Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Ancient Egypt Expert Rates 8 Ancient Egypt Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider" video.

  1. Remember when he listed canopic jars and after naming two organs placed to them, mentioned "and other organs") also these 0 and 10 marks...
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  2. And the names it's obvious they picked real names from history and gave them to other characters... Like if you make a movie about England and have Arthur and Robin being completely separate characters from king Arthur and Robin Hood... What grates me about Mummy is that they did such a great job on texts, with their inscriptions ACTUALLY READING CORRECTLY, but then some intern left 5 canopic jars and nobody noticed.
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  3. Same with the Mummy, they got him to comment on FANTASY scenes, and not on the actual book and tomb inscriptions we see later.
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  4. Not a scientist but IIRC Alexander's tomb was never found so talking about its historical accuracy is moot. Could be anything from a hidden cave burial to palace from completely intact to totally robbed.
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  5. Yeah the "white" and "black" Western "races" are a result of centuries of racial segregation. Kinda like Spanish speakers in Americas are considered to be a separate race, but not in Europe. It's a cultural thing. Egypt, however, recognized different nations as separate culturally, so you kinda can point out black skinned Nubians and white-skinned Phoenicians as separate "races" in that context.
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  6. It was badly cut, pouring of water likely happened but not greasing of sand. We actually have a good idea of how they moved the stuff, it was wooden planks sled on wet sand. And boats, they even dug channels specifically to move rocks closer to building sites.
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  7. There was an Egyptologist reviewing other scenes, I was surprised they did the writing right. Also I don't think Imhotep and Su-Namun are supposed to be THOSE historical figures, just namesakes. Like Napoleon Dynamite isn't the same Napo as the dude in funny hat.
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  8. Nah, they don't have time for showing people hours of footage, they see the clips and rate them, IF a person watched a whole movie before they might have an idea of the context but yeah, they should work on writing notes before scene.
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  9. Hilariously he gave minus one to the Mummy, which, despite fantasy elements, has real, readable Egyptian text in other scenes, while giving 10 for sets in Indiana Jones where hieroglyphics are gibberish.
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  10. I like Liz and she looks fine in Cleopatra, problem is actual Greeks look closer to Northern Africans than to very white English people. Taylor was just very dark for a Brit.
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  11. ​@liversuccess1420 several prophets very clearly establish that Israeli God IS one omnipresent and omnipotent deity, there's even a funny dialogue IIRC Jonas has with a pagan who is scared that "your God is so powerful!", and there are mentions of Jews in some stele in Egypt - which describes them familiarly, so Egyptians knew about them for a long time at that point. Bronze age wasn't in isolation, people traded and traveled A LOT. And Palestinians are a strange case in general, they're NAMED after people who came from the sea (the Philistines), they are grouped with Arabs who appeared much later, but in reality it's very likely a mix of locals who lived there for millenia and whoever settled later, same with Jews, both peoples are native to Israel.
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  12. Well, the thing is we don't know her mother. However, art around the same century depicts Cleo as vaguely Mediterranean. I mean, Greeks and Italians are on the darker side of Europeans too, and many Syrians and Israelis are white-passing so Cleopatra can look whatever really.
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  13. Hilariously Gal Gadot having mixed Middle Eastern / European ancestry makes her closer to Cleo ethnically than most other takes, but I really dislike her pretentiousness.
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  14. Exodus gets 0 for religious accuracy as well, I mean, it adapted the story from the Bible and did it worse than a Metallica song.
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  15. Elizabeth Taylor was as dark as Hollywood dared to go at the time lol, she was really considered very exotic compared to Marylin Monroe or Hitchcock blondes at the time.
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  16. Archeologist is his cover story for being a Tomb Raider, no?
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  17. ​ @franceskinskij  North Africa was never white, in fact natives (see Berbers for example) are DARKER skinned than Arabs. True, Arabian people's wouldn't appear in the land until 7th century with Islamic conquest but it doesn't mean Egyptians looked pale, look at how they depict themselves next to Phoenicians or Lybians, as golden-brown skinned people. Also Egyptians still exist and they have about same genetic base and they're kinda brown.
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  18. I mean, it's like we have "chernozem" in Ukraine, literally "black Earth", and Chornobyl is local word for wormwood. Same root. It's almost as if the word for color black stands for tons of things beside skin colors (also land of black people would be Nubia, modern Sudan and Ethiopia, which are closer to equator). People should study 25th dynasty and Kushite kingdom for ACTUAL Black History instead of trying to claim the most European rulers that ever ruled Ancient Egypt were black.
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  19. I mean, Greeks are pretty dark as far as Europe goes but ALSO, some of paintings show Cleopatra with red hair, and while Egyptians used chenna dyes, natural redheads are usually very pale. Then again, at the time, Liz Taylor was THE "darker" actress for Hollywood after all the blonde Marylins and Rita Hayworths.
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