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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 17632890" data-attributes="member: 218596"><img src="http://3i26kd3p1usa3cefqi1ay96t13o6.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/christian-bale-moses.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />*The backlash against “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has  extended beyond director Ridley Scott’s white-washed cast. The film has  now been banned in Egypt and Morocco due to “historical inaccuracies.”As previously reported, Scott has been criticized for  casting white actors in Egyptian roles, including Christian Bale as  Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses. In an interview, Scott told critics  who have a problem with the cast to “Get a life.”More controversy popped up today when Egypt’s censorship  board banned the film over objections to its depiction of Jews as having  built the pyramids. The board also didn’t agree with the film showing  an earthquake as having parted the Red Sea, and not a miracle by Moses.In the book of Exodus, Jewish slaves were led to freedom by Moses after God inflicted a series of plagues on Egypt.The belief that Jewish slaves built the pyramids is part  of the Christian and Jewish faith, but folks in Egypt believe the  pyramids were built from Egyptian hands, alone. Also, many historians  believe the Pyramids were built about 1,000 years before the Bible’s  account in Exodus.Earlier this week, it was reported that “Exodus: Gods and  Kings” was also banned in Morocco, where parts of the movie were shot.  The state-run Moroccan Cinema Centre (CCM) had given the film a green  light, but local business website Medias24 reported that officials opted  to ban the movie from being screened the day before its premiere,  according to AFP.It doesn’t help matters that Muslims consider Moses a  prophet, and Islam opposes the depiction of its prophets in works of  art, making the release of “Exodus” in any Muslim country an issue.At the film’s New York press junket earlier this month,  Ridley Scott laid out an overall defense of his creative choices in  “Exodus,” and explained how a visit to Ramses’ sarcophagus underscored  his desire that the film “always be real.”“It has to be as real as I can make it,” he said, incredulously.</blockquote>

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