of cheesy anyway, and I had no intention of seeing yet another phoned-in production from the left coast, that would set my family and I back 100.00 dollars, and that's sneaking in our own scoobey snacks.
But when I read Mr. Emmerich's qualms about not raining down a Fatwa on his head, I decided that life is too short and so is money. Therefore, Mr. Emmerich, you can take, your CGI machine, that hack one dimensional actor Cusak, who by the way is wearing the same damn suit he has worn in every freaking movie he's ever been it, and your racist, anti-religion , coward self and cram it all including your own over-inflated opinion of yourself and stick it all up your own ass.
Their are many reasons to boycott Hollywood. They have provided us with yet another.
I thought Hollywood was the bastion against censorship?
I guess that only applies when they don't feel their lives threatened.
Edited because I am freakin Moran and can't spell worth shit.
Last Edited by NeoFistOfTheGolgoNinja on 11/7/2009 at 1:52 AM
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| Anonymous Coward
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11/7/2009 1:51 AM | | Re: Emmerich 'feared fatwa for 2012 scene' | Quote |
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