Posted on 09/13/2012 9:07:33 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be fake By JPOST.COM STAFF
09/13/2012 03:57
Offensive references to Islam sloppily inserted in post-production; film's cast and crew say original plot unrelated to religion.
Details casting doubt on the authenticity of the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, which sparked protests in Cairo and spurred the Libya attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, mounted on Wednesday. A series of facts brought to light by online media such as Gawker, Buzzfeed and blogs on CNN, The Atlantic, and The Christian Science Monitor paint the picture of a possible hoax.
In the film's 14-minute trailer (below), which set off the crisis after it was posted to YouTube, the name Muhammad and anti-Islam remarks are clearly dubbed over the original words, clashing with the film's visual cues. The sloppy editing calls into question whether the Hollywood film was, in fact, really created as an anti-Muslim screed, or simply edited to look that way. Despite an alleged $5 million budget, the production quality of the film is very low.
Those involved in making the film, originally entitled Desert Warrior instead of Innocence of Muslims, denied that the film was meant to have anything to do with Islam, saying they were unaware of any such intentions during the film's production. According to CNN, a statement released by the film's 80-strong cast and crew said they were "grossly misled about its intent and purpose," and were "shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved."
One of the film's actresses, Cindy Lee Garcia, told Gawker that, as far as she knew, the film was going to be "based on how things were 2,000 years ago," a time period that predates Islam by some 600 years.
"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," Garcia told Gawker. According to Garcia, the character portrayed as Muhammed was called "Master George" in the script.
Then comes the identity of the allegedly Jewish, Israeli-born director/scriptwriter, Sam Bacile.
As The Jerusalem Post reported, a high-ranking Israeli official in Los Angeles said that after numerous inquiries, it appeared that no one in the Hollywood film industry or in the local Israeli community had ever heard of him.
Steve Klein, a "a self-described militant Christian activist in Riverside, California" who was involved with the film, told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that Bacile was not the director's real name, and that he was not Israeli and probably not Jewish either. "I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign," Klein said.
The mounting evidence seems to suggest that the trailer was either a poorly-edited, wild rewrite of the film's original script or a flat out hoax, though no evidence has yet emerged confirming the possibility.
Nothing quite like blaspheming your own prophet just to blame it on someone else. What, they think god - whatever god - is stupid and blind?
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Too late for “analysis” I’m afraid, the short attention spans have moved on. All the news stories have told us of riots inspired by an American made movie insulting mohommad, so that’s all we need to know. Just like other scandals, the initial story is pounded home and any more information doesn’t see the light of day.
If this is a real trailer that really triggered the sub adolescent but deadly reaction ... there is but one conclusion.
There IS a gene pool that aught not to survive any longer.
As JewishRighter said: “Wag the Dog scenario”
Maybe arranged by Saudi Intyelligence in cooperation with Hillary’s right hand MB woman, and all to help burnish (some how??) Obama’s “strong” foreign policy creds at elec time.
This totally stinks. Reeks of “engineered/ginned up”.
My thoughts last night, Alan’s are of course more worthy and more dire:
I think 0bastard is doing a couple of things with his current acts (not staying up to monitor attacks on Cairo embassay and Libyan consulated, giving Netanyahu the middle finger and then inviting Morsi to the WH, beating the drum of the faux movie in order to further aggravate Muzzies, forgiving $ 1 billion to Egypt, no bullets for Marines, and others I can’t remember at the moment, just got up):
He’s afraid he won’t be re elected, internal polls not good. So he wants a war in the Middle East NOW while he is still in the WH, so he can help destroy Israel and the US and act on behalf of Muslim countries.
This brings to mind the “Freedom Flotilla” of a few months back. I think George Soros, Bill Ayres, and Bernadine Dohrn may have been involved in this. You know, just people from his neighborhood. Does anyone else recall?
Good idea.
I think this is a two part situation. One, to make it impossible for Israel to attack Iran. All the muslims have been whipped into a frenzy and if Israel attacks all Arab nations would attack.
Two, this is to change America. To further weaken us and force us into more sharia compliance and clamp down on free speech.
I also think Soros is involved. The way he overthrows a country has always started with a crisis.
The film clip looks like a high school production. Hardly a professional effort.
Exactly, in this internet age ANYBODY could have messed with the audio and uploaded it to utube.
An individual or a member of a country’s government agency; doesn’t matter who.....
the end result is the western embassies in the middle east in flames :0
According to Glenn Beck this morning: our Libyan ambassador was first sodomized multiple times, then beaten to death, then his body was dragged through the streets. Or, as The One said, “Taken to the hospital by caring Libyans.” There are no words foul enough to describe Obama.
So, is it possible Chairman O and his administration shot before they took aim???
Forensics on the voice could pick up if it was tampered with. Very interesting. First impressions are that terrorists got this film, doctored it, then released it to aggitate the mobs.
I prefer the theory that whatever the provenance of the YouTube “trailer” posted in July, the “trailer” was used as a means of stirring up local mobs by Al Qaeda and/or Muslim Brotherhood operatives, in the case of the Libyan attack to provide cover for the planned 9/11 armed assault on the consulate.
If the “trailer” hadn’t been on YouTube, AQ would have searched the internet for some other “insult to Islam” or “insult to the ‘Prophet’” with which to insight the mobs.
Of course, the pre-attack apology offered in Egypt is interesting. I’d like to know whether SOS Clinton’s Muslim-Brotherhood-linked advisor had anything to do with that.
Two hoaxes.
The film and islam.
Bingo.
In the movie it was a fake phonograph record, "Old Shoe"...
Am I reading too much into this?
No. If the US falls, EVERYONE will take advantage of it.
The end of Pax Americana is the beginning of hundreds of bloody conflicts throughout the entire world.
It won't be a world war, in the sense that there won't be an over-arching us vs them, but it will be global in that virtually no country will be conflict free.
Unexpectedly, as planned.
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wag the dog?
IOW they KNOW they screwed up so now they are just blaming this obscure nothing. It would be easy to plant and ignore, minimize the search terms/tags. Keep it at hand or just blame something else.
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