Is Ridley Scott's Biblical Epic Exodus Whitewashing Ancient Egypt?

[V4Viewtiful]

This is a statue of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who happened to be a woman.

That doesn't count, many cultures women took the male look to enforce there authority, plus there are some manly looking women out there she may have just steered into the skid

Lets not be selective in the quoting shall we.

Oh, I was just being a little facetious, The Egyptians aren't the only culture that did that sort of thing, if i'm not mistaken.

 

[youji itami]

Edit: Posted in wrong forum, sorry.

Edit: Since I posted here already anyway, might as well contribute something to the discussion:
While his doesn't really seem like the kind of movie I would go out of my way to go see, it still seems like they made some questionable casting decisions. I wonder if they think about these kinds of issues when they're doing the casting or if they just try to get the biggest actors possible without putting much thought towards race?

And now you see my problem, you can't delete a post and you can't leave a post blank without a warning so I wrote what I did to replace the post I had already written then changed my mind on.

 

[bjj hero]

I'm going to put this very simply for you. The current population of Egypt did not like like what the population did 3000 years ago. Furthermore you are saying you can only be cast someone as playing jewish if they look like your idea of some middle eastern. By your reckoning virtually every Jewish actor and actress in hollywood couldn't play someone who is Jewish in this film for being insufficiently middle eastern. What do they have to look like to meet your approval, have breads and say oy vey every other word. Typical social justice warrior carrying racial stereotyping in the name of social justice.

It's time to leave when others start frothing at the mouth and slinging names around. Clearly you see no issue of a film set in Egypt being predominently full of Americans. You have mentioned (or others have mentioned, its been a long thread) a diverse make up in Egypt but all that diversity will be represented by Americans.

I'll now exit the conversation. Maybe somewhere else needs a "social justice warrior".

I always saw myself as a martial artist or practitioner rather than a warrior, I've only been tested in competition rather than battle.

 

[Albino Boo]

I'm going to put this very simply for you. The current population of Egypt did not like like what the population did 3000 years ago. Furthermore you are saying you can only be cast someone as playing jewish if they look like your idea of some middle eastern. By your reckoning virtually every Jewish actor and actress in hollywood couldn't play someone who is Jewish in this film for being insufficiently middle eastern. What do they have to look like to meet your approval, have breads and say oy vey every other word. Typical social justice warrior carrying racial stereotyping in the name of social justice.

It's time to leave when others start frothing at the mouth and slinging names around. Clearly you see no issue of a film set in Egypt being predominently full of Americans. You have mentioned (or others have mentioned, its been a long thread) a diverse make up in Egypt but all that diversity will be represented by Americans.

I'll now exit the conversation. Maybe somewhere else needs a "social justice warrior".

I always saw myself as a martial artist or practitioner rather than a warrior, I've only been tested in competition rather than battle.

Oh for god sake when you are in hole stop digging. You made a mistake and every post you have made since then has been trying to justify your mistake. The Jews are semitic people, like the ancient Egyptians and yet they don't all look like what is your definition of middle eastern. You have applied a crude racial stereotypes as to what a semite should look like rather than expect the reality you are factually incorrect.

 

[Major_Tom]

I've always been confused how people can swap races out to change the context of any argument to suit them. What the hell is "white" anyway? I ask because the definition of what "white" is seems to change based on how anyone wants to make something look. Hispanic guy kills black kid? He's white. White guy kills Hispanic guy? He's Hispanic, because "white guy kills white guy" doesn't sell stories. White actor plays Jewish character? White washing! Jewish actor plays Egyptian character? White washing! Keanu's 1/4 Asian and plays an Asian character? White washing!

I once read a Youtube comment complaining that FPSRussia was "just a white guy playing a Russian". Apparently, you can only be white if you're an American.

 

[Kaanyr Vhok]

Wanted to bump this. This From the 20 minn mark on this video explains how Egyptian art was defaced enough during colonialism and why.