AMMAN | The
Hollywood movie "Exodus: Gods and Kings" will not be shown in Amman,
according to the Audiovisual Commission, which said the distributor did not
bring the film to Jordan.
Rasmi Mahasneh,
who heads the commission's licensing department, on Tuesday said that the
Ridley Scott biblical epic, which has been banned in Morocco, Egypt and the
United Arab Emirates, was not brought to Jordan in the first place, adding that
the commission has to watch a film before deciding to ban it.
"The movie
has not arrived in Jordan but many Arab countries have banned," Mahasneh
told The Jordan Times over the phone.
Starring Academy
Award winner Christian Bale, the film depicts Moses' escape from pharaonic
Egypt.
Moses is revered
in Islam as a prophet.
Mahasneh
commended the distributor for not bringing the movie to Jordan.
"They also
know that such movies will be banned if they decide to bring them, which will
result in financial losses".
The UAE's
National Media Council, charged with vetting films for release in the Gulf
country, said on Tuesday that the movie contained "religious and
historical mistakes", Agence France-Presse reported.
"The film
shows Moses not as a prophet but as just a preacher of peace," the
council's director of media content tracking Juma Obaid Al Leem told AFP,
adding that the storyline contradicts the holy books.
Leem said the
film had also fallen foul of the council for its depiction of Moses receiving
the revelation from God through a child.
Representation
of God and prophets is taboo in Islam.
On Saturday,
Morocco banned the film on the grounds that it "represents God", AFP
reported.
Earlier this
year, Egypt, the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain banned the Hollywood blockbuster
"Noah" starring Russell Crowe for its depiction of the prophet.
Mahasneh said
distributors did not bring "Noah" by director Darren Aronofsky to
Jordan, as a result, no official decision was taken to ban it.
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