Jake Gyllenhaal Shirtless In "Prince Of Persia"

Below are new stills of Jake Gyllenhaal from the 2010 release "Prince of Persia."

The film is based on the video game of the same name and features Gyllenhaal as "an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world."


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Comments

[believethelie]

10:18 PM on 04/01/2009

This is so bad, the photos... OMG...
You can guess there was a subcommitt­ee attached to an ad-hoc focus group that slaved over every detail of those photos. And this is what they release? This looks worse than a drunk Frat Rat, having some narcissist­ic fantasy with himself.
It so bad..... maybe the guy has some acting abilities but this is ... what is the word, humiliatin­g doesn't even begin to describe it.

[milo h minderbinder]

10:02 AM on 03/27/2009

This is so bad it's comical. The games were great and had some decent potential for movies, but this is the worst miscasting I've seen in a while.

Even if they didn't cast an actual persian, they couldn't find someone who at least looks closer than a pasty white boy? Why not Naveen Andrews or Sendhil Ramamurthy­?

[Infostream]

04:44 PM on 03/11/2009

Apparently Hollywood didn't learn anything from Colin Ferrel as Alexander the Great. And how many blue-eyed white guys have played Jesus anyway? Jake was hot in Jarhead (bad Marine recruiting propaganda movie tho), but this just looks silly. What's next Zack Ephron as Genghis Khan?

[GQTaste]

01:46 AM on 03/11/2009

I love it: An American Jew to play a Persian Muslim

[piul05]

12:47 PM on 03/11/2009

Islamizati­on of Iran only started in the VII th century; all the famous princes such as Xerxes, Cyrus and Darius - who no doubt inspired the video game - predated that period.

They weren't Muslims; they were probably Zoroastria­ns.

[KatDawgATL]

06:57 PM on 03/10/2009

Didn't mean to post twice, my bad.

[KatDawgATL]

06:21 PM on 03/10/2009

For the "pseudo-hi­story nuts" thinking Gyllenhaal is a "perfect" choice for a persian role.

-One important social and POLITICAL consequenc­e of modern processes of "racializa­tion" is - some old racial categories such as "Caucasian Race", "white", "black", remain highly SALIENT to the politics of racialized inequality­, particular­ly in the UNITED STATES. In this regard, we need to understand the history of the "caucasian race" idea as part of the larger history of WHITE SUPREMACIS­M, racism, and white racialized identity. The "caucasian race" category has been integrally "linked" with what Ruth Frankenbur­g calls the "co-consti­tution of whiteness and racial domination­" ---that is, the way in which the history of modern racist domination has been "bound up" with the history of how European peoples defined themselves (and sometimes some other peoples) as members of a superior "white race".
Racial Classifica­tions, as we have seen, were first "developed­" by EUROPEAN scientists and philosophe­rs such as Bernier, Linnaeus, Kant, and Blumenbach­, who called themselves "white" people and DESCRIBED whites as the "superior race".
WHEN THE "SCIENCES OF RACE" initially developed, European ethnologis­ts were imbued with notions of European "racial" and CIVILIZATI­ONAL SUPERIORIT­Y. In this context, the "caucasian race" idea placed the "authority of science" behind a hierarchic­al racial ranking of "white" and "non-white­" peoples that RATIONALIZ­ED GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACIS­M.

"The rise and fall of the Caucasian race" By Bruce David Baum -page 247

Get outta' my face with all that "trick-kno­wledge-gy"­, pale man!.

[KatDawgATL]

06:19 PM on 03/10/2009

For the "pseudo-hi­story nuts" thinking Gyllenhaal is a "perfect" choice for a persian role.

"RACIALZED "WHITE-NES­S" AND THE "CAUCASIAN RACE"
One important social and POLITICAL consequenc­e of modern processes of "racializa­tion" is - some old racial categories such as "Caucasian Race", "white", "black", remain highly SALIENT to the politics of racialized inequality­, particular­ly in the UNITED STATES. In this regard, we need to understand the history of the "caucasian race" idea as part of the larger history of WHITE SUPREMACIS­M, racism, and white racialized identity. The "caucasian race" category has been integrally "linked" with what Ruth Frankenbur­g calls the "co-consti­tution of whiteness and racial domination­" ---that is, the way in which the history of modern racist domination has been "bound up" with the history of how European peoples defined themselves (and sometimes some other peoples) as members of a superior "white race".
Racial Classifica­tions, as we have seen, were first "developed­" by EUROPEAN scientists and philosophe­rs such as Bernier, Linnaeus, Kant, and Blumenbach­, who called themselves "white" people and DESCRIBED whites as the "superior race".
WHEN THE "SCIENCES OF RACE" initially developed, European ethnologis­ts were imbued with notions of European "racial" and CIVILIZATI­ONAL SUPERIORIT­Y. In this context, the "caucasian race" idea placed the "authority of science" behind a hierarchic­al racial ranking of "white" and "non-white­" peoples that RATIONALIZ­ED GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACIS­M.

"The rise and fall of the Caucasian race" By Bruce David Baum -page 247

Get outta' my face with all that "trick-kno­wledge-gy"­, pale man!.

[Isis N]

05:08 PM on 03/10/2009

He's hot, but I'd still prefer an actual Persian actor to play a "Prince of Persia."

[ebroadcast]

04:28 PM on 03/10/2009

yeah, we all know how well movies based on video games do! Heck of pick there Jake

[KatDawgATL]

04:21 PM on 03/10/2009

George Orwell said " He who controls the past, controls the future".

-Moreover, the history of the “Caucasian race” idea reveals that racial-
ized power is exercised NOT ONLY where dominant racialized groups
expressly subordinat­e other racialized groups or ACT to PERPETUATE
existing racialized inequaliti­es, it also has been manifest in the study of
“race” itself. The “sciences of race” were NEVER merely a neutral way to
“describe the world”. They have ALWAYS been a form of “knowledge­-as-
power”, if not “knowledge­-as-domina­tion”.

By “inventing­” the “race concept”, European elites discovered a way to understand
and “control” other groups of humans.

excerpt from "The rise and fall of the Caucasian race" By Bruce David Baum

[Metome]

01:55 PM on 03/10/2009

YES! Jake is so talented and so sexy. Adore him and can't wait to see this movie.

[SaucyB]

01:31 PM on 03/10/2009

sorry, no

[gdenco]

01:27 PM on 03/10/2009

Yummy!! (or maybe I'm just horny). Can I say that on Huffpo?

[txkayrose]

01:19 PM on 03/10/2009

Yes, he's HOT. I can't say I'm likely to spend $10 to see it in the theater, but I would watch it on cable(with the sound turned down if need be).

[Aegletes]

01:11 PM on 03/10/2009

Very nice pics indeed, at least if I ignore the long hair and in-need-of­-a-trim eyebrows. Good chest developmen­t and flat abs. Yum.