Posted on 10/12/2020 1:41:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Israel-born actress Gal Gadot announced Sunday that she would team up again with “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins in a new film about the legendary Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The film will be produced by Paramount and written by Laeta Kalogridis in a retelling of the epic tale made famous by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 classic. The announcement drew criticism, with some railing against the casting of an Israeli as the Queen of Egypt...
“Which Hollywood dumba** thought it would be a good idea to cast an Israeli actress as Cleopatra...instead of a stunning Arab actress like Nadine Njeim?” tweeted journalist Sameera Khan.
“How about they cast someone with North African blood! someone like Sofia Boutella! I’m so sick of casting white actors and Israelis as pharaohs and arab roles!...” wrote another Twitter user.
-However, many, including the screenplay author, were quick to point out that Cleopatra was neither Arab nor Black, but rather a Macedonian Greek.
“Incredibly excited to get the chance to tell the story of Cleopatra, my favorite Ptolemaic Pharoah and arguably the most famous Macedonian Greek woman in history,” tweeted Kalogridis.
(Cleopatra was the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, descended from Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.)
Gadot did not react to the controversy, but later tweeted that the film would mark the first time Cleopatra’s story would be told through “women’s eyes, both behind and in front of the camera.”
Gadot’s Israeli heritage has caused her some problems in the Arab world before, with Lebanon banning “Wonder Woman” because she starred in it. Gadot, who like most young Israelis did military service, made headlines in 2014 with a Facebook post expressing solidarity with Israeli citizens under Hamas rocket fire...
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Personally, I’ll watch a movie featuring Gal Gadot reading the phone book, so who cares?
Exactly, and the ancient Egyptians were Semites as were the ancient Jews and just about everyone in the Middle Mast and Nile river basin circa 50 BC.
Egyptians had slaves.
Yes. They also had a huge hit with “Walk like an Egyptian”, and in the video for the song, Susanna Hoffs was smokin’ hot.
Still is.
The family adopted almost all the customs and rituals of the Pharaohs to give the population the sense of continuity and avoid insurrection. That included incestuous marriage in order to keep the bloodline "pure". Cleo had her young brother killed and avoided that, and her only issue was the (supposed?) son of Julius Caesar, Caesarian. Octavian made sure he didn't make it either.
That would require creativity and originality, things that have been missing in Hollywood for decades.
Nothing brings a crowd of liberals together faster than something that is none of their damn business.
Fortunately, The Longest Day, filmed about the same time, was such a big hit Fox was saved, for then anyway.
Yup....thus I’m now been better schooled! Thanks! :)
Liberals are ignorant.
While there is a cure for ignorance (it’s called knowledge) one can be certain that they will pursue that cure.
lol
Like I’ve said before, if they want to stop cultural appropriation, anyone who isn’t European of of European descent is gonna be shocked how much their life sucks afterwards.
Saw her in a small club post Bangles. Can’t even remember the year now. Either 90s or the OOs. It was a good show and she sang a few Bangles songs.
Usually the same people that dont know that Egypt was so old that Cleopatra lived closer to us now than she did to the time the pyramids were built, and likely didnt speak Egyptian.
Actually, she was the first Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt who did speak Egyptian
It needs yelling again. “SHUT UP AND ACT!” to paraphrase Zappa
I had my mouth washed out with soap for drawing her cleavage on dads afternoon newspaper
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