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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2206990" data-attributes="member: 7883">According to an interview with Ridley Scott, it doesn't appear to be that he seemed like a blacksmith turned warrior, so much as the fact that Scott was really impressed with him during the filming of Blackhawk Down, and believed that Orlando had the potential to be a leading man.Probably the fact that he's been in several period pieces helped decide on him being the guy for Kingdom of Heaven.Either that, or the fact that Kingdom of Heaven was the next film on Scott's slate as he was filming Blackhawk Down, and just wanted to give the opportunity outright.Unfortunately, possible bad press is starting already.  I know that my local paper had a big picture and article about the film, front-page, this morning, asking whether it was smart to release this film right now, and whether it could cause hatred between Muslims and Christians etc.  The film goes out of its way to portray the Muslims as heroes, and Crusaders as villains from what I understand, though the truth wasn't so black and white.In the interview, as I understood it, Ridley Scott mentioned that the film is more about the dangers of religious extremism, whether that is terrorists or Christian fundamentalists, etc.I just hope it's going to be an awesome movie <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Banshee</blockquote>

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