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"The Emigrant" is an Egyptian film made 1994. It centers around the biblical Joseph (in the film called Ram) who comes to Egypt and becomes caught up in political and sexual intrigues.
The film got problems because it showed biblical figures which is forbidden in Islam.
It is interesting to see ancient Egypt depicted by Egyptians and not by Hollywood.
Someone who knows about other Egyptian movies about Ancient Egypt?
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I'll have to see if it's on Netflix. @Archeo The depiction doesn't look that difference from Hollywood,granted the actors do look more ethnic than the usual white folks but some look Puerto Rican to Dominican or like some of the Bollywood actors.
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I didn't know egyptians made movies like that interesting. I don't see why they stoped producing such movies or maybe I'm ignorant about their current productions.
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quote:Originally posted by Thereal: [QB] I'll have to see if it's on Netflix. @Archeo The depiction doesn't look that difference from Hollywood,granted the actors do look more ethnic than the usual white folks but some look Puerto Rican to Dominican or like some of the Bollywood actors.
Can you stop making comparisons like that pls ? Egyptians are an old group comparing them to people whose ethnogenesis happened after the age of discovery is ridiculous.
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Al-Muhajir (The Emigrant) directed by Youssef Chahine
The release of this film, which is loosely based on the story of the Biblical Joseph, raised a storm of protest, since Islam forbids the visual representation of religious figures.[2] This was despite the fact that Chahine changed the names of all of the characters and stripped the story of all its supernatural and miraculous elements. Joseph becomes Ram, Jacob becomes Adam, Potiphar becomes Amihar, and Potiphar's wife, unnamed in the Bible, becomes Simihit, the high priestess of the Cult of Amun. Joseph does not advance because of a miraculous ability to receive and interpret dreams, but because of his personal merits.
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quote:Originally posted by Thereal: [QB] I'll have to see if it's on Netflix. @Archeo The depiction doesn't look that difference from Hollywood,granted the actors do look more ethnic than the usual white folks but some look Puerto Rican to Dominican or like some of the Bollywood actors.
Can you stop making comparisons like that pls ? Egyptians are an old group comparing them to people whose ethnogenesis happened after the age of discovery is ridiculous.
What the heck does that have to do with the way a group looks? Mohamed Salah with his hair grown out looks mixed,whether that's true I don't know.
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quote:Originally posted by Thereal: [QB] I'll have to see if it's on Netflix. @Archeo The depiction doesn't look that difference from Hollywood,granted the actors do look more ethnic than the usual white folks but some look Puerto Rican to Dominican or like some of the Bollywood actors.
Can you stop making comparisons like that pls ? Egyptians are an old group comparing them to people whose ethnogenesis happened after the age of discovery is ridiculous.
What the heck does that have to do with the way a group looks? Mohamed Salah with his hair grown out looks mixed,whether that's true I don't know.
These are simply useless statements because he might look "mixed" from an american point of view but that doesn't mean he is like the latinos you have
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Immaterial,if Mohamed Salah passes unnoticed as Latino and no one is making a fuss about it then why are you complaining? That doesn't take away from his ethnicity. What? Are you the gatekeeper of all things North African or Middle East? That when describing folks from that region of the world with my or anyone else relative understanding of race/ethnicity you throw on a cape to defend,even with the words used are meant to be negative?
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quote:Originally posted by Thereal: Immaterial,if Mohamed Salah passes unnoticed as Latino and no one is making a fuss about it then why are you complaining? That doesn't take away from his ethnicity. What? Are you the gatekeeper of all things North African or Middle East? That when describing folks from that region of the world with my or anyone else relative understanding of race/ethnicity you throw on a cape to defend,even with the words used are meant to be negative?
Mohamed Salah is not in the movie. YOU could be mentioning actual actors in the movie
and describe them as resembling modern Egyptians or some country in the middle east. There is no need to go far away and talk about Latinos
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Stop trolling. Mohamed Salah is Egyptian and my comment was about the Egyptian actors looking like the Latinos or similar enough in the U.S
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