celeb news Netflix drops trailer for movie on Virgin Mary with Israeli cast

[Letters From Adi]

 

They wanted to go for "historical accuracy" 

 

[GraceRandolph]

We want the historically accurate version.

 

[popmusicisdead]

should've cast the mother of all mothers, Angelina Jolie

 

[loveisdead9582]

If they wanted to piss people off they should've gotten Beyoncé. 

[Mr.X]

boycott this shite

[Tusk]

33 minutes ago, Letters From Adi said:

 

They wanted to go for "historical accuracy" 

 

How can a mythical story be "historically accurate"?

[Princess Aurora]

It looks like one of those D-list Christian movies I used to watch at my grandma's in the 2000s on Christmas Day afternoon 

Edited November 14 by Princess Aurora

[GraceRandolph]

3 minutes ago, Tusk said:

How can a mythical story be "historically accurate"?

Because the Bible deals with real locations, and Jesus is considered to be a real figure even if he wasn't divine.

[polygon]

Let's stream an accurate despiciton of Mary instead

 

[Radical Pessimism]

stream mother mary / love without tragedy by rihanna instead

[Ayanaa]

Yeah, most Israeli's are Jews. Being jewish is also an ethnicity. Mary and Jesus being played by Jews. Shocking. 

 

 

[Zeferino]

Stream "Bloody Mary" instead 

[prettyinpink940]

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Witness her courage

 

lemme listen to these albums instead of watching this trash.

[SapphireSky]

I'm not seeing the problem 

[305]

And what's wrong with this?

[truthteller]

NOT MY MARY

 

[ICLDXU4HS]

Eeewwww!!!

[Elementary]

1 hour ago, GraceRandolph said:

Because the Bible deals with real locations, and Jesus is considered to be a real figure even if he wasn't divine.

The story is about Mary, a woman who supposedly gave birth to a child without having sex (with her husband), not Jesus. There's literally no evidence of her even existing other than the fact than whomever Jesus was must have had a mother. 

[Both Sides Now]

28 minutes ago, Ayanaa said:

Yeah, most Israeli's are Jews. Being jewish is also an ethnicity. Mary and Jesus being played by Jews. Shocking. 

 

 

There are different "ethnicities" of Jewish people though. Ashkenazi Jews have been in Europe for millennia while Mizrahi Jews are a new ethnic group created by Israel to describe Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa. Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry is a mix of Levantine and European. Some Mizrahi Jews are from the Levant but most aren't.  

 

Mary was born in Palestine and so was Levantine. Maybe this girl is of Levantine descent but doesn't really look like it. A modern Palestinian person is more likely to be accurate depiction of Mary.

 

Hollywood is casting Israelis like Gal Gadot (a woman of Polish Jewish descent) as Cleopatra so I don't think they are too interested in accuracy. 

[Ayanaa]

17 minutes ago, Both Sides Now said:

There are different "ethnicities" of Jewish people though. Ashkenazi Jews have been in Europe for millennia while Mizrahi Jews are a new ethnic group created by Israel to describe Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa. Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry is a mix of Levantine and European. Some Mizrahi Jews are from the Levant but most aren't.  

 

Mary was born in Palestine and so was Levantine. Maybe this girl is of Levantine descent but doesn't really look like it. A modern Palestinian person is more likely to be accurate depiction of Mary.

 

Hollywood is casting Israelis like Gal Gadot (a woman of Polish Jewish descent) as Cleopatra so I don't think they are too interested in accuracy. 

I agree with you on the first part,

 

But Mary was not born in Palestine, she was born in Judea. Palestine was just the name of the region the antisemitic Romans gave it after they tried to drive out the Jews. Taking everything in context it's kind of useless for us to discuss where Mary was born. Because it also was once Canaan, Philistines etc. But to call it  Palestine specifically, come on, don't be delebirately obtuse. 

[Prisoner]

36 minutes ago, Elementary said:

The story is about Mary, a woman who supposedly gave birth to a child without having sex (with her husband), not Jesus. There's literally no evidence of her even existing other than the fact than whomever Jesus was must have had a mother. 

Not an obsessed Mother Mary hater I- 

 

But Mary Magdalene outshines tbh (was she the prostitute?) 

[AvadaKedavra]

i dont associate xmas with christianity anymore. I celebrate my christian beliefs in different months
To me Xmas i Santa claus,pretty lights, rudolph and winter  
 

 

Edited November 14 by AvadaKedavra

[Both Sides Now]

5 minutes ago, Ayanaa said:

I agree with you on the first part,

 

But Mary was not born in Palestine, she was born in Judea. Palestine was just the name of the region the antisemitic Romans gave it after they tried to drive out the Jews. Taking everything in context it's kind of useless for us to discuss where Mary was born. Because it also was once Canaan, Philistines etc. But to call it  Palestine specifically, come on, don't be delebirately obtuse. 

Fair enough if you don't like using the modern term.
 

What I am just challenging the notion that modern Israelis/Jewish diaspora are somehow automatically representative of 2000 year old Levantine Jewish people because, clearly, the majority are not… This kind of narrative contributes to the erasure of the indigenous people of the land i.e. modern Palestinians (and yes some Israelis). 

[StayFrosty]

Does Anthony Hopkins love a paycheck or what my God TODAY. 

[Gui Blackout]

A Jewish woman is playing a historical Jewish woman