Hollywood and the Ancient Egyptians

I saw the movie Transformers 2 movie recently. It was the last straw; I have had it with Hollywood. It’s not so much as the concept of the movie – which is crap – that I can’t agree with but, implicitly implying that the Pyramids and some other monuments in the Egypt- Jordan region were all built by aliens or at least with alien collaboration.

Take any sci-fi films that involves aliens and you are bound to have a sub-plot that says the pyramids were built by aliens. Sometimes the plot extends to saying all the ancient monuments in the world were all built by aliens – they are a portal to another dimension or they were built to protect some power source.

Imhotep – considered a great physician and the guy who designed and built the Step Pyramid (the first pyramid ever built) for his King - is shown as an evil, corrupt man who wants to take over the world.

Qin Shi Huang - China’s first emperor, the man who united China; is also portrayed as an power hungry evil monarch. The list goes on....Genghis Khan is another famous villain of Hollywood’s imagination.

Now imagine, if one was to portray say Charlemagne (the first Holy Roman Emperor) or Arthur (the mythical king of England) is the same vein would the film be allowed to release? Would the film be made at all is the million dollar question.

Interestingly there are no comparable ancient monuments in Europe or America - that is monuments that date from the period during which the pyramids of Egypt were built. Sure, there are the old monuments from this period but nothing as big or as spectacular. Only Stonehenge compares in this regard, but I was not able to find many films that have Stonehenge as an alien subplot.

Of course, one may argue that the monuments built by the Mayas, Aztecs, Incas are also portrayed as alien-built. One need not mention about the Easter Island statues. As again I am sure, you will notice a certain link between an monuments portrayal as alien and the civilization that built it. The link being that, the particular civilization would not be from Europe. The monuments would be spectacular having no equal in Europe.

So like I said, waiting for movies in which the Stonehenge is built by aliens, Charlemagne or Arthur shown as blood-thirsty, evil monarchs who want to rule all of human kind...you guys know the plot.