For "2012," Emmerich set his sites on destroying the some biggest landmarks around the world, from Rome to Rio. But there's one place that Emmerich wanted to demolish but didn't: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located in the center of Mecca. It's the focus of prayers and the site of the Hajj, the biggest, most important pilgrimage in Islam.
"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," the filmmaker 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."
Traditionally, a fatwa has meant religious opinion by an Islamic scholar or imam. The term has gained currency in the West after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence in the form of a fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemies in his book "The Satanic Verses" in 1989. As a result, the Indian-born writer was forced into hiding for most of the '90s.
I can understand why someone would not want to be targeted by violence for the sake of a movie. But it just seems like caving to terrorism and an affront to freedom of speech.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
It reminds me of that Southpark two parter, Cartoon Wars, where the network refused to show the image of Muhammad, doing nothing obscene, but yet they would show Jesus crapping on the American flag. It's like WTF?!?!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
one could assume it was destroyed cause we all know the movie can't show everything getting hammered through the movie. It looks really awesome and can't wait to see it!!
Sava700 wrote:one could assume it was destroyed cause we all know the movie can't show everything getting hammered through the movie. It looks really awesome and can't wait to see it!!
FFS, just get a black marker and write over your ID4 dvd with 2012. Same crap, same director.
