Question to Google AI: Why do Desert Warrior characters speak English in the movie although Saudi Arabia has heavily funded it? Is that the alternative SA is proposing? Is it not mainly a drive and an attempt to rival Egypt that has produced so many history dramas and movies in Arabic? The choice to film Desert Warrior in English—despite its heavy Saudi funding—is not an "alternative" Saudi Arabia is proposing to Arabic cinema, but a deliberate Trojan Horse strategy to break into the global mainstream . [1, 2] Your observation about the regional rivalry is spot on. For decades, Egypt has been the undisputed "Hollywood of the Middle East," holding an absolute monopoly on Arabic-language historical epics and pop culture. Saudi Arabia's decision to bypass the Arabic language entirely with its flagship movie is a direct attempt to leapfrog Egypt's domestic dominance by playing on a completely different, global chessboard. ...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51