1. Story.
The story is taken from the Book of Exodus in the Bible, which is a volume that immediately follows Genesis. Intercept the introduction on the Wiki, the book tells how the children of Israel leave slavery in Egypt through the strength of Yahweh their god. Led by their great prophet Moses they journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan ( the "Promised Land") in return for their faithfulness. I
don’t know whether the film’s interpretation of the Bible is faithful or not. If it is so personally speaking, it is still somewhat unacceptable. Although Jehovah rescued the Israelites through the hands of Moses, he did not agree with the handling of the civilians in Egypt.
Personally, the biblical story seems a bit too heavy for science and neutrality.
2. Music and animation.
The focus is still to talk about other things, music and animation.
There were three main animated feature films produced in the United States in 1998, the Egyptian Prince of DreamWorks, Disney's Mulan, and Pixar's Bug Crisis. The first two have made great achievements in the original sound and theme song. I just reviewed Hua Mulan, and the playful and heavy ones are well done. But obviously, the Egyptian prince put more thoughts on the soundtrack.
2.1 Deliver us
The Deliver us at the beginning of the film is set in the background of the Israelis building a palace under the whip of an Egyptian overseer. Start with a heavy male voice shouting Mud, Sand, Water, Straw, followed by a written sentence, "Mud, and lift; Sand, and pull; Water, and raise up; Straw, faster!", the control and change of rhythm It was just right, and it quickly brought people into the plot.
"Elohim, God on high.
Can you hear your people cry?
Help us now,
this dark hour...
Deliver us
Hear our call Deliver us
Lord of all remember us, here in this burning sand.
Deliver us.
There's a land you promised us
Deliver us to the promised land..."
A sentence of Lord of all remember us, the despair of singing must flow out of the lyrics.
Later, in order to make the son of Israeli descent survive, the mother of Moses took the risk of putting him in a straw basket and putting him in the Nile River, saying goodbye and singing the last lullaby. The female voice that was originally tactful and high-pitched makes the whole film's exotic atmosphere most vividly reflected in this piece of music.
2.2 All I ever wanted
Moses was picked up by the Queen of Egypt by the Nile River, and he regarded him as a prince of Egypt (the plot of the movie is not exactly the same as the Bible itself). As an adult, Ramses, the son of Pharaoh, was awarded the regent at a dinner party. Zipporah, a woman from Midian, was captured as a gift to him, and Ramses generously passed it on to Moses. When Moses returned to the palace, he found that Zipporah was escaping quietly. He followed him and accidentally ran into his own brothers and sisters, Aaron and Miriam, and learned his true life for the first time.
However, from the beginning to the end, he thought he was the expensive prince of Egypt. How would he believe in the words of an Israeli slave? Of course he thought it was a idiot. It wasn't until Miriam sang the lullaby of Moses' mother softly that it shook everything that Moses had always believed in. The tune starts here.
Moses sang it over and over again, all I ever wanted. Under the seemingly majestic and firm tune, there is a sentimental uncertainty. And followed by the film's first stunning treatment. The camera advances to the closed eyebrows of Moses. With the sound of a drum, the eyelids are drawn deep and opened instantly. The painting style has changed from realistic to the two-dimensional style of ancient Greek murals. The Pharaoh slaughtered Israeli babies and Moses was dropped into the Nile. After appearing several times, Moses finally knew his life experience.
2.3 The burning bush
learned of his own life, the next day Moses fumbled and pushed the former off the high platform in order to prevent an Egyptian from ruining the Israelis. Moses then fled to Midian and married with Zipporah.
One day, in order to recover a lost lamb, he saw the Lord turned into fire and appeared to him in the cave. Moses asked, what do you want with me. The Lord answered, I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and have heard them cry. So I've come down to deliver them out of slavery, and bring them to a good land , a land flowing with milk and honey. And so, unto Pharaoh, I shall send..you. I
have to admit that only from a literary point of view, the description of a land flowing with milk and honey is really beautiful.
Moses was surprised, how could they believe me? I was the prince of Egypt, the son of the pharaoh who slaughtered their babies, how can I even speak to these people?
Jehovah, who had been speaking in a gentle tone, changed his tone immediately, and a strong light pushed Moses aside and said sternly, Who made man's mouth? Who made the deaf, the mute, the seeing or the blind? Did not I? Now Go!
The soprano a cappella that had been gently assisted before also disappeared immediately and was replaced by a powerful symphony.
Moses was obviously frightened, and the Lord became gentle again and told him that when you go to see Pharaoh, I will be with you. Take the staff in your hands, Moses. With it, you shall do my wonders.
The voice of Jehovah was almost perfect, and Moses went home soon afterwards, dancing and talking to Zipporah about what had just happened. There is no dialogue at all in this section, and it is all interspersed with a series of small actions and soundtracks, but the effect is doubled than the narration with voice. However, this is the supreme god, the carrot stick policy is too typical, even if the music dubbing is beautiful, the story itself cannot convince people.
2.4 Playing with the big boys
Moses then returned to Egypt and met Ramses who had become the Egyptian pharaoh. The Lord turned the wooden stick in Moses's hand into a cobra, but Ramses thought it was just a trivial juggling skill, so he called the two priests to play something big, and the following paragraph was created.
The tune begins with the chanting of the Egyptian gods, from slow to fast, slowly entering the theme. At that time, most of the music matched for the villain's characters was similar. This section is easily reminiscent of the solo in the Lion King, especially the occasional singing that resembles chanting. The dubbing and animated film of this section add a different kind of funny color, and the perfect match between the two also makes the viewer especially enjoy.
2.5 The Plagues
did not listen to Pharaoh, Moses had no choice, so the Lord caused disaster in Egypt. The duet between Ramses and Moses in this section, and the design of the animation, personally think it is the most beautiful part of the film.
Starting from the Nile River, waterfowl flew away, flocks of frogs climbed ashore, the tight chorus of boys and girls, and the disaster of Jehovah began.
Thus saith the Lord:
Since you refuse to free my people
All through the land of Egypt...
I send a pestilence and plague
Into your house, into your bed
Into your streams, into your streets
Into your drink, into your bread
Upon your cattle, on your sheep
Upon your oxen in your field
Into your dreams, into your sleep
Until you break, until you yield.
The chorus without breathing was followed by a slower but more powerful singing, and brought out the first solo of Moses.
Once I called you brother
Once I thought the chance to make you laugh
Was all I ever wanted... The
chorus followed closely and did not let go enemy.
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But immediately before the main tender song All I wanted a fade-out, the lyrics have become sentimental.
This was my home
All this pain and devastation
How it tortures me inside
All the innocent who suffer
From your stubbornness and pride...
But this sadness is only a moment. Ramses' rhetorical question also came later.
You who I called brother
How could you have come to hate me so?
Is this what you wanted?
Ramses' frowning eyebrows overlap with Egypt that is about to fall, and lead to the most ingenious scene in the design of the film.
My Heart BE hardened the let the Then
And Never Mind How High cost at The May Grow
This by Will Still BE SO:
the I the let your people by Will Never Go ...
This last sentence is Yiziyizi sing, and came in at the end of term The fusion of the faces of Ramses and Moses combines the left cheek of Ramses' typical pharaoh costume with the right cheek of Moses' curly-haired Israeli dress in a manner similar to stone carving. After that, they separated in the chorus of Thus saith the lord, restored to the real-life image of the two. They were vividly located on the left and right sides of the screen, and ended with their chorus.
Seeing this, I am unconsciously feeling that this film is really suitable for adaptation into a musical. Even the scenes have been perfectly presented in the animation, but the lack is brought to the stage.
2.6 To the end
From the last time Jehovah brought disasters and took the lives of all the Egyptians' eldest sons; when Moses broke the waves in the Red Sea and led the Israelites to pass safely, the film will come to the end. As always, the storyline is not the same, but the music and animation have become more soul-stirring.
The feature film came to an end cleanly, and then the ending song came on stage gorgeously, which can no longer be the famous When you believe. Compared with the clean female voices in the film, the versions of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are significantly more touching and powerful. For the first time in the film so far, modern drums have been used, which also makes the penetration of the two female singers' voices even more profound.
3. Tucao
can’t vomit...While reading and writing, this is probably the most laborious but also the most careful review ever written...Ralph Fiennes dubbed Ramses is very confident , And the current Voldemort is completely different; Sandra Bullock's Millian can't hear the silly elder sister at all, but the feelings are actually very good; the Egyptian pharaoh and queen are dubbed by Professor X and Her Royal Highness, respectively, and the role is not Big, but a slot, haha.
Of course, the most beautiful and moving voice is Fang Jimo who voiced Moses. I just checked on imdb and found that Jehovah is also his voice. Listened to it again, sure enough.
The part in the cave where Jehovah first appeared by fire is really hard to hear. From the gentle instructions, the honorable introduction; to the heartbroken but trying not to show, the words are tender, corresponding to the description of Xu Zhidi; to the momentary and powerful deterrence and rhetorical question, and then just as quickly Gentle guidance again. The sentence with it, you shall do my wonders, really makes people listen with endless emotion, what kind of a seductive voice this is.
This is indeed a very exquisite film with the exception of the story itself and the design of music dubbing animation. You might as well take a look.
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