...He believed he was unable to gain Arab financial backing because the period leading up to the rise of Salahuddin too closely mirrored current events in the Arab world."
- Al Jazeera.Net
I had always wanted to watch the thus-far only movie about Prophet Mohammed, The Message. My curiosity was stroked 2 years ago when I heard that they made an entire movie about the Prophet and his efforts to spread Islam without a single shot of the man himself, due to Islamic conditions that no image of the Prophet should be published or attempted to be published or reproduced. The film is a masterpiece in much of the Muslim world; it's an artifact of the most amazing story ever told to the rest of the world, possibly a window for non-Muslims to see this story.
So it was with some solemness that I read that Moustapha Akkad, the man who made such a movie possible, was killed by terrorists in the recent Jordan bomb blasts. Indeed a wicked irony for a man who apparently abhorred Arab-rooted terrorism.
Read more about his ambitious plans that have come to naught, here. Wasted.
3 comments:
Salam, bro.
How sad is this news!
About the movie, I hope somebody will consummate his vision. It is, after all, another mode of dakwah, and even better is that it appeals to the masses.
May there be a silver lining to the cloud.
Salam Potter,
yeah, I hope someone has enough gusto to take this up and do it accurately. (I also would like someone to re-make The Message and release it as a multi-million dollar blockbuster, one that shows Islam in its true light, depicting it as a message that includes and over-archs the previous messages sent to Man. But I haven't watched the original yet, so I better watch it soon).
And then again is the danger of pandering to Hollywoodian presures of conforming to scripting formulae that has a (raspy voice) "One Man... One Dream... Against All Odds..." trailer and the all-too-pervasive exoticism. Sigh... see what happens lah...
I don't think I've watched The Message either...right, it's on my list of Movies To Catch now.
I suppose there is no way of escaping those Hollywood gloss. In a way, the glamourising is, and I know you know, to compel people to watch a movie about some hero. A lesser evil? Perhaps so.
Good one on the trailer! I can imagine it now, with some flashbacks of Connery in costume. =)
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