Will Ridley Scott's Exodus be the GOAT whitewashing movie?

[Malik]

columbus short sans facial hair

Yes. It was somebody I couldn't put my finger on. He does look like him

He's white though

 

[Marvel]

Now that I got you fakkits attention, check this out.

The casting for Exodus: Gods and Kings


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528100/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

look at the roles of black people

 

[KingDanz]

Director Ridley Scott's new biblical blockbuster, Exodus: Gods and Kings, has come under fire for "whitewashing" African history, casting four white leads to tell a story of Israelities and Egyptians.

Sydney's Joel Edgerton, a blue-eyed blond from Blacktown, has a shaved head and a deep tan to play the lead Egyptian role of pharaoh Ramses II.

A porcelain-pale Sigourney Weaver plays his mother, Queen Tuya.

US Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Israelite leader Joshua and the English-born Christian Bale takes on the role of Moses.

Tariq Nasheed, a director of the race documentary series Hidden Colors, has campaigned against the film for "redefining history".

"The storyline takes place in ancient Africa, but all the African Kings and Gods are portrayed by white actors and all the slaves, thieves and 'lower class' Egyptians are played by Black actors," he wrote on Facebook.

"When I saw they have Sigourney Weaver playing an African queen, I was done."

A screenshot of the cast list on movie website IMDB, contrasting the roles of the black and white actors, has been retweeted more than 1100 times.

Some on Twitter have also taken aim at the set, particularly the nose on the Great Sphinx of Giza, saying it gives the statue a European profile.

The Exodus casting is the latest in a long Hollywood history of making actors play different ethnicities, no matter how much dark make-up is required.

Another Exodus actor, Englishman Ben Kinglsey,was rebuked for the heavy whole-body make-up he wore to play Gandhi, even though Kingsley has Indian heritage.

Anthony Hopkins went very orange as Shakespeare's Moor Othello in a 1981 BBC production while Charlton Heston stood up for the right of a white actor to play a Eurasian role in Miss Saigon.

The US legend declared the casting block "obscenely racist" and resigned from the Actors Equity labour union in protest.



http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...rton-and-sigourney-weaver-20140729-zxxqh.html

 

[Iamnoone]

Holy fukking shyt I just realized Jessie from Breaking Bad is a lead role, wow WOW WOW JUST fukkING WOW

 

[Box Cutta]

First time I'm hearing of this horse shyt.....fukking ridiculous.

Haven't read through the entire thread yet, but in case it hasn't been pointed out yet....this is actually one of TWO whitewashed Egypt movies coming out. The other one is called Gods of Egypt....fukking Jamie Lannister is playing Horus. Geoffrey Rush is fukking Ra!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_of_Egypt_(film)

They added Chadwick Boseman fukking LATE, he will uncertainly have a minor role.

Un-fukking-believable. Both films just blatantly racist..

And this doesn't even mention the already-cancelled-by-fox-before-it-aired Hieroglyph.

(Show was appearently supposed to get in on the Game of Thrones market, but was so terrible Fox pulled the plug). Still...the intention was clearl.

These cacs are fukking TERRIBLE.

 

[Iamnoone]

First time I'm hearing of this horse shyt.....fukking ridiculous.

Haven't read through the entire thread yet, but in case it hasn't been pointed out yet....this is actually one of TWO whitewashed Egypt movies coming out. The other one is called Gods of Egypt....fukking Jamie Lannister is playing Horus. Geoffrey Rush is fukking Ra!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_of_Egypt_(film)

They added Chadwick Boseman fukking LATE, he will uncertainly have a minor role.

Un-fukking-believable. Both films just blatantly racist..

And this doesn't even mention the already-cancelled-by-fox-before-it-aired Hieroglyph.

(Show was appearently supposed to get in on the Game of Thrones market, but was so terrible Fox pulled the plug). Still...the intention was clearl.

These cacs are fukking TERRIBLE.

thank god it was canceled, that would have been detrimental

 

[Box Cutta]

thank god it was canceled, that would have been detrimental

Yeah, I was happy as fukk when it got cancelled....

I hope these movies bomb the fukk out. The Gods of Egypt one is probably sent to die anyways. This one has Bale and Ridley Scott (Who isn't a sure thing by any means, but can open films).

I like Sigourney Weaver...I think she's a fantastic actress, hell, maybe one of my faves just off the strength of the Alien films....but I don't see how one couldn't laugh their fukking ass off when she popped up on the screen. You gotta be fukking shytting me....

 

[Iamnoone]

Yeah, I was happy as fukk when it got cancelled....

I hope these movies bomb the fukk out. The Gods of Egypt one is probably sent to die anyways. This one has Bale and Ridley Scott (Who isn't a sure thing by any means, but can open films).

I like Sigourney Weaver...I think she's a fantastic actress, hell, maybe one of my faves just off the strength of the Alien films....but I don't see how one couldn't laugh their fukking ass off when she popped up on the screen. You gotta be fukking shytting me....

Naw I like Sigourney, but lets be real NO ONE is or has gone or checked for her in movies or tv. Sure you hear the name and its like ok cool she can act pretty damn good. But no one is checking for her, its stupid

 

[Box Cutta]

Naw I like Sigourney, but lets be real NO ONE is or has gone or checked for her in movies or tv. Sure you hear the name and its like ok cool she can act pretty damn good. But no one is checking for her, its stupid

All of this just really reiterates that we need our own infrastructure to make film and television.

Might help if we need to stop supporting these cac-myths so damn much....

And I'm guilty as fukk, I'm all over The Film Room uplifting cac stories.....but shyt like this really emphasizes the issues we have in media.

I really hope that the Nigerian film industry continues to grow....they might be our last fukking hope.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Christian Bale is Moses?

That's supposed to be the Sphinx?

That Sphinx is a fukking travesty.

If that truely is Ridley Scott's vision of the Sphinx then this may indeed be the most prolific case of whitewashing ever seen.

I know, breh. That Sphinx... that Sphinx ...I'm legit angry at Scott for this. I thought he had more sense than this. I need a cleanser. A side view of the real thing:

They tried so hard to erase that nose, erase those lips................................ so Ridley Scott is saying fukk it and doing it on celluloid to screw the minds of those who will never see the real thing. That monstrosity Scott came up is

 

[Anti-Anime]

White people bypassing likely accurate ethnic history? Then again it's supposed to be about a mystical camel jockey that can part seas and do magic tricks with a stick.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

look how he has the blacks in this pic above

s will be s.

 

[Box Cutta]

That Sphinx is a fukking travesty.





I know, breh. That Sphinx... that Sphinx ...I'm legit angry at Scott for this. I thought he had more sense than this. I need a cleanser. A side view of the real thing:

They tried so hard to erase that nose, erase those lips................................ so Ridley Scott is saying fukk it and doing it on celluloid to screw the minds of those who will never see the real thing. That monstrosity Scott came up is

I'm actually kinda glad they made the Sphinx look like that....it leaves no doubt as to what's going on.

shyt like that is when you know that it's beyond just "casting decisions" or "Hollywood cronyism" or "Box office appeal"....it's so clearly an agenda driven decision.

Hollywood is no different than it was 80 damn years ago...what pitiful people.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Just talking to my dad about this. Imagine the backlash of taking some viking mythos starring Idris Elba and Denzel Washington

Happens every time a black man is cast as a Roman legionnaire. Rome was a huge empire with regular back and forth with Africa and Asia Minor, on the damn Mediterranean Sea, but cast a black man as a Roman soldier and all hell breaks loose.

I would so very much watch a movie with Idris and Denzel as vikings.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Thing is, Rome is 3000 years younger than Egypt and the statues of the black Roman emperors are missing noses too

An internet search shows most amateur historians skip over the missing noses and dive straight into 'North Africans aren't real blacks, only Sub-Saharans and Ethiopians are real blacks'.