Sex and the City 2 is set in Dubai, which can be kind of a dangerous place for slutty old white broads (which is why they filmed it in Morocco). If you’re the screenwriter, the question becomes, do you just use the exotic setting as window dressing and an excuse for gaudier shoes, or do you actually use it to add conflict to the plot? In a surprising turn, it appears Michael Patrick King went with the latter. Honor kill this decadent block quote, Hollywood Reporter:
First of all, Carrie encounters her old flame, Aidan (John Corbett), at the spice market, but even more importantly, she and her friends run up against the puritanical and misogynistic culture of the Middle East. The rather scathing portrayal of Muslim society no doubt will stir controversy, especially in a frothy summer entertainment, but there’s something bracing about the film’s saucy political incorrectness. Or is it politically correct? “SATC 2″ is at once proudly feminist and blatantly anti-Muslim, which means that it might confound liberal viewers.
Muslim society puritanical and misogynistic? The dastard! Look, I know everyone says it’s cultural and you can’t judge and all that, but whether it be muslims, Amish, or Orthodox Jews, I’m not really big on the Gods that are always telling you what to wear. It’s like, leave me alone, God, I’m shopping at TJ Maxx and that’s that.
Indicative of the film’s contradictory stance is a scene in which the ladies perform a karaoke version of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” in an Abu Dhabi nightclub. An equally outrageous moment comes when the interlopers are rescued by a bunch of Muslim women who strip off their black robes to reveal the stylish Western outfits they are concealing beneath their discreet garb. [THR]
I hear in a scene after that, Samantha twists the top on a Bud Light bottle and like magic, all the burka ladies are magically transformed into bikini models and Bon Jovi starts playing, and an old snake charmer in a turban turns into Tyson Beckford with his shirt off and his huge wiener hanging out. I think it might’ve been product placement.
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The director was on The Daily Show last night. The intro clip was one of the least funny things I’ve seen since my biopsy came back positive.
Thus, I was shocked by the fact that the guy was legitimately hilarious. I guess what I’m trying to say, it’s the four drag queens fault that Sex and the CIty is some of the worst shit around and that the director should fall on his sword for contributing to this.
Doesn’t an ancient Arab proverb state “Ride a camel into the desert, but ride Carrie Bradshaw into the city”?
Whoops, are we not supposed to be blatantly anti-Muslim now? When did this happen?
SACT 2? More like Hawmps 2.
“You give old a bad name.”
“An equally outrageous moment comes when the interlopers are rescued by a bunch of Muslim women who strip off their black robes to reveal the stylish Western outfits they are concealing beneath their discreet garb.”
O M G, you guys like clothes and stuff too? See, we’re not all that different, Muslims and whatever America is now. Ending soliloquy of SJP reciting parts of Rocky IV speech… “If I can change, you can change. EVERYONE CAN CHANGE!” Ending scene of all the girls riding into the sunset with new Muslim friends on camels to a market to go shoe shopping. Cut, print, that’s a wrap.
SACT 2 turns muslims into minaret men.
Underling: Sir, we’ve got a problem.
SATC Producer: What is it, did Parker kick a production assistant again? I told them use carrots, that bitch hates oats.
Underling: No, sir, she’s been tranquilized. You see though, sir, it seems the girl power movement in America is a corny shell of its former self and nobody takes them seriously because girl power is kind of, well, a given. You know, there’s no real conflict in chicks who like shopping in New York.
SATC Producer: Well shit, isn’t there somewhere cartoonishly lavish where there is easy conflict, as long as we can caricature an entire culture?
Underling: well, there is Dubai
Producer: What the fuck’s a “Dubai”? I think I have one of those in my bathroom.
Underling: No, it’s that place where Tony Stark partied in that deleted scene from the first Iron Man movie.
Producer: PERFECT!
Would a camel toe joke be too obvious?
I’m not anti-Muslim, I just don’t like burkas because they make me look fat.
“Did you girls see the hem on that suicide bomber’s vest? Allahu Akbarf, am I ri-”
*acid thrown in face*
Are the hot dogs getting thrown down those hallways halal?
Oh, and Carrie’s NOT an Arabian? She’s at least Anglo-Arabian…
Kentucky Derby winner, SJP, barely avoids a lashing when the Royal family decides it would just convert the cane into an ugly stick.
You had me at “encounters her old flame at the spice market”. I just hope it’s in 3D.
Now they’ll have an excuse for the sand in their vaginas.
With this new movie, SJP would like to prove all the neigh-sayers wrong by neighing even louder.
MORE LIKE “DOWN THE STRETCH MARKS THEY COME” M I RITE?
We can only hope that SATC fans will be inspired to visit Dubai and profess their feminist viewpoints in public.
I think I saw this already, but it was called Hidalgo at the time.
I can’t wait for the part where they act all slutty at a club and then get stoned.
Dubai crowns Carrie, the Queef of Sheba.
Ya mo’ be there!
I like the part where Samantha takes on a Muslim name – Oldwhora Bin Shoppin.
In the muslim world, sex with any of the SACT “women” is considered beastiality.
We raped the horses and rode off on the women!
Oops.
SACT: pronounced the same as “sacked”. It works.
I only hope SATC 2 plays as well as Operation Eagle Claw did.
SJP is hideous; she should wear a mosque.
@Rock S. golf claps
I heard it’s mostly just anti-boner
They’re so old they should be wrapped in muslin.
I prefer SJP in her Square Pegs days.
Back when she was a horse with no name.
*gallops to corner*
I’m sorry, but these films really are completely confusing. Gay men flock to them but these women would turn lesbians straight…Except for Nixon, she’s just an anomally.
She should only concern herself with saddle shoes.
Old gals, mouth full of pork reference… not required.
Four nasty dried up old cunts looking for exotic uncircumcised cock in the Arab world. Count me in.
SATC 2: When fashionistas meet terroristas.
“I’m not really big on the Gods that are always telling you what to wear”
Burqas are cultural, not religious. At most, it’s an ulama’s fatwa, but it’s in the Sharia or Koran.
As for the movie, it’s not anti-Muslim, it’s just a moronic portrayal of what Americans think the UAE/Middle East is. Kind of like Team America: World Police.
*not in*
Anything that ups the chance that someone from this movie gets hugged by a person wearing a c-4 vest is fine by me.
Oh and Max, modest dress is derived from the Hadith (traditions and saying of the Prophet Muhammad). Though he says that the women in his family should cover themselves many have interpreted this as something that all women should do in order to more closely imitate the teachings he passed to his followers.
Not saying I agree with it but there is a religious basis to it.
Except for the gay one, they’re all old snake charmers. Right?
I’m not defending this film, but a lot of women in the middle east do wear clothing like that under their burqas. Visit any mall in the middle east – they are filled to the brim with relatively cheap, but genuine, designer clothing. Obviously, a lot of Arab women don’t wear that stuff under their burqas, but a lot do. Miniskirts, etc. You’ll just never see it if you’re a guy but not a direct relative.
OK, so some education. I swear back in the days or REAL journalism (and not blogs) they did not let every moron write without some knowledge. Anyway…:
1) It was filmed in Morocco and set in Abu Dhabi, and not Dubai, though they had originally hoped to film there.
2) Not all middle easterners are Muslim and not all Muslims are middle eastern and not all of eitehr are sexist.
3) The Mediterranean and Middle Eastern areas cultural mysogyny and sexism predate both Islam and Christianity, though I have heard both blamed. Ignorance is ignorance, and only evil uses religion to excuse it.