No... my interest in the story centered around a facet of modern life that we generally aren't allowed to comment on these days - lest we be declared racist.
In the movie, 2012, there are a multitude of scenes featuring the destruction of cities, landmarks, and religious sites. All this mayhem is, undoubtedly, meant to instill a feeling that all our works and beliefs as human beings can be laid to waste easily in the face of disastrous forces. They show the destruction of Christian churches, as well as the Vatican.
The writer/director and his co-writer both made a conscious decision, however, to not show the destruction of the Kaaba.
The Kaaba is the square structure in the center of Mecca, around which thousands of Islamic Pilgrims throng during Haj.
Their reason for the omission?
"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."
Emmerich went on: "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.
It makes me angry and it makes me sad, but I don't blame them for their choice one little bit.
Am I any worse off because there isn't going to be a scene in a movie that I probably won't even bother to see?
No.
Am I any worse off because there are evil, extremist bastards who will gleefully kill me if I "offend" them, in some way?
Yeah.
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The worst part of living under this kind of threat is that people in government will use that to justify all kinds of restrictions on our liberties.
I'd say the little incident at Fort Hood is an example of this kind of threat.
Thank goodness we have Hollywood to fight the good fight and speak truth to power and all.
It still amazes me to hear and read this type of stuff. Look at how they're tip-toeing around this Muslim that shot up Fort Hood. It seems like everyone feels the need to preface every statement about any Muslim atrocity by saying, "Well, the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving people."
And that's relevant to this murderous bastard HOW?
Cowards, all of them.
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