I'm not dead! Yeah I was sick on Wednesday and this week has been testing week at my school so I've been busy but I'm back now and with school ending next week and I'm almost done with holiday shopping I hope to get back on Schedule. This week I saw Exodus and I feel obligated to talk about the controversy surrounding this movie. The white wash casting of ancient Egypt's. The review for this movie I'll post up later because I don't want to mix it in with my actual review even though I am going to say some things that I will likely say in my review later.
I do agree completely in 2014 it seems really stupid that in the roles of ancient Egyptians especially when they are either the whitest people you could cast ever. Especially considering most of the extras are Egyptian or Israelite, when Ramsey's and Moses's wives are both Egyptian, or when the Egyptian make-up and clothes make it more noticeable that they are white and wearing fake tans, and when most of the white actors are barley in the movie for five minutes, do nothing or recognizable as themselves.
I'm not even kidding on the last one some of the big white actors who are in this movie are in it for ten minutes at best and don't do a goddamn thing. So it makes it really weird why they couldn't just Egyptian or people whose ethnicity are close to people of Egyptian descent.
I know in the Charlton Hesston version it consisted of an entirely white casts, but considering the climate back then where unless you were a white heterosexual male life in America kind of sucked for you to one degree or another. In 2014 after things such as the civil rights movement why is it so hard for a film to even just have one person of ethnicity in a main role.
The casting of Christian Bale is ok I can over look he is not Hebrew. Joel Edgerton you can still tell is white even though they do make some form of corporeal effort with him but it looks really bad and stupid when he is in his pharaoh gear. Ben Kingsley you could pass off as any ethnicity (except maybe white) so that didn't bother me so much. What the heck were John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver and Aaron Paul doing in this film, they are the most noticeably white actors in this film, especially Weaver and Turturro who every time came on it was both laughable and cringe worthy.
I know the common excuse is that ethnicity shouldn't matter if the movie is good and should be held up on it's own merits, if Exodus was good the casting wouldn't be that big of a deal but Exodus isn't a good movie, that's what I'll be talking about next time.
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