The most obvious casting error was the Pharoah, who seemed too weak and mealymouthed to play the emperor. Of course I am comparing him to Yul Brynner from the original Ten Commandments movie. Now THERE was a strong charismatic leader of the Egyptians. This new guy, no one would follow him. Where were his women? He had a son, but he almost seemed gay.
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Yea I found that too. His shouting was embarrassing as his voice broke and was all high pitched. Yul Brynner was perfect for the part.
share...by the contrast between this story/screenplay and what we know of Rameses the Great.
This version has Menerith cautioning Moses that the Pharaoh is the worst kind of opponent because he is a weak man. This is hardly the view of history.
Rameses II had dozens of wives and concubines, and over 100 sons. Yet this story portrays him as having only one, over the loss of whom he grieves inconsolably. The Rameses of history found it necessary to put some of his own sons to death, for seeking to overthrow him.
Hardly the weak, effeminate man portrayed in this version.
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Just between you and me, no Pharaoh was Pharaoh of the Exodus, 'cause it didn't really happen. However, I do agree that, if it were not so much hagiography, dating issues would place the purported event earlier than the 19th Dynasty Ramessides, among the 18th Dynasty Pharoahs; Thutmoses, Amenhotep, etc.
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No, I'm afraid I can't ignore dating issues. You wish to ignore any issues which give your beliefs difficulty - I can't afford that luxury.
There isn't "massive evidence" - there's only possible similarities of circumstances; the ancient Near East experienced a series of droughts and famines. As far as real evidence goes, there's not any.
I don't know where you get this stuff about the 12th Dynasty - it's Hovind, isn't it? "Oh, just disregard the dates!"
And no, Shishak was not a nickname for Thutmose III - that would be Men-Kheper-Re. Shishak refers to one of four Pharaohs of the 22nd Dynasty (approx. 945 BCE - 730 BCE), Sheshonk I - IV. One of these four would be the invader who slew Josiah.
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/kookparade.html
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Do you have links to your assertions, Jared? Your seven-year famine, Semitic slaves, Pharaoh dying at the Red Sea, the mass grave?
I'm reminded of the Von Daniiken approach to archaeology; of the lines at Nazca, he said, "There's no doubt about it... they are landing fields." Or on how the Egyptian monuments were built: "No one knows how."
3rd century CE travelers were shown an enormous tell in what was left of Assyria, and were told it was the "Tower of Babel." Since Egyptian was a dead language, across the centuries, various peoples made up stories about the monuments, grossly embellished from the scant traces of Greek tradition (like Herodotus or Manetho) they might have been based on. Early Christians beheld the Mesopotamian bas reliefs of the bull-man (as Enkidu was often represented) and the cloven-hooved, horned man became, in their eyes, the Devil
(and so he has been represented ever since).
Jared, you need to read some real research on those times and places, and stop giving yourself over to nutjobs like Hovind. (Don't pretend you didn't get those ideas from Dr Dino, because the other day, I did a search on Shishak + Tuthmoses, and he came right up at the top of the list; and he - and his admirers - is the only one saying it.)
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FINALLY somebody says something right about the Pharoah in this movie. I had never seen a man wear so much eyeliner than any woman and yes, me in my whole life. I'm surprised because Yul Brynner's pharoah (I think Yul is such a total hottie as the pharoah and strong masculinity...YUM) didn't wear any eyeliner or heavy makeup and even if he did, he wouldn't be as this softy one here. His voice is so annoying (is this man's dick is kicked or he is singing falsetto), who cast this guy? Whoever decided to remake this movie and make the Pharoah so feminine must be criminally insane, how could they go against, sorry I meant "slaughter" such perfection (The Ten Commandments 1956). What made it seem so weird is that they didn't have a leading lady or pharoah didn't have a woman as the first one so yeah no wonder the pharoah seem gay. This pharoah is so terrible he makes Michael Jackson as grown ass man since Jackson is still Peter Pan.
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Wow, I love that you're not at all embarrassed to display your disgusting homophobia in a public forum. So sad, YOU could have been avoided if your father had simply pulled out.
shareYou're aware that you're a homophobic pig, right?
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