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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: jinxmchue on November 04, 2009, 07:33:41 PM
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http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
That includes the famous frescoed ceiling by Michelangelo depicting Adam touching fingers with God.
"I always try to come up with what makes sense for the story, you know?" Emmerich says. "And it's not only about the destruction. It has to kind of stand for something. One of my favorite pieces of art is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: ... God ... reaches out to Adam, and the crack goes through it. It's just an interesting kind of notion."
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican
"Why ... don't [we] have the church fall on people's head?" Emmerich said. He added: "The whole Vatican kind of tips and kind of rolls over the people. It said something, because in the story, some people ... believe in praying and prayer, and they pray in front of the church, and it's probably the wrong thing, what they would do in that situation."
Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro
"Because I'm against organized religion," Emmerich says.
The one that got away
Emmerich said that he got approached by people who wanted their landmarks destroyed, such as the 101 Tower in Taipei, the world's tallest building (pictured below).
But Emmerich was thinking of something even more explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca, the focus of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam's holiest sites.
Really?
"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich says. "But my co-writer Harald 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."
Yes, all this does say something. It says that people who attack Christianity have nothing to fear, contrary to what many atheists constantly claim, and Islam is the religion to watch out for.
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Meh...
It looks like a stinker of a movie anyway.
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total stinker. Someone posted a comment at one of the news sites running this story and it was hilarious. It basically said that this director wouldn't destroy a Muslim monument but saw nothing wrong with destroying a coherent plot.
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What I don't get though is that if you don't respect organized religion, why worry about a fatwa? Hmmm......
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Big-mouthed ***** is just afraid he'd get the "Theo van Gogh treatment".
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John Cusack as the action hero lead? :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.
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I'm thinking of a word...a name for Emmerich...something like "Chickenshi*".
It's easy to bully people that turn the other cheek....but those that might cut your head off...OH NO.
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John Cusack as the action hero lead? :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.
The Day After Tomorrow - also known as "Al Gore's p0rn". :rofl:
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The Day After Tomorrow - also known as "Al Gore's p0rn". :rofl:
I saw the movie and it was totally unbelievable, much like global warming.
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John Cusack as the action hero lead? :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.
That wasn't a "peak" so much as a speed bump, in my humble opinion.
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Y'all are forgetting his other big budget film, Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick as the action lead. Man can this guy not pick 'em...
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Y'all are forgetting his other big budget film, Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick as the action lead. Man can this guy not pick 'em...
But he knows how to lay a turd.
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But he knows how to lay a turd.
Hell, I think BlueStateSaint's 2-year old can do that. I stopped rewarding my 5-year old for stinking up the place when he turned 4 and could hit the toilet 4 times out of 5. What makes this jackass Emmerich think I'm gonna give him a prize?