2012 Movie - Don’t Offend Muslims & Daily Express
December 2, 2009
More on the 2012 movie!
Roland Emmerich has been quoted on the reason Muslim icons did not suffer in the movie, although there was plenty to upset Christians:
“Well, I wanted to do that… but my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie…”
Over at the British newspaper Daily Express is a piece that reasonably accurately describes the current commercial and survival aspects of the 2012 doomsday:
Thousands have formed survival groups . Workshops promising to prepare people for 2012’s Armageddon have attracted up to 10,000 attendees. A conference on 2012 survival in Arizona last month taught people how to purify water, dispose of a corpse and enjoy the flavour of rat meat.
A popular iPhone application, Twenty12, counts down the moments until the planet’s destruction. Concern has grown so great that US space agency NASA felt obliged to issue a statement trying to calm fears, while surviving Mayan elders insisted that their ancestors never meant the calendar’s end to set a date for Armageddon.
“People are really, really worried about the world coming to an end,” says NASA scientist David Morrison. “Kids are contemplating suicide. Adults tell me they can’t sleep and can’t stop crying. There are people who are really, really scared.”
…Hundreds of survivalist groups have emerged, buying land and building underground bunkers where they plan to out-live the apocalypse.
Factory worker Thomas Lehmann, 25, from Cape Giarardeau, Missouri, is saving up for survival gear, learning to live without gas and electricity and plans to move to higher ground to escape tidal waves.
“Whatever happens, I’m just trying to be prepared for it,” he says. In Belgium oil company scientist Patrick Geryl, 53, spent the past two years amassing water purifiers, canned food and vegetable seeds.
“You have to understand, there will be nothing left,” he says. Dennis McClung, 28, in Phoenix, Arizona, runs a successful 2012-survival online store selling gas masks, bullet-proof vests and knife kits.
“Be smart, be ready,” he says. His survival supplies attract buyers from Holland to India: “But my No1 customer is the US.”
…“People are very gullible,” says NASA’s Morrison.
“It’s a sad testimonial that you need NASA to tell you the world’s not going to end. I think when you lie on the internet and scare children in order to make a buck, that is ethically wrong.” Survivalist Patrick Geryl refuses to consider what he might do if 2013 rolls around and all the dooms- day predictions are wrong. “I don’t really contemplate that possibility,” he says. “The predictions are so spectacular, they can’t possibly be wrong.”
Yet survival gear supplier McClung plans to spend the last days of 2012 doing last-minute Christmas shopping and preparing for his wedding anniversary. And despite stoking global fears, 2012 director Roland Emmerich does not think the world will end in three years. “I don’t believe in it,” he says. “I don’t want to believe in it. I want to do so many more movies that I would say this for me would be really, really not good.”
In case you missed it, here’s NASA’s debunking of 2012:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
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