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Monday, September 17, 2012

Random Thoughts...

Do the violent protests in the Middle East make sense to you?

So, invading multiple Middle Eastern countries over the past 11 years results in limited reaction on the part of Islamic people? Thousands of drone attacks killing tens of thousands of Islamic people, including women and children, creates hardly a whimper? Bursting into homes of Islamic Middle Eastern citizens and arresting them, imprisoning them and torturing them continues without protest? The continued military occupation of Islamic Middle Eastern countries goes on without much uproar? The theft of natural resources from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya at the point of a gun is acquiesced to silently? The continued sabre rattling of Israel and the US over Iran goes unabated and unquestioned? Yet, a cheaply made movie with shadowy producers and sponsors is viewed as a sacrilegious affront to the people of Islam resulting in violent protest? Either they are fools or the government and our media have our people so hoodwinked that we fall for such nonsense.

If one cannot begin to see the lies we have been fed the past 11 years through these staged protests and manipulations then we deserve our fate. For the average American to think a movie is the cause of the current round of unrest and attacks against the US is very naive. I guess we must believe the Muslim world was pushed over the top as a result of a crappy, cheaply made movie, that no one in America ever heard about much less viewed, while those same Islamic people quietly accepted invasions, bombings and military occupations the past decade while waiting to be roused to action by a film? Yet, all Muslims seem to know about it and have visited their local movie theater to view it? Give me a break. This makes no sense. There is a purpose to this incident which smacks of a massive set up and con job to spark some incident to cover for the expansion of the US/NATO empire in the Middle East.

If it is really true, that it took a movie to finally wake the Islamic people up to their fate, it doesn't say much for their priorities, their principles or their cause, does it? As if they calmly controlled themselves all these years waiting for the right moment to strike. In this case, after attending a movie matinee.

Obviously, the fact that we have witnessed so little outrage about our policies in the Middle East on American television is because our corporate controlled media has failed to report such protests the past 11 years. A little provocation and some well spent money by the world's globalists with the cooperation of a few nation's intelligence agencies along with the acquiescence of our mass media can sure stir up a hornets nest of trouble when they so desire it. Wake up people!!!


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http://whatreallyhappened.com/

See this...

A First-Hand Account of the Filming of "Muhammad"

Neil Gaiman

It turns out that a key actress in the "Muhammad" film is an acquaintance with the British author Neil Gaiman. She wrote to Gaiman for advice on how to handle the situation. Here is their account:

A few years ago, a message came in to this website on the FAQ line from a young actress from Georgia (the one from the former USSR, not the State with Atlanta in it) called Anna Gurji. She sent a link to her webpage and to films she had made in Georgia, and told me she was a fan, and if she ever came to the US, she would want to be in something of mine.


She made it to the US, and although she has never been in something of mine, she read the female lead (with Wil Wheaton as the male lead) in the first read-through of Michael Reaves' film BLOOD KISS. I was not there as a writer. I was there because I will actually act in it, playing a Hollywood director with a dark secret. So I've acted with Anna and spent time with her. She's a good sort.

She wrote to me the other day, worried.

She said, Something very bad happened. I desperately need everyone's help right now.

I don't know how to start writing this letter. It's crazy, the world is.. life.. I'm so shattered right now, I don't know.. I feel very dead inside.

Last summer I auditioned for an indie low budget feature movie and I landed a supporting role. The movie was about a comet falling into a desert and ancient tribes fighting over it for they thought that the comet had some magical powers.

A year later, the movie was dubbed (without the actors' permission), the lines were changed drastically and the movie was morphed into an Anti-Islam film. Even the names of the characters were changed. And the character I had scenes with GEORGE became MUHAMMAD.

I really need your advice right now? How can I have my voice shown to the world so that I can tell them the real story.

All these media people that keep calling me are using my real story and then chopping or manipulating the interview the way they want to.

I don't know what to do. It's very scary, Neil.
I told her to write her story for me, to say what she wanted, and I would put it up here for her, as she wrote it, to get her message to the world. The best weapon against lies is the truth, after all.

So here's what Anna knows about the truth:

Everyone who wishes to find out the truth about the movie now known as theInnocence of Muslims, please read the letter below. I, Anna Gurji, as one of the supporting actresses in the film will share with you what really happened.
A year ago, in the summer of 2011, I submitted my materials to various projects on the Explore Talent web-site. I received a call from the casting director of the movie “Desert Warrior”, and my audition date was scheduled. I auditioned for the role of Hilary. Several days later, I was informed that I got a callback. I did the callback. Several days later, I was informed that I landed the role of Hilary in the movie called “Desert Warrior”.
The filming of the movie was done in August of 2011. We were filming the movie in a studio warehouse with a green screen in Duarte, CA. The project was a low budget, independent feature movie.
The filming of the movie was beginning soon after the day I was told I got a role. The script was not sent to me. When I got to the set, I was merely provided with the scenes my character was in.
I did not consider this to be an unusual thing, seeing as I have had an experience with something like this before. I did a movie once where the script was written in a foreign language and only my parts were translated into English and accordingly, I was provided with my scenes only. Having experienced that, I thought the same thing was happening with “Desert Warrior”. Aware of the fact that the supposed producer and the script-writer of the movie (known as Sam Bassil) was a foreigner (thanks to his accent), I thought that the original script was written in his native tongue and that not all scenes were translated into English. Also, the filming dates of the movie had to be rescheduled last minute to fit my schedule (I had other films to do right after the “Desert Warrior” outside CA). Because of this rushed rearrangements, I thought that the production first forgot and then did not consider it necessary to send me the script, and again - I did not find this unusual, since I knew what role I had, I knew about my character and I knew about the story of the film.
My character Hilary was a young girl who is sold (against her own free will) by her parents to a tribe leader known as GEORGE. She is one of his (most likely, the youngest) brides in the movie.
The film was about a comet falling into a desert and different tribes in ancient Egypt fighting to acquire it for they deemed that the comet possessed some supernatural powers.
The movie that we were doing in Duarte was called “Desert Warrior” and it was a fictional adventure drama. The character GEORGE was a leader of one of those tribes fighting for the comet.
There was no mention EVER by anyone of MUHAMMAD and no mention of religion during the entire time I was on the set. I am hundred percent certain nobody in the cast and nobody in the US artistic side of the crew knew what was really planned for this “Desert Warrior”.
The atmosphere at the set was as friendly as possible. We all knew that we were doing an adventure drama for a very low budget financing. The director Alan Roberts even had plans that with this low budget product he would be able to get some more money to make a good quality version (by shooting it in the real desert and having better product in every category) of the “Desert Warrior”.
I had interactions with the man known as Sam Bassil on the set. He was very amiable, respectful, soft-spoken, always making sure that the filming was running smoothly and everyone was satisfied. He even told me the premiere of the movie was going to happen sometime soon and I would get a good amount of tickets to invite my friends and family.
I have never been informed about the premiere after that (if it ever happened) and have not seen the final product (if there is any, except for the short one that is uploaded online).
People ask what’s my reaction after seeing that.
Shock.


Read more here:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/09/a-letter-from-scared-actress.html

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