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Latest MPAA Ratings:
Flight
Rated R For drug and alcohol abuse, language, sexuality/nudity and an intense action sequence.
Release Date: November 2, 2012* so excited with potential nudity from Nadine Velazquez (in hotel room with Denzel) until I saw the full cast credits : Naked Girl in Helmet (Jennifer Olympia Bentley).
Update with possible good news : There are couple of nude scenes in the movie if I'm correct. The first is when Denzel banging a chick and another involving Ms.Bentley. I'm going with my cock instinct. The bedroom scene will be with 34-years old Nadine. Denzel is playing a pilot and she is an air attendant. Look at the screen-cap. The shape of the waist and skin tone. It's not a black performer or Kelly Reilly who plays a drug addict. I'm pretty sure the cliched pilot banging the pretty stewardess is at play here. The Latinas are safer choice than a white girl in interracial coupling with a black star. Nadine is at that right age factor for first-time nudity on-screen. Making it more possible when you realize this is Nadine first A-list lavishly budgeted movie with bona fide superstar. And when the script demands a love scene Nadine could be going : "I'm going to show my boobs some time in near future. Nothing is more perfect than in a scene with Denzel on a multi-budgeted blockbuster. It's more of pleasure for me than a hassle".
Compare the waist of Nadine and you can see it's exactly the same....
Movies with "sexuality/nudity" :
Red Riding Hood (2003)
The Twisted Sisters (2006)
Cloud Atlas (2012) (topless scenes and one brief sexuality)
Amsterdam Heavy (2011) (couple of topless babes lezzing it up and implied-BJ with one exposed tit)
and worryingly,
The Awakening
* What the fuck is wrong with MPAA? So inconsistent in rating movies. It's all over the place.
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Just How Dirty Do Selena Gomez And Vanessa Hudgens Get In Spring Breakers?
Author: Katey Rich
But there's a curdled, dark and sometimes very funny core to Spring Breakers that will stun anyone who walks in expecting to see Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez in their first grown-up roles. The girls are grown-up, alright, but Spring Breakers exists to twist that idea and even parody the whole tradition of spring break movies-- while also encouraging the girls to indulge in all the stereotypical bad behavior. Just how shocking do these Disney Channel starlets get?
Not paying attention in class. Alright, this is a pretty minor infraction, and something Hannah Montana might have been busted for. But when we first meet Hudgens's Candy and Ashley Benson's Brit, they're not only goofing off in class, but writing notes to each other that say "I want penis" and drawing pictures of those penises in question. Like we all did back in college.
Binge drinking. Par for the course in the standard spring break movies and on The Real World, and there's plenty of it here. But truly, you've never seen girls doing beer funnels or letting guys pour it into their mouths until you've seen Harmony Korine film it as if it's a disgusting sex act that's been happening in public all these years with nobody noticing.
Armed robbery. Yeah, here's where things start to get really interesting. In the old days girls might hold a bake sale or even a bikini car wash to raise the cash for a spring break trip. These girls grab very realistic looking squirt guns and a giant mallet and hold up the world's dingiest looking chicken restaurant, then burn the getaway car. Believe it or not, it works. So those of you who saved up your babysitting money to go on spring break? Suckers!!
Cocaine. Again, pretty standard MTV-level behavior, though when the girls sniff it off each others' bodies, they're surely taking it to the next level.
Getting tossed in jail. We never really know why the girls are interrupted in the middle of a beachside rager to be tossed in the pokey, and eventually appear in front of a judge in nothing but their bikinis. There's plenty of reasons to arrest them, sure, but the difference between a spring break to remember and a spring break to carefully avoid mentioning on your resume is the one that involves jail time.
Hooking up with a guy in cornrows who calls himself Alien and who is played by James Franco. The first half of Spring Breakers is a repetitive, almost hypnotic spin on the modern beachside tradition, with lurid shots of the girls drinking jarringly coupled with Selena Gomez's character in voiceover, talking about how "special" this place is. Then halfway through the girls team up with James Franco's Alien-- yet another completely wild and subtly hilarious character from the ever-unpredictable Franco-- and that's where the movie finally gets interesting. And also the kind of thing that would give any parent of tweens an aneurysm.
Judging from responses I've gotten on twitter, a lot of people are wondering if Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are good in these grown-up roles. It's kind of an irrelevant question, though-- Harmony Korine isn't asking these women to act, but participate in a surreal takedown of the American culture of youthful excess, while also making a surprisingly strong argument for female empowerment for sexuality. If that doesn't appeal to you, there's also Franco's bizarre performance with instant-classic line reading ("Look at my shit!") and a scene in which Hudgens and Benson encourage him to fellate two guns. Gomez doesn't get in on nearly as much of the fun-- she's the token "good girl"-- so she can probably avoid the wrath of the uptight Justin Bieber fans for now. But with dyed blonde hair and a weird relish of her dirtiest lines, Hudgens is clearly running as far as she can from High School Musical-- and she's believable in the role, for what that's worth.
I was bored by the first half of Spring Breakers but weirdly compelled by the second half, not just for how James Franco livened things up but how Korine finally seemed to have something to say about dumb spring break culture, rather than just indulging in it to the point of making it all feel lurid. I still don't really know if I liked it, and I have no idea if you will either, but it's been the surprising hit among critics at TIFF, who made last night's press screening the first capacity crowd I've seen at the festival. I do kind of relish the idea of Gomez and Hudgens's fans checking out the movie based on word that people liked it at a film festival, because it's so against pretty much everything you'd expect from these actresses. But is that kind of surprise a fun challenge, or just torture? Depends on how much surreal and aggressive weirdness you want to see in your spring break.
Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine Dance With A Stripper On "Spring Breakers" Set
Unfortunately, no release date for the film has been set yet, so for now, enjoy this little sexy clip.
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'Fifty Shades of Grey' film: Emma Watson is in 'if Ryan Gosling plays Christian'
By: Ryan Arciero
While popular names have been thrown about for the female lead in EL James’ “50 Shades”—from Alexis Bledel and Alexandra Daddario to Kristen Stewart and Emilia Clarke—actress Emma Watson may be working her magic for the part of Anastasia Steele in the upcoming “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie. In latest “50 Shades” casting rumors and film news this week, Emma Watson—of the “Harry Potter” movies and more recently, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”—is once again being talked about for EL James’ bestselling erotic novel’s take to the big screen, except this time it’s the actress herself who’s started the interest.
According to an interview with “STV.TV” posted this Monday, Watson said she’s “flattered” about some fans supporting her for the role, and would “certainly want” to be considered for—though there is a catch.
She would only be allegedly “far more interested if Ryan Gosling were to be cast as Christian Grey,” reported fellow friend and co-star Nina Dobrev recently this weekend.
The talented star was previously linked to a possible Anastasia Steele casting role in the past with a July report that she was in talks for the female lead with “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie producers Dana Brunetti and Michael de Luca. But less than a week later, Emma Watson confirmed that these rumors were not true.
Yet now the Hermione Granger actress has stated that she may take on the casting role of innocent Ana if Ryan Gosling of “Drive” were chosen to play the part of every female’s favorite billionaire in the bedroom, Christian Grey.
To reaffirm Nina Dobrev’s statement on Watson’s interest, Ryan Seacrest also tweeted: “@EmWatson told me that she’d be more interested in playing Ana in the ’Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie if Ryan Gosling were to be Christian. #mugglelove.”
And while Emma Watson did admit over the summer that she hadn’t read the bestselling “50 Shades” trilogy of books, that has apparently changed in the interim. “E! Online” reports this week that “The Vampire Diaries” actress Nina Dobrev also told Seacrest in their interview that the star was actually “nervous” while looking over the novels.
“She’s laughing, a bit nervously, as I’m sure everyone was when they first read those books,” said Dobrev before talking promo about “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” “But she’d want to do it if Ryan [Gosling] was going to be Christian. I guess that’s all it takes,” she laughed.
As for Emma’s take on the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie:
"I haven't fully read the book just yet, so I don't know what I’d be signing myself up for. So I would have to get sent a script I guess. But it always flattering that people are thinking about you for certain casting roles. You are in the mix for things like ’50 Shades’ so it's great."
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PIPER PERABO TONES UP FOR NAKEDNESS IN NEW SCI-FI THRILLER 'LOOPER'
Actress Piper Perabo has piped up to the Globe and Mail about the challenges she was faced with for her new role starring in Rian Johnson's time-travel thriller 'Looper' alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt ('Inception') and Bruce Willis ('12 Monkeys'). The 35-year old actress, star of 'Coyote Ugly' and 'Carriers', plays showgirl Suzie in the movie and has revealed that aside from the promise of being able to do a little dancing in her new role she's also been busy working out due to the nudity involved for her character. Paul Dano ('There Will Be Blood'), Jeff Daniels ('The Newsroom') and the beautiful Emily Blunt ('The Adjustment Bureau') all co-star. So in just over two weeks time we'll all be able to go loopy and gaze upon the well toned body of Miss Perabo (below). Head below for the video interview.
"In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination."
'Looper' opens both here in the UK and US on 28 September.
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TIFF 2012: Top TIFF moments so far
Jessica Allen picks her favourites
We may not get every A-lister—E-Talk and the other big media outlets eat up red-carpet time—but we make the most of who we get. On Day 1, for example, instead of Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the premiere of Looper, we got Bruce Willis.
On Day 3, at the Silver Linings Playbook premiere, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper walked by, but film director David O. Russell stopped to talk.
No matter what, Maclean’s photographer Kara Dillon manages to capture the elusive stars.
On Day 4, Quartet director Dustin Hoffman and star Maggie Smith lingered to chat since we’d actually seen the film. And Billy Connolly … he was … well, just watch the video.
Our luck didn’t let up. On Day 5, on the carpet of Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder, both leading ladies Rachel McAdams and Olga Kerylanko chatted with Maclean’s. I won’t lie: McAdams, who was raised in the same hometown as me, remembered me from years of serving her in restaurants on Queen Street West, where she was–without exception–amiable, delightful and generous to staff. One time, maybe six years ago, she hugged me good-bye. I haven’t showered since.
I’ve been like a fly on the wall at after-parties of bold-face names — observing some of Hollywood’s biggest players in their natural habitat. (For example, Harvey Weinstein and Dustin Hoffman at the after party held for Quartet. Or the Day 2 parties for Anna Karenina and Spring Breakers, which couldn’t have been more different.)
And if the glam of TIFF parties are not your scene, check out our Outsider’s Guide to the Festival by Sarah Lazarovic.
TIFF 2012 hasn’t all been roses, of course. There have been some real awkward moments. Seeing how there are still five days to go, I’m going to wait to share. Wish me luck on topping a golden one with Anna Karenina star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who I annoyed the hell out of with a red carpet question. We’ve got video to prove it.
In the meantime, here’s a collection of my favourite photos of couples (married, or otherwise) that Kara’s taken at TIFF 2012. Because it’s a heck of a lot easier to navigate TIFF with a little help.
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| Way at the end of our first TIFF 2012 red carpet for the premiere of 'Looper' |
It’s Day 7 and the Maclean’s team continues to pound the pavement–along with a few red carpets–in search of the best photos, videos and stories from TIFF.
We may not get every A-lister—E-Talk and the other big media outlets eat up red-carpet time—but we make the most of who we get. On Day 1, for example, instead of Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the premiere of Looper, we got Bruce Willis.
On Day 3, at the Silver Linings Playbook premiere, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper walked by, but film director David O. Russell stopped to talk.
No matter what, Maclean’s photographer Kara Dillon manages to capture the elusive stars.
On Day 4, Quartet director Dustin Hoffman and star Maggie Smith lingered to chat since we’d actually seen the film. And Billy Connolly … he was … well, just watch the video.
Our luck didn’t let up. On Day 5, on the carpet of Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder, both leading ladies Rachel McAdams and Olga Kerylanko chatted with Maclean’s. I won’t lie: McAdams, who was raised in the same hometown as me, remembered me from years of serving her in restaurants on Queen Street West, where she was–without exception–amiable, delightful and generous to staff. One time, maybe six years ago, she hugged me good-bye. I haven’t showered since.
I’ve been like a fly on the wall at after-parties of bold-face names — observing some of Hollywood’s biggest players in their natural habitat. (For example, Harvey Weinstein and Dustin Hoffman at the after party held for Quartet. Or the Day 2 parties for Anna Karenina and Spring Breakers, which couldn’t have been more different.)
And if the glam of TIFF parties are not your scene, check out our Outsider’s Guide to the Festival by Sarah Lazarovic.
TIFF 2012 hasn’t all been roses, of course. There have been some real awkward moments. Seeing how there are still five days to go, I’m going to wait to share. Wish me luck on topping a golden one with Anna Karenina star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who I annoyed the hell out of with a red carpet question. We’ve got video to prove it.
In the meantime, here’s a collection of my favourite photos of couples (married, or otherwise) that Kara’s taken at TIFF 2012. Because it’s a heck of a lot easier to navigate TIFF with a little help.
Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund at the premiere of 'On The Road'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson. Photo: Kara Dillon
Joaquin Phoenix and his girlfriend at the premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Emily Blunt with husband John Krasinski at the 'Looper' premiere. Photo: Kara Dillon
Actress Mickey Sumner kisses her mom Trudie Styler at the premiere of 'Imogene'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Director's Lana and Andy Wachowski at the premiere of 'Cloud Atlas'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Greg Kinnear and his wife arrive at the premiere of 'Writers'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo at the premiere of 'Thanks For Sharing'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Actor Bryan Cranston and his wife, Robin Dearden, at the premiere of 'Argo'. Photo: Kara Dillon
Celebrities Saying 'Fuck': A Totally NSFW Supercut (VIDEO)
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Sex scenes are too much for actor
Male actor says he can't do porn - nor even fake it for a movie
A part-time Johannesburg actor has applied for leave at the High Court in Pretoria to not participate in a film as he is not comfortable with its sex scenes, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday.
Lushen Naidoo was ordered last month by Judge Ferdi Preller to continue playing his role in the film “And Now?”, with conditions including the film’s producer Natalie Raphil give him the script and shooting schedule.
At the time, Raphil said Naidoo’s withdrawal would cause her and the film’s crew irreparable harm.
Naidoo was in court on Wednesday to appeal the order, stating the sex scenes affected his physical and mental health, with his girlfriend also not happy, according to the newspaper.
Raphil’s advocate asked the court to order Naidoo to comply with the previous order even though the matter was pending appeal.
Judge Preller said that even in Hollywood, actors could not be forced to participate in “pornographic scenes” against their will.
While Raphil’s representative said Naidoo was only required to simulate sex, Preller said after reading the script: “It seems like the real McCoy”.
Preller suggested that Naidoo be written out of the film.
A ruling is expected on Thursday.
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A Short Survey of Sexy Contemporary Photographers
Richard Kern made a name for himself with the 1980s New York Cinema of Transgression movement and works like You Killed Me First!, a violent screwed-up family tale starring his transfixing young discovery Lung Leg and Fingered, wherein Lydia Lunch gets… well… He’s since shot erotic projects, celebrities, and endless crops of game New York models, his unmistakable aesthetic that of a very raw, perverse pin-up.
Tokyo’s Nobuyoshi Araki has published more than 450 photo books. Much of his work is erotic and pornographic, combining classic visual culture elements like Japanese rope bondage with skill and some sort of twisted magic. Even his most rapturous scenes of maidens in distress/passion pulse with a precise Araki aesthetic, an aesthetic he’s lent to portraits of Bjork and Gaga. Even his seemingly simplest forms seem so charged, they’re practically fetishistic.
Czech art photographer Jan Saudek has been censored and renowned for his hand-tinted, dreamy erotic tableaux featuring surreal rooms and half-nude models. There are classic elements in his posing of the models, costumed themes, Victorian flourishes, and theatrical interactions, which vary depends on the chemistry of the shoot. You know a shoot has gone particularly well if he jumps in to participate.
A giant, Austrian-German photographer, Helmut Newton put the “Oh” in Vogue, contributing a prolific, charged, mostly black-and-white body of work to fashion photography. Always stylish and slick, if somewhat sterile, his special classy touch was recruited to shoot Playboy pictorials of Nastassia Kinski and others.
Another late great Peter Hujar shot powerful nudes in soft tonal black-and-white, as well as portraits of friend and lover David Wojnarowicz, Divine, and the devastating shot of Warhol Superstar Candy Darling On Her Deathbed, used by Antony and the Johnsons for the cover of I Am A Bird Now. His gallery Mathew Marks refers to the style as “highly emotional yet stripped of excess.” Clean. Open. Sexy.
The ’70s work of Kohei Yoshiyuki is still widely exhibited today. The photographer documented cruising heterosexual and homosexual couples engaging in sex in public parks at night and the crowds of Peeping Toms who stalked, spied, and slowly crawled toward copulating couples. All he needed was an infrared flash bulb and six-month-long reconnaissance mission of befriending the voyeurs to shoot this essay.
San Francisco-based photographer Joan Sinclair labored extensively to gain access into Tokyo’s most exclusive, elaborate sex clubs. Her voyeur-journalistic body of work, especially the Pink Box series, shine a stealthy light onto the culture of the Japanese sex industry. It provides a glimpse into the faces and psyche of the kinds of people who’d enjoy reenacting a groping scenario within a mock train car in a sex club basement. Watch your step.
Self-taught photographer Goodyn Green is inching towards recognition. Her portraits from inside the queer Berlin scene engender each subject with a frank, deadpan sensuality, whether in dance clubs spinning records, or in the woods tangled between tree trunks, or in her kitchen, strutting boy briefs and cooking her eggs, sunny-side up. She’s seems like a charmer.
With a noir aesthetic running through his work, photographer James Graham is drawn toward performance artists more than models, honest scowls over fake smiles. Speaking of his work in TASCHEN’s The New Erotic Photography, he says, ”I consider each photo a single frame from a narrative film, like Cindy Sherman without me as the subject — thankfully — or like Gregory Crewdson without the money — unfortunately.”
Brooklyn and New Orleans-based photographer Clayton Cubitt is a bit of a cult personality, doing away with the line separating the personal from the professional entirely. He’s not an exhibitionist, per se — his only filter is his lens. In his most recent project/Pavlovian stunt Hysterical Literature, friends and industry comrades come to his studio to read passages from books in front of the camera while strategically sitting on a secretively placed pleasure device. Naughty.
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Video: Woman molested in her sleep at Internet cafe
A man was nabbed by local police after he molested one of two women who were in their deep sleep and walked away their mobile phone and some cash at an internet cafe in Jinjiang city, East China’s Fujian province.
On September 4, two post-90s women stayed over night at a net cafe in Jinjiang. They slept over on their seats after getting tired.
The next morning, at around 8 o’clock when there was nobody around, a man went to the two sleeping women and walked around their seats in a dubious manner. Soon, the man left after taking away a mobile phone that one of women, in white skirt, put on the computer table.
About one hour later, the man came back again to find that the two women were still asleep. Then, he approached to the other woman, and used his hand to touch her breasts and lower part for over ten minutes when she was unconscious. The pervert even walked away over two hundred cash that the woman tucked in her brassiere.
The Internet cafe’s monitoring camera captured the whole course, and reported it to the local police. When the man appeared up again in the same cafe the next day, he was apprehanded.
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This Is the Anti-Muhammed Movie That Sparked Deadly Islamist Protests in Egypt and Libya Yesterday
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On Tuesday, Americans remembered the lives of those individuals who were mercilessly killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
But on the same day that the 11th anniversary of the tragedy was being remembered, two notable, anti-American events unfolded in the Middle East — in Egypt, Islamists tore down the American flag at the U.S. embassy and, in Libya, radicals burned down the U.S. consulate and killed a U.S. diplomat. These actions were taken, not as a result of the 9/11 anniversary, but in retribution for an obscure anti-Islam and anti-Prophet Muhammad film that was produced in America.
Sam Bacile, 56, the movie’s writer and director, has gone into hiding following the violent reaction to his film. An Israeli, Bacile lives in California and works in real estate development. While filmmaking isn’t his main source of income, he put together the inflammatory movie in an effort to expose negative attributes that he believes come from and are associated with the Islamic faith.
The self-described Israeli Jew told the Associated Press, from an undisclosed location, that Islam is a cancer and that the film was intended to make a political statement, while condemning Islam on the whole. The English-language movie spans two hours and is entitled, “Innocence of Muslims.” Bacile claims that more than 100 Jewish donors helped put up the $5 million to make the film, which has reached no measurable level of success, possible.
“This is a political movie,” Bacile told the AP. “The U.S. lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re fighting with ideas.”
Naturally, considering his view that the faith is a “cancer” and examining the fact that he intentionally sought to target Islam, there’s no surprise that the content presented within the film is disparaging and offensive, to say the least. Muhammad, Islam’s most revered prophet, is made to look like a fraud. His followers, too, are depicted as fools.
“Innocence of Muslims” depicts Muhammad as a feckless philanderer who approved of child sexual abuse, among other overtly insulting claims that have caused outrage. In a 13 minute 51 second trailer, the Islamic prophet is made to look like a murderer and adulterer as well.
Among the insults are insinuations that the Koran is made up and that Muhammad is anything but prophetic — two notions that chip away at the very fabrics of the Islamic faith.
Under the YouTube account “sam bacile,” a supposed trailer for the controversial film is posted
(caution: sexual and disturbing content):
It is a well-known fact that Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad in any manner, let alone insult the prophet. A Danish newspaper’s 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet triggered riots in many Muslim countries. And this, of course, is only one example.
Though Bacile was apologetic about the American who was killed as a result of the outrage over his film (reports allege that three other American embassy workers were killed in Libya as well), he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence.
“I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good,” said Bacile. “America should do something to change it.”
A consultant on the film, Steve Klein, said the filmmaker is concerned for family members who live in Egypt. Bacile declined to confirm. Klein said he vowed to help Bacile make the movie but warned him that “you’re going to be the next Theo van Gogh.” Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after making a film that was perceived as insulting to Islam.
“We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen,” Klein said.
On Tuesday, there seemed to be confusion surrounding which film had inspired violent protests in the Middle East. Some claimed that the anti-Islam, Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones, whom TheBlaze has frequently covered, was behind the movie. However, Jones is merely promoting the film; he was not involved in its production.
The Atlantic has more about the movie, with additional background details about how Bacile’s offensive project sparked deadly Middle Eastern protests:
Bacile‘s film was dubbed into Egyptian Arabic by someone he doesn’t know, but he speaks enough Arabic to confirm that the translation is accurate. It was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera.The movie is called Innocence of Muslims, although some Egyptian media have reported its title as Mohammed Nabi al-Muslimin, or Mohammed, Prophet of the Muslims. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s because most of the few clips circulating online are dubbed in Arabic. [...]Obviously, there‘s a lot to this story that’s still unclear. What we do know is that some members of Egypt’s sometimes-raucous, often rumor-heavy media have been playing highly offensive clips from the highly offensive film, stressing its U.S. and Coptic connections. In the clip below, controversial TV host Sheikh Khaled Abdallah (known for such statements as “Iran is more dangerous to us than the Jews” and that Tehran had engineered a deadly soccer riot in Port Said) hypes the film as an American-Coptic plot and introduces what he says is its opening scene.
The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theater in Hollywood earlier this year, said Bacile.
The story of the Muhammed movie which sparked deadly protests in Libya and Egypt gets weirder. The actors who appeared in it had no idea they were starring in anti-Islam propaganda which depicts Muhammed as a child molester and thug. They were deceived by the film's director, believing they were appearing in a film about the life of a generic Egyptian 2,000 years ago.
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress from Bakersfield, Calif., has a small role in the Muhammed movie as a woman whose young daughter is given to Muhammed to marry. But in a phone interview this afternoon, Garcia told us she had no idea she was participating in an offensive spoof on the life of Muhammed when she answered a casting call through an agency last summer and got the part.
The script she was given was titled simply Desert Warriors.
"It was going to be a film based on how things were 2,000 years ago," Garcia said. "It wasn't based on anything to do with religion, it was just on how things were run in Egypt. There wasn't anything about Muhammed or Muslims or anything."
In the script and during the shooting, nothing indicated the controversial nature of the final product, now called Muslim Innocence. Muhammed wasn't even called Muhammed; he was "Master George," Garcia said. The words Muhammed were dubbed over in post-production, as were essentially all other offensive references to Islam and Muhammed.
For example, at 9:03 in the trailer, Garcia berates her husband, who wants to send their daughter to Muhammed: "Is your Muhammed a child molester?" she says in the final product. But the words are dubbed over what she actually said. The line in the script—and the line Garcia gave during filming—was, "is your God a child molester," Garcia told us today.
Garcia was horrified when she saw the end product, and when protesters in Libya killed four U.S. Embassy employee.
"I had nothing to do really with anything. Now we have people dead because of a movie I was in. It makes me sick."
According to Garica, her three days on set last July were unremarkable. The film's mysterious pseudonymous writer and director, "Sam Bacile," has claimed to be an Israeli real estate mogul. But Garcia said Bacile told her he was Egyptian on set. Bacile had white hair and spoke Arabic to a number of "dark-skinned" men who hung around the set, she said. (A Bacile associate also told The Atlantic he wasn't Israeli or Jewish.)
"He was just really mellow. He was just sitting there and he wanted certain points to be made."
Once, Garcia said, Bacile wanted a girl that "Master George" (aka Muhammed) was to sleep with to look seven years old, instead of 10, to heighten the outrage. But his Assistant Directors protested, saying that was too young.
After the protests erupted and Bacile appeared in the media, Garcia called him up today to express her outrage at his deception.
"I called Sam and said, 'Why did you do this?' and he said, 'I'm tired of radical Islamists killing each other. Let other actors know it's not their fault.'"
Garcia isn't satisfied simply knowing it wasn't her fault.
"I'm going to sue his butt off."
Update: The entire 80-member cast and crew of the film have released a statement saying they were misled. Via CNN:
The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer. We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose. We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.Update II: Here's what appears to be the original casting call, posted in July 2011on craigslist:
NOW CASTING SAG and NON SAG ACTORS for "DESERT WARRIOR." Director Alan Roberts.Read the Bizarre Casting Call for the Now Infamous Anti-Muhammad Film and How the Entire Cast Was ‘Grossly Misled’
Historical desert drama set in Middle East. Indie Feature film shoots 18 days in L.A. in August. Studio and backlot locations.
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The producers of the controversial low-budget anti-Muhammad film “The Innocence of Muslims,” which some argue may have led to the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, actually sent out bizarre casting calls looking for actors to star in the flick, The Daily reports. The movie was apparently originally titled “Desert Warrior.”
According to the casting call obtained by The Daily, shooting for the film was scheduled to begin in “mid-Aug. in L.A.” last year. “Sam Bassiel” is named as the producer and “Alan Roberts” the director. The filmmakers described the film as a “historical Arabian Desert adventure film.“ Watch the nearly 14 minute trailer for ”The Innocence of Muslims” here.
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| A scene from "The Innocence of Muslims" (Photo Credit: YouTube) |
Among the roles available were the parts of George, “a strong leader, romantic, tyrant, a killer with no remorse, Assad, a “bearded tribe leader” with an “Israeli accent,” and Hillary, a woman who is “18 but looks much younger, petite, innocent.” There is no mention of a role for a Prophet Muhammad on the casting call.
The production also indicated at the bottom of the ad that “yes” there would be nudity involved.
Initial reports identified the producer as “Sam Bacile,” a self-described Israeli living in California. We are assuming that Sam “Bassiel” is the same person as Sam Bacile, but TheBlaze can’t independently verify that at this time.
One of the film’s consultants told The Atlantic that Bacile wasn’t really Israeli, possibly not even Jewish, and that Bacile was not his real name. Whoever he is, he has gone into hiding following the violent reaction to his film. No information on “Alan Roberts” was immediately available.
Israel‘s Foreign Ministry said it has no idea who Bacile is and insisted Israel’s government had nothing to do with making the film.
“This guy is totally anonymous. At this point no one can confirm he holds Israeli citizenship and even if he did we are not involved,” ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. “No Israeli institution, government department or office has any involvement in this. This guy acted on his own behalf.”
The search for those responsible for the film, including Bacile, led the Associated Press Wednesday to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes who acknowledged his role in managing and providing logistics for the production.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced “Innocence of Muslims.” He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.
Nakoula denied he directed the film and said he knew the self-described filmmaker, Sam Bacile. But the cellphone number that AP contacted Tuesday to reach the filmmaker who identified himself as Sam Bacile traced to the same address near Los Angeles where AP found Nakoula. Federal court papers said Nakoula’s aliases included Nicola Bacily, Erwin Salameh and others.
Nakoula denied he had posed as Bacile. During a conversation outside his home, he offered his driver’s license to show his identity but kept his thumb over his middle name, Basseley. Records checks by the AP subsequently found it and other connections to the Bacile persona.
In a separate development, the 80 cast and crew members involved in the making of the film told CNN Wednesday that they were “grossly misled” about its intent and have since denounced the movie and its creators.
“The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer,“ they said in a statement to CNN about ”Innocence of Muslims” movie.
“We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose,” the statement continued. “We are shocked by the drastic rewrites of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.”
One of the actresses, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, said the original script made no references to a Prophet Muhammed character. She also said some of the actors’ lines had been changed, prompting complaints for her and other actors.
The actress said she spoke with the movie’s producer Sam Bacile on Wednesday and he told her he wrote the script because he “wants Muslims to quit killing.”
“I had no idea he was doing all this,” she said.
The production also indicated at the bottom of the ad that “yes” there would be nudity involved.
Initial reports identified the producer as “Sam Bacile,” a self-described Israeli living in California. We are assuming that Sam “Bassiel” is the same person as Sam Bacile, but TheBlaze can’t independently verify that at this time.
One of the film’s consultants told The Atlantic that Bacile wasn’t really Israeli, possibly not even Jewish, and that Bacile was not his real name. Whoever he is, he has gone into hiding following the violent reaction to his film. No information on “Alan Roberts” was immediately available.
Israel‘s Foreign Ministry said it has no idea who Bacile is and insisted Israel’s government had nothing to do with making the film.
“This guy is totally anonymous. At this point no one can confirm he holds Israeli citizenship and even if he did we are not involved,” ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. “No Israeli institution, government department or office has any involvement in this. This guy acted on his own behalf.”
The search for those responsible for the film, including Bacile, led the Associated Press Wednesday to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes who acknowledged his role in managing and providing logistics for the production.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced “Innocence of Muslims.” He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.
Nakoula denied he directed the film and said he knew the self-described filmmaker, Sam Bacile. But the cellphone number that AP contacted Tuesday to reach the filmmaker who identified himself as Sam Bacile traced to the same address near Los Angeles where AP found Nakoula. Federal court papers said Nakoula’s aliases included Nicola Bacily, Erwin Salameh and others.
Nakoula denied he had posed as Bacile. During a conversation outside his home, he offered his driver’s license to show his identity but kept his thumb over his middle name, Basseley. Records checks by the AP subsequently found it and other connections to the Bacile persona.
In a separate development, the 80 cast and crew members involved in the making of the film told CNN Wednesday that they were “grossly misled” about its intent and have since denounced the movie and its creators.
“The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer,“ they said in a statement to CNN about ”Innocence of Muslims” movie.
“We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose,” the statement continued. “We are shocked by the drastic rewrites of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.”
One of the actresses, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, said the original script made no references to a Prophet Muhammed character. She also said some of the actors’ lines had been changed, prompting complaints for her and other actors.
The actress said she spoke with the movie’s producer Sam Bacile on Wednesday and he told her he wrote the script because he “wants Muslims to quit killing.”
“I had no idea he was doing all this,” she said.
Consultant Steve Klein, who worked with Bacile on the film, told CNN the producer is “very depressed” and “upset” about what what happened in Libya.
“I talked to him this morning, and he said that he was very concerned for what happened to the ambassador,” Klein said.
* The usual insanity by the 'peaceful' Muslims. Trust me when I say democracy is not going to cure the ailments deep rooted in their psyche. Having traveled and lived in some parts of Asia I can safely assert
Islam is the main reason why many Muslims in third world are still in dark ages mind-set. There is no such thing as moderate Muslims. Those Muslims are considered Westernized and scorned upon by the 'true' believers.
You may wonder why Muslims takes offense and violently retaliates at the very mention of Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile or terrorist. Because the fanatics are suffering from artificial 'superiority complex'. The Muslims are taught (read: brain-washed) from an early age in 'madrasah' (religious schools. Bill Clinton actually wanted them to be monitored by independent NGO as a part of FDA trade agreement with Muslim-countries but nothing came out of it) that Allah is the one and only God. The one with the biggest dick. Other faith/religions are pure BS and not equal to the great and true religion. Those people are not even considered to be human so you can lie and patronize them. If they refused to be converted then they're the enemy of Islam. Which means its okay to attack or kill them in name of Allah if any of them dares to criticize or mock Islam.
Madrasah also teaches all kind of hatred for Jewish people (the Jews-controls-the-world theme is a pet paranoia subject for the Muslims around the world), gays and particularly women. Anything not conforming to the 'values' of Islam.
The boys are so mind-fucked to the extreme they become adults with intolerant world-view (but hide it so well with plenty of hypocrisy to smooth it along). That's why countries with Muslims-majority are socially downtrodden due to rigid Islamic laws to keep them straying from the one and true religion. It's all form and no substance.
As one Chinese official once asked me to name one country where non-Muslim minorities are treated fairly and equally in a Muslim-dominated state. Nada. The non-Muslims are subtly or brutally oppressed to the point where migration is the only way out. It's for nothing Islam is known as the destroyer of cultures.
The Muslims are fucking handfuls even as minorities. Just ask the Indians and the Chinese. They're given
every opportunity to shine in every field but it's not enough. They want more. Separate laws (Shariah). Separate schools. The superiority complex is at play here.
The Chinese commies have resorted to brutal retaliation (including recent Uighur crackdown) whenever the local Muslims becomes way too vocal about seceding from 'godless' China.
France is slowly but surely is coming against the shit-storm in near future when those Arab Saudis motherfuckers start seriously funding the local Muslim 'imans' (preachers) and leaders to work up the Muslims. Britain are already facing these problems.
The thing is if you give them an inch….they'll cut off your balls. Surrendering the high ground will give the fanatics validation of all the crap they're taught in madrasah and spewed every week by the iman in mosques. The 'infidels' are given in to the greatness of Islam.
There is nothing in Al-Quran that says you can't insult Muhammad. But the clever dude is protected by his apostles thanks to a second accompanying book titled 'Hadith' - roughly translates as 'Sayings of the Prophet'. It's a collection (after Muhammad death) of supposed Prophet sayings when he was alive. I can assure you Joyce Brothers have nothing on Muhammad when it comes to dispensing sex advice. The God Whisperer was obsessed with women and how to control their behavior in order to abide and serve their men AKA master. The book is confusing and highly offensive in relation to modern environment and cultures of first world. The 'moderate' Muslims want to ban the book but too fearful to publicly utter something that could see them swiftly punished. Women are much braver but splintered into two halves. The conservative chicks willing to be dominated by the men and take any crap from them with open heart and asshole. The 'liberalized' women are usually threatened with harm forcing many to leave the country for good.
[ Please don't hesitate to e-mail the links if anyone has access to the full movie. I heard there are plenty of nude scenes in the movie ]
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