Posted on 04/08/2005 4:21:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
CAIRO (AFP) - A Hollywood flick on an alleged love affair between pharaonic Queen Nefertiti and the Biblical Prophet Moses is soon to begin shooting in Egypt, renowned British producer John Heyman has revealed to AFP.
"Nefertiti married perhaps one of the first monotheists in history and the film will tell their story, which logically enough should be set in Egypt" said Heyman on a brief visit to Cairo.
"One can find in the Old Testament that Moses and Nefertiti had a relationship," he added.
The movie will also deal "with the return to the worship of the sun god," said Heyman.
He was referring to Aten -- the radiant disk of the sun -- whose cult was briefly re-introduced by Pharaoh Akhenaten, the 10th king of the 18th Dynasty also known as the "heretic king" for breaking with traditional religion in the 1350s BC.
The cult of Aten is considered by some experts to be a predecessor of modern monotheism.
Scholars generally agree that Nefertiti, often referred to in history as the "most beautiful woman in the world", was Akhenaten's wife.
But few have argued that Akhenaten and Moses may have been the same man, although there is no consensus on their respective dates of birth and death.
Others contend that Ramses II, the third ruler of the 19th dynasty, was in fact Moses while Jews believe the pharaoh king is responsible for their exodus from Egypt.
And founding father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud ventured his belief in "Moses and Monotheism", published in 1939, that Moses was in fact an Egyptian follower of Aten that brought the monotheistic doctrine out of Egypt as Judaism when he led the Israelites away from slavery to freedom some 3,300 years ago.
Ahmed Osman, on whose 1990 book "Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus" the script of Heyman's next film is based, admitted that "my argument is controversial and not widespread among many Egyptologists."
"But I have collected evidence proving that Akhenaten and Moses are the same person, which so far nobody has been able to contest," said Egypt-born Osman who has lived in London for the past 20 years where he studied Egypt's ancient history.
"Egypt's history is greatly ignored by the film industry besides 'Cleopatra' and 'The Ten Commandments' and that's it," said Heyman, referring to the two epic Hollywood blockbusters released more than 40 years ago.
The shoot "will not start before 2006 and locations will be between studios and along the Nile in Upper Egypt," he added.
Although he said it was too early to talk about the cast, Heyman said he had met "several Egyptian actors who are very good and charming, warm and kind".
British director Hugh Hudson, the acclaimed director of "Chariots of Fire," will direct the movie.
Heyman, who produced or co-financed major films such as "Chinatown", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Marathon Man", is also known for creating the Genesis project -- a scholarly endeavor to put all the Hebrew and Christian scriptures on film.
He also produced "Jesus," filmed on location in Israel in Biblical settings and subsequently translated in more than 850 languages.
See #68.
Meant to ping you to #80
I am very confused.
Cushite/Kushite are indeed alternate spellings for the land called 'Cush' or 'Kush.' That place is Ethiopia. In hebrew even today I think, the word is used to describe both 'Ethiopian' and 'racially black.'
Or the "Last Temptation of Moses"
Exodus 1:16 begins the telling of Moses meeting Zipporah (spelling in my Bible, different than the movie character, too), a Midian.
Yep.
You know, many seem to be very sarcastic about this, or any film that touches biblical topics... but the truth is, there used to be many films, some more accurate than others, about biblical subjects, and a return to that is a good trend, not a bad one.
The girl in the green diaphanous dress mooning at Charlton Heston's Moses was not Nefertiti... she was named (by the hollywood scriptwriters) Nefertiri
... it's all in the "r"
You are correct.
If your curious, look up what the names, Shem, Ham and Japheth mean.
Gen.6:10
[10] And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The odds are that Adam and Eve were medium skinned people. Not white. Not black but something in between.
Thanks. I still have a bronze statue of Nefertiti I picked up in Cairo back in the early '60's.
SunkenCiv, will you see if you can locate this post? Thanks.
"Interestingly, blam posted a thread some time back in which an English Egyptologist claimed to have found the mummy of Nefertiti. She is now no longer allowed into Egypt."
No, not so. Nefertiti was contemporary with Tutankhamon (King Tut). She may have been his Sister-in-Law/Aunt or Aunt/Sister-in-law, being married to his older brother Ankhenaten... there is some belief that Tut married Nefertiti on his brother's death and his ascension to the throne. It is also possible that Nefertiti then married his successor Ai.
It is NOT possible that Nefertiti was married to Ramses the Great or a more likely candidate for the Pharoah of the Exodus, Thutmose IV, because they had been dead and in their sarcophaguses for several hundred years by the time of King Tut.
The name Nefertiri was made up by Hollywood.
"For this you shall drink BITTER waters!"
OK JOe
The BIG lie always works better than a little one...
Read a bible
That's what I meant. Hollywood changing history. You say Tiri, I say Titi, let's call the whole thing off!
You are correct!
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