Can Hollywood just leave ancient Egypt the fuck alone? They portray it as if its some mystic and grand civilization, then they turn around and portray modern Egypt (and the whole Middle East and North Africa region) as primitive and savage.
It’s already bad enough how MENA people are excluded from movies about the Roman Empire, even though most estimates say that there were more MENA people in the Roman Empire than Europeans (but that’s a rant for another day). Yet when they do make movies about ancient empires or kingdoms in the Middle East, wether it was about Egyptian pharaohs or Biblical stories, they make these whitewashed AF movies with a “mysterious” desert aesthetic with exotic looking building and clothes, with absolutely zero MENA actors/actress.
I’m sick of this, we are portrayed as terrorists and backward-minded people 97% of the time in every single movie and show (and 97% isn’t an exaggerated percentage, studies have literally estimated that we are casted in antagonist roles 97% of the time), but when they have to do movies like Aladdin, Assassin Creed, Prince of Persia, every single movie about Jesus+other Biblical characters and every single movie about ancient Egyptians (including the upcoming Cleopatra movie with G*l Gadot) we are suddenly no where to be seen and instead you only get white people with a tan and to appear inclusive, a few PoC who are not even MENA.
This is ridiculous, you can not like our culture and history, but not like us as people. Leave the MENA region the hell alone until you have a shred of decency and respect toward us.