“Get a Life”: Exodus Director Ridley Scott to Race-Baiting Boycotters

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Get a brain would have been more apt. Exodus: Gods and Kings looks like the same bland mediocre film every studio is churning out, but Scott is up against idiots who think that the Egyptians needed to be African because Louis Farrakhan said so.

The biblical film ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ has come under fire for white actors being cast in the main roles as Egyptians.

But director Ridley Scott has a message for those trying to boycott the movie: ‘I say, ‘Get a life.”

One Twitter user said: ‘I’ll be boycotting Exodus and so should everyone else to tell Hollywood that whitewashing is sick and unacceptable’, while another called the casting of Oscar-winner Bale as ‘offensive’.

At Medium, writer David Dennis Jr. called the film ‘racist.’

‘Not only are these characters who are supposed to be Africans White, they’re not even remotely tan. They’re pearly White,’ he writes.

If only they had gotten a tan first then it would be okay.

They’re not supposed to be Africans. They’re supposed to be Egyptians.

While this isn’t as bad as the even bigger idiots who insist that Cleopatra needs to be played by a black actress (Nope) the Afro-Centric idea of ancient Egyptians doesn’t hold up all that well either. The topic has been endlessly debated and is particularly poisonous since Egyptian Arabs and African nationalists began battling it out in the 20th century. It’s one of those arguments where both sides are wrong.

They’re quarreling over the legacy of a vanished civilization that would have had no use for either group.

Finally the Egyptians are the villains of the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. What is the point of campaigning to make slave owners black?

Casting Christian Bale rather than a Jewish actor had obvious box appeal reasons, but the actor cast as the pharaoh is hardly a major movie star. If Scott had cast a black actor, he would be denounced for making a racist movie.

Worse still if the movie had depicted a black race as slavers and oppressors, the outrage would have been tremendous and far more devastating. Scott knows it. So do his critics. A movie like that would never have been made.

So it’s a catch 22 with no right answer. Or business as usual with political correct trolling.

 

  • CaoMoo

    The movie is going to suck anyway most likely… so who cares.

  • truebearing

    After he’s done with this movie, Scott is doing a big-budget biopic of Santa Claus. He’s already being criticized for choosing a lead actor from Germany with a big, white beard. Al Sharpton spoke for the critics when he pointed out that “blacks are statistically way better than whites at breaking into houses in the middle of the night, so a black man should have got the role.” Sharpton has offered to shut up and go away for cash and a film credit.

    I like Ridley Scott. He’s made some excellent movies and clearly understands what a bunch of losers these protestors are. I hope his movie turns out to be good. At least it won’t have a revisionist plot written by some African Studies revisionist.

    • BS77

      Ridley Scott is an amazing creative genius. His films are outstanding …the Alien film from 1979 was pretty awesome for its time….I thought his Kingdom of Heaven was great…..check it out.

  • Yehuda Levi

    Proof once again that most leftists are the true racists. They only define people by their skin color.

    If they can ever look past skin color, they will notice that people are diverse because of their minds, not their bodies.

    “I think, therefore I am.”

    • Douglas J. Bender

      For some on these forums, that should be, “I think, therefore I spam.” (That has nothing to do with you or your post, though. I am not implying that you are a spammer or anything.)

    • kasandra

      They also like to wallow in lies. If memory serves, Cleopatra was of Macedonian decent. She was by no means of African decent no matter what racial hucksters would have you believe.

      • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

        I once said that during class in high school and my teacher, a brain-dead liberal utterly ignorant of the history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, became outraged.

        • CaoMoo

          I had one make me write a paper on how king solomon was a good christian. It was a short paper. IT read. King solomon was a terrible christian but a good jew, as christ would not be born for some time yet. The teacher was really angry. But I wasnt wrong.

        • kasandra

          To the left, the narrative is everything; facts are nothing.

      • DaveGinOly

        Yes, she was a Macedonian Greek descended from one of Alexander the Great’s generals, Ptolemy I Soter I, and the last of the Greek rulers of Egypt (the end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty).

    • objectivefactsmatter

      I think there are lots of great “ethnic” actors that are not used (generally) as much as I’d like to see because…well…it’s not my business to tell film makers who to hire.

  • Douglas J. Bender

    Asians. They could have used Asians to portray the Egyptians. Then, everyone would be happy, except Asians.

    • herb benty

      Ha, ha! I just pictured NK’s little Hitler, Un , dressed as Pharoah, proclaiming, “so let it be written, so let it be done”.

  • halevi

    The left is really going off the rails. Their leaders are complete morons.

    • Keith

      What do you mean GOING off the rails, I thought they left the rails a long time ago. I agree their leaders are complete morons.

      • halevi

        They are becoming more emboldened and somehow think they will attract people to their causes. At least in the past, their leaders were smart enough to use tactics that didn’t make people hate them. Bill Clinton is a good example.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    http://ianthomasmalone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/four-purple-penguins-hi.png

    Purple penguins should have been cast in the name of Casting Neutrality and avant garde social justice solutions.

    • Ammianus

      I think you may be describing the ideal presidential candidate.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Speaking of the idea of black slave holders, it’s a known fact but a little broadcast one that in Colonial Virginia and other Southern colonies there were black…slave owners. They had large tobacco and crop plantations, and owned black slaves and the indentures of mostly English whites. They were active in the purchase and sale of slaves. They attended slave auctions. They were freedmen. There were also other black freedmen who were scientists, writers, and poets scattered throughout the colonies. Quakers bought many slaves and set them free. Of course, most blacks (chiefly from the West Coast of Africa) who made the “Passage” across the Atlantic in slavers’ ships were captured and sold to white slavers by…blacks. So, you people objecting to whites playing “black” Egyptians in another Biblical epic with a cast of thousands (CGI thousands?),
    truly, get a life.

    • Bamaguje

      Nothing stops Spike Lee making a movie with a Black Pharaoh.

  • Texas Patriot

    As Jack Warner said, a good movie is one that makes money.

    How about this lineup:

    Pharaoh: Pharrell Williams
    Cleopatra: Beyonce
    Moses: Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Ancient Jews: An assortment of ex-Navy SEALs, British SAS, and French Legionnaires.

    I’d go see that one!

  • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

    Christian Bale is not even really an Egyptian in the movie, he’s a Hebrew.

    This whole to-do shows yet again that liberals regard reality as an outdated “construct” getting in the way of a greater truth. No compromise is possible with liberals because there is no common ground between them and decent, rational human beings.

  • laura r

    werent egyptians semites? if so then a dark jew or italian would make the grade. personally i liked liz taylor even though she has blue eyes & no tan. she ws glamourous.

  • herb benty

    Look at any Egyptian drawings, inscriptions and monuments. Egyptians were clearly Caucasian. The outcry is because “Exodus” is part of the real history of the Jewish People, the Jewish Holy Scriptures and the Bible. Atheists, evolutionists squirm when God’s Word is featured, so they complain. “Black” people are just an excuse for atheists, as in America- same thing, same reason.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    This is not a new development. Check out the three-volume“ Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization” by Martin Bernal, published in 1991. It is one of many books that claim that ancient Greece was a “copycat” culture that ripped off “Egyptian” or African cultures. In a freer academia, this nonsense was disputed and refuted by genuine scholars, now forgotten or disparaged. Today, it is part and parcel of “African or Black Studies” programs in the universities.

    http://www.amazon.com/Black-Athena-Afroasiatic-Civilization-Fabrication/dp/0813512778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418122267&sr=1-1&keywords=black+athena

    • CowboyUp

      One can tell they don’t really believe Classic civilization was a copycat of African civilization, despite what they say, because they reject Classical Civilization.

    • Kakodaemon

      I’ve never read Bernal’s book, but I did read an excellent rebuttal to his ideas by Mary Leftkowitz, Not Out Of Africa. She is a classicist who destroys Afrocentrist’s fantasies about stolen legacies. Great book.

    • Kakodaemon

      It was refuted at the time, by Mary Leftkowitz, in her book Not Out Of Africa. She is a classicist who destroys Afrocentrist’s fantasies about stolen legacies. Unfortunately, real scholarship means nothing to the political objectives of feel good modern academia.

  • Alucard_the_last

    The Egyptians were tan. I don’t know why black America thinks that their ancestors, who never even invented the wheel, walked 3000 miles to build Egypt and walked 3000 miles back home to their dung huts. I’m surprised they are making a stink at all considering that the Egyptians are the evil ones in this case instead of enlightened beings that blacks always want to be seen as.

  • Carabec

    Ttoes that complain about the casting, just do not like white people, even themselves!

  • http://www.apollospeaks.com/ ApolloSpeaks

    WHY AREN’T MOSLEMS RAISING CAIN

    over this film?  Moses, according to the Koran, was a Moslem who rediscovered through divine revelation the original pristine monotheism (Islam) of Abraham-later corrupted by the Jews and restored by Mohammed. BTW, it was Moslems not Jews Moses liberated and led out of Egypt. Moslems should be offended that God isn’t referred to as Allah in the film , and  Egyptian slaves called Moslems. After the movie opens will we hear calls to jihad from ISIS and al Qaida to war against the film with shootings and suicide bombings? The Afro-Centric nutters would love that.

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  • naro

    Egyptians were and are not black. Just look at contemporary color illustrations of Egypt’s ancient enemies it is clear that their Nubian enemies were black, but Egyptians were generally not.

  • tagalog

    The most conscientious analysis of the racial makeup of the Egyptians of the era depicted in the movie says that there was a large admixture of Berber in their ethnic makeup. Berbers are not sub-Saharan Negroid people. Also, there was a lot of Northern Mediterranean (i.e., southern European), particularly Greek, genetic material throughout all of North Africa, including Egypt, as well as a significant Levantine contribution to the Egyptian ethnic mix. Interestingly, I have read that there isn’t much Arabic genetics in Egyptian ethnics, although one would be justified in expecting it. Since sub-Saharan black people served the Egyptians as soldiers and slaves, there may have been some amount of black African genetic material present too. But the bottom line is the Egyptians were not black people, and have NEVER been depicted by anyone as such. The morons attacking Ridley Scott should be exposed as the idiots and the politically correct stooges they are. But of course they won’t be.

  • bob smith

    Daniel, the fact that these fools are caught defending themselves from the very critics whom they and their Hollywood progressive ‘Micheal Moorish’ ideological principals created is fabulous if not fantastic.

    The best part is that in all their revisionist history lessons, none of them, the director included have any fking idea of factual history. Why? Because they never learned it to begin with.

    When the lead actor describes Moses as “barbaric and schizophrenic” and further claims to have read the Torah, the Koran and Jonathan Kirsch’s life of Moses but not any version of the Bible, then there you have it, psychobabble.

    The fact that these suicidal, deluded, ‘white-privileged’ idiots who know equally less are race baiting their demigods, I say good on all of these clowns. Fk all of them.

  • MrUniteUs1

    1) Rabbis admit there is no historic evidence that Exodus ever took, or that. Egyptians enslaved Jews.
    2) An African King helped save Israel from the attacking Assyrians.
    Somebody make a movie.

    3) Egypt is part of the African continent. Egyptians thought I was Egyptian .
    4) The Sphinx looks African http://www.guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/

    5) A man named Christian playing Moses?

  • Mongo66

    The whole “ancient Hebrews were black” nonsense comes from a lack of knowledge about Torah. If you bring up facts like Esau having red hair or Rebecca being described as having a “fair complexion ” and “hair like gold” their entire argument falls apart.

    But the real story is why does Hollyweird keep making biblical movies that have nothing to with the biblical stories? First they ruined Noah, now this atrocity. As someone familiar withTorah, I too will be bboycotting as I know many of my coreligionists to, so I have a feeling this movie will go over like blasphemy in a Church.

  • seewithyourowneyes

    An educational channel has recently been running a show about the Nubian “black pharaohs” of Egypt’s 25th dynasty. But even those Leftwing zealots portray those possibly black pharaohs as a rarity. In countless images over the centuries the ancient Egyptians portrayed themselves as having very different skin tones and facial features than their Nubian slaves or allies.
    Still, I’m fascinated by the question of Egyptian genetic identity. A recent show showed possible Nefertiti mummies having facial features very similar to her bust and painted images. But years ago I saw a show featuring a Ramses mummy that looked completely unlike his rather cat-like, small-nosed, triangular-faced depictions. The Ramses mummy had a long, narrow face and a really huge eagle-beak of a nose. I’ve never seen that show replayed since, but I’d be interested to know if that mummy is still accepted as Ramses.