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Monday, November 02, 2009
And you thought "Avatar" was
a technological breakthrough...
a technological breakthrough...
Muhammed battling the hymen of a nine-year-old girl in I-Max 3D.
JESUS. Well, this is rich:
Matrix producer plans
Muhammad biopic
Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new production 'will educate people about the true meaning of Islam'
Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.
Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad's life and examine his teachings. Osborne told Reuters that he envisages it as "an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam".
Osborne's production will reportedly feature English-speaking Muslim actors. It is backed by the Qatar-based production company Alnoor Holdings, who have installed the Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to oversee all aspects of the shoot. In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen. [boldface added]
Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new production 'will educate people about the true meaning of Islam'
Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.
Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad's life and examine his teachings. Osborne told Reuters that he envisages it as "an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam".
Osborne's production will reportedly feature English-speaking Muslim actors. It is backed by the Qatar-based production company Alnoor Holdings, who have installed the Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to oversee all aspects of the shoot. In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen. [boldface added]
Kewl. A "biopic" that won't depict its subject. Just think about that cinematically. Seems like a horror movie doesn't it? Lots of heavy breathing behind a camera that keeps closing in on its victims... Think of the Matrix with Neo permanently off-camera. Sound interesting? uh, no. Sounds awful. Sounds like political whoring with a ginormously huge checkbook behind it. But please correct me if you have ideas about how to do a biopic that never shows its protagonist. "Malcolm X" would have been so much greater if we'd never seen the face of Denzel Washinton, wouldn't it? Can't wait for all the filmic innovations that will make "Muhammedix" an Oscar winner.
Maybe you thought Hollywood had reached its lowpoint with the Polanski defense. Not at all. Hollywood hasn't yet begun to reach its lowpoint. Two kinds of points to make here. The first is theological and historical. Jesus Christ transformed the world and human consciousness without being documented in any verifiable historical terms. The proof of his existence rests entirely on the fact that unless he existed, it's impossible to explain the subsequent course of human civilization. Muhammed was an historical figure, a fairly obvious imitation of a Biblical prophet who plagiarized his betters to found a religion based on racial and ethnic hatreds, mysogyny, brutal oppression, and mass murder. (Find me any language beautiful in the Koran that competes with the King James Bible. It's all generic phony scripture, as dull as it is mean and didactic.) But all religions are equal in the eyes of those who simultaneously patronize all faiths that proclaim a god of some sort and forgive every barbarian excess as a proof of the evils of civilization itself.
The second point has to do with the real bond between Hollywood and Islam -- the twisted sexuality that has produced both the casting couch and honor killings, a tradtition of open-secret homosexuality (uh, yeah, gays have a whole 24/7 cable movie channel even as they ululate about the uniqueness in cinematic history of Brokeback Mountain) that promulgates female subjugation while it pretends to respect women even as it sanctifies purely male kinship and bromances (however defined), espouses artistic and moral freedom for everyone but dumb sluts who show off their vaginas on camera, and promotes (dirtiest secret of all) systematized pedophilia.
Pretty sure I'm the first ever to call out the similarities between Hollywood and Arab oil magnates. But they're legion. Way too much unearned money on both sides. The Hollywood kids are, by definition, not anyone. Imagine what it's like to play all those parts of people who are brave, accomplished, eloquent, creative, and important. They're not those people. And they don't see their own movies the way we do. They see them the way they're made -- with lights, sets, glass paintings, cameras, directors, stand-ins, stunt people, scripts, multiple takes, and blue-screen-CGI effects. No wonder they feel guilty when they get a $20 million check for pretending to be Napoleon, Shakespeare, Cleopatra, or a cop who refuses to give up in the face of formidable odds. Add to that the fact that most "action heroes" are shrimps, and most "femme fatales" are the creations of cosmetic surgeons, or makeup (guess who...) who wow people on-screen without being able to keep their boyfriends or husbands faithful and interested for more than a year or three at best. They're all fakes and they know it because that's their line of work. And they've all, male and female, slept with someone they wouldn't have if a part they wanted wasn't on the line. How much purer a definition of "hypocrisy as a profession" could you ever find?
It's basically the same situation with Arab oil princes (and royalty generally). They get all this money, truly endless amounts of money, just for being someone's son or cousin or brother. Are they motivated by religion, even the mysterious barbarian religion of Islam we automatically excuse ourselves from understanding? No. A fact of human nature: nobody ever really believes in an evil religion when they're in charge of enforcing it. Islam is an evil religion. What men of the spiritual desert get from Islam is permission. For everything a self-righteous, Jew- and woman-hating man might want to do. A rich muslim is a hypocrite-paradox by definition. Hypocrite because rich is a violation of jihad while infidels still exist. Paradox because riches are a persistent temptation to luxury, and luxury usually wins over orthodoxy. It certainly did with Muhammed. So maybe hypocrisy isn't that big a deal with Islam after all.
Quivering, are you? Offended? Outraged. Politically correctly protesting? Terrified? Muhammed consummated a marriage with a nine year old girl.
Sahih
Bukhari vol. 7, 65:
"Narrated Aisha that the prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: 'I have been informed that Aisha remained with the
prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).'"
"Narrated Aisha that the prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: 'I have been informed that Aisha remained with the
prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).'"
I'm thinking that the same rationale applies to righteous muslims who desire the bottoms of nine-year-old boys. Clearly, there's no sexual moral distinction at work, no Koranic differential postulated between the adult sexual desire of a bearded man and the target of his lust. How can it count? If a woman is responsible for being raped, then how can a man be responsible for raping a woman, a girl, or a boy? Kind of a perfect Hollywood religion. Those who have the money and the power get to do what they wantdesire.
Saudi princes and Hollywood bigwigs are the same. No doubt, Hollywooders have witnessed the behavior of Arab princes when they come to this country (i.e., Los Angeles) and believe they understand the faith they share in common, which is that the powerful are accountable to no one. Arab chieftains are free to believe in the chastity of muslim womanhood, the preferable promiscuity of Hollywood actresses, the moral ideal of clitorectomies in general (er, in muslim countries specifically), and that Roman Polanski is not guilty of rape. (If only we could have clitorectomies in show biz, the producers say, er, thay.)
As for the Hollywood women...? Not women. That's the other secret of Hollywood. The ones who make it big are also sexual predators. They're the only ones who survive the honor-rapes of the casting couch. (Jon Voight is upset because his daughter isn't a woman but an alpha male with a perpetually erect vagina. I'd be devastated too.) It wouldn't occur to them that there are females who might guard their chastity or modesty as a treasure worth preserving. (Not saying there aren't exceptions. There probably are. They just keep quiet about it. Kind of like female Christian converts in muslim neighborhoods.)
It's not about religion. It's about elites. Money. Power. And a lot of the frightened insecure people who know this about themselves hate themselves for being frightened and insecure. They think everyone else is like that too. Which makes them deathly afraid of the idea of meritocracy and and thriving or not on the basis of what you're worth. Which makes them think the biggest problem is capitalism. But it isn't. Capitalism is about earning money. For having a better idea. For working harder. For manufacturing products and providing services people couldn't have had without your imagination and inventiveness and determination. Which is a very different thing from being paid for being a little guy who looks big on camera, a dull witch who looks interesting on camera, or a smelly, concupiscient barbarian who looks white-robed and rich on the world stage.
Saudi princes want to kill the whole world for the temptations they can't resist. So do Hollywood stars. But we do need fewer sodomites and pedophiliacs. It won't work to condemn the Catholics, forgive the Arabs, and celebrate the Hollywood celebrities who would make a religion of perversity.
Oh. Forgot to include the film trailer that Fox Entertainment has made the World Series a wholly owned subsidiary of. It's great. All about the evil military who do whatever it is evil American militaries do so that Hollywood directors get to spend $300 million in hopes of earning half a billion condemning it.
I'm not paid to do this promo. I'm just hoping I won't get arrested for the rest of the content because I'm following the lead of Media Nation.
Do I sound bitter? I hope so. Because I am.
