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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 16, 2014 21:01:39 GMT -5
@truthteacher - good post. Id say that like Egypt and some other parts of North Africa, the Levant and Arab world has similar ideas about things like beauty and likewise would make the rest of the world think they all look like Shakira! How about Yasmine Al Masri, Rula Jebreal and for the western mainstream appeal, Thandie Newton for some of the Asiatic females ? Even Shakira doesn't look like Shakira! LOL I think both are good sugestions. Not sure what Levantines would have looked like back then as they had nowhere near the kinds of realistic self representations as Egyptians did. However, judging by the current poulations, I would say there was a bit of diversity there too. Not as much as Egypt perhaps, but still there. Rula could easily fit in as a beduine from the Negev or a Jordainian or Palestinian from Jericho. Levantines today do have a distinct look if you know what you're looking at. Not as easy to spot as Egyptians. I would say that they too must have retained examples of their original physical types. Thing is casting a good mix of natives is a far departure from the typical lilly white Hollywood representations of that part of the world. Lebanese celebrities.... They're notorious for their plastic surgery. Haifa is beautiful, but she cut out all her features that made her look native. Rima Fakhi  Salma Hayak  Nadine Lebaki  Najwa Karam. If she can sing, I'm sure she can act too...  Shirine. Can't forget to include a Masriya actress  Gawaher  Another box office draw Angelina Jolie |
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Post by anansi on Mar 16, 2014 21:08:37 GMT -5
   All^ Levantines Before I move into female characters,lets be clear also that the area of the Levant were not just filled with creamy colored folks especially in 12th dyn,so one should look for a diverse cast for a screen test..yeah yeah I know I just posted a whole slue of creamy colored Lebanese a couple days ago,but if we wanna keep it real, there was a whole lot of darker skinned types that reside in the area for a very long time, and during the Hyksos period some time during the 13th or 14th dyn,according to Bernal there was a local king of the delta called Nahasi who ruled with the Asiatics..not to mention sometimes the Levant was called the second Ethiopia by latter Greeks and the story of Andromeda was originally set in that area. |
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 16, 2014 21:15:32 GMT -5
All^ Levantines Before I move into female characters,lets be clear also that the area of the Levant were not just filled with creamy colored folks especially in 12th dyn,so one should look for a diverse cast for a screen test..yeah yeah I know I just posted a whole slue of creamy colored Lebanese a couple days ago,but if we wanna keep it real, there was a whole lot of darker skinned types that reside in the area for a very long time, and during the Hyksos period some time during the 13th or 14th dyn,according to Bernal there was a local king of the delta called Nahasi who ruled with the Asiatics..not to mention sometimes the Levant was called the second Ethiopia by latter Greeks and the story of Andromeda was originally set in that area. Good point. It just confirms what I said in my post above. There are stil a lot of people who look like the pictures you posted in Palestine and Jordan today. Don't know about Lebanon as I've never been there. |
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 16, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -5
^Agreed. As for the actresses, since the tale is set in the 12th Dynasty any number of African American actresses can fit the bill. Thandie Newton is one possibility, and so is Vivicia Fox among others.  So would the chocolate-smooth African lady below:  What do you think of Lupita?  |
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Post by amunratheultimate on Mar 16, 2014 23:26:05 GMT -5
Actually the posts of truthteacher2007 make a lot of sense when you view them as the attempts at sarcasm of a racist idiot. You know something? Deal with it! You're telling me I'm reducing Africans to skin color, yet you can't deal with anyone who doesn't fit your idea of what you think a black person/African should look like.
Posting pictures of Arabs? Since when is Christopher Judge an Arab? As for the other people.... The statue of the scribe is from Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom. I've seen the original in The Cairo Museum many times, and Adel Immam looks just like him. Egyptians didn't all conform to your narrow xenophobic critiria of what you think an African should look like. No, they didn't all look Wolof, or Fulani or Zulu. MAny of them looked like Adel Immam and that was waaay before they started mixing with outsiders. It's part of the built in physical diversity in Africa. DEAL WITH IT!
Mohamed Mounir is Nubian. Shando Nubian. They both speak their Nubian languages, they are soooo not Arabs.
Before that post I showed pictures of some really dark Egyptians. Those faces are not Arabian, those are Egyptian faces. Those people can't pass as typical Palestinians, Jordanians, Lebanese or Syrians. They are Egyptians. Those faces don't make sense in the Levant, they don't make sense in Europe, but place them in the larger African diasporan community, they make a lot of sense.
What's rubbing you the wrong way is the we in the African American community are still dealing with regarding issues of colorism. Who was a house , who was a field . Whose a red bone and whose a tar baby. Whose got good hair and whose got bad hair. This all boils down to the divisive that was used to divide our community. Light skinned blacks were pitted against dark skinned blacks and there is still deep pain and animosity on both sides. When are we going to get over this ish? Seriously. This is the elephant in the gaddamn room where this topic is concerned and no ne wants to deal with the issue, which is, we need to deal with our ish!
So massa gave light skinned people a few more perks, so now, to claim "black pride", we want to go back to a pure black Africa, where the memory of half cast bastards didn't exist. So when you see light skinned folks in Egypt, it triggers your insecurities and issues around these issue. NEWS FLASH! That slavery days nonsense didn't exist back then. Egyptians were dark and light brown and everything inbetween. They had narrow features, and they had broad features. They had kinky hair and they had curly hair and they had wavey and straight hair. They were more varried than what you would like to believe. They wee very diverse and they were all Africans. Stop trying to project our garbage back into the past where it doesn't belong. Get over it already, or at least start working on your damn issues. Massa's dead. How long are we going to keep bfreathing life into his dead ass corps and dragging him around? Can't we bury the already and get on with it? GODDAMN IT! Rubbish and nonsense. Said all I had to say. Got you pegged for who you are. No need to engage you any further. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work on being a better person. Now truthteacher2007 is saying he pegged me but he only pegged himself. He exposed himself for the racist clown he is. He's the one posting that nonsense. |
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 17, 2014 0:22:07 GMT -5
One more Masriya actress. Anya Hayes.  |
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