One of the most difficult problems in adaptation films is how to take care of fans of the original work while also making new audiences have audiovisual fun. Ridley Scott is undoubtedly in this film. .
The reason is very simple. This is a biblical movie: God sent ten plagues through the mouth of Moses, Moses led 400,000 Israelites to flee, Pharaoh Ramses II led his troops to chase, Moses divided the Red Sea, the Hebrews crossed the Red Sea, After being free, he continued his trek to Canaan, the land of milk and honey.
The story is very simple, anyone who makes this film will not get very good results, and it is difficult to tell such an epic story in two hours. As a result, Ridley Scott is still a complete atheist, so such a religious movie with no religious mythological epic in its bones came out like this.
You can’t offend the Jews or the theists, so you can only tell the whole story calmly, stroke by stroke, and the final work will become boring. There is no way. Everyone knows the story of Moses, even if Moses and The brotherhood of Ramses II is also hard to add to the story.
To keep the audience watching, we can only add epic scenes to retain the audience, so the whole film is flashy, the rhythm is slow, and the calm thinking has turned into a disrespectful slander and ridicule for the religious Bible. After becoming a prince's revenge by divine power, it is difficult for people to have a good impression of God after reading it.
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