A bothersome thing
For want of anything better to do, Babou and I just watched a silly thing on the Hallmark Channel called "The Curse of King Tutenkhamen."
To make a long and very silly story short, King Tut himself rescues the hero and heroine literally from hell at the end (though an ancient Egyptian version of that realm, wherein the persona of a Pharoah as the incarnation of Horus apparently is decisive in helping Tut defeat Set and rescue the protagonists. Got that straight?) is repaid by our worthies turning a map to Tut's tomb over to Howard Carter- a nice piece of treachery indeed, according to the ancient Egyptian wordview espoused by the film.
No hint of even ambivalent feelings about it on the part of the hero and heroine, however.
The moral anarchy of the thing bothers me, even while bearing in mind the fantastic premise. A fine example of Post-Modernism; the heroes act dishonorably even within the context of the pagan world-view of the story, and the authors themselves never even notice.
To make a long and very silly story short, King Tut himself rescues the hero and heroine literally from hell at the end (though an ancient Egyptian version of that realm, wherein the persona of a Pharoah as the incarnation of Horus apparently is decisive in helping Tut defeat Set and rescue the protagonists. Got that straight?) is repaid by our worthies turning a map to Tut's tomb over to Howard Carter- a nice piece of treachery indeed, according to the ancient Egyptian wordview espoused by the film.
No hint of even ambivalent feelings about it on the part of the hero and heroine, however.
The moral anarchy of the thing bothers me, even while bearing in mind the fantastic premise. A fine example of Post-Modernism; the heroes act dishonorably even within the context of the pagan world-view of the story, and the authors themselves never even notice.
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