Here are some of the differences and differences:
1. Moses became a general to the king of Egypt, a brother to the future Pharaoh. This is not in the Bible. And what's interesting is that Moses in the movie is an atheist. When the king seeks fortune-telling, he always doesn't take it seriously, which is quite different from the career he later devoted his life to.
2. Why the priest's prophecy was added in the front, and why he was made a prince, is unknown, I guess, it is to make the whole movie more dramatic.
3. From 45 minutes, Moses met his wife, that is, threatened the robbers and shepherds with a knife, and officially began the story recorded in the Bible.
4. When God appeared to the Moses line on that mountain, the director portrayed God as an ordinary child. Why God was a child was not understood in the end. The short dialogue between Moses and God did not seem to be convincing, but after Moses returned home, he began to believe in God. (While running a high fever) This doesn't seem to be handling it very well. From a scientific point of view, we can understand that we have been hit on the head, so we mistakenly think that we have seen God. In the Bible, Moses saw that God burned the bush, but the bush was not charred, and Moses began to believe in the power of God.
5. After Moses returned to Egypt, he spoke to Pharaoh about God's will, but Pharaoh obviously did not agree to do what God asked. , from the movie, it seems that the director handled it as a personal feud between Pharaoh and Moses. Pharaoh just wanted Moses to die, and there was an old lady beside Pharaoh who wanted him to die for a long time.
But it is the Hebrews that God has mercy on in the Bible, so Moses went to work, not to talk about private affairs.
6. To the part of the ten plagues. The director has dealt with the legend with modern thinking, and this place may be a little controversial. First of all, in the Bible, Moses appeared as God's messenger and megaphone. Before each disaster, Moses had to find Pharaoh, let him breathe, and inform him that there would be a disaster, but Pharaoh was always reluctant to give up his slaves. This led to disasters one after another.
In the movie, the director directly gave up the way of using Moses as a microphone, and instead said you can see how I do it, so the comrades of the prophets were onlookers throughout the process, and from time to time they were indignant about how you could do this.
The ten disasters were reorganized by the director and turned into a logical process, and in the Bible, there is no scientific consideration. The first plague is the blood plague caused by the mass death of animals. Due to the mass death of animals, a lot of parasites were produced, so the parasites fed the frogs and caused a frog disaster. Frogs jumped to the streets and filled the streets, and died of dehydration, so a large number of frog carcasses caused a flood of flies. It seems a bit ironic that this serious scientific reasoning process was deduced by the eunuch beside Pharaoh, but it is also ironic that Pharaoh does not believe this obviously very scientific inference. Pharaoh believed more in the woman who was in charge of communicating with God.
During the presentation of the Ten Disasters, the director used a large number of shots to show the torment of the disasters on the common people, and through these shots, conveyed a potential meaning: If a god is so careless and takes the lives of ordinary people seriously, then Why did he become a god? In that calamity in which the livestock died in great numbers, the Bible says that none of the Hebrews' livestock died, and none of the Egyptians' livestock died. There is no such unscientific and unreliable distinction made in the film, and the livestock are all dead.
7. In the process of the ten plagues, there were still many communications between Moses and God, which were surreptitiously seen, and what people saw was just what Moses said excitedly to a bunch of air. This also seems to imply that in ancient times, those who claimed to have received divine metaphors and were able to communicate with God were often communicating with characters that did not exist. Schizophrenia had such symptoms. people can communicate with.
8. By the time of the firstborn disaster, the director's intentions were more apparent. In grief, Pharaoh said to Moses, "Your god kills the child, what kind of god is such a god?"
In addition, according to the research of historians and archaeologists, the stories in Exodus seem to be quite consistent with the real history, which may indicate that the stories in Exodus really happened. This movie may be filmed based on such an idea that the Ten Disasters has a scientific front and back logic. Of course, the plague of the firstborn and the plague of darkness cannot be explained by science.
9. Next is the exodus of the Hebrews, the bible says that 600,000 people left Egypt in a mighty way.
As they trekked on the road, there were two places where Moses showed the expression of being pitted by God. When he needed God to show the way, God disappeared without a trace, and Moses groaned, "Aren't you going to help me?" In fact, in the end, Moses guessed a way by himself. Unlike in the Bible, the interaction between God and Moses in the Bible is very close. God's instructions to Moses are not only very detailed, but they have to care about everything.
10. Crossing the Red Sea is the climax of the whole play. The sea water fades overnight. When I wake up in the morning, there are a lot of seabirds flying in the whole sky, which seems to be very scientific, because when the sea water recedes, the seabed The exposure of the plankton is just in time for the massive predation of seabirds.
In the end, Moses and his pharaoh brother had an ultimate confrontation on the bottom of the sea. The two were swept away by the waves before they met. We also watched a tsunami stunt as we wished.
11. After crossing the Red Sea, Moses returned to his home, the holy mountain designated by God, with 600,000 people. I doubt that his home can accommodate these 600,000 people.
His son has not grown at all over the years, which is very unscientific here, because according to the Bible, Moses was 80 years old at this time, and his wife on the screen was still so delicate.
12. When on the holy mountain, there is a scene where God looks down on the mountain and sees all the Hebrews celebrating with singing and dancing. A plot omitted here is that people were blamed by God for worshipping idols, excessive revelry, and God killed 3,000 people. In the movie, the child god just sighed.
13. Finally Moses was in this hole in the mountain. Two slates were engraved, that is, the law was engraved on the stone. In the Bible, it is clearly written by God with his finger on the stone, and after God has written it, it will automatically become engraved on the stone. In the movie, Moses actually used a small hammer to carve it bit by bit. Moreover, the two stones did not take so long to carve, and Moses became old after finishing the two stones.
The last shot is of God walking in the crowd, gradually disappearing, and the incomparably old Moses watched God go away, and God withdrew from it, heralding the founding of Israel. and the unending history of the Jews for the next two thousand years.
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