Please, please let this actually be in the movie...
From a review (linked below) of 'Exodus: Gods and Kings', Ridley Scott's latest epic (currently 46% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, though they only have just enough reviews for a critical consensus.)
“From an economic standpoint alone, what you’re asking is problematic,” which is Rameses’s (Joel Edgerton) response to Moses’s initial plea to “Let my people go!”
*sporfle* (A quote from the linked review. Please let this be true....)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/12/05/review-exodus-gods-and-kings-is-god-awful/
Comments on the reviews I've read tend to be from outraged historians/biblical scholars. Mind you, no one expects historical accuracy, at least, from Scott (cf Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven) though, to be fair, as Moses isn't a historical figure and no trace of the Israelites has ever been found in Egypt, a land that is surprisingly full of contemporary historical information, one can only be outraged on behalf of Rameses II and the New Kingdom.
Update: Now 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Of course, the 'racist' controversy does not help....
“From an economic standpoint alone, what you’re asking is problematic,” which is Rameses’s (Joel Edgerton) response to Moses’s initial plea to “Let my people go!”
*sporfle* (A quote from the linked review. Please let this be true....)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/12/05/review-exodus-gods-and-kings-is-god-awful/
Comments on the reviews I've read tend to be from outraged historians/biblical scholars. Mind you, no one expects historical accuracy, at least, from Scott (cf Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven) though, to be fair, as Moses isn't a historical figure and no trace of the Israelites has ever been found in Egypt, a land that is surprisingly full of contemporary historical information, one can only be outraged on behalf of Rameses II and the New Kingdom.
Update: Now 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Of course, the 'racist' controversy does not help....