Review: Exodus Movie Plagued

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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver
Running time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Release date: Dec. 12
Rated PG-13

2.5 stars out of 5

Film Review: ‘Exodus’ Plagued by Casting, Script Issues
By Jake Coyle | December 11, 2014
To what do we owe the second coming of the biblical epic?

A genre that was once as moldy as stale communion wafers has been reborn this year, first with Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” and now with Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” The resurrection is partly to capitalize on the faith-based moviegoing audience and partly because the Bible offers stories suited to this blockbuster era, offering both spectacle and name-brand familiarity.

More than 50 years after “The Ten Commandments,” sandals are back in style. We can only hope the trend will culminate in a seemingly ordained bit of casting: Someone has got to make a Jesus film with Jared Leto............

The most emotional moment of the film comes after it ends. Before the credits roll, Scott dedicates the film to his late brother, Tony Scott. It adds a tender dimension to the brotherly psychodrama of “Exodus.” But as a self-proclaimed agnostic, Scott would be better to leave Moses to a believer.

......... The 3-D “Exodus” also refashions Moses (Christian Bale) for modern times, giving us an elite, action-film combatant who’s less a conduit for God than a strong-minded individual whose beliefs mostly jibe with the deity who secretly appears to him. (God is seen here as an impatient child, played by the 11-year-old Isaac Andrews).

“Exodus” begins promisingly, with a bald John Turturro in makeup. As the Egyptian pharaoh Seti, the father of Ramses (Joel Edgerton) and king to Moses’s prince, Turturro (and the brilliant Ben Mendelsohn’s louche viceroy) gives the film a touch of camp, a necessary ingredient to any successful biblical epic. Scott ought to have kept it up.

However, the director of “Gladiator” and “Blade Runner” isn’t known for his lightness of touch, but rather a monochrome masculinity. His “Exodus” is action-heavy and more interested in the sheer computer-generated scale of the airy Egyptian palaces, the grotesque visitation of plagues (from the bloody Nile to the locust swarms), and the mass movements of the Hebrews.

Yet after Seti’s death and Ramses’s ascendance to the throne, “Exodus” seems to lessen in scope, turning into a mano-a-mano drama between the stepbrothers Ramses and Moses, who’s exiled after the discovery of his Hebrew birth.

For an epic, there are, at best, only two clearly seen characters in “Exodus,” with supporting players like Ben Kingsley (as a Hebrew elder), Sigourney Weaver (as Seti’s wife), and Aaron Paul (as a Hebrew slave) all but inconsequential. Let our people go?


FULL ARTICLE
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1134794-film-review-exodus-plagued-by-casting-script-issues/

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all the scams are deeply inter-connected - here comes the tidal wave ???
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The Moses Myth, Yahweh Supremacy & Cultural Genocide
May 23, 2014

D.M. Murdock, also known by her pen name, "Acharya S," is the author of several books on comparative religion and mythology, including "The Christ Conspiracy," "Suns of God," "Who Was Jesus?" and "Christ in Egypt."

Murdock is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization. She has lived in Greece and is also an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. She speaks, reads and/or writes to varying degrees English, French, Spanish, ancient and modern Greek, Latin, German and other languages.

Acharya S has gained expertise in several religions, as well as knowledge about other esoterica and mystical subjects. In the first hour, we’ll discuss her latest research “Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver.” Although many scholars today are clear on the mythical nature of the Exodus tale and the probable (to them) non-historicity of the Moses character, there are a number of historical or quasi-historical individuals and events that have gathered attention as the possible "real Moses" and "real Exodus."

In the second hour, we’ll look deeper into the origins of the Jewish tribe, Yahweh and the Ten Commandments. She provides comparative mythology or mythical motifs also found in other cultures that relate to the Moses myth, the Ark of the Covenant and more. She’ll talk about the profound correspondences between the tales of Moses and the Greek god Dionysus.

We’ll also talk about Yahweh supremacy and the foisted idea of the “chosen people.” Later, we’ll talk about the danger of disconnecting from our ancestral cultural heritage and how it creates a hatred of the natural world and disconnects us from nature.

Our ancestors maintained tradition and mythology for important reasons. The Arahamic religions have swept across European countries, replacing imperative ancient myths with disastrous results. We discuss maintaining culture and heritage in a forced multicultural world. We’ll talk about those who are attempting to override European shared heritage to replace it with something far worse.

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/05/RIR-140523.php

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just finished listening to the red ice interview above... it was well worth my time. Acharya S/D.M. Murdock is truly versed in the topic. Couldnt listen to the 2nd hour as I dont have a membership. I followed a few links after that and came across this one of hers talking of the buddha myth.

all kinds of myths are today bringing mankind onto its knees and it is really time to wake up

The "Historical" Buddha?
by Acharya S/D.M. Murdock
Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled
....... There is much confusion as to the identity of "the Buddha," the main figure of the Eastern religion of Buddhism. First of all, there are different forms of Buddhism, including the two main branches of Theravada and Mahayana, in the latter of which we find the familiar Zen and Tibetan traditions, among others. Secondly, as we shall see in this excerpt from my book Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, there have also been many different Buddhas, including the figure also known as Siddhartha Gautama and Sakyamuni, who is frequently considered a "historical" personage. In this excerpt I provide many reasons to doubt the tradition of historicity for "the Buddha." Indeed, all factors combined, the evidence points to Buddha as a mythical, not historical, figure.

more:
http://stellarhousepublishing.com/historical-buddha.html


from the same publisher/author above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2IHrh101Q

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indeed, lets get ready for a major event.

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Did Mohammed exist?
May 9, 2012
Acharya S/D.M. Murdock
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Robert Spencer's "Did Muhammad Exist?" at AmazonThe question dared to be asked and answered in a new book by the indefatigable Robert Spencer: Did Muhammad Exist? And he does a great job of answering that question, very scientific, based on serious documentation. He has all the bases covered well, indeed, from what I have seen, which is mostly a video debate he and David Wood did with Anjem Choudary and Omar Bakri. In that debate, the Christians (Spencer-Wood) mopped the floor with the Muslims (Choudary-Bakri), the latter of whom surprisingly didn’t go ballistic at the very question of whether or not Mohammed existed. All they could do, however, other than present a few “facts” that Spencer easily swatted away, was to state over and over again that Mohammed existed because the Koran says so!

The argument here, of course, is that the Koran is the inerrant Word of God, infallibly dictated to the illiterate Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel while the “prophet” was in a cave. This Word of God was then passed along orally for years to decades, before being collected by later generations – with the result that much of it was lost. One would have thought that the omniscient and omnipotent Allah might have foreseen such a development and guaranteed that nothing would be lost by securing the transmission in writing in the first place. Or – better yet! – he could have simply made everyone instantly a perfect Muslim with the snap of his all-powerful fingers! Why rely on passing along, century after century, parts of a book probably recorded imperfectly?

In any case, at the review of Spencer’s book from The Blaze, a few Muslims are getting into it with numerous Christians, both factions defending their own cults against ridicule. The book itself is being pushed by a number of Christian and Jewish organizations with somewhat unrestrained glee.

Love how all these Christian and Jewish organizations are jumping all over this one, while steadfastly ignoring the even bigger elephant in the room!

http://freethoughtnation.com/did-mohammed-exist/

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Note also that on my forum we have been discussing for years whether or not Mohammed is a mythical figure.

Muslim academic says research leads him to believe Muhammad is a mythical figure

Muhammad Sven Kalisch, 42, the chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Muenster and whose duties include training teachers for the rising number of Muslim students in German high schools, has created a furor by stating that in all probability Muhammad was a mythical creation...........
http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=24359


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This morning I woke up wondering how is it possible to understand the so many hoaxes out there, the deceptions literally engulfing the planet but still regarding religions as untouched by man.... do we deserve this doom or what ???

buddha, jesus, muhammad, krishna.... all mythologies rehashed, spun and rewritten. Are we evolved or what ???


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(2008)Muhammad Sven Kalisch, 42, the chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Muenster and whose duties include training teachers for the rising number of Muslim students in German high schools, has created a furor by stating that in all probability Muhammad was a mythical creation. ..... Michael Marx, a Qur'an specialist at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, has warned his colleagues that Kalisch's views will "make it difficult" for German scholars to work in Muslim lands.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2008/12/23/questioning_of_prophets_existence_stirs_outcry.htm l

ps: I want to clarify that in my view people are free to believe what they want as long as they dont think their faith is holier than others. Because this is why we are in this inextricable-divide-and-rule impasse: supremacy. I love the subtext in Jesus's overall message of universal love, but thats pretty much it. I have found a lot more satisfaction investigating the merging of sciences and spirituality.

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This morning I woke up wondering how is it possible to understand the so many hoaxes out there, the deceptions literally engulfing the planet but still regarding religions as untouched by man.... do we deserve this doom or what ???

buddha, jesus, muhammad, krishna.... all mythologies rehashed, spun and rewritten. Are we evolved or what ???

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