Bulaba Jones wrote:Back when PI was a Muslim, he recommended watching a film called The Messenger. It's like the Muslim version of The Greatest Story Ever Told, except it isn't boring and it's pretty decent. However, and I told PI this: Mohammed was a complete dick to poison/despoil the oases/wells while on campaign in Arabia. If you live in the desert, destroying or otherwise fouling water supplies is quite possibly one of the most unthinkable dick moves you could possibly do.
Do you mean the The Message - The Story of Islam with Anthony Quinn? I have that on DVD, it's a pretty heavily sanitised, dare I say self-censored, version of the story, all the massacres, raping, sex slaves, involuntary amputations are cut out.
It is interesting how they dealt with the prohibition on depicting their prophet when he is the central character in the film, he is ever present yet never seen, his companions talk with him but he never speaks. Sometimes they do this by placing Mohammad
behind the camera so when other characters look towards and address the Prophet they look like they looking at the
viewer, so you get this eerie perspective of seeing world literally from Mohammad's viewpoint. Also as a nod to shias they also did this for Ali.
That double-bladed sword in the foreground is how they depicted Ali, Ali himself is off camera of course.