![]() Scott's interpretation consists of Caucasian actors like Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, and Sigourney Weaver playing Moses and Egyptian royalty respectively. ![]() The latest movie in Hollywood's ongoing love affair with ancient Egypt is Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings. Upcoming movies like Exodus and Gods of Egypt all but confirm it. Unfortunately though, those films have something in common aside from being about ancient Egypt - they show that Hollywood, tends to envision ancient Egyptians and ancient Egyptian royalty as white men and women (sometimes with copious amounts of bronzer splashed on). Movies like The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and even The Mummy prove it. Hollywood is a sucker for a story about ancient Egypt.
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