![]() ![]() Like that mythos goes so deep and covers so many things that I'm honestly disappointed that no one has really managed to tell an actually interesting story with these characters. I've always found that Egyptian, Norse and Greek mythology are pretty much ripe with material for movies. The fact of the matter is that, realistically speaking, the movie not accurately representing the ethnicity of the Egyptian people should be the least of our worries. That whitewashing was considerably worse than this film, but I'm not saying that it isn't present. ![]() So, apparently, audiences are not able to relate to a Mexican family as much as they are able to relate to a white family. ![]() The Impossible's director, a Hispanic man, justified the whitewashing by saying that he wanted the story to be as universal as possible. Though it's not nearly as bad as it was in The Impossible, a fact-based story about a Mexican family surviving the horrible 2004 earthquake/tsunami that hit the Indian ocean. Yes, yes, the whitewashing in this movie is about as egregious as I've ever seen in any film in recent memory. ![]()
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