The bad guy is actually the good guy, the good guy is actually the bad, oooooh plot twist. So sick of everyone trying to shoehorn in a redemption story.
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The Ten Commandments
(1956)
Scriptural inaccuracy
9 September 2005
I just want to comment on the scriptural inaccuracy in this movie. Not whether it's a good movie or not, you can still appreciate the movie. But don't think you learn anything about Shemot (Exodus) when watching it.
Look at this for example, this is what Shemot says:
Shemot 2:10-15 "10. The child grew up, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became like her son. She named him Moses, and she said, "For I drew him from the water." 11. Now it came to pass in those days that Moses grew up and went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man of his brothers. 12. He turned this way and that way, and he saw that there was no man; so he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13. He went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarreling, and he said to the wicked one, "Why are you going to strike your friend?" 14. And he retorted, "Who made you a man, a prince, and a judge over us? Do you plan to slay me as you have slain the Egyptian?" Moses became frightened and said, "Indeed, the matter has become known!" 15. Pharaoh heard of this incident, and he sought to slay Moses; so Moses fled from before Pharaoh. He stayed in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well."
This is what Cecil B. DeMille has stretched to almost 2 hours (first half of the movie). So I would say that this movie is more of a remake of Shemot, than based on Shemot.
Look at this for example, this is what Shemot says:
Shemot 2:10-15 "10. The child grew up, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became like her son. She named him Moses, and she said, "For I drew him from the water." 11. Now it came to pass in those days that Moses grew up and went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man of his brothers. 12. He turned this way and that way, and he saw that there was no man; so he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13. He went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarreling, and he said to the wicked one, "Why are you going to strike your friend?" 14. And he retorted, "Who made you a man, a prince, and a judge over us? Do you plan to slay me as you have slain the Egyptian?" Moses became frightened and said, "Indeed, the matter has become known!" 15. Pharaoh heard of this incident, and he sought to slay Moses; so Moses fled from before Pharaoh. He stayed in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well."
This is what Cecil B. DeMille has stretched to almost 2 hours (first half of the movie). So I would say that this movie is more of a remake of Shemot, than based on Shemot.
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