I love the fact that he is portrayed as caucasian, speaking with an English accent. But then again, that wouldn't have made it very marketable, now would it?
shareActually he's half Portuguese, half Italian. His accent sounds patagonian to me and he looks and sounds every bit of it. I suspect you're a troll.
shareI don't think Diogo Morgado is circumcised. His tunic didn't hang right, if you know what I mean. It makes my blood boil to see them get that so wrong. They always get that wrong. Sheesh.
Anyway, back on topic. Precisely what colour was Jesus or (if you don't believe Jesus existed) precisely what colour was a Judean person (AKA Jew) at that time? Please be as precise as possible. Precisely how dark is dark enough, before it becomes too dark, and how light is light enough, before it becomes too light. This isn't as easy as it sounds because I reckon not all of them were exactly the same colour, were they? Some spent a lot of time outdoors, getting frazzled by the Middle Eastern sun, and others were more indoorsy scrollish types, so would've been lighter (but not too light, of course). What exactly would Jesus have been? Rural or rabbinic?
Enough! Let's get this on a scientific and/or democratic basis:
http://www.lorealusa.com/research-innovation/when-the-diversity-of-typ es-of-beauty-inspires-science/expert-in-skin-and-hair-types-around-the -world.aspx
As you can see, it's not an easy choice: there isn't just light/dark range (left to right columns), but a ruddy/sallow range (top row to bottom). Clearly he wasn't a 1A (Iceland? Finland) nor an 11F (Uganda? Congo?). So what I'd like to know is exactly where Jesus should be on that grid. And let's all thank L'Oreal for helping sort this out.
Next week we can vote on Jesus' precise odor of sanctity. This works like the colour chart, but with a sweaty/spiritual range vertically and a musky/miraculous range horizontally. It ain't as easy as it smells.
Call me Ishmael...
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Personally, I want Yehoshwah to look like a young, wiry Yemenite Jew. I think they are HOT beyond miraculous.
www.israel-folklore.com/designFiles/pagePic4.jpg
Scostatevi profani! Melpomene son io...
And that name Morgado sounds eminently suspicious to me. If he ain't cut, maybe he ought to be...
Scostatevi profani! Melpomene son io...
What makes it even more outrageous, is that people get their collective panties in a bunch when they change the race of a fictional comic book character. Just like Electro, Johnny Storm, Perry White, etc. But if you constantly mis-represent a supposedly historical character, oh well...
She's turning me into a criminal and all I want to be is a petty thug.
Well that actually irritates me as well. Electro/Max Dillon was a white character, why change him to black? I like Jamie Foxx just fine, and I will see Spider-Man 2 without complaint, but it's absurd considering there are plenty of fine white actors that could have portrayed him. I've never seen a black or other racial Johnny Storm, but obviously he was white. As for Perry White, he's A: a secondary character with little bearing on the storyline, so it's more acceptable to make him whatever race/color, and B; Laurence Fishburne is just fantastic so he can do whatever he pleases. Nick Fury is also white, but nobody will tell Samuel L. Jackson he can't play Nick Fury.
shareThe Levant (palestine ,lebanon, syria) has alot of caucasians they have always been there you can find blonde and blue eyes arabs to gingers
shareTHANK GOODNESS SOMEONE CAN SEE THAT HE WAS NOT CAUCASIAN ! Why in every biblical story there are nothing but Caucasians, never a person of Middle Eastern or African origin ? Better look at the geography. Only time someone is portrayed with dark skin in a biblical movie (or book) is as a slave. Keep feeding everyone the hippie image, as been for the past several hundred years smh...
shareWow you just completely missed the previous post (and many others). Caucasian is not a color, and Jesus was not African. Middle Eastern is not African unless you're referring to Egyptian. Your complains are rather transparent and petty.
shareJews are caucasian.
They are of the Semitic variety. Aryan are another variety.
So, to make a racist statement without being ignorant, you would have to say something like:
"Why the hell is Jesus Aryan and speaking with an english accent?"
The answer - because it's marketable
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What? Jews didn't 'pay' Romans to kill him. Jews were conquered and ruled by Romans. Romans killed who they felt like killing. And they were long notable for executing Jews and any other group that revolted against them. The Jews had nothing to do with it other than not liking what Jesus had to say and rioting in the streets.
shareWhen you say White, I assume you mean Caucasian, you should look up what people from the part of the world Jesus was born are... if you mean American white, well, yes this actor is speaking English, but he is Portuguese, also Caucasian, like Jesus.
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