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I finally was able to hunt down the actual clip they're talking about, "Innocence of the Muslims". There is a 5-minute trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/wa

I finally was able to hunt down the actual clip they're talking about, "Innocence of the Muslims". There is a 5-minute trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWkq2HPgoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWkq2HPgoM I'm absolutely appalled that this thing supposedly cost $5M to produce, though. If the trailers are any indication, this is the worst piece of garbage (quality-wise) that I've ever laid my eyes on. I've seen $20,000 movies that looked better than this thing. I'm not talking about the contents, I'm talking about the quality! I mean come on, the sound is lame, the bluescreen scenes are absolutely horrible... I could probably do just as well in my back yard with about $5000 worth of equipment and a few friends! Well, if I had 59 friends...

ceejayoz 14y ago
Sounds like they had some donors they could soak with unreasonable expenses.
- yread 14y ago
  One of them seems to be the infamous Terry Jones http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/gainesville-pastor-terry-jones-promoted-film-that-sparked-unrest-in-libya/1251112 http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/gainesville-pastor-terry-...
pruman 14y ago
Well, I would recommend you don't make a better version of a film that inspires murderous religious zealots to randomly take life. Stick to stuff that just makes snobby film critics spew their lattes in disgust.
gojomo 14y ago
$10,000 in production costs, $4,990,000 million in post-production security. I watched a 13m51s 'trailer' that was linked from one of the NYTimes stories. It's hilariously awful, and further: some of the most-likely-to-offend, specifically anti-Muhammad/anti-Islam lines are clumsily dubbed in with different voices than the main actors. Thus I suspect there's a chance that even the actors didn't know completely how their performances would be used: they might have thought it was some other period drama, that then via redubbing it had its offensiveness "turned up to 11".
- eslachance 14y ago
  Your suspicion turned out to be correct. At least one of the actresses in the movie spoke out about the fact that they were actually cast for "Desert Warrior", a movie with absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad. They never even spoke the name! Everything was, as we can clearly see, dubbed in post-production. At least one source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.ht...

ceejayoz 14y ago

Sounds like they had some donors they could soak with unreasonable expenses.

yread 14y ago
One of them seems to be the infamous Terry Jones http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/gainesville-pastor-terry-jones-promoted-film-that-sparked-unrest-in-libya/1251112 http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/gainesville-pastor-terry-...

pruman 14y ago

Well, I would recommend you don't make a better version of a film that inspires murderous religious zealots to randomly take life. Stick to stuff that just makes snobby film critics spew their lattes in disgust.

gojomo 14y ago

$10,000 in production costs, $4,990,000 million in post-production security. I watched a 13m51s 'trailer' that was linked from one of the NYTimes stories. It's hilariously awful, and further: some of the most-likely-to-offend, specifically anti-Muhammad/anti-Islam lines are clumsily dubbed in with different voices than the main actors. Thus I suspect there's a chance that even the actors didn't know completely how their performances would be used: they might have thought it was some other period drama, that then via redubbing it had its offensiveness "turned up to 11".

eslachance 14y ago
Your suspicion turned out to be correct. At least one of the actresses in the movie spoke out about the fact that they were actually cast for "Desert Warrior", a movie with absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad. They never even spoke the name! Everything was, as we can clearly see, dubbed in post-production. At least one source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.ht...