Not Well Done
So I watched Exodus Gods and Kings. It's is not biblically accurate, however it did have all the plagues in it, and the burning bush. One review I read said it had neither.
Alas, the plagues were glossed over, Moses was arrogant, his brother Aarons importance was left out and instead of casting the voice of God they cast a little boy to be God.
The plagues were also done completely wrong. Moses was done wrong.
Moses had his brother Aaron speak for him. It is thought that he may have had a stutter or a weak voice because he was not a good public speaker. I suspect he may have had stage fright and was thus unable to speak publicly.
In the movie, crocodiles attack people a run the Nile red with blood., followed by the frogs, flies, boils, locust, death of cattle, hail (it was supposed to be burning hail) 3 days of darkness, death of the first born, gnats. I'm sure these aren't in order.
In my ignatious press bible it doesn't say anything about pharaohs magician making some of the plagues go away and being unable to do anything about others. The KJ version I had did. I'm inclined to disregaurd KJ bibles. Too much compromise in it's creation.
I was sorely disappointed with them leaving Aaron out as Moses' profit. Aaron was the one instructed to strike the waters of the nile to turn them to blood. Aaron was the one that did the public speaking. God told Moses, Moses told Aaron, Aaron told pharaoh.
I read that Joshua was left mostly out of it. This is biblically correct. There isn't mention of Joshua (who becomes a leader among the Hebrews and takes over for Moses) until after the book of Exodus. He leads the people into the land when Moses cannot.
As for the Red Sea parting..here is a grey area. We don't know what it looked like. Artistic liscence is taken everytime because of that. But there is archeological evidence that it happened.
Not a bad movie. But it could have been better. The only one that has come close to Cecil B Demille is Prince of Egypt.
So I watched Exodus Gods and Kings. It's is not biblically accurate, however it did have all the plagues in it, and the burning bush. One review I read said it had neither.
Alas, the plagues were glossed over, Moses was arrogant, his brother Aarons importance was left out and instead of casting the voice of God they cast a little boy to be God.
The plagues were also done completely wrong. Moses was done wrong.
Moses had his brother Aaron speak for him. It is thought that he may have had a stutter or a weak voice because he was not a good public speaker. I suspect he may have had stage fright and was thus unable to speak publicly.
In the movie, crocodiles attack people a run the Nile red with blood., followed by the frogs, flies, boils, locust, death of cattle, hail (it was supposed to be burning hail) 3 days of darkness, death of the first born, gnats. I'm sure these aren't in order.
In my ignatious press bible it doesn't say anything about pharaohs magician making some of the plagues go away and being unable to do anything about others. The KJ version I had did. I'm inclined to disregaurd KJ bibles. Too much compromise in it's creation.
I was sorely disappointed with them leaving Aaron out as Moses' profit. Aaron was the one instructed to strike the waters of the nile to turn them to blood. Aaron was the one that did the public speaking. God told Moses, Moses told Aaron, Aaron told pharaoh.
I read that Joshua was left mostly out of it. This is biblically correct. There isn't mention of Joshua (who becomes a leader among the Hebrews and takes over for Moses) until after the book of Exodus. He leads the people into the land when Moses cannot.
As for the Red Sea parting..here is a grey area. We don't know what it looked like. Artistic liscence is taken everytime because of that. But there is archeological evidence that it happened.
Not a bad movie. But it could have been better. The only one that has come close to Cecil B Demille is Prince of Egypt.
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