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Uncategorized: Jake Gyllenhaal can't avoid being typecast as a bottom.

The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced videogame adaptation Prince of Persia isn’t the sort of film that normally gets me excited but that’s before these pictures appeared on Huffington Post that seem to indicate that the Bruckmeister has creatively reimagined the titular “Prince” as a doe-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal rather than the middle eastern ethnic that would have been cast if common sense and cultural sensitivity had dictated. Bruckheimer also seems to have creatively interpreted the titular “Persia” to mean Gay-S&M-sex-dungeon of which the Prince is imprisoned as a perpetually shirtless and designer-stubbled sex slave. Well-played Bruckheimer! Consider this film a shoe-in for the Screener Anticipation List.

Brad Nguyen is a co-editor of Screen Machine. He studied Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, was the film reviewer for Triple R Breakfasters and has written for Senses of Cinema.

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