Miranda Vink's Comments
Gilliam is a great filmmaker. I loved Brazil, The Baron of Munchausen and 12 Monkeys. When I first read about Heath Ledger's death, I immediately thought about Gilliam's string of bad luck. I'm glad the new film will be finished after all.
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I wonder if he was inspired by Mike Oldfield's "In Dulci Jubilo" from the mid seventies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uLZcaRXcU&feature=related
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"Over the next two decades, the world’s population is expected to grow on average by more than 100 million people a year."
So there'll be _8_ billion people living on this planet by 2030? Oh my. That's a pretty scary thought.
So there'll be _8_ billion people living on this planet by 2030? Oh my. That's a pretty scary thought.
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"The onset of puberty, interpreted by conservatives to be at the age of nine, was set as a requirement for consummation of marriage"
I think it has more to do with the fact that according to the hadith (books about the prophet Mohammed) he married his favorite wife Aisha when she was only 9 and according to those texts she was still playing with dolls. Islamic scholars see the founder of the islam as the perfect human whose actions should be copied, so if 9 years old was old enough for him, it's old enough for every other muslim.
http://www.khalidmosque.com/en/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=96&categories=Pre-Marriage&parent_id=75#70
That's the reason why it's so hard to abolish child marriage in orthodox muslm nations. Take this example of a 9 year old girl in Nigeria who ran away from her 60 year old husband. When her parents brought her back to her husband, he cut off both her legs so she wouldn't attempt another flight. Child marriage is also prevalent in Afghanistan:
http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/child-bride-afghanistan.jpg
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018512.php
I think it has more to do with the fact that according to the hadith (books about the prophet Mohammed) he married his favorite wife Aisha when she was only 9 and according to those texts she was still playing with dolls. Islamic scholars see the founder of the islam as the perfect human whose actions should be copied, so if 9 years old was old enough for him, it's old enough for every other muslim.
http://www.khalidmosque.com/en/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=96&categories=Pre-Marriage&parent_id=75#70
That's the reason why it's so hard to abolish child marriage in orthodox muslm nations. Take this example of a 9 year old girl in Nigeria who ran away from her 60 year old husband. When her parents brought her back to her husband, he cut off both her legs so she wouldn't attempt another flight. Child marriage is also prevalent in Afghanistan:
http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/child-bride-afghanistan.jpg
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018512.php
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Bollywood is good at producing a *lot* of low budget movie titles but not so good at marketing them around the world.