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How Did Marvel's Moon Knight Tackle Egyptian Representation.. Welcome back to Film Madness, today on the channel we are going to discuss details on How did marvel's moon knight tackle egyptian representation + other related news. Egyptian history and culture run deep throughout Marvel’s new series, Moon Knight. While the show traffics in a great deal of ancient Egyptian deities and mythology, leading man Oscar Isaac’s character isn’t actually Egyptian. Isaac plays the titular role of Marc Spencer, an American mercenary who became the avatar of the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu. Even so, the anticipation leading up to the series’ premiere raised questions about how well Marvel would tackle accurate representation of the oft-exoticised land of the pharaohs. Moon Knight joins a slew of recent Marvel projects, like ‘Shang Chi’ and ’Black Panther,' on the exploration of identities and themes that aren’t so commonplace in the earlier phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe - which is to say, non-white, and non-American (even Thor, the cosmic god-being based on Norse mythology, just gets dropped on his butt in America during his first film!). But because of Egypt’s Arabic cultural identity, it was all too likely that the series would adopt the same orientalist tropes we’re used to seeing in Hollywood all the time. In other words, there was this anticipation that images of Egypt would be deliberately exoticised, exaggerated, or twisted in order to support Western conceptions of them - such as by using the infamous 'yellow filter’ in shots to suggest that these locales are ‘dirty’ or ‘uncivilized’. While the show has its shortcomings — some viewers have criticized its pacing, while others have mocked a specific scene’s butchering of the Mandarin language— Egypt appears to be well-represented, thanks in part to the fact that it was directed by Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab, the artist behind ‘El Gezira’ and ‘Clash’. As Marvel’s first Arab director, he sought to avoid the dehumanizing angle that often plagues Western cinema, where the women are submissive, and the men are diabolical. Watch till the end to know more on How did marvel's moon knight tackle egyptian representation and other related news.