gazzymouse:JUST ANOTHER EXODUS POST BUTY’all need to know more than just “they white was
gazzymouse:JUST ANOTHER EXODUS POST BUTY’all need to know more than just “they white washed it”. Here are all the reactions about the casting criticisms from people actually involved in the film, cause I don’t mind breaking it down for you… You need to know… Giving you sources and everything because this absurdity is real.Director Ridley Scott said that he would have never gotten the film produced and funded if he were to cast, and I quote, “Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such” as the leads instead of white actors. Thus admitting the all white casting was intentional. (x)Lead actor Christian Bale said he doesn’t think that the fact that he “suffers with this skin that can’t deal with the sun” (he actually said that, he SUFFERS with white skin) should mean he’s not right for the part. (x)Noah Co-writer Ari Handel said about casting for biblical stories that the [all white] cast is meant to act as stand-ins for “all people” and inferred that if they forced diversity into the movie it would look like the Starship Enterprise (you know from that show that was praised for breaking down barriers for actors who were Asian, female, and black? But I guess that’s a negative now?). (x)CEO and Chairman of 20th Century Fox Rupert Murdock tweeted that Egyptians have always been white, all of his Egyptian friends are white, and that black people were the slaves in Egypt. I guess he assumes all the dark skinned artwork of Egyptian royals that have been uncovered were all fabricated, and also neglects that if all the slaves were PoC then that’s a pretty prime example of why Moses and his family would not be white but okay… (x)Lead actor Joel Edgerton says something that is no less privileged but finally shows us some tact, “…I am sensitive to it and I do, I do understand and empathize…” and states it would have been hard to say no to this job, as well as pointing out he doesn’t make these decisions. (x)They can’t say there were no good Egypt actors (who live all over the world including Hollywood by the way) who were right for the parts because they never saw nor ever intended to cast Egyptian or any PoC in this film, other than to play slaves, assassins, thieves and servants. Ridley Scott said it himself… Historical accuracy and moral human decency is a question that “doesn’t even come up”. -- source link
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