The film The Message: the Story of Islam is very different from a traditional Hollywood biopic. Most biographical films are about a specific person and contain an actor portraying that person. This film however is very different from this. The main figure of the story is the Prophet Mohammad. Instead of having someone portray Mohammad, […]

What first struck me as a defining factor of the film The Message was the fact that essentially the main character, Muhammad, was not visually depicted given filmmaker’s respect for the Islamic tradition which forbids any direct representation of any religious figures. When this was stated in the opening credits of the film I was […]

The Message: The Story of Islam narrates the challenging conception of the Islamic religion. The story is depicted in a biopic way that elucidates the life of the prophet Muhammad. However, The Message diverges from the typical Hollywood biopic in the sense that it focuses less on Muhammad and his personal history but, rather, his […]

Haley Mullen The Message: The Story of Islam          The film The Message: The story of Islam is deliberately not a usual Hollywood biopic. Depicting the start the Islamic faith from Muhammad’s reception of the angel Gabriel’s message to his death, the film pays the utmost respect to the religion of Islam […]

Steven Sedig The Message In The Message, the protagonist is never shown throughout the film making it different from many other Hollywood biopics. The entire plot revolves around Muhammad, however he is never seen by the viewer. This is done in order to respect the Islamic belief that holy figures should not be recreated in […]