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4 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

And people are already pissed.

Shocking.

Why? Because there's no way in hell Cleopatra was as hot as Gal Gadot?

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Why are people pissed? Are they anti-semitic? Gadot is pretty close to what Cleopatra looked like except perhaps ironically, her nose isn't as big

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44 minutes ago, Viper said:

Why are people pissed? Are they anti-semitic? Gadot is pretty close to what Cleopatra looked like except perhaps ironically, her nose isn't as big

Yeah, not so much.

 

 

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I don't know, it's a lot to live up to
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Wilford Brimley once had to meet Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for dinner to stand-in for Howard Hughes, who didn’t want to go. Wilford said she was the nicest person he’d ever met.

And now you know the rest of the story.
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8 minutes ago, futureman said:

Cleopatra wasn't even from the Middle East. 

Well, she was "from" there, having apparently been born and raised in Alexandria.

But she was of Balkan Greek descent.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, she was "from" there, having apparently been born and raised in Alexandria.

But she was of Balkan Greek descent.

Also Egypt isn’t the Middle East. It’s North Africa. 

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32 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Also Egypt isn’t the Middle East. It’s North Africa. 

True enough, but it is kind of identified with the Middle East for the last century or so.

A lot of Egyptians were "black" or 'nubian," but people fail to realize that it was ruled by Macedonian Greeks for three centuries and was a Roman satellite state during much of that time.

As a Jew of Central European descent, Gadot is probably ethnically fairly accurate.

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5 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Please tell me it's not an Israeli playing an Egyptian ruler thing.

 

Cleopatra was Greek.

 

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

As a Jew of Central European descent, Gadot is probably ethnically fairly accurate.

 

I believe the term is Ashkenazi.

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8 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

True enough, but it is kind of identified with the Middle East for the last century or so.

A lot of Egyptians were "black" or 'nubian," but people fail to realize that it was ruled by Macedonian Greeks for three centuries and was a Roman satellite state during much of that time.

As a Jew of Central European descent, Gadot is probably ethnically fairly accurate.

i guess it depends on what you mean by "a lot". Most ancient Egyptians looked pretty much like what today's Egyptians look like.

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9 hours ago, Dbeasy said:


Wilford Brimley once had to meet Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for dinner to stand-in for Howard Hughes, who didn’t want to go. Wilford said she was the nicest sweetest person he’d ever met.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Viper said:

Why are people pissed? Are they anti-semitic? Gadot is pretty close to what Cleopatra looked like except perhaps ironically, her nose isn't as big

Outrage Culture is alive and kicking in 2020

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6 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 

Cleopatra was Greek.

 

 

I believe the term is Ashkenazi.

That is right.  Arguably, the Jewish part trumps the rest of it, but ethnically central European is probably pretty close to Macedonian.

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True enough, but it is kind of identified with the Middle East for the last century or so.
A lot of Egyptians were "black" or 'nubian," but people fail to realize that it was ruled by Macedonian Greeks for three centuries and was a Roman satellite state during much of that time.
As a Jew of Central European descent, Gadot is probably ethnically fairly accurate.
Ptolemaic Dynasty also had a ton of inbreeding, so there's was no chance for Cleopatra to be any ethnicity but Greek. Anyone outraged by an olive skinned Cleopatra is just showing they don't know the history of Egypt like they thought they did.
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This is odd. 
 

Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, famously founding the city of Alexandria where he landed to begin his conquest of the Middle East and India. After his death in India, one of his Generals Ptolemy Soter, stole his body and had it entombed in Alexandria where he assumed the throne of the ancient kingdom becoming Ptolemy I. Lots of his commanders who had been with him for 20 yrs also settled there since as conquers they where entitled to their vanquished noble counterparts land, wealth and harems there by turning Egypt into a Hellenistic state. 

The nobility was primarily Greek for 500 years meaning that Cleopatra was almost entirely Greek since the available population pool her ancestors were culturally able to marry was also Greek. 
 

In conclusion, I’m in. Maybe slap some bronzer on Gals cleavage if it will calm the Twitters 

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44 minutes ago, Eastwood said:
11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
True enough, but it is kind of identified with the Middle East for the last century or so.
A lot of Egyptians were "black" or 'nubian," but people fail to realize that it was ruled by Macedonian Greeks for three centuries and was a Roman satellite state during much of that time.
As a Jew of Central European descent, Gadot is probably ethnically fairly accurate.

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Ptolemaic Dynasty also had a ton of inbreeding, so there's was no chance for Cleopatra to be any ethnicity but Greek. Anyone outraged by an olive skinned Cleopatra is just showing they don't know the history of Egypt like they thought they did.

So it was like original SEC?

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The last couple of big budget Hollywood movies set in ancient Egypt have starred Gerard Butler, Jamie Lanister, Christian Bale, Ben Kingsley, and Aaron Paul. So I'd call this progress.

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7 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

Cleopatra was Greek.

To clarify, Cleopatra was of Greek descent.  She was born in Egypt.

I think people are basically outraged that a Jew is playing the leader of a Muslim country.  Or that a white woman is playing a brown woman.  I know, I know.  But people are that fucking stupid these days.

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39 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

To clarify, Cleopatra was of Greek descent.  She was born in Egypt.

I think people are basically outraged that a Jew is playing the leader of a Muslim country.  Or that a white woman is playing a brown woman.  I know, I know.  But people are that fucking stupid these days.

When America can't even agree on more movies starring Gal Gadot being a good thing, you know America is fucked.

She can play FDR in a movie for all I care.  She's awesome. 

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Gal Gadot is hot without a doubt, but is there some groundswell of demand for this movie to be remade? (Surly - you mean beyond the groundswell in my pants - Surly)

Not once have I ever heard someone say "Man, you know what should be dusted off & remade? Cleopatra!"

Just seems like a ready made bomb, or "Wonder Woman" sans super-powers.

 

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1 hour ago, smuggs said:

 

Chariot wheelhouse.

 

Probably the 2nd woman ArmyBrat fucked, after Mitochondrial Eve. 

40 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Gal Gadot is hot without a doubt, but is there some groundswell of demand for this movie to be remade? (Surly - you mean beyond the groundswell in my pants - Surly)

Not once have I ever heard someone say "Man, you know what should be dusted off & remade? Cleopatra!"

Just seems like a ready made bomb, or "Wonder Woman" sans super-powers.

 

Um, Hollywood is still out of ideas.  Might as well remake something. 

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47 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Gal Gadot is hot without a doubt, but is there some groundswell of demand for this movie to be remade? (Surly - you mean beyond the groundswell in my pants - Surly)

Not once have I ever heard someone say "Man, you know what should be dusted off & remade? Cleopatra!"

Just seems like a ready made bomb, or "Wonder Woman" sans super-powers.

 

U say that, but it's actually on my watchlist this week.  That movie is epic

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2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

To clarify, Cleopatra was of Greek descent.  She was born in Egypt.

I think people are basically outraged that a Jew is playing the leader of a Muslim country.  Or that a white woman is playing a brown woman.  I know, I know.  But people are that fucking stupid these days.

Yeah, but wasn't she alive about 550 years before Muhammed was even born? So, Egypt was not a Muslim country then because there was no such thing.

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11 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

So, Egypt was not a Muslim country then because there was no such thing.

They were Muslims but didn't know it yet. As were the Sumerians, Hassuna and the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus.

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