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Title: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: woe10 on November 28, 2014, 11:23:14 AM
Moses movie slammed over all-white cast in lead roles - but director Ridley Scott claims he wouldn't get financing if he hired 'Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such'

Well, that's strange, my Morrocan friend who used to work at Nestor's is in it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2852554/Moses-movie-slammed-white-cast-lead-roles-director-Ridley-Scott-claims-wouldn-t-financing-hired-Mohammad-such.html
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: admin on November 28, 2014, 11:57:21 AM
QuoteThe cast includes a number of actors of color, including Ben Kingsley, Dar Salim and Indira Varma, as well as others in minors roles including as servants.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/28/2390210800000578-0-image-5_1417137701570.jpg)

It's being advertised on Spanish Tv now.

"Only in Cines from 5th December"

Looking forward to it. That's a film I'd like to see in the cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZPMU9riKl4
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Biggles on November 28, 2014, 12:28:40 PM
Quote from: woe10 on November 28, 2014, 11:23:14 AM
Moses movie slammed over all-white cast in lead roles - but director Ridley Scott claims he wouldn't get financing if he hired 'Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such'

I was just as incensed when I discovered that in the "Avatar" movie, none of the Avatars were actually played by real Avatars.
Even the Earth Colonialists in the movie weren't colonialists at all. It turns out they were so-called "actors" and were just pretending in order to "tell a story" !
I'll never trust a movie again.

(http://theblackmaria.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Avatar-Bean.jpg)
Not real !
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: admin on November 28, 2014, 12:48:25 PM
I hate to break this to you Biggles but it turns out the character William Wallace in Braveheart wasn't really William Wallace and wasn't even Scottish.

You are quite right not to trust movies.
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Ronnietheblue on November 28, 2014, 13:24:05 PM
And Richard Van Lesbian, who changed his name to Dick Van Dyke, wasn't a proper Cockeneee in Mary Poppins.
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Biggles on November 28, 2014, 13:27:49 PM
Now that's a shocker!
When did this news break?
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Ronnietheblue on November 28, 2014, 13:29:21 PM
Ages ago, and the accent was so convincing, it scarred my childhood
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Biggles on November 28, 2014, 14:00:21 PM
This is all too much for me.

Egyptians that aren't Egyptian.
Avatars that aren't Avatars.
Scotsmen that aren't Scotsmen.
Cockneys that aren't Cockneys.

It's as if the movies are just make-believe !

I'm going to have to lie down for a while.

..... The Hobbits were real though weren't they ? .... Weren't they?
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Ronnietheblue on November 28, 2014, 14:21:14 PM
Don't think Burt Lancaster was an Apache either, and hasn't Johnny Depp recently played Tonto, its all so confusing.
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: duncolm on November 28, 2014, 16:50:55 PM
At least they speak English in Exodus, just like Moses himself did...
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Biggles on November 28, 2014, 17:48:41 PM
Well he did. It says so in the Bible.

" And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd."

See? That's english.
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: IsThisForumStillGoingWow on November 28, 2014, 19:06:53 PM
I hope those sheep weren't wolves in sheeps clothing either.
Title: Re: Exodus Movie Slammed For All-White cast
Post by: Tel501 on November 28, 2014, 20:23:02 PM
                                                            Or mutton dressed as lamb