Posted on 11/29/2014 10:56:58 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter tonight to defend 20th Century Fox's new movie "Exodus" that casts Christian Bale as Moses, and a variety of white actors as Egyptians. Theres been scuffle on Twitter ever since Murdoch made his observations. And a lot of this stems from a quote director Ridley Scott gave Variety about why he didnt use Egyptian or Arab actors for the film. He said: "I cant mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," Scott says. "I'm just not going to get it financed. So the question doesnt even come up."
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Probably a better term would be Syrian, or Levantine, or even Canaanite. Whatever. Lord knows there was a constant mixing of people in the Levant by the various conquerors. But Israelite might be most appropriate. We hear a lot about the Lost Tribes of Israel, meaning the Northern Kingdom, but the story of Tobit reminds us that even in the North, there was a minority who still made pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and who kept that alliance even in Exile. In any case. Mel Gibson created a fact for Christ that, it seems to me, right for a Jewish man of that time and place. One, that also belongs to the man on the Shroud.
Note: this topic is from 11/29/2014. Thanks CharlesOConnell.
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