Funny how people hate God for doing this (as a last resort after The
Plagues didn't convince Ramses to stop) yet don't say shit about the
Pharaoh slaughtering the Hebrew newborns.
+Castiel's Stolen Grace the God of the New Testament and this God are not the same. Good = Nice.Also, the Pharoh may be "only human" but that's literally not an excuse to slaughter the newborns and enslave an entire race of people.
I think the only reason why everyone is going psycho is because God is supposedly fair and forgiving while the pharaoh is only human and humanity is just compelled to sin. There's also the 'thou shalt not kill' commandment that God created but, clearly, does not follow himself (but hypocritical if you ask me). It is pretty funny reading the comments though and everyone's starting online religion wars XD
When Ramses yelled for his brother to leave, the pain in his voice was the best acting I have heard in a movie. When the mothers and fathers wept after the angel left was very sad. As a father myself, my only son is the best thing to ever happen to me, losing him created a powerful connection to this part of the movie.
I agree with Alannah. You're not wrong Kevon by any means but I think what Alannah is trying to say is that God is a bit hypocritical - which he kinda is. He goes against his own rules and has done so various times within the Bible. Take for example, in context to this movie, that when the Hebrews got to the promised land, Moses wasn't allowed to enter. Why? Because he had accidentally killed one man who assaulted a Hebrew slave - one of Gods own people. He shunned Moses from redemption even after he helped the Hebrews escape Egypt and their abuse.Yes, God did give the commandments to the Hebrews to live by but, truth be told, God has not set a good example by doing what he does. There's also the story of Noah's ark where God drowns the entirety of the Earth (excluding Noah and his family) because, supposedly, everyone was sinful. Bit of an exaggeration if you ask me. God does what he believes is right - which can be classified as justice - but it's never actually fair on everyone.
Sorry but. You've taken that WAY out of context. The commandments were given to the Hebrews to live by, and about the killing, all of that is basically justified. The pharaohs enslaved,beat, murdered the hebrews for centuries and he was answering their prayers, and on top of that he promised Moses he would free them from slavery, SLAVERY! does that word mean nothing to you? yet you wanna talk about how your an atheist on a misunderstanding on your end. Smh.
+Faith Simpson So true and then when these things come to an end, they end up blaming God again. Kind of like when God got the people out of Egypt and later they complained about it -_-
+Kelaiah Higgs Well obviously he can stop it and so can we if we all would just trust and follow him. But so many of you keep turning your back on him until something tragic happens like a terrorist attack or another major war happens, then suddenly so many people want to go running back to him
+Faith Simpson If God is all powerful, and we/satan is the scource of evil (even though in Isaiah God says that HE creats evil...) then god being all powerful and doing nothing about it, makes him an acomplice to the evil. If it is because he cannot stop it,then he is not an all powerful god....
HAHA! ANOTHER IDIOT WITH ZERO KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY.GOD DID THE CHILDREN A FAVOR! PEACEFULLY AND PAINLESSLY BY SAVING THEM FOR GROWING INTO A HORRIBLE! LIFE THERE OR BEING FED TO THE CROCODILES.
HAHA! ANOTHER IDIOT WITH ZERO KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY.GOD DID THE CHILDREN A FAVOR! PEACEFULLY AND PAINLESSLY BY SAVING THEM FOR GROWING INTO A HORRIBLE! LIFE THERE OR BEING FED TO THE CROCODILES.
Rameses - The Great Pharaoh (part one)
Charting the life of the 'greatest' Pharaoh in Egypt, this programme looks at the Biblical story of the Exodus. Was Ramses the Pharaoh who allowed the Hebrews ...
Prince of Egypt 10th Plague
This is the scene in prince of Egypt where the angel of death claims the lives of the firstborn in all of Egypt that have not been covered by the blood of the lamb.
First off, I am not Christian. But whatever the case, sending 10 plagues
were uncalled for. It says in the Bible that 'the Lord hardened Pharohs
heart". So...God was going to kill off the first-borns by making sure the
Israelite were trapped until desperate measures were taken? Seriously?
I mean, wasn't the blood, frogs, flies, diseased livestock, and boils
enough? And then there's the locusts and the darkness. So did God
deliberately punish all of Egypt beyond necessity? Someone explain why the
Bible says this if I'm interpreting it wrong.
Let us not start any endless argument about God sending the Angel of Death
to kill dozens of innocents, that's not what I want to talk about.
I just want to point the fact that the scene is absolutely outstanding. The
animation is beautifully done, of course (look dat vortex sriusly), but
there's a bunch of other things that make this a masterpiece (even for a
studio as good as DreamWorks).
This actually is creepy. No music, just Moses telling what he heard from
The One Up, and the sound of the angel while he smites the land of Egypt.
Just this white foggy light. Look at it. This is the creepiest white light
ever made in animation. A white light is not creepy, it usually is
something good that either wants to guide/help you, or to warm/heal you.
This is not something you fear, this is something you trust. A white light.
Now look at this one. This also is a white light. But this one is scary.
There's not a single word pronounced though.
This is a masterpiece.
There's also the beautiful symbolism when the Angel enters a non-marked
house, smites the first-borns and goes back out, and then you see the
candle's light fading...
I think this version of the Tenth Plague maybe is even creepier than the
version you can see in Exodus. I saw Exodus a few months ago, and I just
saw this one back, so I don't find this one creepier because I saw it as a
child. It's really creppier. Want proof? A white light manages to be creepy
here.
+CycloneMetal This might be so, indeed (never thought about it myself). You got a nice point here, son of the Motherland (whatever Motherland we're talking about)
Exodus:Gods and Kings is probably the worst retelling of the Book of Exodus. Ridley Scott really dropped the fucking ball.also, i just realized something: this appearance for Death might have something to do with the phrase "Going into the white light" just a thought, though
Actualy Noah had warned the people but they ignored him, in fact in Judaism its Noah's inablity or unwillingness(depends who you ask) to go out and push harder for the people to change their ways that g-d decided to punish him by not making with him the permanent covanet like he did with Avraham.
+Sarah Amrita dude, the bible itself says that was GOD who endure the pharaohs heart in order to can show more of those "signs" that has planned, it sounds more like a sadic instead a judge
+Akitila The whole movie is amazing. And the way they show Egypt..it's glorious and scary at the same time. My favourite song that gives me chills when i listen to it is ''the plagues'' / This is my favourite animtion movie, i absolutely love it. i like it both in English and in my language (greek)
This scene definitely had me a little scared when I first watched it. But I was scared in a way that was like, "it's so beautiful and horrible at the same time. Cause once the vortex appears, it's gorgeous but that vortex brought death so it's scary at the same time. This is my favourite movie of all time. I grew up to it. And Deliver Us is my favourite song ever. The meaning behind it is so amazing.The meaning behind all the songs in this movie is amazing actually. I've always been in awe of God's powers ever since I saw this movie.Especially the burning bush scene.
+Akitila I dont know why but this movie always was kinda "scary" in my eyes. maybe because of the songs with all these chorus etc. Always gave me chills. And yes i also believe what you said is the moral of the story.
Yupp.I believe in that too. I'm doing no harm by believing in God.And as long as no one says anything about people who do believe in God, that's fine.I don't judge anyone for not believing. It's their choice. And yeah, we can't confirm it took place in 10 days but even 10 plagues itself is enough to make people start to wonder. I guess the moral of this story is to tell us that no matter what, retribution will be served. Do good and do right and u will be spared. Do wrong and u will be punished.
About the plgue part, no body know for sure that all these plagues happened in 10 days.And generally, everyone is free to believe in every God he/she like (as long as they dont hurn anyone), and I respect this. I was never religious, I dont believe in any God but I do understand other people's right to believe.
People will always claim there is a scientific explanation but 10 plagues in 10 days? Abit much to just be a natural thing isn't it? As for the slavery part, it shows that they had years to stop what they were doing but they dint. The truth is, people always here about the bad and they will play on it. But no one really bothers to listen to stories about how God saved them. I was born a Christian and I always believed in God but I wasn't so religious. When I was going through a very hard time in life, I prayed for days for him to save me. And for days, no answer. But finally, on the day of my breaking point, when nothing else mattered anymore, I felt him. And he saved me. I like Ramses's voice. XD
I know, of course each one of the plagues hve their own scientific explantion, but acording to the Bible, yes, the last plague was the price Pharoh would pay for not letting the Hebrews go, but i do not understand one thing. Why God had to wait and let 400 yers of slavery pass without doing anything? (Btw isn't Ramses hot as hell? XD)
Also, do not forget that this was the last plague. The 10th plague. For 9 days before this, everything Moses said God will send, he sent. All the Egyptians were warned before hand. They knew what they had to do to save their children but they dint. If after witnessing all that happened in the 9 days before this last one and they still refused to believe, don't u think they deserve to live with the guilt?Knowing that their children died because even after witnessing all that God can do, they still refused to believe. I bet if this were to happen now in the 21st century, even people who do not believe in God will start changing their minds if things like this were predicted and then they started happening. I most definitely would never take the chance.
Yes. It is unfair. But he is God punishment must be delivered. When Pharaoh sent forth the order to kill all those newborns, the Egyptians could have stopped it by speaking out and disagreeing. A king should know that he can only be a king with the support of his people. If they had tried to stop it, it could have been stopped but they dint. They let innocent newborns die. So God punished them by taking away their innocent children. The children died peacefully without pain and will go to heaven. Their parents who did nothing to stop the massacre all those years ago will be the ones who have to live with the pain.
I think this was just unfair.. I mean, yes, the Pharaoh did murder those children and that was terrible, but by doing the same (kinda), God just becomes as crues as Pharaoh was.
It's to punish Egypt for what they did to the Hebrew infants at the beginning. Throwing them into a river to drown or be eaten. The death of these children was quick and painless. And children will go to heaven.
Prince of Egypt: Angel of Death scene
As kid, I remember watching this scene and always feeling uneasy, and hugging my mother afterwards, but never really thought about it after that. It wasn't until ...
It really was amazing to go back to this movie after growing up. It's so
good. The burning bush scene, the red sea, the angel of death part. It all
looks and sounds fantastic
+Gandro93 If anything, I grew to appreciate it more, now that I'm older, and when it came to the animation,(I'm now majoring in it.)and there were sooooo many things I missed as a kid, and learned so much more when it came to the overall production.
I don't get it shouldn't Ramses (I think that's how you spell it) die
seeing as he's the first born...in fact shouldn't anyone who was a first
born die?
+Scribble Bee No its just the children, the first born son. Its kind of a cruel irony, Pharaoh's father killed newborn Hebrew babies out of fear an uprising would start. Here the children are killed due to Pharaoh's stubbornness.