Remember that this was Dreamwork's first ever feature film. They could've chosen anything, something original, something new. They chose something bold and adapted the epic Exodus from the Old Testament itself. What a way to start a studio
The thing is, the Book of Exodus IS very epic. It is very amazing. So, they did a good choice in adapting the book of Exodus. Exodus is after all, one of the most IMPORTANT Books of the Bible because of how God rescued the whole Israel. Because the books after that shows how disappointing the ppl after. Makes you think about the ppl, "When will it ever be enough for You?" You'll have to read the Bible for u to understand what i'm talking about ;)
What I love about this movie is the complicated sibling dichotomy we have here. Here we see a pained younger brother who only ever wanted to make his brother happy, but instead sees himself bringing pain to innocents, hurting a person he loved, and destroying his home. But on the flip side, we see a jaded older sibling that does not understand this larger picture, and thinks that the younger sibling trying to show power and prove superiority. And in the midst, two nations are in the cross fire. This movie was a cinematic masterpiece on all accounts, whether or not you choose to be religious or not.
Selena Hacken it’s silly now, but when I was a little kid watching this is was really torn up about how they couldn’t understand each other and reconcile.
Khanh Tran no that was pharaohs pride we have free will God was just reaching to pharaoh not letting them go it would of been different if pharaoh gave up and let them go
Alisabelle Simon God did make Pharaoh hard so he could smite Egypt more. I am studying the Bible right now and god does on default give people free will, but if he so choses, he can alter the actions of individuals as much as he want
God will harden those who continues to unrepentantly rebel against his will, as in he will withdraw his hand and his influence, thereby giving them up to their own passions thereby locking the rebel to his rebellion. Paul elaborates on this in his letter to the Romans
Exactly why it's too good, it shows great consequence to actions, a visible personality from both sides and a seriously epic juxtaposition in the relationship between Moses and Ramses, and not afraid to show the amount of devastation explicitly stated in the Bible. The music's awesome as well too, weaving 3 sides so neatly into the framework, from Moses showing the absolute power of God while still showing heart to Ramses, to the choir emphasizing God's wrath, and Ramses' stubbornness even in the face of divinity.
I love the pure genius of the narrative in 1:38, when Pharaoh literally expells the comic relief from the story, represented in the priests, changing the tone of the plot from that point. If you see the movie, you can see that after the plagues struck, there is virtually no moment for jokes or laugh.
It also reflects how, in the Exodus actual, it was during the Plague of Boils that the magi stopped appearing in the book (as being rendered 'unclean' meant they couldn't perform rituals or even appear before Pharaoh anymore) - indeed, in the film, you can see that Rameses sends them away right as they're desperately trying to either rub the boils off or mask them with some ointments. It's at this moment where their lies of 'replicating' the plagues stop working altogether.
Damn! I never noticed that til you mentioned it. Similarly, it reminded me of how after A Girl Worth Fighting For from Mulan abrubtly ends, it immediately shifts to a serious tone and no more songs (except for the reprise at the end) are played
It is a reference to the Bible, in the Bible whenever a plague falls the Pharaoh promises to free the people of Israel if Moses stops the plague, so it is done but every time this happens the Bible says that "the Pharaoh's heart hardened" and immediately afterwards the Pharaoh does not keep his promise, this even after the tenth plague, just when the people of Israel are in front the Red Sea.
"I sent the locusts on a wind, as such the world has never seen, on every leaf, on every stalk, until there's nothing left of green" Such a powerful line. When I was a kid, I thought the Egyptians were trying to sow new grains, but no, they where eating from the bare soil.
And when He says “Such as the world has never seen”, you can trust that it’s beyond even your wildest imaginations. But then they added a descriptive of the results afterwards! And “nothing left of green” is nothing short of a nation-wide carpet bombing for the Egyptians, considering how important plants are in a desert! This would be the point where anyone rational would stop and acquiesce to the other side’s demands. Unfortunately, Ramses is not rational anymore.
"Yeah, I can see it now. There go the pyramids!" "Well, you can laugh about it!" "Statues cracking and toppling over, the Nile drying up. Singlehandedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on earth to ruin." That foreshadowing tho
ikr!!! this movie was put together BEAUTIFULLY! And crazy foreshadowing when Ramses said "I should have done what my father had done before, my father had the right idea when dealing with your ppl, and there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt like none ever before" Thinking he was gonna repeat the baby slaughtering his father Pharaoh had done before but ironically setting up the grounds for GOD to do the EXACT same thing to his own ppl.
"Tell me this Moses, tell me this. How come everytime you start something. I'm the one who ends up in trouble." *Moses drops punch balloon on top of high priests* I love that scene!
One of the things that I like about how they animated is the sheer faith in God's protection that Moses displays. A storm of flaming hail is coming down, causing panic and devastation, yet Moses shows no fear or hesitation in walking out into it, knowing that God wouldn't allow his prophet to be harmed.
I recall pretty much all the Hebrews were specifically spared during the plagues. Though it's obviously most noticeable during the final Plague of Firstborns, of course.
That last scene where the darkness comes down and destroys the statue was always interesting to me, because from what I can tell, I think that was a statue of Ra, the Egyptian sun god, so shrouding him in darkness is an interesting way to portray the plague of darkness, basically God rubbing it in the faces of Egypt, that their gods were nothing compared to Him. I also love how the darkness actually flows, when it's moving through the city, it looks like an actual liquid or something, the animation is just incredible
All the plagues were like this. A comment above explains it perfectly each plague was a sombol of gods power over the Egyptians most powerful gods. Gods way of saying “I am the true one. They are nothing to me”
I wrote a 2000-word essay on this scene for my Film Studies A level. My teacher said he was skeptical, at first, of my choice of an animated film, but he actually went away and watched the whole film.
The fact that a FILM STUDIES professor is skeptical about animated films just goes to show how stigmatized and disrespected animation is as an artistic medium 😭
@@JoeMartinez18 funny thing is the same god that unleashed the plauges is the god that hardened the pharohs heart. So technically it was god who didnt want his ppl to be set free
@@dovahkitty4401 I doubt God hardened his heart just for it. It kills all the purpose of humans having free will. What I think the Bible said was " I will darken the pharao's heart" meaning " The pharao's heart will darken when he finds out about me"
Me too. I think it's because somebody's heart hardening is not usually a conscious decision. However, Ramses knows how badly his choices are affecting his people and he's consciously acknowledging that the plagues are tearing Egypt apart but he doesn't care mostly out of spite. I love this movie
I gotta say, even being irreligious, I enjoy the hell out of these kinds of movies. Whenever a major animation studio makes a movie with even the slightest religious themes it turns out really dark and intense. Like, anyone remember the Hunchback of Notre Dame? If you haven't seen it as an adult you need to. That is without a doubt one of Disney's darkest films. When Frollo sings 'Hellfire', oh, forget about it. Fuckin amazing.
Moose the Second and that, ironically, causes religions of peace to resort to war and bloodshed. This is why I believe in a God, but not in a Church. The Church is made of men, and men are fallible. They twist the good and purity into strings of hate and oppression to fuel their own desires, all while hiding behind a cloak of all that is holy.
+Saraya V and what you just said, ironically, does nothing to justify why you would start a conflict for no apparent reason on TH-cam. I repeat, TH-cam. TH-cam.
What makes this, as a Christian, so distinct is that each plague targeted a specific Egyptian God, with the most deviating as the plague of darkness: meant to hit Ra the sun god. Gives me chills every time
FunFact: The Ancient Egypt empires had 2 Kings, 1 of the North and 1 other in the South. / FunFact_2: The Egyptians of the Ancient Egypt believed that Ra would be swallowed by the darkness and be wandering the underworld and then be reborn when sunrise.
@@M697_01 yet the darkness that enveloped egypt at the time of mosses lasted for three days. And probably was painful darkness since its a "...darkness that could be felt" Exodus 10:21. And even more, in those three days of darkness, the sun was present to Israelites. That was more than sun rotating around the earth.
Because films are supposed to be art, not fucking cash grabs like so many are today. Film makers often put little thought or effort into movies these days. Just look at The Force Awakens. Back in the day, film makers actually cared about what they were creating and really tried to make genuinely good films. These days, those kinds of film makers, such as poor George Lucas, often get shunned, insulted and ridiculed. I think the most recent movies I've seen that I consider art are Frozen, which was from three years ago (I thought it marked the beginning of a new Disney Renaissance but sadly I was wrong), and possibly Me Before You, although that film has an advantage over most others because it had my favourite actress in it.
It's interesting how close Rameses is to his son, which makes sense: It's rooted in an insecurity with Rameses' inability to please and be close to his own father, so he made sure to love his own son and openly express it. It's so tragic how things ended.
@@treycopeland1368 It pains me when humans try to judge the morality of higher beings, as if your scope of understanding comes anywhere near that of Yahweh's. Unsurprisingly this comes most often from non believers who don't even have the base human understanding of events
Even as a non beliver what truly gives me chills is putting myself in the shoes of the egyptian people. The mere thought of having the Creator himself against me with my own gods standing still, statuary in their non-existence really sends shivers down my spine
@@DarkAdonisVyers Believing in God is not only when it suits you and comfortable. God put us here and he tests us and yup... some of his tests are hard.
When the chorus kicks in "I send the swarm, i send the horde, thus saith the lord", and the grasshoppers fly over the statue of Anubis, it always gives me chills.
This movie was so raw, punk-ass Disney would never be able to execute it without making it fluffy and obnoxious. I love that they show the internal struggles on both sides. One of the best animated films of all time.
Jefferey Katzenberg was the driving force behind this movie. He was forced to resign from Disney after a falling out with then CEO Michael Eisner. While at Disney Jefferey Katzenberg was in charge of the studios and animation and ALWAYS pitched the idea of adapting the Exodus story for a full length animated feature but it was never put into production. So when he left Disney and started Dreamworks with Steven Spielberg, this was his first idea; And so the greatest animated film (IMO) was put into production
I get shivers every time Rameses starts singing, you can feel the power in the voice actors performance. It feels so personal and vengeful yet strong and firm. Beautiful!
A little digging into Egyptian beliefs brings out a new level to this. God isn't just using generic plagues to attack the Egyptians. He is mocking the Egyptian gods in the process, who tended to be patterned after animals, as well as the concept of Pharaoh being a god himself since this entire time he is powerless. Essentially, he is breaking the Egyptians by saying "See how your gods tremble before me?" in addition to suffering. And their gods don't just tremble; they flee. He has full authority and power, and the various Egyptian gods can't do a damn thing to stop Him. Here's a brief breakdown of how every single plauge hit Egyptian beliefs and their very way of life: the staff-to-cobra transformation caused such a panic because it's a symbol of two goddesses: Meretseger, the guardian of the royal tombs, and, most importantly, Wadjet, the symbol of the royal power of life and death (hence why the pharaohs and a few other members of the royal family wore a stylised cobra on their heads; and note, this comes immediately after Ramses pardons Moses of murder, which is punishable by death). That's also why Hotep and Huy could pull it: they are the court mages, playing with cobras is part of their job; the First Plague, transforming the Nile in a river of blood, is a mockery of a good omen: the Nile would become red once per year, filled with the fertile silt that the incoming flood would deposit on the earth. And yet, this time not only the red waters appeared at the wrong time of the year and brought no silt, but they also caused the death of all the fish of Egypt. And come to think of it, silt is probably how Hotep and Huy 'replicated' the trick on a smaller scale'; This mocked Sobek, the god who protected against the dangers of the Nile, and Tefnut, Goddess of water the Second Plague, the frogs overrunning Egypt, continues the mockery of a good omen: the frog is a symbol of fertility and the gods Heket, and Hapy, a personification of the flooding of the Nile and its fertile silt, and smaller 'invasions' of frogs would come right after the flooding; the Third and Fourth Plagues, the mosquitoes and the fleas, are a direct consequence of the end of the Second: there were no frogs to eat them anymore. What's worse, the Egyptians were used to dealing with them, but this time there were too many; the Fifth Plague, the disease of the livestock, hits a soft point of the Egyptian believes: the cult of Apis, intermediary between men and gods, with a living incarnation as a bull (the Egyptians also built graves for these bulls). Because now Moses is the intermediary, Apis dies, and no other bull with the proper markings shall be found; the Sixth Plague, the boils, hits particularly hard: boils and other illnesses fall under the dominion of Thoth, the God of Science and Knowledge, Medicine and, what's worse, the Arbitrator of the Gods, who would bring justice and properly administer the law. Between the epidemics and the priests having no knowledge on how to cure this, this one is a warning that Egypt has brought itself outside of the law of Maat, its greatest moral value; the Seventh Plague, the storm of fire, is personal for the Pharaoh and the royal family: storms are the dominion of Seth. In this time not only Seth is not yet demonized (that would happen only from the Twenty-First dinasty, and the names of the Pharaohs indicate the Nineteenth), but it's one of the most important gods, with Rameses's own father being named after him and the current capital of Pi-Ramses (cited by name in the Bible as the starting point of the Exodus) is a center of Seth's worship. Ouch...; the Eight Plague, the locusts, is pure nightmare: while in small numbers they were considered symbols of luck alongside grasshoppers, in large numbers they were rightly feared, and by being brought by the wind this plague entered the dominion of one of the most important gods, Amon; the Ninth Plague the Darkness, is again personal with the Pharaoh and his family: not only the authority of the Pharaoh is associated with the Sun God Ra and the Sky God Horus, but the reigning Pharaoh is Rameses, meaning "Born from Ra". A message of paternal and divine rejection?; Also, at the end of this number, the darkness starts and spreads from a crumbling statue of Ra. the Tenth Plague is linked to a specific Egyptian myth, the Eye of Ra. In that myth, the men had disrespected Ra and planned to rebel and kill him, so he sent his Eye (identified with either the war goddess Sekhmet or the gentle Hathor, Depending on the version) to punish them with a slaughter... And in one day she killed half of mankind, all the guilty and many innocents, and to stop her finishing the job the gods had to get her drunk. The message here is: "Let My people go, for if you continue to sin all of Egypt shall die in an heartbat". No wonder Rameses finally relented...
Thoralmir Catholic's mostly changed a lot of the bible and with this came more confusion. That's the reason many say catholic's are not christian's along with Jehovah witness and etc. This is why people don't want to get into it, It's to much for a lot of people
Nope. The Christians hung onto the Bible and didn't alter it from its original state. In fact, it was the Jews who then removed books from their Bible. Hence why we get Hannukah, but barely hear a peep about Judas Maccabees' story, which isn't in the Jewish Bile at all, but it is in the Catholic Bible. Funny how the only people who have the Hannukah story in the Bible are the Catholics. And much of Catholicism is derived from Jewish forms of Worship, since Jesus was the Jewish Messiah and Second Person of the Holy Trinity of the most High God, who is the God of the Hebrews. Look up "Jewish Roots of Catholicism." It shows how Catholicism is consistent with the Old Testament and shows how the New fulfills the Promises of the Old.
Because with animation, you can draw them that way, no matter the colour of the skin of the voice. Just look up the voice actors for this movie, and most of them were still white.
Elizabeththegreatest nobody should even care. It's their artistic license to cast whomever they choose. Anthony Hopkins played Diego De La Vega and no mexican gave a shit. Fuck, they can remake west side story tomorrow and cast nothing but asians- and the world won't change a bit.
something I have noticed is how the attention to detail they gave Pharaoh. Pay attention to when his face is in frame, almost every time he narrows his eyes, that signifies that he Harding his heart, nice detail to point out!
@@MankindDiary If you say "Just to fuck with Pharoah", then you'd be accurate. Egypt was punished for following and not repenting. Pharoah was the ringleader who knew Joseph and yet decided to turn his guests into slaves.
What I love is that right after all this, before the final plague (Death of the Firstborn), Moses goes to Rameses and pleads with him to stop, saying something worse than any of the previous plagues is coming and to think of his son. Rameses then tells Moses that he will stop the Israelites the same way his father did, and that there would be a great cry in Egypt like there never was or would be again (foreshadowing). When he says this, Moses realizes that the wall they are next to is the one decorated with the slaughter of the Israelite children (which he'd escaped), and that where the children being tossed into the Nile were carved, directly below the crocodiles' jaws, was Ramses's son. Horrified and defeated, Moses tells Rameses he brings this on himself and leaves. Hands down my favorite scene in the movie
Also Ramses was one of the freatest rulers egypt ever saw. Atleast one of the Ramses, he expanded egypts empire to the border of modern day Turkey and he lived until he reached the age of 92 and he ruled for over 70 years. The israelites was never slaves in Egypt, the whole exodus story has no basis in acctual history or archeology. The Israelites was Slaves for a time in Babylon how ever, thats where the flood myth came from. they basically copied the sumerian flood myth
That dosent make sense though, a trap card is used to "counter" unless its equip or usable after the first turn... Unless you go for show version's "logic"... Just saying...
Why can't modern movie be like this? I feel like most of the more recent "children's movies" are too silly and light-hearted, filled with cheap humor and cheerful music. As much as I think Frozen is a completely alright movie, I wish people weren't so afraid of making a little bit more dark and heavy stuff again. This is beautiful!
+KreeZafi Because kids now days are so far gone that they need to be constantly yelled at to keep their attention. You make something slightly too deep and thought provoking, and the children get confused, then they get angry. Then the parents raise all kinds of hell because their precious got their feelings hurt.
+KreeZafi You mean like the Hunchback of Notre Dam, Secret of Nimh and the Land before Time? Yeah, I wish they could do those again. Kids movies have gone soft.
As a teen who's mom is from Egypt, when I showed her this, she said it was the best American made movie she has ever seen. And she's been in America for over 15 years so that's saying something.
Atheist or not this is a master piece of a movie. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. This is the pinnacle of movies it legit doesn’t get better. Ever. The story isn’t just gold how it’s done is just as good. The music is legendary
There's only one voice in this song that gives me chills. Its in the opening when the singers sound like there Whispering, its the really deep one that says "since you refuse to free my people," really adds wight to the lyrics
It was an AMAZING choice to have a chorus represent the voice of YHWH. It represents an all-encompassing all-mightiness -- not just one voice but many combining into this immensely commanding ethereal effect.
This is my favorite telling of this story. It had such wonderful character development and you really feel the burden that weighs on Moses's shoulders having to go against someone who he knew as his family. Many other versions don't even bother with the family relationship.
Yeah, except Moses was already really old by now and I don't think they were really brothers the way they portray it in this. The Pharo was probably old enough to be his dad.
Agreed, I actually somewhat sympathise with Ramsey as well since he clearly missed his brother and has no qualms with him being a hebrew but instead Moses rejects him reflecting that his only interest in returning to Egypt was to free the Hebrews. Ramsey felt betrayed that Moses would just throw away years of family and friendship. I love this movie as all the characters including the villain are highly humanised.
I like this scene because you see that Moses and Ramses are both conflicted with the love they have for each other. But Moses was chosen and must keep with God's will. Such a great scene.
@YME Well, you have a point. Considering that Hans Zimmer did the soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt, and the animation quality is much better and the movie had a bigger budget,... YEAH!! actually yes The Prince of Egypt is better.
Come on, King of Dreams isn´t not too bad, i think its only because the story is a drama, and the prince of egypt is more like an epic. Both stories are from different genres, and the prince of egypt has the plus of showing God, and the plagues and all of that is more interesting than a drama story. But still, the king of dreams is a good movie, and is closer to the original material, the book its based on.
After watching King of Dreams for the first time, I felt the need to watch Prince of Egypt again as I never knew there was a prequel to such a masterpiece.
NO PLEASE! Dulingo Bird: 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 I send the swarm, I send the horde Thus saith the Lord Once I called you brother Once I thought the chance to make you laugh Was all I ever wanted... I send the thunder from the sky I send the fire raining down And even now I wish that God had chose another Serving as your foe on his behalf Is the last thing that I wanted... I send a hail of burning ice On ev'ry field, on ev'ry town This was my home All this pain and devastation How it tortures me inside All the innocent who suffer From your stubbornness and pride... I send the locusts on a wind Such as the world has never seen On ev'ry leaf, on ev'ry stalk Until there's nothing left of green I send my scourge, I send my sword Thus saith the Lord! You who I called brother Why must you call down another blow? I send my scourge, I send my sword Let my people go Thus saith the Lord Thus saith the Lord You who I called brother How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted? I send the swarm, I send the horde... Then let my heart be hardened And never mind how high the cost may grow This will still be so: I will never let your people go... Thus saith the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: I will not... Let your (my) people go!
Actually, God made him to think that. "You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt" [Exodus 7:2-3]
Super Kamehameha! Why would you think that?? God did that because he had to teach them a lesson. That lesson being: don’t worship other gods, and too prove he IS GOD!
my favorite part is at the end (2:11) when rameses and moses are going back to back with their vocals, the choir - meant to represent the voice of God - is going along with Moses's "let my people go" giving more weight to his tone and volume over rameses just like when he was saying the "thus saith the Lord" quote
I love the quality to Ramses voice. It's not conventionally polished or full like Moses's, but it's still somehow pretty and extremely satisfying to listen to. It's like it's lacking the warmth and roundness of Moses's and instead is jagged and cold, but makes up for it in character. Moses is Tiger Eye, Ramses is Obsidian. It fits their characters perfectly.
I do believe that was Horus. It makes more sense than if it was Anubis, Horus was the deity of power and his statue crumbling would represent how powerless the egyptians were against God.
1:54 "let my heart be hardened, and never mind how high the cost may grow." is a great line. The boom in the voice actor's voice feels so ambitious and bold and stubborn. I can't articulate it well enough but it's a fantastic song!
Jesus this one verse just stands head and shoulders above the others: ''Then let my heart be hardened, And nevermind how high the cost may grow This will still be so I will never let Your people go'' JUST PERFECTION
It is an amazing line that also bears a stunning truth for all of us. Do we soften our heart toward the Lord and what He is saying, or do we harden our hearts, ignore Him and carry on along our perceived merry way away from Him.
It is especially heavy when you consider that in Exodus 8:32 God affected Rameses' free will by purposefully hardening his heart further than it already had. And he likely did this because he is an arrogant God who wanted everyone to know he was more powerful than their gods. Which is why he brought the darkness plague as a big "fuck you" to Ra. It could have ended sooner, but it appears Yahweh wanted to send a clear message.
It was more than that though, had God made the pharaoh yield so easily, he would have never got the credit, and the Israelites would end up believing this was their victory, NOT God’s. And so with the 10 plagues, He not only shows that there is no god/demon who is even on his level to begin with, but to ensure the Israelites give the victory to Him. Because He is their God, a jealous one at that and why wouldn’t he, we as humans were created in God’s perfect image. And so the Israelites would remember that it was God and only God who helped them leave Egypt.
The individual plagues weren’t dealt out at random. Each was chosen as punishment in great part due to their symbolic significance: - Water Becomes Blood: Signifies God’s supremacy over Hapi, Egyptian god associated with the Nile who was the “water bearer.” - Frogs from the Nile: Illustrates God’s power over Heket, the Egyptian goddess of fertility, who had the head of a frog. - Lice from the Dust: Signifies God’s power over Geb, Egyptian god of the earth/land. - Swarms of Flies: Shows God’s authority over Khepri, Egyptian god of creation with the head of a fly/scarab/insect. - Death of the Livestock: Shows God’s victory over Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love usually depicted with a cow head and is closely associated with cattle. - Boils and Sores: Represents God’s power over Isis, Egyptian goddess of medicine, magic, and peace. - Burning Hail: Signifies God’s dominion over Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky. - Hoards of Locusts: Illustrates God’s supremacy over Seth/Set; Egyptian god of destruction, storms, and disorder. - Three Days of Absolute Darkness: Represents God’s supremacy over Ra, the Egyptian sun god. Possibly also demonstrates superiority over Aten (another solar deity) and maybe Thoth (deity of knowledge and the moon). - Death of the First Born: Signifies God’s authority over Osiris (Egyptian god of the afterlife), Horus (Deity closely associated with Pharaohs and life itself), Anubis (Egyptian god of the dead), and Pharaoh (the “highest authority” of Egypt).
Just a quick clarification: Hapi was actually God of the Nile's annual flood, not of the Nile itself. Sobek was often seen as the protector of the river and its creatures (crocodiles in particular). :)
To be fair this is from the Hebrews point of view in the Egyptian rendition all of gods plauges were stopped by the egyptian gods until amun-ra ordered the pharoh to release the hebrews
+Eric Cayton It was the most expensive animated movie ever for a few years. Then The Spirits Within came out in 2001. EDIT: Actually, Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) may have been more expensive.
I love the references to the original wording of the plagues in the bible, most apparent to me was the "such as the world has never seen" during the locusts. The bible said something along the lines of "a horde of locusts the likes of which has never been seen, and never will be seen again."
I wish DreamWorks made a movie about Queen Esther. I mean she was one of the greatest heroines in the bible and her love story with the King of Persia was very romantic.
yeah I think David and Goliath would work pretty well in a movie format. tho I think we need a bit more fighting there than just flinging the rock and that to be it, let it to be what kills Goliath but we need bit more blows than just him falling over dead like a sack of potatoes.
MrAnimepredator Perhaps what happens after killing Goliath can be part of the movie. There is a lot of stuff before David becomes king. Solomon even kicks him out, despite being told by God that David would be anointed as king.
DreamWorks has this habit of taking ideas that shouldn't work, and then making them amazing. THIS is hands down the studios masterpiece. This is Dreamwork's Lion King. I had no idea that Ralph Fiennes or Val Kilmer could sing before I heard this song. This single sequence is as good as, if not better than most Disney musical numbers.
I actually prefer this film over the Ten Commandments. Now don't get me wrong, Ten Commandments is a superb film but it's key problem for me is the fact that Moses and Ramses in that version almost seem to hate each other. I get they tried to show Ramses as a bad seed, but there is no sense of even respect for each other. The whole story of Exodus seems to focus on two brothers and their brotherhood being torn in two. Prince of Egypt captured this perfectly and took some interesting interpretations of the characters that I really enjoyed
convoku well that kinda makes sense. A key part of acting is to show relationships between two people that have only recently met. Part of why the new Power Rangers movie worked for me is because the cast had a real chemistry because they actually spent time together and became good friends. If Brynner and Heston didn't like each other, it will come through in their performances which it did
Putting aside how this is an absolute work of art in terms of animation, this shot right here at 2:06 is amazing from a general filmmaking perspective. The different lighting, the way they move to look at each other with discontent instead of animosity before fading into two different shots when the final part of the song kicks in. THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD!!!! I watched it for the first time yesterday and I’ve rewatched this scene specifically at least 20 times
If someone tells me that animated movies are only for kids, I’ll show him/her this. The amount of work behind every single scene to achieve such a magnificent masterpiece is impressive. It’s like a sequence of paintings coming to live, I miss 2D animation for this reason.
@hattanalshutaifi4587another quote I heard at one point don’t know who said it heck I don’t think I can remember the full quote but I think it goes something like. “Your not just writing for children your writing for the poor parents who have to read it to their children hundreds of times.”
There's murder everywhere today too. Only difference is today people make stupid justifications for killing. At least when God unleashed His Wrath, it meant you did something truly heinous. Killing/beating/enslavement, sexual perversion, etc.
Honestly, this is my favorite movie of all time. It's a musical with awesome songs, the animation style is unique and amazing, it's entertaining, and it's my favorite Bible story of all time. YES.
Too bad it wasn't completely true to God's Word and the true story therefore. Do you know the Salvation Plan of God, and Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord?
The story in the movie, while focussed on Moses, is an adaption to the true Book of Moses. A few examples can be that Moses' brother, Aaron, is not present with Moses at all in the film - he is with Miriam. But the Bible tells us that it is in fact Aaron who speaks on God's behalf to Pharaoh, with his staff, and Moses is with him. Another is that Pharaoh wished to kill Moses after the accidental death of another Egyptian, which is why he fled. I believe there are many other adaptions in the film, but I can't quite remember the film itself. I believe this is what STCooper1 is referring to.
+Alknix _"By serving as a figurehead to an omnipotent murderous psychopath and having it do all the job?"_ God gave an escape clause for _every_ deadly plague, to Egypt AND the Hebrews. Egypt threw the Hebrew children into the Nike without any such mercy.
"gave an escape clause " As does every terrorist and tyrant. "Do exactly what I tell you and I will not have you and your loved ones murdered." How's that supposed to win my favor?
When your brother changes the Wifi password and refuses to give it to you... EDIT : Cheezus Chrust ! I didn't noticed I got so many likes on this one lol glad you guys enjoy it, thanks !
I don't care how many people know Ralph Fiennes from Bond or as Voldemort, or from the English Patient, etc. His omnibus of work is so impressive, but I will always think of him as Rameses. His voice still instantly hits me. To this day I can't believe this movie came out in 1998. I'm still as floored by it visually and musically today as I was when I first saw it.
They have similar themes as in duality, hatred, rage, love... I must say it depends on my mood. This one I think is sadder because there are two brothers pitted against each other by circumstances... also there are children being killed, but hey... Hellfire is more of a ragefest and a plea for mercy at the same time. There's only one character but he rips himself apart, which is also really sad, even though he's evil. But it just shows that noone is the villain in their own story. Not Gaston, not the Pharaoh, not Frollo, not even Malificent was inherently evil. She was slighted and acted on anger about that. Which is bad, of course, but not from her perspective. From her perspective it was payback and a twisted form of justice. Remember this next time you see a "bad" character. Try to look behind the curtain and I promise you, you will be surprised what you can find there. :) P.S.: Sorry for the rant xD
Out of all the plauges, the very last one has always been terrifying. There was no sound or sign of it at all, it just went into the houses that weren't coverd in lamb's blood and took the breath of the eldest children. Since Rameses only had one child it totaled him. It's sad because even though he watched Egypt get ravaged by the first plauges, it took the death of his only son for him to budge. Most stubborn man ever.
Don't forget that God made him that stubborn. "You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt" [Exodus 7:2-3]
MankindDiary God loves violating free will, so he can show off what a power hungry tyrant he is! You got to love the bible. Still a great movie though.
+Janice Shaw If all powerful god can't teach a lesson other way than through genocide and total destruction of the country, then he doesn't deserve any worship.
One of the sadder parts of this film is when you realize it chronologically happened after Joseph: King of Dreams, when Moses's people had been gladly welcomed to Egypt.
Joseph saves Egypt from famine. This is why the Israelites came to Egypt in the first place; there was a great famine. But generations pass and the new Pharaoh forgets those who saved his people.
This is one of my favorite songs in the whole thing. Aside from Deliver Us. The one line that hit me the most was said by Moses: “This was my home! All this pain and devastation, how it tortures me inside. All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride.” In 10 commandments, Moses from a character standpoint is inhuman. Sure, he’s powerful through the hand of God, but he’s not human. 10 commandments is the greatest biblical epic of all time, but The Prince of Egypt humanizes Moses. After all, Moses grew up in Egypt. So seeing the destruction of your own home, place you had so many memories about would be devastating to him. Probably one of the greatest creative choices made by any storyteller that stayed true to the source material.
Aye, one of the main reasons you can't really call Judeo-Christian scripture mythology is because a lot of the characters don't have any character, they can't, because to give them character would change what they are. Obviously the god of the bible can't have character because he's just there to be the source of morality and of creation. He can't have a preference for what kind of a person he likes because then that would fuck over everyone else who isn't like that.
@moritamikamikara3879 Dude, I get what your saying but isn't the 10 commandments essentially God describing what kind of person he likes, and whoever doesn't follow it gets funded over( i.e goes to hell or something)
@@moritamikamikara3879 Thats exactly why it is a mythology. Moses is a Demi-God like figure who lived for almost 2 centuries and could make water sprout from the ground with a strike of his cane. You would say he could only do that with the power of the Lord but the fact is The Lord punished him for this action not allowing him to step on the Promised Land so its a bit more complicated than that.
This is also better because Moses and Ramsey were brothers, they loved each other, not like in ten commandments where they had genuine hatred. It makes it so much more tragic qnd powerful for Moses to actually have to oppose someone he loves. He even says he wish God chose another to do this task.
Manicallaughter17 I always thought of him as Amon Goeth to tell you the truth, and what abut ice man, he made egypt... the danger zone... I'l see myself out
Every single song that isn't one of the "happy" or "comical" ones holds such imagery which is amazing. Deliver us makes you feel the weight of every brick the need to collapse with every stomp of mud. The plagues makes you feel the dispair moses feels for doing this to the one he once called brother and his sorrow he feels while also making you feel the anger towards moses and his determination to not be the "weak link" as his father once told him he could become
By far the best song in the entire movie. Yeah, all the songs are fantastic, but this is the song where you really see the movie shine with everything: the chorus, the main characters, the pacing, the angst between the brothers, and the motivation for the antagonist. This song is the embodiment of just how good DreamWorks can be
my sister's science project (big ant colony -- 200,000 ants strong) got knocked over by my dog.. it was a day that will live in infamy.. and this song will always remind me of that --- we had to leave the house and called in the ant exterminators
Zimmer did the background music-which is excellent- but it was Stephen Schwartz, well known for his excellent scores for musicals (among others, “Wicked”), who did the songs.
At 1:27, I get chills when Pharaoh looks outside to see Moses already standing there waiting for him. The plagues are probably the most emotional part of the movie for me. The music combined with the animations for each plague, showcasing the power of God makes me tear up. It’s beautiful and it makes me appreciate the Lord more and more each time I see it.
the depth of these films was incredible, i miss the beautiful, well scripted, and daring films from this time period. i mean, good god, how could any of these not connect to a person - kids may not get them (i didnt when i was a child) but if they're made right like this one they'll be captivated by the film until they grow into understanding them. you can capture a child and an adult and a human for a lifetime if you're creative and unafraid of demographic targets. seriously this is brilliant stuff
@范德萨阿斯顿发大水发大水发阿斯顿发大水发大水发范德萨我和你吻别我爱你他妈的翔宇我和你吻别元的钱破开该 well actually he actually got killed so we can be forgiven easily when we commit sins if it weren't for him we would all be dead
I love this because God starts with benevolent miracles, but when they don’t work he goes into full on malevolent plagues. With the contrast of the two brothers at odds, not with themselves but with their own circumstances. Truly a tragedy if ever there was one. Beautiful story.
It's worth noting that God himself made Pharaoh unable to agree upon Moses' demand to let his people go. So Pharaoh is a tragic hero here, as he is unable to make a decision of his own.
@@MankindDiary Um...no. He's not a hero by any means. He convinced his entire country to treat their guests as slaves. Doubly damning is the fact that one member of this group of guests saved the whole country from a 7-year long famine. Pharoah was a villain getting his just desserts.
@@Eli-uu4vt >Just >Killing end destroying everything BUT him. Will remember that if somebody treats me ill, then I have to kill his family and burn his house, to give him justice.
"And even now, I wish that God had chose another." Always gives me chills, no matter how many times I hear it. So much pain is contained in that line alone
Hahaha I sang blame it all on my roots my senior year of high school the whole year and Let my ppl go gosh the great times that was I think the teachers were wondering about my sanity
+Jeremy Adcox How is it not a kid's movie? I mean, as a kid I loved this film. :) I didn't 'get' the nuances and the haunting feeling of what the plague wrought upon people, but it was a really well told story. Plus it has its light-hearted moments in it and plenty of life-lessons to tell to kids. This is coming from an atheist btw, not sure if that makes a difference though.
HannahsCreation I grew up with an athiestic family, they taught me how to think, not what to think. So when I asked for this movie for Christmas, they were fine with it.
+Heartless You're not an Atheist if you have Christmas, trash. Christmas is the DAY OF CHRIST JESUS THE LORD'S BIRTHDAY. You don't even know yourself, trash.
Can we just take a second to give mad props to Ray Fiennes who is the only one amongst an entire cast of major celebrities to actually sing his own part.
This song really captures one of the darkest moments in The Prince of Egypt, but it also highlights Moses's sadness at having to face off against Rameses, the man he once called brother - who he was raised with, confided in and played with in his youth. Despite not being brothers by blood, you can tell that they loved each other as true brothers, but their choices as adults (Moses wanting to free his brethren while Rameses wants to follow his father's path, despite knowing the severity of the plagues but not giving in to the pressure due to "stubbornness and pride") severed that close bond. It's so sad :(
I nearly suffocated this one bratty girl, sine she wouldn't stop talking to her friend, who helped me with silencing her. When we were cornered about it my a teacher, the other students stood in our favor.
Alexander, Kolchak, it's his adoptive brother! read the bible and watch the show! He was clearly adopted by the pharoah's family in the bible and the show!
Felt to watch this the other day..wow man..literally teared up the whole movie. Not just cause of Nostalgia but because even as a kid, I lowkey understood the message and would hear our Lord speak to me in sleep. Now being an adult in this world, It speaks volumes. Praise onto him, for he's our Lord and Savior. 🙏🏾
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Remember that this was Dreamwork's first ever feature film. They could've chosen anything, something original, something new. They chose something bold and adapted the epic Exodus from the Old Testament itself.
What a way to start a studio
The_Pyromancer
Actually the first feature film made by Dreamwork’s was Antz
"Production of Antz began in May 1996, after production had already commenced on The Prince of Egypt."
they also made king of dreams, and had same animation style even tho it was straight to VHS (I think it was) 10/10 for hard work.
The thing is, the Book of Exodus IS very epic. It is very amazing. So, they did a good choice in adapting the book of Exodus. Exodus is after all, one of the most IMPORTANT Books of the Bible because of how God rescued the whole Israel. Because the books after that shows how disappointing the ppl after. Makes you think about the ppl, "When will it ever be enough for You?"
You'll have to read the Bible for u to understand what i'm talking about ;)
But now look at them. They have no guts anymore.
What I love about this movie is the complicated sibling dichotomy we have here. Here we see a pained younger brother who only ever wanted to make his brother happy, but instead sees himself bringing pain to innocents, hurting a person he loved, and destroying his home. But on the flip side, we see a jaded older sibling that does not understand this larger picture, and thinks that the younger sibling trying to show power and prove superiority. And in the midst, two nations are in the cross fire. This movie was a cinematic masterpiece on all accounts, whether or not you choose to be religious or not.
Selena Hacken it’s silly now, but when I was a little kid watching this is was really torn up about how they couldn’t understand each other and reconcile.
Baribefe Kpurubu I think it’s pretty clear from his face and lyrics that he was conflicted, he cries about it in the next scene
@@samspotz8r8s I agree with you
Yes.
God did warn moses that hed harden ramses heart
Pharaoh is literally the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme
lmao true
Because god make him like that, so god can smite egypt more
Khanh Tran no that was pharaohs pride we have free will God was just reaching to pharaoh not letting them go it would of been different if pharaoh gave up and let them go
Alisabelle Simon God did make Pharaoh hard so he could smite Egypt more. I am studying the Bible right now and god does on default give people free will, but if he so choses, he can alter the actions of individuals as much as he want
God will harden those who continues to unrepentantly rebel against his will, as in he will withdraw his hand and his influence, thereby giving them up to their own passions thereby locking the rebel to his rebellion. Paul elaborates on this in his letter to the Romans
“Into your sleep, into your dreams,
Until you BREAK, until you YIELD!”
Honestly, this film comes so close to a horror movie sometimes…
To the Egyptians this was horror movie in real life
Exactly why it's too good, it shows great consequence to actions, a visible personality from both sides and a seriously epic juxtaposition in the relationship between Moses and Ramses, and not afraid to show the amount of devastation explicitly stated in the Bible. The music's awesome as well too, weaving 3 sides so neatly into the framework, from Moses showing the absolute power of God while still showing heart to Ramses, to the choir emphasizing God's wrath, and Ramses' stubbornness even in the face of divinity.
@@mr.husbandoeu7254 and remember people, this is one of the most easy-going religions in the world,
@@daboi6509 As a Roman Catholic, that is not true. People who say that Christianity is easy-going not real Christians or they are at least naive.
@@daboi6509 Ok, didn’t know that
Whether you are religious or not you can't deny this is metal af.
FernTheTH-camr agreed
Dude have you listened to the Johnathon Young version!! ?
Right? Metal as fuck.
FernTheTH-camr im not at all but this is art
Definitely.
I love the pure genius of the narrative in 1:38, when Pharaoh literally expells the comic relief from the story, represented in the priests, changing the tone of the plot from that point. If you see the movie, you can see that after the plagues struck, there is virtually no moment for jokes or laugh.
Great analysis.
My lord! I never realised that detail! Amazing observation and again, amazing writting!
It also reflects how, in the Exodus actual, it was during the Plague of Boils that the magi stopped appearing in the book (as being rendered 'unclean' meant they couldn't perform rituals or even appear before Pharaoh anymore) - indeed, in the film, you can see that Rameses sends them away right as they're desperately trying to either rub the boils off or mask them with some ointments. It's at this moment where their lies of 'replicating' the plagues stop working altogether.
Man literally said GTFO
Damn! I never noticed that til you mentioned it. Similarly, it reminded me of how after A Girl Worth Fighting For from Mulan abrubtly ends, it immediately shifts to a serious tone and no more songs (except for the reprise at the end) are played
"Then let my heart be hardened" is such an excellent summary of Ramses as a character: a man who wishes he didn't care, but can't help doing so.
That line is actually from a biblical verse where God says he “hardened Pharaoh’s heart”
Just as I heard that line of the song, your comment showed up. 😁👍
It is a reference to the Bible, in the Bible whenever a plague falls the Pharaoh promises to free the people of Israel if Moses stops the plague, so it is done but every time this happens the Bible says that "the Pharaoh's heart hardened" and immediately afterwards the Pharaoh does not keep his promise, this even after the tenth plague, just when the people of Israel are in front the Red Sea.
"I sent the locusts on a wind, as such the world has never seen, on every leaf, on every stalk, until there's nothing left of green" Such a powerful line. When I was a kid, I thought the Egyptians were trying to sow new grains, but no, they where eating from the bare soil.
And when He says “Such as the world has never seen”, you can trust that it’s beyond even your wildest imaginations. But then they added a descriptive of the results afterwards! And “nothing left of green” is nothing short of a nation-wide carpet bombing for the Egyptians, considering how important plants are in a desert! This would be the point where anyone rational would stop and acquiesce to the other side’s demands.
Unfortunately, Ramses is not rational anymore.
The cool thing is that the verse that days that comes from actual biblical scripture
The german translation makes it even more harrowing, it translates to "so it shall never be green again"
"Yeah, I can see it now. There go the pyramids!"
"Well, you can laugh about it!"
"Statues cracking and toppling over, the Nile drying up. Singlehandedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on earth to ruin."
That foreshadowing tho
+Alpha Song ... How did I not notice that?!? Aw man, that's just embarrasing!
+adrimare1 Rameses: I will not let your people go!
God: Die greatest Kingdom!
Later...Die Rameses!!!
ikr!!! this movie was put together BEAUTIFULLY! And crazy foreshadowing when Ramses said "I should have done what my father had done before, my father had the right idea when dealing with your ppl, and there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt like none ever before" Thinking he was gonna repeat the baby slaughtering his father Pharaoh had done before but ironically setting up the grounds for GOD to do the EXACT same thing to his own ppl.
"Tell me this Moses, tell me this. How come everytime you start something. I'm the one who ends up in trouble." *Moses drops punch balloon on top of high priests*
I love that scene!
Omg, I just realized that
One of the things that I like about how they animated is the sheer faith in God's protection that Moses displays. A storm of flaming hail is coming down, causing panic and devastation, yet Moses shows no fear or hesitation in walking out into it, knowing that God wouldn't allow his prophet to be harmed.
Moses really be like:
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I recall pretty much all the Hebrews were specifically spared during the plagues. Though it's obviously most noticeable during the final Plague of Firstborns, of course.
Except for that one time on the way back when God was about to kill Moses
I was just thinking that
@@valhersa29 "this is fine"
That last scene where the darkness comes down and destroys the statue was always interesting to me, because from what I can tell, I think that was a statue of Ra, the Egyptian sun god, so shrouding him in darkness is an interesting way to portray the plague of darkness, basically God rubbing it in the faces of Egypt, that their gods were nothing compared to Him.
I also love how the darkness actually flows, when it's moving through the city, it looks like an actual liquid or something, the animation is just incredible
No wonder, because the Bible described that this darkness was material.
The rest of the plagues were also mocking Egypt's supposed gods, or at least showing they were subservient to Moses'.
If you look carefully, there's a part where the darkness is actually spreading like vines up toward the top of the palace. It was definitely tangible.
No I think that was a statue of Horus.
All the plagues were like this. A comment above explains it perfectly each plague was a sombol of gods power over the Egyptians most powerful gods. Gods way of saying “I am the true one. They are nothing to me”
I wrote a 2000-word essay on this scene for my Film Studies A level. My teacher said he was skeptical, at first, of my choice of an animated film, but he actually went away and watched the whole film.
Did he like the movie?
Smart man.
The fact that a FILM STUDIES professor is skeptical about animated films just goes to show how stigmatized and disrespected animation is as an artistic medium 😭
@@rolarym_ to be fair, he wasn't a professor. This was the equivalent of high school.
Cool, what grade did you get?
The line, "Then let my heart be hardened," gets me every damn time. Not quite sure why, but something about it sends chills down my spine.
I suppose it's a normal human thing to do to show of pride. Though it hurts that people suffer, u decide to ignore it just for your own selfish pride.
@@JoeMartinez18 funny thing is the same god that unleashed the plauges is the god that hardened the pharohs heart. So technically it was god who didnt want his ppl to be set free
@@dovahkitty4401 I doubt God hardened his heart just for it. It kills all the purpose of humans having free will.
What I think the Bible said was " I will darken the pharao's heart" meaning " The pharao's heart will darken when he finds out about me"
@jj05 as our lord and god google would always say *citation needed*.
Me too. I think it's because somebody's heart hardening is not usually a conscious decision. However, Ramses knows how badly his choices are affecting his people and he's consciously acknowledging that the plagues are tearing Egypt apart but he doesn't care mostly out of spite. I love this movie
I gotta say, even being irreligious, I enjoy the hell out of these kinds of movies. Whenever a major animation studio makes a movie with even the slightest religious themes it turns out really dark and intense. Like, anyone remember the Hunchback of Notre Dame? If you haven't seen it as an adult you need to. That is without a doubt one of Disney's darkest films. When Frollo sings 'Hellfire', oh, forget about it. Fuckin amazing.
I like how just before Frollo sang Hellfire, there was a song called Heaven's Light added to put in some juxtaposition :)
Religion, ironically, just makes everything darker.
+Saraya V That comment, ironically, unnecessarily pisses off way too many people.
Moose the Second and that, ironically, causes religions of peace to resort to war and bloodshed.
This is why I believe in a God, but not in a Church. The Church is made of men, and men are fallible. They twist the good and purity into strings of hate and oppression to fuel their own desires, all while hiding behind a cloak of all that is holy.
+Saraya V and what you just said, ironically, does nothing to justify why you would start a conflict for no apparent reason on TH-cam. I repeat, TH-cam. TH-cam.
What makes this, as a Christian, so distinct is that each plague targeted a specific Egyptian God, with the most deviating as the plague of darkness: meant to hit Ra the sun god. Gives me chills every time
FunFact: The Ancient Egypt empires had 2 Kings, 1 of the North and 1 other in the South. / FunFact_2: The Egyptians of the Ancient Egypt believed that Ra would be swallowed by the darkness and be wandering the underworld and then be reborn when sunrise.
@@M697_01 yet the darkness that enveloped egypt at the time of mosses lasted for three days. And probably was painful darkness since its a "...darkness that could be felt" Exodus 10:21.
And even more, in those three days of darkness, the sun was present to Israelites.
That was more than sun rotating around the earth.
@@skullknight6584The sun doesn’t rotated around the Earth, the moon does but the Sun doesn’t. The Earth rotated around the Sun.
@@skullknight6584 No, LIGHT was present to the Israelites. Not the sun.
@@M697_01 Only in earlier stages. We can see from Ramses' crown that he rules a united Egypt
"I send the swarm/I send the horde/Thus saith the Lord"
This goes unbelievably hard
I send my scourge/ I send my sword/ Thus saith the Lord!
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how do they make a film so perfect?
super girl Very carefully.
that's DreamWorks+The Bible for you
true they just don't make films like they use to anymore
Because they gave a damn.
Because films are supposed to be art, not fucking cash grabs like so many are today. Film makers often put little thought or effort into movies these days. Just look at The Force Awakens. Back in the day, film makers actually cared about what they were creating and really tried to make genuinely good films. These days, those kinds of film makers, such as poor George Lucas, often get shunned, insulted and ridiculed. I think the most recent movies I've seen that I consider art are Frozen, which was from three years ago (I thought it marked the beginning of a new Disney Renaissance but sadly I was wrong), and possibly Me Before You, although that film has an advantage over most others because it had my favourite actress in it.
It's interesting how close Rameses is to his son, which makes sense:
It's rooted in an insecurity with Rameses' inability to please and be close to his own father, so he made sure to love his own son and openly express it. It's so tragic how things ended.
Great observation. It's truly horrible how things ended up
Rameses being loving with his son is wholesome. Or it would be had it not been for the ending
Its interesting to see that the live action old school movie portrayed this as well. The son was perched upon Ramses a lot.
Well, I guess god said fuck all the people that did nothing wrong.
@@treycopeland1368 It pains me when humans try to judge the morality of higher beings, as if your scope of understanding comes anywhere near that of Yahweh's. Unsurprisingly this comes most often from non believers who don't even have the base human understanding of events
This has got to be one of the most metal songs in animated kids' movie history haha. I swear, how has no metal band covered this thing????
+Parson Hooper Hey, YOU'RE the one holding a guitar in your avatar. Get on that, boyee.
+Parson Hooper Try In the Dark of the Night also very metal and Disney
+Dustwake Neither "Prince of Egypt" nor "Anastasia" are Disney. Not to shut you down.
+Parson Hooper Oh my God that would be so fucking awesome o_o
How is this metal?! What the flip?
Even as a non beliver what truly gives me chills is putting myself in the shoes of the egyptian people. The mere thought of having the Creator himself against me with my own gods standing still, statuary in their non-existence really sends shivers down my spine
Quick, hire those wandering swordsmen from the far east.
What does that tell you? God is one and only. Paganism should be outlawed worldwide.
@@sroydetroy6404 I'm sure that's what Amakusa Shiro thought when his head popped off his body.
And if you watched Journey to the West, I'm sure that you would have thought the same when Buddha used his swa... manji powers.
@@DarkAdonisVyers Believing in God is not only when it suits you and comfortable. God put us here and he tests us and yup... some of his tests are hard.
When the chorus kicks in "I send the swarm, i send the horde, thus saith the lord", and the grasshoppers fly over the statue of Anubis, it always gives me chills.
FlixerDK God of death who? Lol 😂
1990-2000 the greatest era of animated musicals
sukhbat sodnomdorj agreed
sukhbat sodnomdorj i agree
Amen
Agreed
True that
This movie was so raw, punk-ass Disney would never be able to execute it without making it fluffy and obnoxious. I love that they show the internal struggles on both sides. One of the best animated films of all time.
Didn’t disney make Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Jefferey Katzenberg was the driving force behind this movie. He was forced to resign from Disney after a falling out with then CEO Michael Eisner. While at Disney Jefferey Katzenberg was in charge of the studios and animation and ALWAYS pitched the idea of adapting the Exodus story for a full length animated feature but it was never put into production. So when he left Disney and started Dreamworks with Steven Spielberg, this was his first idea; And so the greatest animated film (IMO) was put into production
Hunchback got close.
@@Cornelius989 very cool, im glad you shed light on this for me.
@@robinthefool8960 hunchback was ruined by stuff like the gargoyles and weird slapstick even during the climax
I get shivers every time Rameses starts singing, you can feel the power in the voice actors performance. It feels so personal and vengeful yet strong and firm. Beautiful!
Rameses voice actor was one of the few actors who did their own singing for the film. It’s safe to say Ralph Fiennes does a fantastic job here.
Voldemort has an amazing voice
That’s my favorite part too. Both voices do so well playing to their role
This film is DreamWork's Hunchback of Notre Dame, underrated and religiously dark af.
And both have one of the greatest animatd villains ever.
yo that's so true. nice point
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A little digging into Egyptian beliefs brings out a new level to this. God isn't just using generic plagues to attack the Egyptians. He is mocking the Egyptian gods in the process, who tended to be patterned after animals, as well as the concept of Pharaoh being a god himself since this entire time he is powerless. Essentially, he is breaking the Egyptians by saying "See how your gods tremble before me?" in addition to suffering.
And their gods don't just tremble; they flee. He has full authority and power, and the various Egyptian gods can't do a damn thing to stop Him. Here's a brief breakdown of how every single plauge hit Egyptian beliefs and their very way of life:
the staff-to-cobra transformation caused such a panic because it's a symbol of two goddesses: Meretseger, the guardian of the royal tombs, and, most importantly, Wadjet, the symbol of the royal power of life and death (hence why the pharaohs and a few other members of the royal family wore a stylised cobra on their heads; and note, this comes immediately after Ramses pardons Moses of murder, which is punishable by death). That's also why Hotep and Huy could pull it: they are the court mages, playing with cobras is part of their job;
the First Plague, transforming the Nile in a river of blood, is a mockery of a good omen: the Nile would become red once per year, filled with the fertile silt that the incoming flood would deposit on the earth. And yet, this time not only the red waters appeared at the wrong time of the year and brought no silt, but they also caused the death of all the fish of Egypt. And come to think of it, silt is probably how Hotep and Huy 'replicated' the trick on a smaller scale'; This mocked Sobek, the god who protected against the dangers of the Nile, and Tefnut, Goddess of water
the Second Plague, the frogs overrunning Egypt, continues the mockery of a good omen: the frog is a symbol of fertility and the gods Heket, and Hapy, a personification of the flooding of the Nile and its fertile silt, and smaller 'invasions' of frogs would come right after the flooding;
the Third and Fourth Plagues, the mosquitoes and the fleas, are a direct consequence of the end of the Second: there were no frogs to eat them anymore. What's worse, the Egyptians were used to dealing with them, but this time there were too many;
the Fifth Plague, the disease of the livestock, hits a soft point of the Egyptian believes: the cult of Apis, intermediary between men and gods, with a living incarnation as a bull (the Egyptians also built graves for these bulls). Because now Moses is the intermediary, Apis dies, and no other bull with the proper markings shall be found;
the Sixth Plague, the boils, hits particularly hard: boils and other illnesses fall under the dominion of Thoth, the God of Science and Knowledge, Medicine and, what's worse, the Arbitrator of the Gods, who would bring justice and properly administer the law. Between the epidemics and the priests having no knowledge on how to cure this, this one is a warning that Egypt has brought itself outside of the law of Maat, its greatest moral value;
the Seventh Plague, the storm of fire, is personal for the Pharaoh and the royal family: storms are the dominion of Seth. In this time not only Seth is not yet demonized (that would happen only from the Twenty-First dinasty, and the names of the Pharaohs indicate the Nineteenth), but it's one of the most important gods, with Rameses's own father being named after him and the current capital of Pi-Ramses (cited by name in the Bible as the starting point of the Exodus) is a center of Seth's worship. Ouch...;
the Eight Plague, the locusts, is pure nightmare: while in small numbers they were considered symbols of luck alongside grasshoppers, in large numbers they were rightly feared, and by being brought by the wind this plague entered the dominion of one of the most important gods, Amon;
the Ninth Plague the Darkness, is again personal with the Pharaoh and his family: not only the authority of the Pharaoh is associated with the Sun God Ra and the Sky God Horus, but the reigning Pharaoh is Rameses, meaning "Born from Ra". A message of paternal and divine rejection?; Also, at the end of this number, the darkness starts and spreads from a crumbling statue of Ra.
the Tenth Plague is linked to a specific Egyptian myth, the Eye of Ra. In that myth, the men had disrespected Ra and planned to rebel and kill him, so he sent his Eye (identified with either the war goddess Sekhmet or the gentle Hathor, Depending on the version) to punish them with a slaughter... And in one day she killed half of mankind, all the guilty and many innocents, and to stop her finishing the job the gods had to get her drunk. The message here is: "Let My people go, for if you continue to sin all of Egypt shall die in an heartbat". No wonder Rameses finally relented...
You gotta admit, whoever wrote Exodus, even if it isn't true, REALLY did his research.
Thoralmir Or simply that the stories evolved to respond to such stories.
TheInfamousRoo Nah, the Jews kept the Torah pretty consistent. The Christians were the ones who altered things.
Thoralmir Catholic's mostly changed a lot of the bible and with this came more confusion. That's the reason many say catholic's are not christian's along with Jehovah witness and etc. This is why people don't want to get into it, It's to much for a lot of people
Nope. The Christians hung onto the Bible and didn't alter it from its original state. In fact, it was the Jews who then removed books from their Bible. Hence why we get Hannukah, but barely hear a peep about Judas Maccabees' story, which isn't in the Jewish Bile at all, but it is in the Catholic Bible. Funny how the only people who have the Hannukah story in the Bible are the Catholics. And much of Catholicism is derived from Jewish forms of Worship, since Jesus was the Jewish Messiah and Second Person of the Holy Trinity of the most High God, who is the God of the Hebrews. Look up "Jewish Roots of Catholicism." It shows how Catholicism is consistent with the Old Testament and shows how the New fulfills the Promises of the Old.
Isn't it ironic that an animated movie portrays the Egyptians and the israelites accurately, but all the live action versions don't?
Yup. Hollywood can be a bitch.
Elizabeththegreatest yep
Hollywood live action is full of exaggerations
Because with animation, you can draw them that way, no matter the colour of the skin of the voice. Just look up the voice actors for this movie, and most of them were still white.
Elizabeththegreatest nobody should even care. It's their artistic license to cast whomever they choose. Anthony Hopkins played Diego De La Vega and no mexican gave a shit.
Fuck, they can remake west side story tomorrow and cast nothing but asians- and the world won't change a bit.
I love how God is speaking through the choir singing, and through the voices of others through the movie
This scene scared me as a kid for some reason
I show this to anyone who says that animation is stupid and only for kids.
Good.
You`re fighting the good fight.
thank u!
good job
One Punch Man is fucking amazing, what are you on about?!
something I have noticed is how the attention to detail they gave Pharaoh. Pay attention to when his face is in frame, almost every time he narrows his eyes, that signifies that he Harding his heart, nice detail to point out!
“this is fine”
He wasn't hardening his heart. God did. God literally tells Moses that he will make Pharaoh unable to agree to his demands, just to fuck with Egypt.
@@MankindDiary If you say "Just to fuck with Pharoah", then you'd be accurate. Egypt was punished for following and not repenting. Pharoah was the ringleader who knew Joseph and yet decided to turn his guests into slaves.
1:44 the voice actor for the pharaoh is the same actor for voldemort, so you get to hear voldemort sing
You who I called Potter how come you have killed me so!?
Hahhahahhahah OH MY GOD
Yeah, he was also a nazi officer in Schindler's List so you can find why some jews hate him
I hate the fact that his voice is Voldemort's but the song matches more with Grindelwald and Dumbledore
wait-
What I love is that right after all this, before the final plague (Death of the Firstborn), Moses goes to Rameses and pleads with him to stop, saying something worse than any of the previous plagues is coming and to think of his son. Rameses then tells Moses that he will stop the Israelites the same way his father did, and that there would be a great cry in Egypt like there never was or would be again (foreshadowing). When he says this, Moses realizes that the wall they are next to is the one decorated with the slaughter of the Israelite children (which he'd escaped), and that where the children being tossed into the Nile were carved, directly below the crocodiles' jaws, was Ramses's son. Horrified and defeated, Moses tells Rameses he brings this on himself and leaves. Hands down my favorite scene in the movie
Rameses: the oldest table flipper currently known to man
make it a meme
S Barron I just read your comment as I watched him flip the table and fucking lost it!! 😂😂😂😂 to perfect!
Ramses: "See this table? ... Fuck this table."
Also Ramses was one of the freatest rulers egypt ever saw. Atleast one of the Ramses, he expanded egypts empire to the border of modern day Turkey and he lived until he reached the age of 92 and he ruled for over 70 years. The israelites was never slaves in Egypt, the whole exodus story has no basis in acctual history or archeology. The Israelites was Slaves for a time in Babylon how ever, thats where the flood myth came from. they basically copied the sumerian flood myth
Ah yes, the secret 11th commandment:
"Thou shalt not leave a single table unturned, thus saith the Lord."
Moses: "Let my people go!"
Ramesses: "I will not let your people go!"
God: "Ha! You've just activated my trap card!" *unleashes the plagues*
OMG 😂
That dosent make sense though, a trap card is used to "counter" unless its equip or usable after the first turn...
Unless you go for show version's "logic"...
Just saying...
@@ScholarVillainy9254 Wow you must be fun at parties.
@@shockzz1234 * blows fist *
I know, Im just that great...
@@ScholarVillainy9254 he just countered ramesses' rejection, that is the point
Why can't modern movie be like this? I feel like most of the more recent "children's movies" are too silly and light-hearted, filled with cheap humor and cheerful music. As much as I think Frozen is a completely alright movie, I wish people weren't so afraid of making a little bit more dark and heavy stuff again. This is beautiful!
+KreeZafi Because kids now days are so far gone that they need to be constantly yelled at to keep their attention. You make something slightly too deep and thought provoking, and the children get confused, then they get angry. Then the parents raise all kinds of hell because their precious got their feelings hurt.
+Shebshie I'm afraid you're absolutely right. It's a shame, really.
+KreeZafi You mean like the Hunchback of Notre Dam, Secret of Nimh and the Land before Time? Yeah, I wish they could do those again. Kids movies have gone soft.
+KreeZafi Sounds like someone needs to watch Kung Fu Panda 3.
jacoblgames THAT MOVIE CAN GO TO HELL.
As a teen who's mom is from Egypt, when I showed her this, she said it was the best American made movie she has ever seen. And she's been in America for over 15 years so that's saying something.
Me: *be an atheist*
This song: *plays*
Me: THUS SAITH THE LOOORD!!!
I never saw an Atheist who disliked this song. Its a freacking bop
@@poliswag6666 I’m an atheist and I’ve watched this movie 4 times today I-
Is good song
Even atheist can like this song cuz how much of a banger it is
Atheist or not this is a master piece of a movie. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. This is the pinnacle of movies it legit doesn’t get better. Ever. The story isn’t just gold how it’s done is just as good. The music is legendary
There's only one voice in this song that gives me chills. Its in the opening when the singers sound like there Whispering, its the really deep one that says "since you refuse to free my people," really adds wight to the lyrics
It was an AMAZING choice to have a chorus represent the voice of YHWH. It represents an all-encompassing all-mightiness -- not just one voice but many combining into this immensely commanding ethereal effect.
This is my favorite telling of this story. It had such wonderful character development and you really feel the burden that weighs on Moses's shoulders having to go against someone who he knew as his family. Many other versions don't even bother with the family relationship.
I know right? Even the bible doesn't touch on that (even though it's something we should assume)
Yeah, except Moses was already really old by now and I don't think they were really brothers the way they portray it in this. The Pharo was probably old enough to be his dad.
To be fair, the Pharoah and Moses weren't necessarily brothers. It is likely that they did have some familial relations, on some degree.
Actually according to the Ten Commandments they didn't like each other much. But who can be sure.
Agreed, I actually somewhat sympathise with Ramsey as well since he clearly missed his brother and has no qualms with him being a hebrew but instead Moses rejects him reflecting that his only interest in returning to Egypt was to free the Hebrews. Ramsey felt betrayed that Moses would just throw away years of family and friendship. I love this movie as all the characters including the villain are highly humanised.
I like this scene because you see that Moses and Ramses are both conflicted with the love they have for each other. But Moses was chosen and must keep with God's will. Such a great scene.
Ah, Yahweh's will. Fuck human will, am I right?
Literally having chills throughout the whole song
BeCreative74 right though.
Panic! AtTheTØPAnime hi
Same here
Oh yes. Something about an omnipotent being bringing his wrath down does that.
If you read the Bible, you'd see it happens the whole time
I hope they do another biblical movie. This movie and the King of Dreams are AMAZING
King of Dreams kind of sucks but this movie is amazing
@@ghostninja5035 well, it's your opinion then.
@YME Well, you have a point. Considering that Hans Zimmer did the soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt, and the animation quality is much better and the movie had a bigger budget,... YEAH!! actually yes The Prince of Egypt is better.
Come on, King of Dreams isn´t not too bad, i think its only because the story is a drama, and the prince of egypt is more like an epic.
Both stories are from different genres, and the prince of egypt has the plus of showing God, and the plagues and all of that is more interesting than a drama story. But still, the king of dreams is a good movie, and is closer to the original material, the book its based on.
After watching King of Dreams for the first time, I felt the need to watch Prince of Egypt again as I never knew there was a prequel to such a masterpiece.
When you break your streak in Duolingo
Anton L. Graf perfect
NO PLEASE!
Dulingo Bird: 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
I send the swarm, I send the horde
Thus saith the Lord
Once I called you brother
Once I thought the chance
to make you laugh
Was all I ever wanted...
I send the thunder from the sky
I send the fire raining down
And even now I wish that God
had chose another
Serving as your foe on his behalf
Is the last thing that I wanted...
I send a hail of burning ice
On ev'ry field, on ev'ry town
This was my home
All this pain and devastation
How it tortures me inside
All the innocent who suffer
From your stubbornness and pride...
I send the locusts on a wind
Such as the world has never seen
On ev'ry leaf, on ev'ry stalk
Until there's nothing left of green
I send my scourge, I send my sword
Thus saith the Lord!
You who I called brother
Why must you call down another blow?
I send my scourge, I send my sword
Let my people go
Thus saith the Lord
Thus saith the Lord
You who I called brother
How could you have come to hate me so?
Is this what you wanted?
I send the swarm, I send the horde...
Then let my heart be hardened
And never mind how high the cost may grow
This will still be so:
I will never let your people go...
Thus saith the Lord:
Thus saith the Lord:
I will not...
Let your (my) people go!
Nearly laughed out loud in my train. A+
This movie was and still is a MASTERPIECE. It is criminally underrated
God that chanting at the start never fails to give me goosebumps, I love it!
Goosebumps to the point that you can literally replay that part and watch on your arm the goosebumps. Like your body recognize the validity of it.
Pharaoh looking at the plagues like "This is fine."
Actually, God made him to think that.
"You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt" [Exodus 7:2-3]
So basically, God is being a Jerk, killed a lot of people, destroyed Egypt just to make himself look cool?
mmmkay.
Super Kamehameha! Why would you think that?? God did that because he had to teach them a lesson. That lesson being: don’t worship other gods, and too prove he IS GOD!
MankindDiary what does that have have to do showing them he IS God
MankindDiary and besides...I wasn’t exactly talking to you...
Watched this at a young age....Still awesome
MarkGhost Productions never gets old
my favorite part is at the end (2:11) when rameses and moses are going back to back with their vocals, the choir - meant to represent the voice of God - is going along with Moses's "let my people go" giving more weight to his tone and volume over rameses just like when he was saying the "thus saith the Lord" quote
Every time I hear "Thus saith the Lord" in the song I get a wave of chill down my spine.
Wiccan Boi same
Wiccan Boi same
It's beyond physical chills
I love the quality to Ramses voice. It's not conventionally polished or full like Moses's, but it's still somehow pretty and extremely satisfying to listen to. It's like it's lacking the warmth and roundness of Moses's and instead is jagged and cold, but makes up for it in character. Moses is Tiger Eye, Ramses is Obsidian. It fits their characters perfectly.
Ralph Fiennes is more of an actor, rather than a singer. Still, he's perfect for this, as you say.
Still can't believe is Voldemort singing. I too love his voice in this, and I find it very emotional and striking.
Strong agree
Ok, that finish, wow
IKR?! EPIC
RIP Annubis.
I do believe that was Horus. It makes more sense than if it was Anubis, Horus was the deity of power and his statue crumbling would represent how powerless the egyptians were against God.
Zack Lint yup it was Horus
Zack Lint at 0:27 they depict Anubis, shadowed by the swarm, a very nice metaphor of the coming death.
1:54 "let my heart be hardened, and never mind how high the cost may grow." is a great line. The boom in the voice actor's voice feels so ambitious and bold and stubborn. I can't articulate it well enough but it's a fantastic song!
1:31
that "let my people go!" is so amazing!!
babey bee I know righttt
Thus saith the lord
Yes I’ve always loved the way he sang that line
@@xxblackred_gachaxx You who I call brother, how could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted?
Johnny
I'm not really into Biblically based movies, but this is hands down one of my favorite movies, and my favorite part. It's so chilling and powerful.
Brittany Alexander Agree with you
Brittany Alexander Yes!
This is why I like the Old Testament god more than the revelations god
The Egyptians had it coming
Definitely the best DreamWorks movie.
*S H R E K*
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Lit Litten are you kidding me? How to train your dragon doesn’t have shit on this
I mean yeah, even though this is an amazing movie, I think Shrek is better. Prince of Egypt > How to train your dragon though
Nah Kung fu panda is the best /:
Jesus this one verse just stands head and shoulders above the others:
''Then let my heart be hardened,
And nevermind how high the cost may grow
This will still be so
I will never let
Your people go''
JUST PERFECTION
1:54
It is an amazing line that also bears a stunning truth for all of us.
Do we soften our heart toward the Lord and what He is saying, or do we harden our hearts, ignore Him and carry on along our perceived merry way away from Him.
It is especially heavy when you consider that in Exodus 8:32 God affected Rameses' free will by purposefully hardening his heart further than it already had. And he likely did this because he is an arrogant God who wanted everyone to know he was more powerful than their gods. Which is why he brought the darkness plague as a big "fuck you" to Ra. It could have ended sooner, but it appears Yahweh wanted to send a clear message.
It was more than that though, had God made the pharaoh yield so easily, he would have never got the credit, and the Israelites would end up believing this was their victory, NOT God’s. And so with the 10 plagues, He not only shows that there is no god/demon who is even on his level to begin with, but to ensure the Israelites give the victory to Him. Because He is their God, a jealous one at that and why wouldn’t he, we as humans were created in God’s perfect image. And so the Israelites would remember that it was God and only God who helped them leave Egypt.
@@kijjamburodney3086soooo god is an insecure basement dwelling pathetic loser than. Got it! 😊
The individual plagues weren’t dealt out at random. Each was chosen as punishment in great part due to their symbolic significance:
- Water Becomes Blood: Signifies God’s supremacy over Hapi, Egyptian god associated with the Nile who was the “water bearer.”
- Frogs from the Nile: Illustrates God’s power over Heket, the Egyptian goddess of fertility, who had the head of a frog.
- Lice from the Dust: Signifies God’s power over Geb, Egyptian god of the earth/land.
- Swarms of Flies: Shows God’s authority over Khepri, Egyptian god of creation with the head of a fly/scarab/insect.
- Death of the Livestock: Shows God’s victory over Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love usually depicted with a cow head and is closely associated with cattle.
- Boils and Sores: Represents God’s power over Isis, Egyptian goddess of medicine, magic, and peace.
- Burning Hail: Signifies God’s dominion over Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky.
- Hoards of Locusts: Illustrates God’s supremacy over Seth/Set; Egyptian god of destruction, storms, and disorder.
- Three Days of Absolute Darkness: Represents God’s supremacy over Ra, the Egyptian sun god. Possibly also demonstrates superiority over Aten (another solar deity) and maybe Thoth (deity of knowledge and the moon).
- Death of the First Born: Signifies God’s authority over Osiris (Egyptian god of the afterlife), Horus (Deity closely associated with Pharaohs and life itself), Anubis (Egyptian god of the dead), and Pharaoh (the “highest authority” of Egypt).
How fortunate that he's as real as them
Just a quick clarification: Hapi was actually God of the Nile's annual flood, not of the Nile itself. Sobek was often seen as the protector of the river and its creatures (crocodiles in particular). :)
Alfred Dupont he is real
To be fair this is from the Hebrews point of view in the Egyptian rendition all of gods plauges were stopped by the egyptian gods until amun-ra ordered the pharoh to release the hebrews
@@Byzantine_Orthodox_Christian There is no Egyptian rendition of this event because it never happened.
How much did it cost making this from storyboard, writing, singing, rehearsals, to animation?
The total production budget for "The Prince of Egypt" was $70 million.
AdudenamedKemp Thanks
+Eric Cayton It was the most expensive animated movie ever for a few years. Then The Spirits Within came out in 2001.
EDIT: Actually, Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) may have been more expensive.
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OMG yahsss ikana skull kid ben drowned etc.
this movie should have been turned into a musical on broadway.
Just imagine this one number on stage!
You have a point. This would have been so cool to see on Broadway
No, animation is capable of something that is impossible in the real world. So this is the best possible way to convey this scene.
I agree with you and I agree with your pfp and username for I too am an army
I heard rumors that they actually plan to do that.
Well I got good news for you, buddy!
I love the references to the original wording of the plagues in the bible, most apparent to me was the "such as the world has never seen" during the locusts. The bible said something along the lines of "a horde of locusts the likes of which has never been seen, and never will be seen again."
I wish DreamWorks made a movie about Queen Esther. I mean she was one of the greatest heroines in the bible and her love story with the King of Persia was very romantic.
Or Noah or David and Goliath I would pay good money to see that
Ira Williams Or heck, I'd love if they ever did a movie on Jesus' story/crucifixion!
yeah I think David and Goliath would work pretty well in a movie format. tho I think we need a bit more fighting there than just flinging the rock and that to be it, let it to be what kills Goliath but we need bit more blows than just him falling over dead like a sack of potatoes.
Oh Esther would be awesome to see!! Same with the story of Noah! Or Ruth, that's one of my favorite stories from the Bible.
MrAnimepredator Perhaps what happens after killing Goliath can be part of the movie. There is a lot of stuff before David becomes king. Solomon even kicks him out, despite being told by God that David would be anointed as king.
DreamWorks has this habit of taking ideas that shouldn't work, and then making them amazing. THIS is hands down the studios masterpiece. This is Dreamwork's Lion King. I had no idea that Ralph Fiennes or Val Kilmer could sing before I heard this song. This single sequence is as good as, if not better than most Disney musical numbers.
Unfortunately, it isn't Val Kilmer singing. It's a singer by the name of Amick Byram. Ralph Fiennes, however, IS singing his part.
Jacob Stern Io Sadly, this isn’t as renowned as the Lion King. If I’m honest, it should be.
@@Rachel-zf2wmI think The lion king is somewhat overrated and everything everyone says about it perfectly describes the prince of eygpt.
I honestly think this movie is better than Lion King, and I love Lion King.
I actually prefer this film over the Ten Commandments. Now don't get me wrong, Ten Commandments is a superb film but it's key problem for me is the fact that Moses and Ramses in that version almost seem to hate each other. I get they tried to show Ramses as a bad seed, but there is no sense of even respect for each other. The whole story of Exodus seems to focus on two brothers and their brotherhood being torn in two. Prince of Egypt captured this perfectly and took some interesting interpretations of the characters that I really enjoyed
Jack Crofts-Mullin I wonder if it was more that Yule Brynner hated Charlton Heston :D
convoku well that kinda makes sense. A key part of acting is to show relationships between two people that have only recently met. Part of why the new Power Rangers movie worked for me is because the cast had a real chemistry because they actually spent time together and became good friends. If Brynner and Heston didn't like each other, it will come through in their performances which it did
"His god....is God"
They actually weren't buddies, so...
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not entirely knowledgeable about the Bible; but wasn't Moses Rameses' cousin, not brother?
Putting aside how this is an absolute work of art in terms of animation, this shot right here at 2:06 is amazing from a general filmmaking perspective. The different lighting, the way they move to look at each other with discontent instead of animosity before fading into two different shots when the final part of the song kicks in. THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD!!!!
I watched it for the first time yesterday and I’ve rewatched this scene specifically at least 20 times
Ngl that would make a good wallpaper
If someone tells me that animated movies are only for kids, I’ll show him/her this. The amount of work behind every single scene to achieve such a magnificent masterpiece is impressive. It’s like a sequence of paintings coming to live, I miss 2D animation for this reason.
Animated movies are moving paintings (2D animation) and were never really meant only for kids to begin with
@Hattan AlShutaifi There is a saying , we never grow up we just upgraded so all adults were kids once
I'll add to this a C.S Lewis quote: "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story."
Watched this around 5 years old I got hella scared a lot in the beginning practically crapped my pants during the plagues
@hattanalshutaifi4587another quote I heard at one point don’t know who said it heck I don’t think I can remember the full quote but I think it goes something like.
“Your not just writing for children your writing for the poor parents who have to read it to their children hundreds of times.”
Just found out the guy who played Rameses played Voldemort....
Orly Doe Voldemort, Hades, Ramses, Amon
Hmmm, he's got a nick for villains eh?
Orly Doe the first Voldemort or the last?
oh? really?
Orly Doe lord Voldemort, with a nose!
Back when animated films had balls.
goreycinema that's true so very very true
You gotta have balls to tell a story from the Old Testament. Seriously though, have you read it? Murder everywhere.
There's murder everywhere today too. Only difference is today people make stupid justifications for killing. At least when God unleashed His Wrath, it meant you did something truly heinous. Killing/beating/enslavement, sexual perversion, etc.
Boomstick1911 True that. People have forgotten to respect their own spirituality and nature and prefer to worship matterialism instead
No God should be worshiped if he solves problems through killing innocent people.
This is what top-tier animation looks like. This isn't a movie. This is art.
Honestly, this is my favorite movie of all time. It's a musical with awesome songs, the animation style is unique and amazing, it's entertaining, and it's my favorite Bible story of all time. YES.
Too bad it wasn't completely true to God's Word and the true story therefore. Do you know the Salvation Plan of God, and Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord?
I'm confused. Are you talking about the Rapture?
The story in the movie, while focussed on Moses, is an adaption to the true Book of Moses. A few examples can be that Moses' brother, Aaron, is not present with Moses at all in the film - he is with Miriam. But the Bible tells us that it is in fact Aaron who speaks on God's behalf to Pharaoh, with his staff, and Moses is with him. Another is that Pharaoh wished to kill Moses after the accidental death of another Egyptian, which is why he fled.
I believe there are many other adaptions in the film, but I can't quite remember the film itself. I believe this is what STCooper1 is referring to.
aBoughtLemon He died on a cross, not a tree.
This is probably the most manliest way of saying to your bro
" Sorry mate, but i disagree with you...."
Pedro Ruokonen or the most dramatic
By serving as a figurehead to an omnipotent murderous psychopath and having it do all the job? Oh, what a paragon of masculinity indeed.
+Alknix
_"By serving as a figurehead to an omnipotent murderous psychopath and having it do all the job?"_
God gave an escape clause for _every_ deadly plague, to Egypt AND the Hebrews. Egypt threw the Hebrew children into the Nike without any such mercy.
"gave an escape clause "
As does every terrorist and tyrant. "Do exactly what I tell you and I will not have you and your loved ones murdered." How's that supposed to win my favor?
"Let my heart be hardened" was not god doing it but ramases doing it againts god, so no god did not make him stubborn in a literal sense......
When your brother changes the Wifi password and refuses to give it to you...
EDIT : Cheezus Chrust ! I didn't noticed I got so many likes on this one lol glad you guys enjoy it, thanks !
Kaito57 "Let my people go"
Would that be the Password-over story, then?
Yeah instead all the rounds would be maybe pranks and hired guys to pour down at where ever brother goes
Vargen Kaig I'd prefer sending the plagues lol.
"I WILL NEVER LET YOUR PASSWORD *GO!* (thus saith the Wifi)"
I don't care how many people know Ralph Fiennes from Bond or as Voldemort, or from the English Patient, etc. His omnibus of work is so impressive, but I will always think of him as Rameses. His voice still instantly hits me. To this day I can't believe this movie came out in 1998. I'm still as floored by it visually and musically today as I was when I first saw it.
Perfect drawings, perfect music, perfect story = perfect movie.
The Bible is perfect because God has let it still be relevant to this day, even if people don't want to admit it.
@@ndJssFlurt so true
@@ndJssFlurt it,is but I refuse or believe in god not because I hate god but because I hate the people of god
I am an athiest/agnostic, but this movie is still a bomb.
The god part is fine, but my hook is the human relationships.
@@echomikoart the movie is perfectly balanced!
I don't know , what is better "hellfire" or this
They have similar themes as in duality, hatred, rage, love... I must say it depends on my mood. This one I think is sadder because there are two brothers pitted against each other by circumstances... also there are children being killed, but hey... Hellfire is more of a ragefest and a plea for mercy at the same time. There's only one character but he rips himself apart, which is also really sad, even though he's evil.
But it just shows that noone is the villain in their own story. Not Gaston, not the Pharaoh, not Frollo, not even Malificent was inherently evil. She was slighted and acted on anger about that. Which is bad, of course, but not from her perspective. From her perspective it was payback and a twisted form of justice.
Remember this next time you see a "bad" character. Try to look behind the curtain and I promise you, you will be surprised what you can find there. :)
P.S.: Sorry for the rant xD
Little Larimar this is a mood
@@thedragon133 in the novel Frollo actually kills Esmeralda and he survives... Quasimodo dies of pain. Actually Frollo does a real mess
@@thedragon133 However maleficent is literally Satan put in the light that he is good but he isn't. Lucifer rebelled against God, he was cast out.
This song. (Mostly because the brother vs brother/hero vs villain got the darkest song in cinema history)
Out of all the plauges, the very last one has always been terrifying. There was no sound or sign of it at all, it just went into the houses that weren't coverd in lamb's blood and took the breath of the eldest children. Since Rameses only had one child it totaled him. It's sad because even though he watched Egypt get ravaged by the first plauges, it took the death of his only son for him to budge. Most stubborn man ever.
Don't forget that God made him that stubborn.
"You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt" [Exodus 7:2-3]
MankindDiary God loves violating free will, so he can show off what a power hungry tyrant he is! You got to love the bible. Still a great movie though.
+Delta. 6 It's called "teaching a lesson"
+Janice Shaw If all powerful god can't teach a lesson other way than through genocide and total destruction of the country, then he doesn't deserve any worship.
Janice Shaw Your God acts like a genocidal lunatic.
One of the sadder parts of this film is when you realize it chronologically happened after Joseph: King of Dreams, when Moses's people had been gladly welcomed to Egypt.
Yes. It is truly remarkable how stubborn and ignorant the Egyptians were at that time. It is similar to how people are today. Ignorant and stupid.
Joseph saves Egypt from famine. This is why the Israelites came to Egypt in the first place; there was a great famine. But generations pass and the new Pharaoh forgets those who saved his people.
2:13 it’s over Rameses, I have the high ground
YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER
Matt Jeevas dont try it... 😰😰😰
Lol I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
@@ruben4257 you guys are killing me lol
YOU WERE MY BROTHER RAMESES, I LOVED YOU
This is one of my favorite songs in the whole thing. Aside from Deliver Us. The one line that hit me the most was said by Moses: “This was my home! All this pain and devastation, how it tortures me inside. All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride.” In 10 commandments, Moses from a character standpoint is inhuman. Sure, he’s powerful through the hand of God, but he’s not human. 10 commandments is the greatest biblical epic of all time, but The Prince of Egypt humanizes Moses. After all, Moses grew up in Egypt. So seeing the destruction of your own home, place you had so many memories about would be devastating to him. Probably one of the greatest creative choices made by any storyteller that stayed true to the source material.
Aye, one of the main reasons you can't really call Judeo-Christian scripture mythology is because a lot of the characters don't have any character, they can't, because to give them character would change what they are.
Obviously the god of the bible can't have character because he's just there to be the source of morality and of creation. He can't have a preference for what kind of a person he likes because then that would fuck over everyone else who isn't like that.
@moritamikamikara3879 Dude, I get what your saying but isn't the 10 commandments essentially God describing what kind of person he likes, and whoever doesn't follow it gets funded over( i.e goes to hell or something)
@@moritamikamikara3879 Thats exactly why it is a mythology. Moses is a Demi-God like figure who lived for almost 2 centuries and could make water sprout from the ground with a strike of his cane. You would say he could only do that with the power of the Lord but the fact is The Lord punished him for this action not allowing him to step on the Promised Land so its a bit more complicated than that.
This is also better because Moses and Ramsey were brothers, they loved each other, not like in ten commandments where they had genuine hatred. It makes it so much more tragic qnd powerful for Moses to actually have to oppose someone he loves. He even says he wish God chose another to do this task.
Everyone else : pointless arguments about religion.( you're gonna believe what you believe)
Me: Wow, Voldemort sure can sing.
the internet really needs to sort out its priorities. XD
So can Not Batman.
L. T C. As much as people dis Val Kilmer as Batman, he can at least say that George Clooney was worse.
Manicallaughter17 I always thought of him as Amon Goeth to tell you the truth, and what abut ice man, he made egypt... the danger zone... I'l see myself out
Prog MetalDeity hush shush shush. We do not speak of *that* batman
Every single song that isn't one of the "happy" or "comical" ones holds such imagery which is amazing. Deliver us makes you feel the weight of every brick the need to collapse with every stomp of mud. The plagues makes you feel the dispair moses feels for doing this to the one he once called brother and his sorrow he feels while also making you feel the anger towards moses and his determination to not be the "weak link" as his father once told him he could become
Ramsees
As if heaven's eyes isn't right there being the most banger.
By far the best song in the entire movie. Yeah, all the songs are fantastic, but this is the song where you really see the movie shine with everything: the chorus, the main characters, the pacing, the angst between the brothers, and the motivation for the antagonist. This song is the embodiment of just how good DreamWorks can be
My cat recently brought fleas into the house. This song is all I think of when I wake up in the morning scratching frantically.
McgoganLives Omg xD
my sister's science project (big ant colony -- 200,000 ants strong) got knocked over by my dog..
it was a day that will live in infamy..
and this song will always remind me of that --- we had to leave the house and called in the ant exterminators
It's even funnier because Egyptian mythology says cats were guardians against stuff like that. I think your guardian is broken.
Super Kamehameha! Wow
since you refuse to free my food,all through the land of house
Why does this song SLAP so hard???
Because no one recovers from a God Slap... unless he heals them himself.
hans zimmer is fantastic
Zimmer did the background music-which is excellent- but it was Stephen Schwartz, well known for his excellent scores for musicals (among others, “Wicked”), who did the songs.
imnotaniphone IN EVERYTHING THIS SONG GO CRAZY 😖😭
At 1:27, I get chills when Pharaoh looks outside to see Moses already standing there waiting for him.
The plagues are probably the most emotional part of the movie for me. The music combined with the animations for each plague, showcasing the power of God makes me tear up. It’s beautiful and it makes me appreciate the Lord more and more each time I see it.
the depth of these films was incredible, i miss the beautiful, well scripted, and daring films from this time period. i mean, good god, how could any of these not connect to a person - kids may not get them (i didnt when i was a child) but if they're made right like this one they'll be captivated by the film until they grow into understanding them. you can capture a child and an adult and a human for a lifetime if you're creative and unafraid of demographic targets. seriously this is brilliant stuff
Yes.
*I SEND MY SCOURGE*
*I SEND MY SWORD*
*THUS SAITH THE LORD*
*Goosebumps*
Ikr lol
Powerful stuff indeed.
I think is sounds epic
@范德萨阿斯顿发大水发大水发阿斯顿发大水发大水发范德萨我和你吻别我爱你他妈的翔宇我和你吻别元的钱破开该 well actually he actually got killed so we can be forgiven easily when we commit sins if it weren't for him we would all be dead
I saw this comment right as that part came lol
I love this because God starts with benevolent miracles, but when they don’t work he goes into full on malevolent plagues. With the contrast of the two brothers at odds, not with themselves but with their own circumstances. Truly a tragedy if ever there was one. Beautiful story.
It's worth noting that God himself made Pharaoh unable to agree upon Moses' demand to let his people go. So Pharaoh is a tragic hero here, as he is unable to make a decision of his own.
@@MankindDiary Um...no. He's not a hero by any means. He convinced his entire country to treat their guests as slaves. Doubly damning is the fact that one member of this group of guests saved the whole country from a 7-year long famine. Pharoah was a villain getting his just desserts.
@@MankindDiary No, He didn't. People have free will.
@@Eli-uu4vt >Just
>Killing end destroying everything BUT him.
Will remember that if somebody treats me ill, then I have to kill his family and burn his house, to give him justice.
@@sciranger6703 He did. Just read the Bible...
"And even now, I wish that God had chose another." Always gives me chills, no matter how many times I hear it. So much pain is contained in that line alone
When the professor holds back the class after class is over.
LET MY PEOPLE GO
😂😂😂
Same!
Its funny because you are comparing the mass slavery of a people to your own 1st world problems.
Hahaha I sang blame it all on my roots my senior year of high school the whole year and Let my ppl go gosh the great times that was I think the teachers were wondering about my sanity
and then you put some shit in his bag
Certainly not a kids movie, but damn that duet was haunting.
+Jeremy Adcox To Christians it is.
+VoodooQueenHasInvaded I'm atheist and it's still haunting to me.
+Jeremy Adcox How is it not a kid's movie? I mean, as a kid I loved this film. :) I didn't 'get' the nuances and the haunting feeling of what the plague wrought upon people, but it was a really well told story. Plus it has its light-hearted moments in it and plenty of life-lessons to tell to kids. This is coming from an atheist btw, not sure if that makes a difference though.
HannahsCreation I grew up with an athiestic family, they taught me how to think, not what to think. So when I asked for this movie for Christmas, they were fine with it.
+Heartless You're not an Atheist if you have Christmas, trash. Christmas is the DAY OF CHRIST JESUS THE LORD'S BIRTHDAY. You don't even know yourself, trash.
Can we just take a second to give mad props to Ray Fiennes who is the only one amongst an entire cast of major celebrities to actually sing his own part.
This movie is an actual masterpiece.
there are some movies that shouldn't be remade like this one
Will Erskine I agree
The Shadow Of Anarchy And definitely replayed and re-released about every year!
Speaking of rereleases, next month we'll FINALLY get a Prince of Egypt Blu-ray! :)
Theres a coming musical tho! Im so hyped for that!
true,oh so true
This song really captures one of the darkest moments in The Prince of Egypt, but it also highlights Moses's sadness at having to face off against Rameses, the man he once called brother - who he was raised with, confided in and played with in his youth.
Despite not being brothers by blood, you can tell that they loved each other as true brothers, but their choices as adults (Moses wanting to free his brethren while Rameses wants to follow his father's path, despite knowing the severity of the plagues but not giving in to the pressure due to "stubbornness and pride") severed that close bond. It's so sad :(
So glad I grew up with this, literally one of the best animated musical classics for me
“All the innocent that suffer, from your stubbornness and pride” chills, just CHILLS
songs that are sung by choirs are 10 times as powerful as song that aren't sung by choirs. It's so EPIC!
RuthParodies Right??? Just look at the intro song to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
When I was in 4th grade we watched this movie (Catholic school) and I'm almost positive I slapped someone next to me for talking during this song
Shoot, I would.
I nearly suffocated this one bratty girl, sine she wouldn't stop talking to her friend, who helped me with silencing her. When we were cornered about it my a teacher, the other students stood in our favor.
So would I
Alexander, Kolchak, it's his adoptive brother! read the bible and watch the show! He was clearly adopted by the pharoah's family in the bible and the show!
I saw this movie in the 6th grade with my class and I totally get it.
The starting chorus is really terrifying if you think about it.
+Luiz Fernando Cavalcanti dos Santos It was literly what happend not that it is less terrifying
Felt to watch this the other day..wow man..literally teared up the whole movie. Not just cause of Nostalgia but because even as a kid, I lowkey understood the message and would hear our Lord speak to me in sleep. Now being an adult in this world, It speaks volumes. Praise onto him, for he's our Lord and Savior. 🙏🏾