aaaw come on, I like the "rivals have matching swords" thing.
If executed well it can make for some decent theming.
Yeah, It would have been decent, and thematically fit if Moses ditched his sword for his staff, or even better gave his sword to Ramses as a gesture of goodwill, a "I never wanted to challenge your throne, I don't want to threaten you a blade in hand"
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Wouldn't this be a Jewish film?
Christianity is an upstart jewish sect to begin with.
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Is it that hard to find a Jewish actor in Hollywood?
Frankly, knowing how Hollywood functions, if they went for a Jewish actor, they'd end up picking an ashkenazi whose genealogical tree contains more viking than hebrew ancestors, which would do nothing to fix the movie's whitewashing problem.
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John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the Howard Hughes film The Conqueror. But I could be wrong on that part.
Well, given how much Temujin fucked around, there's a non negligible chance that Wayne was one of his descendants anyway.
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Second thing Jewish is a religion not a race just like you get white and black Christians and Muslims. Israel was mostly populated by white European when it was founded it's only after it's first war that more middle eastern Jews became the dominant ethnicity.
Or, as Sami Michael once said (I'm paraphrasing): "after the european settlers kicked a million Palestinian Arabs out, they needed underpaid workers to build the actual infrastructures of their state, so they brought in Arabs like me"
many Jews today look more European than anything else, because [heavily abridged history] they were largely forced out of their native Middle East by the Roman Diaspora
By the time Titus besieged Jerusalem, over 80% of Jews already lived outside of Palestine: they were not forced out: most of them took advantage of the greek-then-roman hegemon and spread throughout the mediterranean world.