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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Gor: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] So they got Ramses and Moses and Tuya as pale Europeans in Exodus, principal roles Yet when there's a token black in a medieval flick he cries. They have been whitenizing Egyptians in Hollywood for years. And now the excuse for is they throw in a couple token side parts in medieval films ( and there were a few blacks around even) Or Merlin which is not even historical [/qb][/QUOTE]No, not at all. I don't watch these things, and I don't care who stars in them. My simple point was that if we remove all the white actors from Egypt-set films, shouldn't we also remove all the blacks from programmes/films like Merlin, and Thor? Otherwise there would be a double standard. [/qb][/QUOTE]This is the skin tone, the should be using to depict dynastic Egyptians in reconstructions and film >>> >>> Amenhotep II [IMG]http://criticxxtreme.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/amenhotep-iii-painting.jpg[/IMG] Rameses II [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/Brooklyn_20NY_20Nov-2005_200272.jpg[/IMG] but instead they purposely lightenize the skin tones in the Hollywood movies and puposley leave out actors who actually have that natural skin tone That is unfair You have no sense of proportion If a period in history is being represented then most of the people should look as the ancient people looked So in an Egyptian movie if you you have a couple of light skinned men in a larger group of darker skinned people and where the main characters are brown skinned as above, no problem the vast majority are brown skinned. They could be played by black or white actors as long as the skin tone is realistic to the period achieved by makeup or hopefully by some of the actors actually having that skin tone The Egyptians were largely African yet in decades of Egyptian themed movies, they never put actors of African ancestry in principal roles and not many at all generally. And in a medieval Europe film the reverse would be done, mainly light skinned with one or two blacks. Merlin for instance, the rest of the cast is white (not that this fluff T.V. fantasy is on par with a serious adult drama anyway) That is the proper balance, no need to strictly segregate these things as you were talking about, an extreme solution rather than making reasonable, significant adjustments It is even more important on scientific reconstructions to be historically accurate, sculpture and re-enatcted historical documentary film But National Geographic and the BBC falsify reconstuctions by skin lightening to market to a white audience and make themselves feel like they were most similar to the ancient Egyptians and it's corrupt for them to present this as scientific All it is is promoting lighter skin as an ideal as opposed to representing history accurately [/QB][/QUOTE]
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