I really likes this movie but I cant help but feel more sad over the destruction of the brothers relationship instead of the Hebrews being freed.
I mean Ramses was put in a tough spot, considering how his country relied on the slaves and how Moses eventually became the only family he had left.
That is what made the story so compelling.
But hey, if you had a vision of a burning bush telling you to free the slaves, you would also probably destroy your relationship with your family to do so. What are you supoosed to do, say no?
the destruction of the family bonds was more dramatically impactful than the plagues because it was so relatable. ramses and his mother accepted moses as their family, but he left them for his biological family.
>I mean Ramses was put in a tough spot, considering how his country relied on the slaves
kys OP
Ramses did nothing wrong. God killed innocent children for no damn reason.
Yes its almost like that was big enough deal for a civil war somewhere. As stupid as it is in hindsight Egypt was crutching on slaves. Then you add in a ruler with a inferiority complex trying to live up to his dads expectations
You're just going to leave out the bit in the story where the Egyptians kick this all off by drowning the hebrews' first born sons, aren'tcha?
Rumor has it they had to rewrite a bunch of the movie because it was "too sympathetic" to pharoh.
When you think about it, God is a giant, sadistic dick through the whole thing and he only goes downhill from there.
>God is a giant, sadistic dick through the whole thing and he only goes downhill from there
that's the Old Testament for ya. though this time he had a point, slavery is fucked.
it would be impossible to write a story that is sympathetic to god without being completely abstract. it has to be rooted in human experiences and personal drama for an audience to connect with it
Retard
The only labor was human and animal labor. Everything had to be done by hand.
Imagine if tomorrow, some asshole showed up and said "you must cease using all carbon based fuels now. No more cars, no more electric plants, everything stops, or I'm going to literally destroy your country with divine wrath."
It would literally destroy your country and lead to the ruin of your civilization and countless deaths. Not to mention opening you up to invasions by literally everyone who will do far worse to your people.
You mean where they took active steps to prevent exactly the kind of destruction that was visited in their country?
>gee billy, you mean stopping the terrorists from completing their plans is the reason we got attacked by terrorists and that justfies them murdering us?
They focused on brotherhood rather than hebrew liberation, it's just a way to look at the biblical story, like the Nina Paley one which rather than focusing on Liberation or brotherhood it's from the point of view of the egypt firstborn and how he accept death as part of his destiny.
there's a middle ground between slavery and no human labor whatsoever
Thing is, when you look into it, slavery wasn't that fucked for the hebrews. They were in one of the nicest parts of Egypt at the time, most slavery wasn't nearly as brutal as we've been taught, and they left Egypt a very wealthy people.
Not back then there wasnt.
Not to mention, most slaves were better off comperitively than a lot of people today.
>and they left Egypt a very wealthy people.
Well, they then proceeded to spend the next four decades bumming around in a wilderness, so I don't know how much wealth would have helped them there.
Slavery is inherently evil. Even if it's not the horrors of the later African/Americas/Europe triangular trade it's bad. You're owning people!
>"you must cease using all carbon based fuels now. No more cars, no more electric plants, everything stops, or I'm going to literally destroy your country with divine wrath."
>It would literally destroy your country and lead to the ruin of your civilization and countless deaths.
does everyone get why this is funny?
it's because climate change is gonna make that happen anyway unless we stop
That's why you have to slap republicans upside the head sometimes and deprive them of power.
buddy the problem is the pharaoh had no problem with slavery, not that his plans to transition out of it were too slow.
Your defense for killing infants is to somehow imply said infants were terrorists. user, I know you want to bag on god, but you're going about it in the most retarded way you can.
The slavery is often thought to be inspired by their treatment under the Assyrians and Babylonians.
obligatory edgelord "slavery is good" comment
Yes. Free will, bro.
Imagine believing the new "the world is ending unless you give money to my cause" scam.
>ctrl+F aaron
>no matches
Psssh, casuals. Read the original.
Good music though.
good character design
OT God has a tendency to fuck over people who resist him. Respect your wilfullness, though.
based
here's hoping
Ever hear of Oedipus? The whole thing came to be Because of the knowledge of the future.
What would have happened if they didn't do anything? An uprising was bound to happen. But because of their actions, they created the very thing they wanted to stop.
He's looking for the potion seller.
>What would have happened if they didn't do anything?
The Almighty Creator of the Universe wouldn't be pissed at them? And on a more temporal level: The Hebrews would have their kids to think about anytime someone started rabble rousing about rising up and overthrowing the Pharoahs. It's amazing but not drowning people's kids does wonders for workforce relationships.