Not to dig up Nostradamus’ supposed “World Trade Center” prophecy again, which on this board has been proven to be a urban legend (snopes.com), and I personally think the 16th century French prognosticator is a fraud . . . . but in 1981 there was an Orson Welles narrated movie “The Man Who Saw Tomorrow” about him (Nostradamus, not Welles ) in which one of the final scenes portrays a BEARDED ARAB MAN WITH A TURBAN STANDING IN A BUNKER directing nuclear missles at NEW YORK and America. The movie suggested that the arab dude was Nostro’s Third Anti-Christ along with Hitler and Napoleon.
I don’t buy into this shit . . . but the scene is scary in light of the events of yesterday and that Osama Bin Laden has been labelled Public Enemy #1 of All Time- and the movie was made 20 years ago.
Isn’t one of the quatrains discussed at the end of that movie womething about the third anti-christ coming from “the middle lands” or some such? “Middle lands” equalling the Middle East is an easy one, and in the late 70s/early 80s, with the oil embargo and the Iranian hostage crisis, Muslims and the Middle East were an easy target.
By that reasoning, Die Hard: With a Vengence is prophetic. As is The Siege and Armegeddon and any other movie which features terrorism or buildings blowing up in New York City.
I mean … it’s New York Freakin’ City. It is a target by just existing.
Find me a quatrain that says, “New York City is going to be attacked by Osama bin Laden in the year 2001” and I’ll give Nostradamus some credit.
But “antichrist in a blue turban with a beard” - “flaming death” - “the great city” - “middle lands” - all, I might add, interpreted from French poetry into English dramatics. We’re talking 16th century National Enquirer shit.
) in which one of the final scenes portrays a BEARDED ARAB MAN WITH A TURBAN STANDING IN A BUNKER directing nuclear missles at NEW YORK and America. The movie suggested that the arab dude was Nostro’s Third Anti-Christ along with Hitler and Napoleon.