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Dialogue
Øوار
Verbal language holds just as much weight as imagery does. Audio creates an added affect to the imagery we are already presented with, it becomes supplementary information to what we watch. W.J.T Mitchell mentions in his book entitled 'Iconography' that words and audio are regarded as verbal imagery. Verbal imagery is how becomes stored memory, and we associate those words to imagery. That is how we make sense of what we see.
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This section will primarily look at two types of dialogues that can be found in movies that discuss piety. The first would focus on radical, fundamentalist sentiments that incite terror or seem baseless while the second will look at sentiments that leave impressions of secularism: sentiments that stray from religion.
Cinematic
Sentiments
of Islam
المشاعر
Dialogues provide us with an idea of what the movie / series is discussing. This could be an inward look at the genre, themes or ideologies it tackles. As coined by W.J.T Mitchell in his book entitled Iconology, words are verbal imagery. It helps us make sense of what we see by ways of association, with words and image.
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Entertainment media has had a long standing history of using recurring words to define Islam and its practices. These dialogues, compounded with strong imageries that are violent creates a one-dimensional view of Islam as a whole, from the stance of the audience.
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Keywords
#Jihad # Allah #Crimson #Arab #Bomb #Kill #Shoot #Military #Sacrifice #Fight #War #Cause #Fire #Terrorist
True Lies (1994)
In this dialogue, we hear the term 'Crimson Jihad' in which it suggest that jihad is a terminology used to define terror attacks when in actuality, jihad refers to struggle; both outward and inward struggle to be a better Muslim to God.
Executive Decision (1996)
In this dialogue between two of the antagonist about the true purpose of their terror attack. In this dialogue, we hear how the more extreme of the two paints a broad stroke of "Allah's soldiers".
The Seige (1998)
In this dialogue, we hear American military defining perpetrators as Arab speaking with other micro-aggressions that suggest them as the others, separating them from the main community of people and society.
These keywords, in totality, presents a one-dimensional view of Islam and the ideologies it perpetuates. Constant and recurring themes of these, compounded with imagery of violence suggest that Islam is a violent religion.
Rendition (2007)
In this dialogue, spoken from a religious leader to its followers, the sentiments perpetuate joining the fight for religion by using their bodies (sacrifice in the name of religion).
*This movie is in English, with parts spoken in Arabic, but coupled with subtitles.