Analysis Of The Movie 'Exodus, Gods And Kings'

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The Egyptian government banned the movie “Exodus; Gods and Kings “from being screened in Egypt in December 2014. The film was reprimanded for conveying verifiable mistakes about the prophet Moses and the Egyptian pyramids (Time, 2014). It speaks to the Jews as the ones constructed the pyramids and that the Red Sea was brought about to part due to a seismic tremor, not as a supernatural occurrence by Moses (BBC, 2014).

The problem of the history behind movies like ‘Exodus’ and Noah’ consists of external sources rather than the bible, or the Qur’an. These movies resist labeling as a reference of history. The story behind these movies should be correspondent to the Egyptian history, but the narratives and the story outlines are …show more content…

The issue begins with affronting religious taboos that is via incarnating an Islamic prophet. Implying that in terms of Islam, there are prohibited key lines concerning prophets, including screening any. In such case, the motion picture "Exodus" did cross taboos as well as depicted mixed up data, which compounds the issue.

For that, the standards of stewardship and freedom will remain against the standards of truth, empathy, and Religion (Christians, C., Fackler, M., Richardson, K., Kreshel, P., & JR, R. (2012). Ethical foundations and perspectives. In Media ethics: Cases and moral reasoning (9th ed., Vol. 36, pp. 10-18). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.). Therefore, in light of moral standards the film "Exodus" ought to be banned and not screened in Egypt with a specific end goal regarding the Islamic taboos, tolerating the Egyptian preservationist culture, and the general public from the deceiving …show more content…

Although the negative portrayal of Arabs and Muslims have exceeded the normal and caused a huge deterioration for the image of Islam, the American media continue to cross lines including discussing Islamic taboos. According to Kozlovic (2007), Hollywood produced the movie “The Message” portraying the prophet Muhammed (PBUH), which found more welcoming in the West than in Islamic countries due to Islamic taboos. Even though the movie tackled a sensitive issue of incarnating an Islamic prophet, it did not face any academic or religious criticism from the west rather all comments were dedicated to the quality of production and cinematographic

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