Prince/Egypt needed an extra reel...another 20 minutes on the film. I could'a put up with a two hour movie for that, to get better (ugh) "closure".
I totally agree...I particularly think the Moses/Rameses relationship needed to be fleshed out a little more. (In the commentary the directors kept saying how there were more scenes between them originally...why'd they get cut out?? Why why why? )
Or maybe at the end they could add a childhood flashback or something....that's my idea anyway. There's this whole sense of tradgedy when Moses says "Goodbye, Brother." but you don't feel it as strongly as you should.
Also, you're kind of left wondering just what the heck happened at the end of the film anyway? (even if you already "know".) It's like one minute they just crossed the Red Sea, the next minute it's forty years later, Moses got the two tablets, looks over the cliff like it's the end of the Lion King or something and everything's just hunky-dory.... That's NOT how the story goes...Moses doesn't even get to enter the Holy Land. Neither do a whole lot of the slaves.
The Israelites were a wild, undisciplined people when they left Egypt....they WERE slaves after all. Part of entering the Holy Land was learning to be a righteous people and learning to have faith in one G-d. Hence the Golden Calf scene. That's all left out of the movie of course...too "wrath of G-d" to be marketable I guess.
But that's the BASIS of the whole story, NOT that Moses learns to "believe in himself" or something. That's my biggest problem with the film....even though it is a good film.
My other problems: Too much time with the Midianites and Tzipporah (ugh! can't stand her) and not enough with Miriam and Aaron, who were very developed and very under-used.
It is a good film though...VERY good...but short of being "great."
but you can't compare POE with T10C (I believe you are meaning CB DeMille's 1956 epic).
Yeah...I saw the whole thing when I was nine years old and have never forgotten it. Love Heston, love Yule Brenner, love every scene in that film.
Did you check out the original black and white silent version yet? Very different yet again.
Heard of it, would like to see it.
so it was used as more of an epilogue when he carried the tablets at the end.
That's my whole problem though...with the holiday of Passover the desert stuff is HALF the story, not an epilogue.
Even if you don't celebrate Passover, it's a big part of the book of Exodus.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
