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Egyptian Princes Moses (Christian Bale) và Ramses (Joel Edgerton) are raised together as brothers. When Ramses becomes pharaoh, Moses is his most-trusted adviser. However Moses soon discovers his Hebrew parentage, and Ramses banishes him to the desert -- often a death sentence. But God has a mission for Moses: free the Israelites from slavery. Moses returns from exile và demands that Ramses let his people go, but the arrogant ruler is unmoved, leading to lớn a battle of divine wills.
Show MoreRating: PG-13 (Intense Images|Battle Sequences|Violence)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 12, 2014 wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 17, năm ngoái
Box Office (Gross USA): $65.0M
Runtime: 2h 30m
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Chernin Entertainment, Scott free Productions
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
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Christian Bale
Moses
Joel Edgerton
Ramses
John Turturro
Seti
Aaron Paul
Joshua
Ben Kingsley
Nun
Sigourney Weaver
Tuya
Golshifteh Farahani
Nefertari
María Valverde
Zipporah
Ben Mendelsohn
Hegep
Dar Salim
Commander Khyan
Indira Varma
High Priestess
Isaac Andrews
Malak
Andrew Tarbet
Aaron
Hiam Abbass
Bithia
Ridley Scott
Director
Steven Zaillian
Screenwriter
Adam Cooper
Screenwriter
Bill Collage
Screenwriter
Jeffrey Caine
Screenwriter
Peter Chernin
Producer
Ridley Scott
Producer
Jenno Topping
Producer
Michael Schaefer
Producer
Mark Huffam
Producer
Dariusz Wolski
Cinematographer
Billy Rich
Film Editing
Arthur Max
Production thiết kế
Janty Yates
Costume design
Alberto Iglesias
Original Music
Nina Gold
Casting
Marc Holmes
Supervising Art Direction
Benjamín Fernández
Supervising Art Direction
Alex Cameron
Art Director
Gavin Fitch
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Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Dr. Mohler is a theologian và ordained minister, và serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Exodus narrative in the Bible with which the director simply had lớn deal. There are no Transformer-like invented creatures in Moses, và many of the film's scenes & details are explicitly true khổng lồ the biblical text. Indeed, Scott's presentation of the ten plagues God brought against Egypt is spellbinding -- far more moving than the same scenes as depicted in Cecil B. De
Mille's famed The Ten Commandments. The last plague, the death of first-born sons, is absolutely riveting & deeply emotional.
Critics are piling on. Film critics tend khổng lồ be rather eccentric sorts and some of them seem almost impossible lớn please. As a general rule, critical acclaim & popularity with the public are not directly related. Some of the concerns are quite legitimate, however. Public Radio International published a nhận xét noting that "https://tmec.edu.vn/Hollywood Has a Race Problem."https://tmec.edu.vn/ Virtually all of the leading roles are played by trắng actors, even though the ancient Egyptians were certainly not caucasian. As PRI noted, "https://tmec.edu.vn/Ramses, the Egyptian pharaoh who enslaved the Jews in the Old Testament, is played by a trắng actor. In fact, the entire lead cast of 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' is white. Moses is white. Moses' mother is white. The Egyptian prince is white. The African queen is white, too."https://tmec.edu.vn/
Not only are they all white, the central characters speak as though they were educated at Oxford or Cambridge. This is rather typical of Ridley Scott's films, with gravitas presumably added by a British accent. Needless lớn say, the skin tones và accents vì not match the actual story.
But that fact points lớn an even more troubling dimension of the movie. The entire narrative does not match the actual story. It fails as a whole even more than it fails in its parts.
What is missing is the very point of the Exodus in biblical history and theology. What is missing is the truth that God acted in history in faithfulness lớn the covenant he had made with Abraham, rescuing Israel from captivity in Egypt. In Ridley Scott's version, God is actually hidden from view, along with his purposes, motivations, and character. In his place we see an 11 year old boy who appears lớn Moses as a theophany, or divine appearance. God's presumed words flow from the mouth of a small boy, who appears as something of an unmoved Mover in the film's narrative.
As for Moses, the depiction offered by actor Christian Bale grounds Moses' sense of divine hotline in a severe knock to lớn the head from a rock, followed by what might well be a hallucination, with the 11 year old boy speaking lớn Moses beside the bush that burned but was not consumed. Completely missing from the portrayal is any explanation that God has chosen Moses as his instrument for bringing Israel out of captivity and that God was acting in faithfulness to the covenant made with Abraham. Moses appears as a tribal chief, a cunning general & killing machine, rooted in what Scott presents as Moses' experience as a great general during his life as a prince of Egypt. Moses never seems khổng lồ understand a divine purpose beyond his military exploits, và his relationship with God is troubled, lớn say the least.
It must be said that Moses' relationship with God in the Bible is also troubled, to say the least. After all, Moses is not allowed by God to lớn lead the children of Israel into Canaan. Nevertheless, the Bible steadfastly presents Moses within the context of his calling and his calling within the context of covenant. The movie leaves viewers with a depiction of Moses, riding alongside what must be the ark of the covenant, as Israel moves on from the parting of the Red Sea. But the ark is never identified, nor is the covenant.
The problems with the film could be anticipated, given the rather remarkable statements made by both Ridley Scott and Christian Bale, even before the movie's release. Ridley Scott made clear that he did not believe that Moses had ever lived và that the Exodus tài khoản was not lớn be taken as historically true. He told Religion News Service that he looked at the film much as he looks at science fiction. "https://tmec.edu.vn/Cause I never believed in it, I had khổng lồ convince myself every step of the way as lớn what did make sense and what didn't make sense and where I could reject and accept. And therefore I had lớn come to lớn my own decisions và internal debates."https://tmec.edu.vn/
Accordingly, Scott presents the plagues and miracles as non-supernatural events with a naturalistic explanation. Unlike Cecile B. De
Mille, Scott offered no version of a supernatural miracle at the Red Sea. He described his dilemma: "https://tmec.edu.vn/So I have to lớn part the Dead Sea and I'm not going to lớn part the Dead Sea because I don't believe it. I don't believe I can part the Dead Sea and keep shimmering water on each side. I'm an absolutely very, very practical person. So I was immediately thinking that all science-based elements placed come from natural order or disorder--or could come from the hand of God, however you want to play that."https://tmec.edu.vn/ Presumably, Scott meant Red Sea, not Dead Sea.
Well, Ridley Scott played it all in naturalistic terms, or at least he did his best to vày so. The most interesting aspect of the film in this respect was the role played by a nervous vizier in service to lớn Ramses, who did his best lớn offer a strictly naturalistic explanation for the succession of plagues. The vizier appears as an ancient demythologizer, offering natural explanations involving red clay in the Nile and a complicated series of basically environmental plagues that followed. Those explanations would be familiar to anyone versed in the liberal biblical scholarship of the last two hundred years. In Scott's version of the story, the real story at the Red Sea was the receding of the waters due khổng lồ a tsunami after an earthquake.
Despite himself, however, Scott's depiction of the plagues appears quite supernatural indeed -- especially the final plague, the death of first-born sons. Scott's anti-supernaturalism utterly fails him on the final plague, and he does not flinch from presenting the horrifying divine judgment on the defiant Egyptians. The film's scenes of dead & dying Egyptian boys & young men is deeply moving. By that point in the film the demythologizing vizier has been hung by a frustrated Ramses, & no character attempts lớn offer a "https://tmec.edu.vn/natural"https://tmec.edu.vn/ or "https://tmec.edu.vn/scientific"https://tmec.edu.vn/ explanation of the last plague.
The portrayal of Moses as a tribal warrior was explained by actor Christian Bale, who told ABC's Nightline program that Moses, in his view, was "https://tmec.edu.vn/one of the most barbaric individuals that I have ever read about in my life."https://tmec.edu.vn/ Christian Bale may not read much, but those words betray his conception of Moses as quite different from anything found in the Bible. Where did he get his information about the "https://tmec.edu.vn/barbaric"https://tmec.edu.vn/ Moses? Actually, in that conversation with Nightline and in other interviews, Bale revealed the real issue. Like Ridley Scott, he assumes a strictly non-supernatural storyline. Christian Bale's comments indicate that he seemingly places the responsibility for the plagues at the hands of Moses, not God. Even so, in the film the 11 year old boy expresses frustration with Moses' slow progress toward liberation và tells him to "https://tmec.edu.vn/watch"https://tmec.edu.vn/ as he sets the plagues in motion.
The film has put the question of the historical Moses on the table of public conversation. In the Guardian, Andrew Brown declared: "https://tmec.edu.vn/There is no historical character of Moses, và no reason from archaeology or history lớn suppose that any of the exodus story is true."https://tmec.edu.vn/
Brown then wrote:
"https://tmec.edu.vn/Since the central rite of Jewish identity is the Passover festival, which commemorates the moment that Moses freed his people from slavery in Egypt, the absence of evidence outside the Bible story is potentially embarrassing, says Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, who leads Reform Judaism in this country
That is the great claim of liberal theology -- that we must "https://tmec.edu.vn/distinguish between truth và historicity."https://tmec.edu.vn/ Brown's article goes on khổng lồ cite several Jewish authorities as arguing that it really does not matter lớn Judaism if Moses never existed. Brown even cited one Orthodox rabbi who argued that it was the giving of the law that had khổng lồ be historical, not Moses. Brown also noted that Orthodox Judaism requires a belief that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, leading lớn the obvious question of how we can have Mosaic authorship without Moses. One may presume that other authorities in Orthodox Judaism would disagree with the cited rabbi.
In any event, the fact remains that, even if the historical Moses is not central khổng lồ contemporary Judaism (by at least some accounts), the historical Moses is vital and essential to Christianity. Moses is a central character in the Bible's narrative of Israel và the metanarrative of the Gospel itself. Jesus is the new Moses, leading his people out of captivity lớn sin. Moses is the divinely commissioned lawgiver. Christ Jesus is the divine Savior who perfectly fulfills the law and redeems sinful humanity. The Bible clearly presents the Exodus as history, & the history of Christianity is built upon that historic foundation.
As a film, Exodus: Gods & Kings is a mixed bag. I was deeply moved by parts of the film, và puzzled or troubled by others. But, in the end, perhaps the best way to lớn understand Ridley Scott's Moses is to put it in the context of Scott's own comments. He told Religion News Service: "https://tmec.edu.vn/Any liberties I have taken in terms of how I show this stuff was, I think, pretty safe ground because I'm always going always from what is the basis of reality, never fantasy . . . . So the film had to lớn be as real as I could make it."https://tmec.edu.vn/
As real, in other words, as Ridley Scott's version of "https://tmec.edu.vn/this stuff"https://tmec.edu.vn/ could be presented "https://tmec.edu.vn/from what is the basis of reality"https://tmec.edu.vn/ as Ridley Scott defines reality. What we see in the film is Moses without the supernatural. In his own words, that's how he decided to "https://tmec.edu.vn/play"https://tmec.edu.vn/ it.
It turns out that the real vizier is none other than Ridley Scott.
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Andrew Brown, "https://tmec.edu.vn/Man versus Myth: Does it Matter if the Moses Story is Based on Fact?,"https://tmec.edu.vn/ The Guardian, Saturday, November 29, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/30/moses-man-versus-myth-ridley-scott